Discontent Quotes

Discontent Quote of the day

The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

Discontent is the wheel that moves people forward.

For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.

We dishonor God if we proclaim a Savior who satisfies and then go around discontent

Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.

Now is the Winter of our discontent.

Discontent is the catalyst for change.

Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual.

If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Today be happy with what you have - not discontent with what you don't have.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.

No, his mind is not for rent To any God or government Always hopeful yet discontent He knows changes aren't permanent But change is.

There is no greater disaster than discontent.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.

It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.

Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill, and so embitters the soul.

Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

Men and women aren't really dogs: they only look like it and behave like it. Somewhere inside there is a great chagrin and a gnawing discontent.

Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.

I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly cooked dinners and untidy ways.

One whisper, added to a thousand others, becomes a roar of discontent

Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.

Never be discontent with the life you've been dealt, be discontent with the way you're living it.

literature is the record of our discontent.

In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack of fulfillment.

Negative thinking is prevalent, in particular, among so many women in their later years, and, as a result, they live out their lives in discontent.

Discontent is the seed of ethics.

Dismantling the architecture of my discontent

Creativity is discontent translated into arts.

What if my greatest disappointments, or the aching of this life, is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can't satisfy?

There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.

Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time, Tiering the same dull webs of discontent, Clipping the same sad alnage of the years.

The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.

Men have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have been men, and there would have been no progress in human affairs.

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

At the end of every day of every year, two things remain unshakable, our constancy of purpose and our continuous discontent with the immediate present.

Man hath a weary pilgrimage, As through the word he wends; On every stage, from youth to age, Still discontent attends.

The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages.

They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself.

Unity of man has always been impossible in a world of fear and discontent where every man fears every other man as an enemy.

Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts, Or carry smiles and sunshine in my face, When discontent sits heavy at my heart.

The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.

One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.