Intrinsic Satisfaction Quotes

Nothing outside of ourselves will ever make us happy, because happiness is an inside-out experience.

But happiness ... happiness grows at our own firesides," she said. "It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." ~ The House at Riverton

Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward. Most people do the exact opposite: They only take action when they expect a reward, and they don't enjoy the action. And that's the reason why they don't do their best.

Understand that there is no relationship between your inner happiness and your inner joy and the outer things that you experience and behold in the world, that it all begins with you, the world is a mirror to your own Self, when you can look at things and feel joy not in the things but in yourself.

Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.

I am not doing it just for the money or for you.I am doing it for me.

The secret to success: find something you love to do so much, you can’t wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again.

Unlock your natural drives by doing what you enjoy.

You do what you do out of your private love of the thing itself.

Monetary rewards are not a substitute for intrinsic motivation.

The work itself is the reward, and if I choose challenging work, it'll pay me back with interest. At least I'll be interested, even if nobody else is.

To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, we try to force them to do what they do not find satisfying.

You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.

The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.

God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.

It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were. When we choose a goal and invest ourselves in it to the limits of concentration, whatever we do will be enjoyable. And once we have tasted this joy, we will redouble our efforts to taste it again. This is the way the self grows.

Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward

The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.

Motivation is like love and happiness. It's a by-product. When you're actively engaged in doing something, it sneaks up and zaps you when you least expect it.

Is not labour, like learning, its own reward?

There is, fortunately, a minority composed of those who recognize early in their lives that the most beautiful and satisfying experiences open to humankind are not derived from the outside, but are bound up with the development of the individual's own feeling, thinking and acting. The genuine artists, investigators and thinkers have always been persons of this kind. However inconspicuously the life of these individuals runs its course, none the less the fruits of their endeavors are the most valuable contributions which one generation can make to its successors.

The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end.

Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity, it is a state of being.

The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students.

Satisfaction comes from the inside out, so people keep gravitating from things externally to try to fill something - get a man to complete them, get money to complete them, get a job to complete them and still find themselves frustrated.