List Of Contentment Quotes

When You Are Disposed To Be Vain Of Your Mental Acquirements, Look Up To Those Who Are More Accomplished Than Yourself, That You May Be Fired With Emulation; But When You Feel Dissatisfied With Your Circumstances, Look Down On Those Beneath You, That You May Learn Contentment.

[w]hich Category Of Crimes Does The State Pursue And Punish Most Intensely? [t]hose Against Private Citizens Or Those Against Itself? The Gravest Crimes In The State's Lexicon Are Almost Invariably Not Invasions Of Private Person Or Property, But Dangers To Its Own Contentment, For Example, Treason, Desertion Of A Soldier To The Enemy, Failure To Register For The Draft, Subversion And Subversive Conspiracy, Assassination Of Rulers And Such Economic Crimes Against The State As Counterfeiting Its Money Or Evasion Of Its Income Tax.

We Can’t Direct The Wind, But We Can Adjust The Sails. For Maximum Happiness, Peace, And Contentment, May We Choose A Positive Attitude.

I'm Quite Content: Although What I'm Doing Is Far From Being As I Should Like, I Am Complemented Often Enough All The Same.

We Cannot Read The History Of Our Rise And Development As A Nation, Without Reckoning With The Place The Bible Has Occupied In Shaping The Advances Of The Republic. Where We Have Been The Truest And Most Consistent In Obeying Its Precepts, We Have Attained The Greatest Measure Of Contentment And Prosperity.

Learn To Be Pleased With Everything, With Wealth So Far As It Makes Us Beneficial To Others; With Poverty, For Not Having Much To Care For; And With Obscurity, For Being Unenvied.

Keep What You Have Got; The Known Evil Is Best. [lat., Habeas Ut Nactus; Nota Mala Res Optima Est.]

A Contented Mind Is The Best Source For Trouble.

If You Are Content, You Have Enough To Live Comfortably.

The Very Longing For Contentment That Ought To Drive Us To Simplicity Of Life And Labors Of Love Contents Itself Instead With The Broken Cisterns Of Prosperity And Comfort.

This Is God's Universal Purpose For All Christian Suffering: More Contentment In God And Less Satisfaction In The World.

When You're Younger, You Tend To Be Reckless About Trying To Find Out Who You Are And What You Can Do And Should Do. But As You Get Older You Become More Accepting Of Yourself, And With That Comes Greater Contentment.