Discontent Quotes

233 Discontent quotes by 183 unique authors

If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of… — Theodore Roosevelt
One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent. — Matthew Arnold
In Globetrotter, David Albahari explores the consciousness of emigres from the former Yugoslavia, Croatia and Serbia, showing that while abroad, many of us are even… — Josip Novakovich
Men and women aren't really dogs: they only look like it and behave like it. Somewhere inside there is a great chagrin and a gnawing… — D. H. Lawrence
Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society; in short, to the very conditions confronting us… — Emma Goldman
You talk about making this article cheaper by reducing its price in the market from 8 d. to 6 d. But suppose, in so doing,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The man whose silent daysIn harmless joys are spent,Whom hopes cannot delude,Nor sorrow discontent:That man needs neither towersNor armour for defence,Nor secret vaults to flyFrom… — Thomas Campion
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor. — Benjamin Franklin
The discontented man finds no easy chair. — Benjamin Franklin
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress. — Mahatma Gandhi
The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its… — Kenneth Grahame
All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have. — Daniel Defoe
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. — Thomas A. Edison
Discontent is the first necessity of progress. — Thomas A. Edison
The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. — Milan Kundera
When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to… — Dalai Lama
Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces. — Bryant H. McGill
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. — V.S. Naipaul

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