Discontent Quotes · Page 6

Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.

— Anna Freud

There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

— Frank Herbert

A fuel of discontent and anxiety is probably pretty central to the fuel at 'Scandal!'

— Jeff Perry

“The discontent and frustration that you feel is entirely your own creation.”

— Stephen Richards

Happiness never come to those who have refused to appreciate what they already have.

— Anonymous

I am profoundly in the D's - discouraged, depressed, disheartened, disgusted.

— Alice Dunbar Nelson

One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.

— Matthew Arnold

“Some people make it extremely difficult to continue believing that complaining is not one of the basic human needs.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Seeming contentment is real discontent, combined with indolence or self-indulgence, which, while taking no legitimate means of raising itself, delights in bringing…

— John Stuart Mill

“It was as if she had thought him into existence again, as if her mind were a flask into which had been…

— Wallace Stegner

We act empty and innocent but we are fueled by distortions of lives led in discontent trading misfortunes cause faith is one…

— Amy Ray

As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never…

— Albert J. Nock

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only…

— George Orwell

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than…

— Laozi

Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.

— Aldous Huxley

. . . just as God cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance, as we become more like Him,…

— Neal A. Maxwell

“People were capable of living their lives in a state of permanent disappointment, there were plenty of people who did not marry…

— Katie Kitamura

It would much conduce to the settlement of your hearts, to consider, That by fretting and discontent, you do yourselves more injury…

— John Flavel

When there's a strong desire within you to express or create something, know that this feeling is Divine discontent. Your longing is…

— Louise Hay

“It is always the little things that build up. Often there is no dramatic reason for discontent in marriages. It seeps in…

— Preeti Shenoy

The communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrown of overweening cupidity and selfishness which assiduously undermines the justice and integrity of…

— Grover Cleveland

We've been in the mountain of war. We've been in the mountain of violence. We've been in the mountain of hatred long…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Some Western politicians are already threatening us with not just sanctions, but also the prospect of increasingly serious problems on the domestic…

— Vladimir Putin

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

— Milan Kundera

Jihadist organizations attempt to exploit discontent among marginalized groups in unstable societies.

— Tedros Adhanom

Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.

— Owen Feltham

Without patience, you have nothing, without work, you remain in the same place.

— Anonymous

Those with good memories will always look to the past when discontent with their present lives.

— Dragon Quest

It is our response to our circumstances rather than the degree of difficulty that determines whether or not we are discontent

— Jerry Bridges

It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.

— Anonymous

“She was tired of the flaming thoughts of discontent that kept her awake at night.”

— Virginia Gaffney

“All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent”

— steinbeck

Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.

— Neil Gaiman

The Only Thing Worse Than Not Being Able To Find Happiness Is To Find It And Throw It Away...

— Pacifiersucker

“Discontent is only the fear of missing something. Content is the knowledge that you aren't missing anything worth-while.”

— Louise Dickinson Rich

“A discontent employee means not getting the results 100% and the loss of a company advocate as well.”

— Pooja Agnihotri

The reason for all revolutions is discontent with the contentment of others.

— Sigmund Graff

The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Until you allow yourself to blossom into a state of boundlessness, you should not be content, you must burn with discontent.

— Jaggi Vasudev