Quotes About Satisfaction

Success is the sweetest revenge.

Why have a cake if I can't eat it?

My life is a plate of perfectly edible but ordinary scrambled eggs. I want them savory, creamy, cheesy and maybe with bacon on the side.

Als je eenmaal van de bergtop omlaag hebt gekeken, is het moeilijk om tevreden in de vallei te blijven...

Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry.

In most parts of the world people eat because they will die if they don't. The French, in contrast, live to eat. Many people take little or no pleasure from the food they consume. The French extract every possible pleasure from eating.

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.

When a truly mature man has sex with a woman it is the same with him as if he had lunch with her. Afterward he casually remarks to the woman, "That was very nice"---while referring to either the sex or the salad.

The things one wants the most are not things after all.

To me, the satisfaction of the service, well done, is more than anything that any amount of money can give. This you might call is the satisfaction you get for your services towards your own people and country ... But most important of all is to leave a name that my posterity may be proud of.

When we say yes to too many other things, we are actually saying no to God. Only God can bring the rest and satisfaction our souls crave.

National Opinion Research Center surveys reveal that the percentage of Americans who describe themselves as "very happy" has been steadily declining since the late 1950s.

Endless desire is one of the pitfalls of human nature, and one of the first things you need to cure if you want to get ahead more quickly.

We hit a fulfillment ceiling and never recognized that the formula of money = fulfillment not only had stopped working but had started to work against us. No matter how much we bought, the fulfillment curve kept heading down.

Money is not really the thing you're after—after all, would you lock yourself in a dark, silent box forever in exchange for becoming a billionaire?

Getting Away As your handling of money gets clearer and your life becomes more satisfying, you will have less of a need to "vacate." Consider

So much dissatisfaction comes from focusing on what we don't have that the simple exercise of acknowledging and valuing what we do have can transform our outlook.

Where people work less they buy more . . . business is the exchange of goods. Goods are bought only as they meet needs. Needs are filled only as they are felt. They make themselves felt largely in the leisure hours.

We take our identity and our self-worth from our jobs.

Having more is an endless horizon, no matter how much you have.

is a way to approach life so that when asked, "Your money or your life?" you say, "I'll take both, thank you.

If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough. In an environment of more is better, "enough" is like the horizon—always receding. You lose the ability to identify that point of sufficiency at which you can choose to stop. This is a psychological cul-de-sac, an invisible catch-22 of the consumer myth of more. If more is better, then what I have is not enough.

how much would it take to make you happy," almost everyone, in every income bracket, said: 50 percent more than I have now. When asked to rate their happiness on a scale of 1 to 5, there was no significant difference between the top and bottom earners. You could hear a pin drop as people realized that the person in the row ahead of them probably had the "more" they thought would make them happy—and it made no difference.