Discontent Quotes · Page 5

Happiness puts on as many shapes as discontent, and there is nothing odder than the satisfaction of one's neighbor.

— Phyllis McGinley

Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.

— William Shakespeare

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

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

— Frank Herbert

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

— Anna Freud

He who is not satisfied initially with his own creation has not made the thing actually good. But to be the best,…

— Anuj Somany

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's…

— George Eliot

“As his (C. S. Lewis's) good friend Owen Barfield once remarked, Lewis radiated a sense that the spiritual world is home, that…

— David C. Downing

Men have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have…

— Kabir

“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

I think Kennedy being assassinated changed the world. That shot changed everything about America, and made us cynical, made people discontent and…

— Robert Osborne

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Katie Kitamura

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

— Neal A. Maxwell

Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

By our pontifical assertions, our superior impatience, and our casual brushing aside of their curiosity, we do not encourage their inquiry, for…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was…

— George Orwell

What we will be seeking... for the rest of our lives will be large, stable communities of like-minded people, which is to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“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

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

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

— Neil Gaiman

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

— steinbeck

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

— Pacifiersucker

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

— Pooja Agnihotri

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

— Louise Dickinson Rich

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

— Jerry Bridges

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

— Dragon Quest

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

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

— Jaggi Vasudev

If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.

— David Rockefeller