Discontent Quotes - Page 4

• The best things beyond their measure cloy.

  Homer

  Best Things

  Homer (1796). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.81

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• Today be happy with what you have - not discontent with what you don't have.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Advice, Today, Good Advice

  Helen Steiner Rice (2003). “From the Heart: One Minute Devotions”

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• The difference between ambition and discontent is quite a fine line and sometimes it is hard to tell which is which and which you are feeling!

  Rachel Field

  Ambition, Differences, Feelings

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• People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent.

  Andre Maurois

  Art, Men, People

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• A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.

  David A. Bednar

  Grateful, Suffering, Contentment

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• I will be able to love above all discontentment. To give even when I am stripped of everything. To dry tears even when I am still crying. To believe even when I am discredited.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Giving, Tears

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Nov 02, 2011

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• Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.

  Doris Day

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Nihilism, World, Dissatisfaction

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• Our civilization cannot survive materially unless it is redeemed spiritually. It can be saved only by becoming permeated with the Spirit of Christ, and being made free and happy by practices which spring out of that spirit. Only thus can discontent be driven out and all shadows lifted from the road ahead.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Spring, Practice, Civilization

  Woodrow Wilson, United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson) (1924). “The messages and papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• I think 'Dilbert' will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too loudly. 'Dilbert' is the designated voice of discontent for the workplace. I never planned it that way. It just happened.

  Scott Adams

  Thinking, Voice, Long

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• Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.

  Aldous Huxley

  Squares, Social, Holes

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Discovery comes as a result of positive discontent, a constructive dissatisfaction. In fact, one might quite truthfully say that there is no discovery when one is content.

  Myron Allen

  Science, Discovery, Might

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• Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Inspirational, Self Improvement, Progress

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• Until you get dissatisfied, you won't do anything to really move your life to another level. Dissatisfaction is a gem. If you're totally satisfied, you're going to get comfortable. And then your life begins to deteriorate.

  Tony Robbins

  Moving, Levels, Satisfied

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• Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time,
  Tiering the same dull webs of discontent,
  Clipping the same sad alnage of the years.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Time, Kings, Years

  Edwin Arlington Robinson (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works and Plays of Edwin Arlington Robinson (Illustrated)”, p.111, Delphi Classics

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• The very first temptation in the history of mankind was the temptation to be discontent...that is exactly what discontent(ment ) is - a questioning of the goodness of God.

  Jerry Bridges

  Temptation, Firsts, Goodness

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• Men are suspicious; prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.

  Robert Herrick

  Men, Stills, Subjects

  Robert Herrick, Samuel Weller Singer (1856). “Hesperides: or, The works both humane and divine of Robert Herrick ...”, p.128

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• Frequent discontent must proceed from frequent hardships.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hardship, Misery

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.120

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• Dismantling the architecture of my discontent

  Paul Auster

  Architecture

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• I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly, and I kept thinking it would be a good thing if I could tear my heart out of my breast, that heart which had grown so weary of life.

  Anton Chekhov

  Heart, Thinking, Tears

  Anton Chekhov (2011). “Forty Stories”, p.309, Vintage

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• He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the normal discontents of living.

  Elena Ferrante

  Book, Character, Way

  Elena Ferrante (2005). “The Days of Abandonment”, p.3, Penguin

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• it is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Change, Trying

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust.

  Samuel Johnson

  Emptiness, Impatient, Neglect

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.230

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• In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Confidence, Comfort, Bottles

  Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt (1854). “Johnson's Lives of the British Poets”, p.66

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• We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and discontent.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Thinking, Sorrow, Affliction

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