Quotes About Satisfaction

Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call today his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd today.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

One must desire something to be alive: perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.

Be content with your wages.

Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.

Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat.

Riches enlarge, rather than satisfy appetites.

It is wealth to be content.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

If you're happy, you're wealthy! Happiness doesn't need a bank account.

Wealth ... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more.

If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles.

Men never think their fortunes too great, nor their wit too little.

Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit. . . the person who is working for the sake of his own satisfaction, the money he gets in return serves merely as fuel, that is, as a symbol of reward and recognition, in the last analysis, of acceptance by one's fellowmen.

I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon.

It is on the mango tree full of fruits that they throw stones.

Whatever you promise the public in your advertising, or whatever you lead the public to expect, even though not explicitly stated, is what the public gets sore about if it isn't delivered, and the explosion of a grouch is heard much farther than the gentle hum of satisfaction. It's better by far to deliver more than you promise than to promise more than you can deliver.

?udno je kako je malo potrebno da budemo sre?ni a još ?udnije kako ?esto baš to malo nedostaje

Teško je zamisliti varoš sa manje novca i slabijim izvorima zarade a sa ve?om že?i za novcem, sa manje volje za radom i veštine da se privredi, a sa više želja i prohteva.

Dovoljan je sam sebi i potpuno zadovoljan onim što je i što zna?i u o?ima drugih ljudi. Sam nema potrebe da bude ili da izgleda ma šta drugo do ono što jeste, a niko od njega ne o?ekuje i ne traži ništa drugo.

Samo, u ovakvom potpunom ostvarenju jedne želje kriju se velike opasnosti, a najve?a je u onoj novoj želji koja se namesto ostvarenja javlja. Ko zna kakva je ta i kud nas može odvesti? I ko zna od ?ega nas je branilo postojanje one prve, dok je bila u nama i mu?ila nas, živa i neostvarena?