Contentment Quote by John Ford Download Open image “Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.” — John Ford ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contentment Crowns Denied Fortune Giving Happiness Wealth
Contentment travels rarely with fortune, but follows virtue even in misfortune. — Marie Leszczynska Copy Share Image
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
“My Crown is in my heart, not on my head: Not deck'd with Diamonds, and Indian stones: Nor to be seen: my Crown is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Contentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord. — Paul Henderson Copy Share Image
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers: To some she gives honor without deserving; To other some,… — George Chapman Copy Share Image
The sole purpose of a crown is to make anyone not wearing one feel like an insignificant pauper. They're obscene to the point of… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing… — John Ford Copy Share Image
Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh. — John Ford Copy Share Image
Why, I hold fate Clasped in my fist, and could command the course Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou been One thought more steady… — John Ford Copy Share Image
Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality. — John Ford Copy Share Image
It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor. — John Ford Copy Share Image
What is done, is done: Spend not the time in tears, but seek for justice. — John Ford Copy Share Image
Love is dead; let lovers' eyes, Locked in endless dreams, The extremes of all extremes, Ope no more, for now Love dies. — John Ford Copy Share Image
You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart. — John Ford 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
