Discontent Quotes

Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.

— Eugene V. Debs

Now is the winter of our discontent.

— William Shakespeare

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

— Benjamin Franklin

Discontent with the status quo is a great catalyst for vision.

— John C. Maxwell

Noble discontent is the path to heaven.

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Principle of Change #1: Discontent + Passion Drive Change”

— Brett Blumenthal

Frequent discontent must proceed from frequent hardships.

— Samuel Johnson

Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.

— Chinese Proverb

Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence.

— Lajos Kassak

“You must have a level of discontent to feel the urge to want to grow.”

— Idowu Koyenikan

People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent.

— Andre Maurois

Civilization creates discontents; barbarism creates quick endings.

— Mason Cooley

What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our heads of how it's supposed to be.

— Anonymous

Even though we are always together, why does she feel so far away?

— Anonymous

“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

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

— Robert Osborne

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

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

— Kabir

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

Mr. President, the cause of this great discontent in the country, the cause of the evils which we now suffer and which…

— John J. Crittenden

We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and…

— Anonymous

No one has ever explained why it is that parents and guardians consider dull people such safe matrimonial investments for their young…

— Alice Duer Miller

God is looking for imperfect men and women who have learned to walk in moment-by-momen t dependence on the Holy Spirit. Christians…

— Charles Stanley

Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that…

— Edmund Spenser

“...no matter how much Theo achieves and acquires and out-dazzles everyone else, she never seems content. She's taught you that people who…

— Nikki Gemmell

The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Should the king in exile pretend he is happy there? Should he not seek his own country? His miseries are his ally;…

— John Eldredge

Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which…

— George Eliot

Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society; in short, to the very…

— Emma Goldman

“Our young don't play outside anymore; they've lost their innocence too early in their lives. We walk around the house ignoring one…

— Martin Suarez

“There are many oppressed people across the border, people who are dirt poor and have little chance in life. Then there are…

— Jacqueline Winspear

“The chagrin which she had felt at her first failure to subvert this latest manifestation of his discontent had receded, leaving in…

— Nella Larsen

But I am all for love, and I am against marriage, particularly the arranged kind, because the arranged marriage gives you satisfaction.…

— Rajneesh

Everything which might cause doubt about the wisdom of the government or create discontent will be kept from the people. The basis…

— Friedrich August von Hayek