Contentment Quotes

Contentment is the only real wealth. (Alfred Nobel)
A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment. View quote
Frances Burney
As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent. View quote
Anthony Trollope
Contentment is natural wealth luxury, artificial poverty. View quote
Socrates
When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself. View quote
Alexander McCall Smith
I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness. View quote
Harold Brodkey
Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good. The gratitude of the nation to the sovereign arbiter of all human events should be commensurate with the boundless blessings which we enjoy. Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world. View quote
James K. Polk
Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world. View quote
James K. Polk
It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust. (John Donne)
There are, indeed, two forms of discontent: one laborious, the other indolent and complaining. We respect the man of laborious desire, but let us not suppose that his restlessness is peace, or his ambition meekness. It is because of the special connection of meekness with contentment that it is promised that the meek shall 'inherit the earth.' Neither covetous men, nor the grave, can inherit anything; they can but consume. Only contentment can possess. View quote
John Ruskin
Fortify thyself with contentment: that is an impregnable stronghold. View quote
Epictetus
The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment. View quote
Henry Miller
Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily. View quote
Lucille Ball
She was moved by a kind of commiseration for Madame Ratignolle - a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium. View quote
Kate Chopin
Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honor sinks where commerce long prevails. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification. View quote
Hermann Hesse
There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility. View quote
Abu Bakr
The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth-point goes The butterfly upon the road Preaches contentment to that toad. (Rudyard Kipling)
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
Conventions of generality and mathematical elegance may be just as much barriers to the attainment and diffusion of knowledge as may contentment with particularity and literary vagueness... It may well be that the slovenly and literary borderland between economics and sociology will be the most fruitful building ground during the years to come and that mathematical economics will remain too flawless in its perfection to be very fruitful. View quote
Kenneth Boulding
Yes, in the poor man's garden grow Far more than herbs and flowers- Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind, And joy for weary hours. View quote
Mary Howitt
In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record. View quote
Barbara Tuchman