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Many have too much, but none enough.
-Danish proverb
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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.
-Proverb
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To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
-Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg) Acton
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants...
-Joseph Addison
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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.
-Marvin J. Ashton
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In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the exceptionally gifted or adventurous can leave to seek his fortune elsewhere. In America, on the other hand, to move on and make a fresh start somewhere else is still the normal reaction to dissatisfaction and failure.
-W. H. Auden
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Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
-Marcus Aurelius
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No sooner is your ocean filled, than he grumbles that it might have been of better vintage. Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarrelling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: it is even as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves.
-Thomas Carlyle
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I am easily satisfied with the very best.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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People want riches; they need fulfillment.
-Robert Conklin
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People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me.
-Princess of Wales Diana
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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says, Anywhere but here.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
-Epictetus
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The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question: Is this all?
-Betty Friedan
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He is rich that is satisfied.
-Thomas Fuller
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Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.
-W. S. Gilbert
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The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.
-Eric Hoffer
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Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
-Doug Horton
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If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.
-Hubert Humphrey
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No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
-Lao-Tzu
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I love being in therapy. It's just constantly fulfilling for me.
-Jennifer Jason Leigh
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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle -- victorious.
-Vince Lombardi
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Books about Satisfaction
