Discontent Quotes
233 quotes by 189 authors
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Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that…
— Teresa of Avila
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I think 'Dilbert' will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too loudly. 'Dilbert' is the designated…
— Scott Adams
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
— Noam Chomsky
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For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity…
— B R Ambedkar
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Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
— Susan B. Anthony
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The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain everything: so that…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The difference between ambition and discontent is quite a fine line and sometimes it is hard to tell which is which and which you are…
— Rachel Field
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Discovery comes as a result of positive discontent, a constructive dissatisfaction. In fact, one might quite truthfully say that there is no discovery when one…
— Myron Allen
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Creativity is discontent translated into arts.
— Eric Hoffer
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Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.
— William Shakespeare
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Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
— Berthold Auerbach
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Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.
— Robert Herrick
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Until you get dissatisfied, you won't do anything to really move your life to another level. Dissatisfaction is a gem. If you're totally satisfied, you're…
— Tony Robbins
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It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.
— Vivien Greene
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Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair.
— C. V. Wedgwood
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Noble discontent is the path to heaven.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make…
— George Orwell
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The thirst to know and understand a large and liberal discontent.
— William Watson
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The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined to a very…
— Samuel Johnson
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