Dissatisfied Quotes - Page 4

• The secret of happiness is in a cheerful, contented mind. He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and can enjoy what others own.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Happiness, Secret, Mind

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• Expect the best; convert problems into opportunities; be dissatisfied with the status quo; focus on where you want to go, instead of where you're coming from; and most importantly, decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.

  Denis Waitley

  Happiness, Attitude, Opportunity

  Denis Waitley (1986). “The Winner's Edge: The Critical Attitude of Success”, Berkley

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• It is no easy task to walk this earth and find peace. Inside of us, it would seem, something is at odds with the very rhythm of things and we are forever restless, dissatisfied, frustrated, and aching. We are so overcharged with desire that it is hard to come to simple rest. Desire is always stronger than satisfaction.

  Ronald Rolheiser

  Simple, Odds, Forever

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• I've thought about the idea of, 'Can happiness and creativity co-exist?' So much of what I've done, I think, has been based on being dissatisfied or incomplete or lonely. The answer is, 'There isn't an answer, necessarily.

  Conor Oberst

  Lonely, Creativity, Thinking

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• Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is restive, acutely dissatisfied with anything else. He becomes as a lover to whom abstinence is intolerable.

  Jean Toomer

  School, Men, Creative

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• The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Honor, He Man

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Hands, Issues

  Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on the Civil War: Selected Speeches”, p.44, Penguin

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• Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Shame, Wells

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• Leaders are fascinated by future. You are a leader if and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress and deeply dissatisfied with status quo. Because in your head, you can see a better future. The friction between 'what is' and 'what could be' burns you, stirs you up, propels you. This is leadership.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

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• Let some holy ambition invade our souls, so that, dissatisfied with mediocrity, we shall eagerly desire the highest things and shall toil with all our strength to obtain them, since we may if we wish.

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

  Ambition, Soul, Wish

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• Those who are not dissatisfied will never make any progress

  Shigeo Shingo

  Progress

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• One day, you don't feel like doing anything. Nothing interests you, everything bores you. Feel more and more empty inside, more and more dissatisfied with yourself and the world in general. Then even that feeling wears off, and you don't feel anything anymore. You become completely indifferent to what goes on around you... You forget how to laugh and cry - you're cold inside and incapable of loving anything or anyone... There's no going back... The disease has a name. It's called deadly tedium.

  Michael Ende

  Names, Bores You, Laughing

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• Wanderlust is not a passion for travel exactly, it’s something more animal and more fickle- more like lust.  We don’t lust after very many things in life.  We don’t need words like ‘worklust’ or ‘homemakinglust.’ But travel?  The essayist Anatole Broyard put it perfectly: ‘Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one’s own country.  To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live… in our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.’

  Elisabeth Eaves

  Country, Passion, Animal

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• Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you livein our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.

  Elisabeth Eaves

  Country, Imagination, Lovers

  Elisabeth Eaves (2011). “Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents”, p.8, Seal Press

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• Harboring bitterness against people is actually confessing their sin to myself, over and over again. Anger is akin to confessing their sin to God, dissatisfied that he hasn't done something and placing myself in his position as judge.

  Paul David Tripp

  People, Judging, Done

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• Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Struggle, Doubt, Wish

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.114, Indiana University Press

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• Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Want, Despotism, Shots

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• Unless I'm wrong I but obey The urge of a song: I'm-bound-away! And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died.

  Robert Frost

  Song, Learning, May

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• The only chance of satisfaction we can imagine is getting more of what we have now. But what we have now makes everybody dissatisfied. So what will more of it do -- make us more satisfied, or more dissatisfied?

  Jeremy Seabrook

  Satisfaction, Chance, Imagine

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• It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Understanding, Faults, Common

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• I've done really well so far in my career by trusting the audience to be as dissatisfied with convention as I am, as a film-goer. You want to go see a film that surprises you in some way.

  Christopher Nolan

  Careers, Done, Want

  Christopher Nolan, Jonah Nolan (2010). “Inception: The Shooting Script”, p.18, Insight Editions

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• I'm the type of person who is always going to be somewhat dissatisfied with myself. I'm never going to be smart enough. I'm never going to be a good enough father and husband. I'm never going to be a good enough actor for myself. I just never will be, and I have to get comfortable with waking up every day and trying to move some little increment closer to the person I have always dreamed of being. This is the journey.

  Will Smith

  Husband, Father, Smart

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• If you are dissatisfied with the way the world works, it is because your heart is prompting you to change it.

  Jason Russell

  Heart, World, Way

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• The human mind feels restless and dissatisfied under the anxieties of ignorance. It longs for the repose of conviction; and to gain this repose it will often rather precipitate its conclusions than wait for the tardy lights of observation and experiment. There is such a thing, too, as the love of simplicity and system,--a prejudice of the understanding which disposes it to include all the phenomena of nature under a few sweeping generalities,--an indolence which loves to repose on the beauties of a theory rather than encounter the fatiguing detail of its evidences.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Ignorance, Light, Simplicity

  Thomas Chalmers (1836). “Works”, p.314

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• As I visualize the new, I become dissatisfied with the old.

  Louis Tice

  Inspiring, Success, Business

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