“Discontent will never change the world. If you want your work to have a lasting impact on the world, define yourself with… — Rachel Jankovic Copy Share Image
Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill,… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
I think 'Dilbert' will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too loudly. 'Dilbert'… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Your happiness will not depend on others anymore. You should be happy because you love who you are. Love your flaws. Love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Curiosity, wonder, and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers...Restlessness and discontent are vital things... Intense experience and suffering… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“We are, perhaps uniquely among the earth’s creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
It's my belief that by demonizing Saddam, by raising the stakes in this war to the point where we're talking about a… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
Discontents are sometimes the better part of our life. I know not well which is the most useful; joy I may choose… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Banks and churches and courtrooms all depend on the appurtenances of theatre. On illusion. Banks, the illusion of stability and honourable dealings… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I wanted to write something that was very entertaining to read. The hardest part of this novel [The Yoga of Max's Discontent]… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
You should not open your mouth except to express gratitude for benefits you have received, and never to mention your discontent. — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Our discontent begins by finding false villains whom we can accuse of deceiving us. Next we find false heroes whom we expect… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly cooked dinners and untidy… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“My discontent has accumulated over the past months, searching for a leak in the dam I’ve constructed to separate my true feelings… — Doug Cooper Copy Share Image
No, his mind is not for rent To any God or government Always hopeful yet discontent He knows changes aren't permanent But… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I was trundling around with my inadequacies, and inner pain and loneliness. I yearned, desperately, to be something. I yearned to get… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
The game of discontent has its rules, and he who disregards them cheats. It is not permitted to you to wish to… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to… — Cyril Cusack Copy Share Image
Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for… — Ieyasu Tokugawa Copy Share Image
For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't Be Like People Who Never Seem Happy With What they Have And Always Think That Other People Have A Better Situation… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“Lily sank with a sigh into one of the shabby leather chairs. "How delicious to have a place like this all to… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
It all boils down to the fact that we must never allow ourselves to become satisfied with unattained goals. We must always… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Just because you have everything people always wanted doesn't mean you are happy. As long as you never stop hunting for more,… — Mielya Saladdin Copy Share Image
All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
The very first temptation in the history of mankind was the temptation to be discontent...that is exactly what discontent(ment ) is -… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon,… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
The discontent with the existing order of things pervaded the atmosphere, wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the back… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image