Quotes About Self-satisfaction

Pride is seldom delicate: it will please itself with very mean advantages.

The truly proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.

You cannot please everyone, and I think that what's important, ultimately, is to make sure you please yourself. If you start trying to please other people, you'll just go around in circles.

I've only myself to please. There's great freedom in that.

The place makes it clear that whoever lives there has only themselves to please.

The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.

In Paris, the greatest expression of personal satisfaction known to man is the smirk on the face of a male, highly pleased with himself as he leaves the boudoir of a lady.

There is nothing that makes a man more self-satisfied than a poor memory.

In some strange way she was able to ignore the atmosphere of self-satisfaction which poured from him like gas from a leaking pipe.

As Confucius once said, 'He who does nothing is the one who does nothing.' Gabby pondered the words, the furrowed her brow. did Confucius really say that? Sunglasses in place, Stephanie managed the tiniest of shrugs. No, but who cared? The point is, they handled, and most likely they found some sort of self-satisfaction in their industrious-ness. Who am I to deprive them of that?

Nothing warms the cockles of the heart more than the smug self-satisfaction of being right.

Success isn't outscoring someone, it's the peace of mind that comes from self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best. Success is a journey, not a destination--half the fun is getting there.

The Sicilians never want to improve for the simple reason that they think themselves perfect.

The stage is my first love. It gives me immense self-satisfaction, a sort of power because a stage actor carries the audience along; it's a live performance; spontaneity is its soul.

If a man doesn't find ease in himself, 'tis in vain to seek it elsewhere.

Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.

As I gazed at Mao's face wearing what was intended as a benign expression but was in fact a smirk of self-satisfaction, I wondered how one single person could have caused the extent of misery that was prevailing in China. There must be something lacking in our own character, I thought, that had made it possible for his evil genius to dominate.

For her own self-satisfaction was it that she wished so instinctively to help, to give, that people might say of her, "O Mrs. Ramsay! dear Mrs. Ramsay . . . Mrs. Ramsay, of course!" and need her and send for her and admire her? Was it not secretly this that she wanted

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complacency

there are very few of us that do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary

You're gonna turn me into one of those fat, useless, contented cats," Binx said.

A vague worry has started alongside my self-satisfaction: I have established, with amazing rapidity, a reputation for maniacal, self-destructive courage.

For if humanity has a future on this planet of a hundred million years, it is unthinkable that it should spend those aeons in a ferment of national self-satisfaction and chauvinistic idiocies.