Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for, and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
Plutarch
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.
Indira Gandhi
If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.
Horace, Epistles
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
George Bernard Shaw
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
Bob Marley
Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have.
Seneca
Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
William Osler
I look back on my life like a good day's work; it was done and I am satisfied with it.
Grandma Moses
Learn to be satisfied. It is just as easy as being dissatisfiedóand much more pleasant.
Jacob de Jager (1923-)
Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
Chuang Tzu
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Edison
Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.
Denis Waitley