There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Gratification and happiness are becoming important measures of our quality of life.
The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach.
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
One thing I learnt early on my career is that personal gratification takes second place.
If you do the things you enjoy and are good at, I really have a feeling that that will lead to having a fulfilling life, and people with fulfilling lives are able to be 'good people.'
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
The gratification of desire is not happiness.
Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
No opposing quotes found.