Quotes
Quotes about Content
What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.
Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom.
Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do.
It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.
A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do.
One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. He has lain down to die, and the grass is already over him.
One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants. The second loses what it has. There's no cure for the first, but success and there's no cure at all for the second.
If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
The contented man can be happy with what appears to be useless.
Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.
I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there is no redress. Plato -Elizabeth Montagu.
It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.
Discontent is something that follows ambition like a shadow.
Content makes poor men rich; Discontent makes rich men poor.
If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.
I used to think I had ambition . . . but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.
One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.
