Discontent Quotes · Page 7

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

— Anonymous

“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

“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

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

...and gradually his face assumed the expressions which are so often found among rich people - the expressions of discontent, of sickliness,…

— Hermann Hesse

The music scene in the '70s was like the United Kingdom in the '70s - we had a lot of unemployment, we…

— Annie Lennox

Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession…

— Samuel Johnson

There are times when there's been some discontent and muttered threats from audience members. I take no notice, and in any case,…

— Stephen Hendry

Kennedy saw the insurgency as a anti-colonial, essentially nationalist movement, feeding on social discontent. So you don't shoot people.

— Roger Hilsman

“Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try…

— Basil W. Maturin

Discontented women dream of being rescued by Prince Charming. Discontented men dream of finding a horny blond in the back seat ofa…

— Mason Cooley

If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children…

— Theodore Roosevelt

What moved me, in the first instance, to attempt a work like this, was the discomfort and suffering which I had seen…

— Isabella Beeton

“What is the one aspect of this broken world that, when you see it, touch it, get near it, you just can't…

— Bill Hybells

By being discontented, the spirit searches for ways to improve its condition and for a better channel for expressing itself. This sense…

— Chin-Ning Chu

The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what…

— George Saunders

It is clear that there are reasons for discontent in Iran - economic and political reasons. We have told the Iranian leadership…

— Sigmar Gabriel

Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme…

— Edmund Burke

You create a good future by creating a good present. How do you do that? By recognizing the goodness that is already…

— Eckhart Tolle

“Back at home, days later, feel cranky and tired. Sit on the couch and tell him he's stupid. That you bet he…

— Lorrie Moore

[Their love] had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent.

— Paolo Giordano

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

— David Rockefeller

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

— Jaggi Vasudev

“In times of chaos and discontent, we should dig deep into ourselves to find or individual responses.”

— John A. Miller

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

— William Shakespeare

Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

We dishonor God if we proclaim a Savior who satisfies and then go around discontent

— J. I. Packer

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

— Phyllis McGinley

Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts, Or carry smiles and sunshine in my face, When discontent sits heavy at my…

— Joseph Addison

What I would say to the establishment is that there is far more discontent among the American people than they believe.

— Bernie Sanders

Protest is the traditional way that Hong Kongers, who do not have full voting rights, express discontent.

— Zeynep Tufekci

Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor.

— Benjamin Franklin

Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

— Berthold Auerbach

happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.

— Nan Fairbrother

The number is less than that of 2004, but major fatal accidents have aroused considerable public discontent.

— Li Yizhong

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

— Anonymous