Contentment Quote by Epictetus Download Open image “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” — Epictetus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contentment Money Wealth
Wealth does not mean having a lot of property. Wealth means having self-contentment. — Zahid Abas Copy Share Image
All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
“Wealth does not consist of having a lot of money or possessions, but to be content with little needs.” — Jan Jansen Easy Branches Copy Share Image
Wealth does not teach us to transcend the desire for wealth. The possession of many goods does not bring the repose of not desiring… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but the fewness of my wants.” — Joseph Brotherton Copy Share Image
Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Everyone wants wealth to some extent or another, but few have it. The difference between those who have wealth and those who do not… — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money but really… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“We are at the mercy of whoever wields authority over the things we either desire or detest. If you would be free, then, do… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.” — Epictetus Copy Share Image
What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do the nightingale's… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I may not have everything I want in life but I have all I will ever need to make my life complete, my family. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you can find as much happiness at the bottom of the ladder of success as you can at the top, then you understand… — Tom Krause Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
“When we perform at our highest level of potential, we are content. Because we have given I best in what we enjoy doing.” — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable?… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Most of us are not content with our lot because we want a lot more — Marianette Carbito Copy Share Image
Pleasure simply brings more craving, but the problem is that we try to get contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come through service. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Every human always wants more. We're never satisfied. True happiness doesn't come until we're fully satisfied with what we have. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I was so nearly happy. There remained only a tiny something, something unexplained and inexplicable that buzzed in my ear when the lights were… — Jennie Rooney Copy Share Image
I know well, Monsieur, how much you have to endure in your present duty, and I ask Our Lord to strengthen you in your… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
