Top 280 Satisfaction Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Satisfaction Quotes from famous people such as Dashiell Hammett, Sussanne Khan, James Loeb, Mark Lanegan, Suze Orman, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for se

Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction.
Dashiell Hammett
I’ve learned not to let life get in the way. One should learn to live off their creative juices because that’s where you will have maximum satisfaction and growth.
Sussanne Khan
I therefore set to work, and after two and a half years of not inconsiderable labour I now have the privilege and the satisfaction of accompanying the early volumes of the series with this preface.
James Loeb
It’s a different kind of satisfaction, different kind of enjoyment than making your own songs, to remake someone else’s song that you really like.
Mark Lanegan
Like your home’s closets, your financial clutter needs an overhaul every now and again, and the payoff will go far beyond the psychic satisfaction of neatening up.
Suze Orman
We know that the French are very different from the Americans in their satisfaction with life. They’re much less satisfied. Americans are pretty high up there, while the French are quite low – the world champions in life satisfaction are actually the Danes.
Daniel Kahneman
I don’t feel any great need to dress in funny-looking clothes and be recognized as a star, nor do I get that much satisfaction out of hanging around all the main clubs so people can see who I am.
Billy Squier
As a boy, it was clear that my inclinations were toward the physical sciences. Mathematics, mechanics, and chemistry were among the fields that gave me a special satisfaction.
Ahmed Zewail
No amount of money can replace the kind of happiness and satisfaction I derive out of writing.
Sreenivasan
Characters have changed my mind about some very fundamental moral issues, and that’s the real satisfaction in the way I write – the ultimate learning experience.
Karen Traviss
All players want to play and this is a source of pride and satisfaction.
Sergio Busquets
I have zero strategy for my career – like, zero. I could get as much satisfaction about doing a $20,000 shot film the same way I could do a $100 million film with a bunch of effects.
Neill Blomkamp
I don’t want to spend all my time working as an activist. I don’t get satisfaction out of it. I’d rather be doing something else. I’m a musician.
Serj Tankian
It is giving me a great satisfaction, because I had the notion that we could make great wines equal to the greatest wines in the world, and everybody said it was impossible.
Robert Mondavi
Where can I earn money if not from my work? We do some films for money and some for creative satisfaction.
Dimple Kapadia
Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.
Meir Kahane
I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.
Gabriela Sabatini
I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.
Wilfred Owen
If you get satisfaction out of playing music and entertaining people and it makes you feel right, then go for it.
Joe Perry
Given the choice between instant gratification and the lasting satisfaction of earning the esteem of someone you respect and admire, all but the most small-minded would choose the latter.
Mark Goulston
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
George Bernard Shaw
I guess just enjoying what you do and always wanting more of that enjoyment, satisfaction, and putting something together creatively – that gives me a lot of happiness.
Farhan Akhtar
I’ve found that most successful people do things because they get personal satisfaction from the work that they do.
John Rampton
Oracle is not known for its high levels of customer satisfaction.
Aneel Bhusri
There’s such a feeling of satisfaction when something you imagined turned into something real.
Prabal Gurung
I say this all the time, but when I go to bed at the end of the day, and I put my head down on the pillow, I really feel such a sense of satisfaction, and I’m so proud of my kids that they have this amazing work ethic, and we get to work with each other every day, so it doesn’t get any better than that.
Kris Jenner
Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.
Daniel Kahneman
I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis.
James Monroe
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
Khalil Gibran
I watched a little girl cover her face up and leave her hands in front of her mouth. I saw that girl after surgery, and she was smiling… that’s a great source of satisfaction.
Chuck Feeney
Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction.
Ursula Andress
I wanted to write about women and their work, and about

I wanted to write about women and their work, and about valuing the work we, as women, choose to do. Too many women I knew disparaged their work. Many working mothers thought they ought to be home with their children instead, so they carried around too much guilt to enjoy much job satisfaction.
Jennifer Chiaverini
Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too.
Robert Fitzgerald
The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.
Mortimer Adler
The most satisfaction I get is from doing a good gig, which really makes you feel in control. If you’ve worked a room really well, it makes you feel great. TV is a bit more difficult; there are more factors that can screw it up along the way.
Nina Conti
Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature’s cupboard for their satisfaction.
Arthur Keith
I feel like the sky in my mind is bigger when I meditate. It helps you fight the classic battles we’re all fighting: trying to find love, trying to find satisfaction in your career.
Jim James
When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can’t get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he’s either lying or not all that bright.
Henry Rollins
My philosophy is, ‘Show up, shut up, and do your job,’ and if you do it to the satisfaction of your director and the public, you’re likely to be able to do it again.
Stephen Lang
People who achieve the highest levels of success – whether in business or in raising families or simply in discovering fulfillment and satisfaction and purpose in life – are those who place their focus on other people rather than themselves.
Richard M. DeVos
The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
My parents say to cherish the people around me, and I try to meet their satisfaction by maintaining a long relationship with people I meet.
Kim Woo-bin
There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let’s look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs.
Marvin Harris
Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
Camille Paglia
Cooking is like doing yoga. There is a lot of satisfaction in cooking food for others.
Nana Patekar
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
E. O. Wilson
Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction.
Arthur C. Brooks
Somehow, I feel even more lost when I work with experienced veteran stars. It makes me wonder what is the meaning of my job. Am I here to pursue my personal satisfaction, or to entertain people?
Fala Chen
The success of ‘Dhruva’ has given me more satisfaction than any of my previous hits, simply because the audience accepted the film even though it was experimental. I really hope this kind of acceptance makes experimental cinema the new mainstream cinema.
Ram Charan
While starving refugees in Homs were providing target practice for government snipers, Bashar al-Assad’s strongest international backer was in Sochi, at the Iceberg Skating Palace, visibly moved, smiling with deep satisfaction, as the Russians beautifully glided and leaped their way to the gold medal in the team event.
George Packer
There is something wonderful about turning up every day and knowing that not just the character but the whole movie kind of rests on your shoulders. And there’s great satisfaction when you think it’s going well and then real terror when you think it’s not.
Domhnall Gleeson
The only real satisfaction is live performances. That’s when you can actually get some feedback from what you’re doing. You get that artist-to-audience chemistry. I love it!
Jeffrey Osborne
With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.
Geddy Lee
While you’re going through this process of trying to find the satisfaction in your work, pretend you feel satisfied. Tell yourself you had a good day. Walk through the corridors with a smile rather than a scowl. Your positive energy will radiate. If you act like you’re having fun, you’ll find you are having fun.
Jean Chatzky