Content Quotes

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything. (Aesop)
The greatest wealth is to live content with little. View quote
Plato
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest. View quote
Horace
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. View quote
Paul Valéry
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic. View quote
Charles Darwin
The real leader has no need to lead. He is content to point the way. View quote
Henry Miller
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which humans communicate than by the content of the communication. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
It is right to be content with what we have, but never with what we are. View quote
James Mackintosh
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. View quote
Andrew Carnegie
Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be. (Barack Obama)
In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator. View quote
Jean Cocteau
The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. View quote
John Updike
Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. View quote
Alexander Pope
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station. View quote
Joseph Addison
Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Nature, not content with denying to Mr - the faculty of thought, has endowed him with the faculty of writing. View quote
A. E. Housman
I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment the sober second thought of the people. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. View quote
William Osler
Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand; he goes one further and clinches his fist. (Kenneth Tynan)
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. View quote
Helen Keller
We live in a world where the funeral matters more than the dead, the wedding more than love and the physical rather than the intellect. We live in the container culture, which despises the content. View quote
Eduardo Galeano
To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. View quote
Ansel Adams