Top 100 Content With Quotes
#1. Till now, I told myself, You have only seen the shadow and been well content with it; now, I am going to lead you into the substance.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#2. I'm very content with my life. I mean, who wouldn't be?
Blake Shelton
#3. The painter who is content with the praise of the world for what does not satisfy himself, is not an artist, but an artisan; for though his reward be only praise, his pay is that of a mechanic.
Washington Allston
#4. Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
Boethius
#5. Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
Bernard Meltzer
#8. Much of the time, we cannot control what happens to us. But we can always control how we respond to what happens to us. If we cannot choose to be lucky, to be talented, to be loved, we can choose to be grateful, to be content with who we are and what we have, and to act accordingly.
Harold S. Kushner
#9. At last concluded that no creature was more miserable than man, for that all other creatures are content with those bounds that nature set them, only man endeavors to exceed them.
Desiderius Erasmus
#10. The virtues which keep this world sweet and the faithfulness which keeps it steadfast are chiefly those of the average man. The danger of the two-talent man is that he will be content with mediocrity.
Walter Russell Bowie
#11. When first I saw Isidore, I believed he would help me to enjoy it I believed he would be content with my being a pretty girl; and that we should meet and part and flutter about like two butterflies, and be happy
Charlotte Bronte
#12. In other matters no sensible person will behave so irresponsibly or rest content with such feeble grounds for his opinions and for the line he takes. It is only in the highest and most sacred things that he allows himself to do so.
Sigmund Freud
#13. Grow up and let anyone try to content with the adult you.
Margaret Cho
#14. A jealous God will not be content with a divided heart; He must be loved first and best.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#15. People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#16. My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.
Jane Rule
#17. The trade unions, far from being content with these declarations, established international liaisons and supported every policy based on pacification and understanding.
Leon Jouhaux
#18. A network marketing business is based upon the leaders pulling people up, while a traditional corporate or government business is based upon only promoting a few and keeping the masses of employees content with a steady paycheck.
Robert Kiyosaki
#19. When I find a lady who is content with her own picture I will send a bouquet to the Pope
James Joyce
#20. The point is, all my life I've hung back, never going after what I really wanted, trying to be content with settling for less. Meanwhile, life went on all around me, but I was never really a part of it.
Laura Lee Guhrke
#21. Remember how the Lord rebukes Martha when He says: 'You are anxious and troubled about many things: one thing alone is needful' (Lk. 10:41-42) ? to hear the divine word; after that, one should be content with anything that comes to hand.
Evagrius Ponticus
#22. I don't desire to change anything in England except the weather, I am quite content with philosophical contemplation.
Oscar Wilde
#23. Miss Masters was not content with threatening to hire away his staff, oh no. First, she had to perfume it.
Meredith Duran
#24. Wayfarer is built on the idea that we can actually make a huge difference by creating entertainment and television and digital and branded content with a message. It doesn't always have to be really, really inspiring or really earnest. We call it chocolate-covered broccoli.
Justin Baldoni
#25. Now men will go content with what we spoiled, Or, discontent, boil blood, and be spilled. They will be swift with swiftness of the tigress. None will break ranks, though nations trek from progress.
Jennifer Robson
#26. you had better give up hope at once. If you are not prepared for discouragements and disillusions; if you will not be content with a small result for a big effort, then do not begin.
Arnold Bennett
#27. I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying Him is but doing what seems good in your own eyes also. Is love content with that?
C.S. Lewis
#30. Day by day, be content with whatever you have and satisfied with whatever happens. Everything else will then fall naturally into place.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
#31. We have a choice in our lives. We can be content with where we are, or we can set goals and continue to push ourselves beyond our limits. I'm ready to keep doing that. I want to be the first person with cerebral palsy to climb the tallest free-standing mountain in the world.
Bonner Paddock
#32. I am not a believer, not an atheist, not an agnostic. I am more content with questions than answers.
Roger Ebert
#33. Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can't be replaced by anything else.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#34. Politicians are much like aging authors and older women. The dangerous phase in their lives is when they are no longer content with the respect of friends but demand the adulation of an audience.
Michael Dobbs
#35. Faces pressed against the pane, full of little, content with sawdust tears.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#36. We think of happiness as something we can take. But usually it comes from being content with what we have, and accepting ourselves.
Cynthia Hand
#38. Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and bea hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave towealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to havedone nothing and succeeded at it.
Erwin W. Lutzer
#40. You often appear lost in a world of your own making. It is supremely appealing to men to see a woman content with herself. We long to slip inside her and join her.
Sylvia Day
#41. At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are.
Steve Almond
#42. To demand the absolute and to be content with absolutely nothing else results in a skepticism.
