Contented Quotes

270 Contented quotes by 213 unique authors

I can't say that the college-bred woman is the most contented woman. The broader her mind the more she understands the unequal conditions between men… — Susan B. Anthony
What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I think this can… — Aldous Huxley
In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented… — Charles de Gaulle
We see nothing but good and hope in a richer, freer, more contented European commonalty. But we have our own dreams and our own task.… — Winston Churchill
Cheerfulness means a contented spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and ~ charity, a generous appreciation of others, and… — William Makepeace Thackeray
It is good to have companions when occasion arises, and it is good to be contented with whatever comes. — Gautama Buddha
I should as soon expect a farmer to prosper in business who contented himself with sowing his fields and never looking at them till harvest,… — J C Ryle
I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play. — Michael Gambon
I'm more contented and at peace with myself now than I was as a box-office queen. I'm less uptight. I've even reached a stage where… — Julie Andrews
Self-discipline is crucial to a simpler, more contented life. — Dalai Lama
The dairy man had a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he must have had some training in philosophy. He liked what he was doing and he… — John Steinbeck
The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing meet with contempt,… — Ezra Pound
Imperishable moments and immortal deeds, death itself and love stronger than death, will be as though they had never been. The energies of our system… — Arthur Balfour
We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds. — Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
That best of blessings, a contented mind. — Horace
No rage is equal to the rage of a contented right-thinking man when he is confronted in the marketplace by an idea which belongs in… — Thurman Arnold
A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Four Seasons fill the measure of the year; There are four seasons in the mind of man: He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear… — John Keats
Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells. — William Wordsworth
No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation. — Thomas a Kempis
I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible… — Jack Dee
Pray for a peaceful and contented mind in all circumstances. — Mata Amritanandamayi
Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great… — Lucretius
Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I… — Salmon P. Chase
Man is never perfect nor contented. — Jules Verne

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