Best Discontent Quotes

#1. The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent.

William Watson

#2. Unsatisfied parents produce professionally successful but personally discontent children.

Himmilicious

#3. There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?

B.C. Forbes

#4. Independence!" was a useful cry, and always saying we have not got it.

E. M. Forster

#5. Why are things always happy in Japanese restaurants? Just once, maybe I'd like to try the Sashimi of Discontent, or the Heartbroken Hand Roll

Amy Vansant

#6. Poverty and Discontent appear in every Face (except the Countenances of the Rich) and dwell upon every Tongue." He spoke of a few men, fed by "Lust of Power, Lust of Fame, Lust of Money," who got rich during the war.

Howard Zinn

#7. The South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. And the South was not wholly wrong; for education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent. Nevertheless, men strive to know.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#8. People love villains almost as much as they love heroes. Nothing satisfies discontent so much as having a fiend to vilify, an embodiment of all that is wrong with the world.

Anonymous

#9. 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.

D.H. Lawrence

#10. Frequent discontent must proceed from frequent hardships.

Samuel Johnson

#11. A fallow mind is a field of discontent.

John H. Cunningham

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

Cole Ryan

#13. 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.

Myron Allen

#14. I think 'Dilbert' will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too loudly. 'Dilbert' is the designated voice of discontent for the workplace. I never planned it that way. It just happened.

Scott Adams

#15. Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. The best things beyond their measure cloy.

Homer

#17. The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#18. It is my business as a Sunday school teacher to instill a divine discontent for the ordinary. Only the best possible is good enough for God. Can you say, 'God, I have done all that I can?

Henrietta C. Mears

#19. Many young people are building their lives on the rock of materialism. I find across the country a deep economic discontent among people in every walk of life.

Billy Graham

#20. Focusing on worldly achievements and acceptance has never been the way to true happiness, and an obsessive, discontent with our physical appearance can lead to unhappiness if not despair.

Pamela H. Hansen

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#22. But it wasn't long before the old familiar discontent started creeping up on me. I suppose it was always there, somewhere in the background. All I've done, my whole life, is keep it temporarily at bay.

Sara Gruen

#23. 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.

David C. Downing

#24. 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.

Thomas Campion

#25. You should not open your mouth except to express gratitude for benefits you have received, and never to mention your discontent.

Vincent De Paul

#26. Discontent is the wheel that moves people forward.

Lu Xun

#27. Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy
of dissatisfaction with his life. He had no idea of its cause, still less of its cure; but discontent had come into his soul, and he had taken one small step toward humanity.

Arthur C. Clarke

#28. It is not the nature of man, as I see it, ever to be quite satisfied with what he has in life ... Contentment tends to breed laxity, but a healthy discontent keeps us alert to the changing needs of our time.

Frances Perkins

#29. Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by this sun of York.

William Shakespeare

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

William, Saroyan

#31. There is no greater disaster than discontent.

Laozi

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

Walter Russell

#33. No, your worst sin does not consist in what you did to your husband that day; rather it lies in your discontent with God's special creatures, with your fellow men. For this reason you can experience no real happiness....That is a grievous sin, Beret Holm!

O.E. Rolvaag

#34. Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.

Owen Feltham

#35. What is more miserable than discontent?

William Shakespeare

#36. We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening.

G.K. Chesterton