Quotes About Satisfaction

If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.

Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.

All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age.

None of you [men] ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it.

WEALTH AND HOW TO ACHIEVE IT: Let us define the wealthy man as he who has everything he desires. How to reach that happy condition? Two ways

What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.

What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.

Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable.

No man can be satisfied with his attainment, although he may be satisfied with his circumstances.

Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.

King is not a happy man, but a happy man is a king!

A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.

A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it.

As a man seeing someone, have a decision: You can be correct or you can be glad.

Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.

Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead.

The must have it now mentality, was man's first step into the gorging of his natural home.

Man needs so little... yet he begins wanting so much.

Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.

This is what you learned in college," the narrator tells you early on. "A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires the condition of desiring.

Neath tile or thatch That man is rich Who has a scratch For every itch.

No man is rich who is unsatisfied, but who wants nothing possess his heart's desire.