Discontent Quotes

What I would say to the establishment is that there is far more discontent among the American people than they believe.

Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent.

I felt it from within. We have tremendous discontent in the country. We have tremendous problems in the country. And I felt it early on or I wouldn't have done this. But I see tremendous discontent.

Poor in abundance, famish'd at a feast.

I poured out the torrent of my long-standing discontent and I challenged them to do and dare anything.

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

The great mountains of the world are a great remedy if men but did know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdom's fount. They are deep in time.

Today many of these selfish politicians are preying on the nation itself - (belching corruption and farting discontent!)

Man's worst enemies are boredom and discontent.

We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.

Until you allow yourself to blossom into a state of boundlessness, you should not be content, you must burn with discontent.

Discontent with the status quo is a great catalyst for vision.

The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I've got sarcastic company.

Seeming contentment is real discontent, combined with indolence or self-indulgence, which, while taking no legitimate means of raising itself, delights in bringing others down to its own level.

The number is less than that of 2004, but major fatal accidents have aroused considerable public discontent.

It all boils down to the fact that we must never allow ourselves to become satisfied with unattained goals. We must always maintain a kind of divine discontent.

Civilization creates discontents; barbarism creates quick endings.

Do Obama and Boxer realize they are on the wrong side of a tsunami of voter discontent with a government run by and for the public employee unions?

Discovery comes as a result of positive discontent, a constructive dissatisfaction. In fact, one might quite truthfully say that there is no discovery when one is content.

Society is based on discontent: people wanting more and more and more, being continually dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their decor, their clothes, everything.

[Their love] had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent.

Happiness puts on as many shapes as discontent, and there is nothing odder than the satisfaction of one's neighbor.

The difference between ambition and discontent is quite a fine line and sometimes it is hard to tell which is which and which you are feeling!

Frequent discontent must proceed from frequent hardships.

In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent, is insanity.

If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of play.

The man whose silent daysIn harmless joys are spent,Whom hopes cannot delude,Nor sorrow discontent:That man needs neither towersNor armour for defence,Nor secret vaults to flyFrom thunder's violence.

All writers are discontent. That's because they're aware of a potential and believe they're not reaching it.

Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

I do love her, and that’s odd because she is everything I detest in anyone else.

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.

As his (C. S. Lewis's) good friend Owen Barfield once remarked, Lewis radiated a sense that the spiritual world is home, that we are always coming back to a place we have never yet reached.

Restlessness is discontent — and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man — and I will show you a failure.

Men would be angels Angels would be gods.

Seekers, what are you seeking? Why aren't you happy just to be alive?

The negative way of thinking based on constant complaints, strains, and objections of discontent steals our energy

Discontent comes from two sources alone: Not having dreams, or not pursuing the ones you have. No one has ever died sorry who tried to turn a wish into a memory.

The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy.

When discontent sets in it's time to make some changes. In a world where so much is possible, yet so many people are unhappy, there has to be another way.

To reach the pinnacle of success, you have to cross the treacherous valleys of failures and discontent.

You must have a level of discontent to feel the urge to want to grow.

Boredom and ineffective attempts to escape tedium are the perpetual lot of humankind.

Disquietude that springs from the fundamental nature of being a human being is vaster and more encompassing than depression, which has a cause and therefore a cure.

There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.

You’re not discontent for wanting to be in a relationship, you’re just human.

Let me be content with myself to the degree that my capacity to serve others is present, yet discontent with myself to the degree that I may still like to grow in better service for others.

I know about me. I am the moons sister, a tidal child stranded on land. The sea always in my ear, a surf of eternal discontent in my blood.

Never be content with your work, your relationships, your life. That's the stupid advice philosophers give today.

When you have no choice, you have no discontent either.

His targets had little in common, other than that they had somehow aroused his enmity.