Discontented Quotes

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He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another. — Aesop
Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property. — Thomas Carlyle
What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts… — Thomas Jefferson
Meditation is the key to open the door, the door of absolute contentment. Mind is always discontented., hence meditation means creating a state of no-mind.… — Rajneesh
Are you disappointed, discouraged and discontented with your present level of success? Are you secretly dissatisfied with your present status? Do you want to become… — Robert H. Schuller
Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People… — Joseph de Maistre
The future seems a little gloomy! Go to bed early, sleep well, eat moderately at breakfast; the future looks brighter. The world's outlook may not… — Arthur Lynch
Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy… — Neil Gaiman
God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would… — Douglas Wilson
Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for… — Thomas Carlyle
Americans were convinced in their own minds that they were very miserable, and those who think so are so. There is nothing so easy as… — Thomas Hutchinson
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich. — Frank Herbert
A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show… — Walter Scott
Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or the other or both parties to a marriage contract. Someone is thinking… — Spencer W. Kimball
It is much safer to be subject than it is to command. Many live in obedience more from necessity than from love. Such become discontented… — Thomas a Kempis
The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and everybody. The writer… — William Saroyan
I am discontented because I have not these things which God never yet promised me, and therefore I sin much against the Gospel, and against… — Jeremiah Burroughs
Being discontented, we either seek a different job or merely succumb to environment...instead of causing us to question life, the whole process of existence. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

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