Contentment Quote by Socrates Download Open image “He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.” — Socrates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contentment Gluttony Greed
In truth, he who is not content with what he has would not be content with whatever he acquires. — Swami Parthasarathy Copy Share Image
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
If you're not content with what you have, you won't be content with what you want. — Craig Williams Copy Share Image
He who knows how to be content will be content with little. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
He who is not grateful for the good things he has wont be happy with the things he wishes he had. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy. — Alec-Tweedie Copy Share Image
There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no use for them. — Anthony Hope Copy Share Image
He who makes others happy at the cost of his own happiness remains sad but contented. — Oluwole Tobi Copy Share Image
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told. — Socrates Copy Share Image
If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years. — Socrates Copy Share Image
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher — Socrates Copy Share Image
“For the fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the unknown; and no… — Socrates Copy Share Image
There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift. — Socrates 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