Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
Discontent Quotes
Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time.
That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.
The splendid discontent of God With Chaos, made the world; And from the discontent of man The world’s best progress springs.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
He who plants thorns must never expect to gather roses.
Restlessness is discontent – and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man – and I will show you a failure.
Who is not satisfied with himself will grow, who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.
Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.
The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this and every country but his own.
