Discontent Quotes

233 Discontent quotes by 183 unique authors

Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
. . . just as God cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance, as we become more like Him, neither can we.… — Neal A. Maxwell
Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent… — Oscar Wilde
There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on. — Eric Hoffer
Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. — Plato
Unity of man has always been impossible in a world of fear and discontent where every man fears every other man as an enemy. — Walter Russell
The communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrown of overweening cupidity and selfishness which assiduously undermines the justice and integrity of free institutions, is… — Grover Cleveland
The organizers first job is to create the issues or problems, and organizations must be based on many issues. The organizer must first rub raw… — Saul Alinsky
The last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is to figure out how to love one another: The $1.5 trillion retail-sales… — Naomi Wolf
Mr. President, the cause of this great discontent in the country, the cause of the evils which we now suffer and which we now fear,… — John J. Crittenden
It is not the high summer alone that is God's. The winter also is His. And into His winter He came to visit us. And… — George MacDonald
It would much conduce to the settlement of your heart, to consider that by fretting and discontent you do yourself more injury than all your… — John Flavel
It is not the nature of man, as I see it, ever to be quite satisfied with what he has in life.... Contentment tends to… — Frances Perkins
Discontent with the status quo is a great catalyst for vision. — John C. Maxwell
Don't lie if you don't have to. — Leo Szilard
There are people we meet in life who miss being important to us by inches, days, or heartbeats. Another place or time or a different… — Jonathan Carroll
I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly cooked dinners and untidy ways, — Isabella Beeton
What moved me, in the first instance, to attempt a work like this, was the discomfort and suffering which I had seen brought upon men… — Isabella Beeton
There is no greater disaster than discontent. — Laozi
Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God. — Cyril Cusack

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