Being Content Quotes
132 quotes by 95 authors
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
— Horace Mann
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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
— Bernard Meltzer
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The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
— Henry Miller
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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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As a rule, one should never place form over content.
— Manuel Puig
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Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.
— Bahá'u'lláh
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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
— Immanuel Kant
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You make do with what you have. As you age you learn even to be happy with what you have.
— Haruki Murakami
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Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.
— Zig Ziglar
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When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
— Laozi
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Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
— Laozi
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
— Boethius
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
— Socrates
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The trade unions, far from being content with these declarations, established international liaisons and supported every policy based on pacification and understanding.
— Leon Jouhaux
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Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
— Baltasar Gracian
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He who makes others happy at the cost of his own happiness remains sad but contented.
— Oluwole Tobi
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You must either be content with your life as it is or take action to change it.
— Melchor Lim
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My life isn't perfect, but I'm thankful for everything I have.
— Nikhil Saluja
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Happiness has nothing to do with your life's circumstances, its based on your ability to accept the things you are experiencing.
— Nishan Panwar
Who Wrote These Being Content Quotes
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