Bernard J.F. Lonergan
#43. What we decide does not mean will always happen, so be content with what you are
Sadashivan Nair
#44. Every man, when he first sees light, is commanded to be content with milk and rags. Such is our beginning, and yet kingdoms are all too small for us!
Seneca.
#45. Learn this of me, where'er thy lot doth fall,
Short lot, or not, to be content with all.
Robert Herrick
#46. I'm not that ambitious chick. I'm not chasing a cover of a magazine or an award. I've just never been that girl. I've always been very content with whatever God blessed me with and he's already blessed me with a lot.
Yvette Nicole Brown
#47. Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.
David Brainerd
#48. I'm never going to be content with a comeback when you end up losing ... You can't just accept being in a game that's close and end up losing it. It's just not okay.
Charlie Weis
#49. A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#50. The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Elbert Hubbard
#51. Life and death are one. You have life, and life is death. Without death there is no meaning to life. Without life there is no death. Be content with what you have.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#52. You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue law, our navigation laws, your fishing bounties, and by making your people our manufacturers, our merchants, our shippers.
John H. Reagan
#53. I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.
John Cale
#54. Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
Lawrence Durrell
#55. We are content with the 'given' in sensation's quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark.
Jim Morrison
#56. I just meant that I didn't wake up once, so I was obviously content with having you in my space. Our space.
Georgia Cates
#58. I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.
Hermann Hesse
#59. I had a lot of chances to do things that other people don't ever get, and I have to be content with that. I have to look around for some other way to make myself useful.
Linda Ronstadt
#60. Nature is content with little; grace with less; but lust with nothing.
Matthew Henry
#61. The average mind is easily content with inherited and acquired things, or with the dicta of parents and teachers, because it is much easier to imitate than to create.
Emma Goldman
#62. I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.
William Shakespeare
#63. Show me a population that is deeply religious and I will show you a servile population, content with whips and chains, ... content to eat the bread of sorrow and drink the waters of affliction.
Hubert Harrison
#64. He wanted to be content with an identity nicely chopped into pieces of varying lengths, but whose character was always similar, without dyeing it in autumnal colors, drenching it in April showers or mottling it with the instability of clouds.
Raymond Queneau
#65. I've never looked through his stuff and I can't explain exactly why it is I'm so incurious. I suppose there are clues about his life there in the shut-up-and-locked room, perhaps even some traces of my mother, but better to be content with ignorance, I've always thought, than haunted by the truth.
Sara Baume
#67. To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
Zhuangzi
#68. I'm incredibly impatient; I'd like to be less so, and more content with the now.
Naomie Harris
#69. I don't, when I think of a city, think of these people, people with very little who are content with that. That is, I think about poverty and culture and traffic and pollution and crime...
Jon Chopan
#70. Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.
Anna Seward
#71. I cannot be content with less than heaven; Living, and comprehensive of all life. Thee, universal heaven, celestial all; Thee, sacrjd seat of intellective time; Field of the soul 's best wisdom : home of truth , Star-throned.
Philip James Bailey
#72. 5Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have,
Anonymous
#73. Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.
Doris Mortman
#74. Start with today. Don't be down, discouraged or disappointed when tomorrow never seems to bring what we want. Be content with what God chooses to bless us with today.
Tony Yang
#75. Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
Boethius
#76. Holy Father, forgive me for grumbling. I know I've sounded just like the Israelites. I long to dwell not on the If Onlys but on You. Make me wise like the old woodcutter - content with what I know, not perturbed by what I don't know.
Linda Dillow
#77. In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it.
Mary Oliver
#78. Being happy is knowing how to be content with little
Epicurus
#79. For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal with you. Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
Alan W. Watts
#80. The foundation of joyful independence is being content with yourself; self-love.
Bryant McGill
#81. Many dancers are content with the repertoire they're given. Others are dissatisfied but don't know why. Then there are a few like me that are curious and grab at everything. Can that curiosity thrive in the ballet world, or should it exist elsewhere? That's the eternal question.
David Hallberg
#82. To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.
Elisabeth Elliot
#83. Once you found the math in a thing, you knew everything about it, and you could manipulate it to your heart's content with nothing more than a pencil and a napkin.
Neal Stephenson
#85. I'm seldom restricted by anything because I don't know how to restrict myself. It's a blessing and a curse. I feel a lot of support from people in Iceland, especially from people that are content with themselves and their life.
Olof Arnalds
#86. For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.
Edmund Burke
#87. Thus content with an inner sphere which they inhabit together, it is not immediately that the outward world can obtrude itself upon their notice.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#89. She sat in silence on a chair looking over him, content with the fullness of her own thoughts.
Siri Hustvedt
#90. I'm not hard to please, I'm content with the very best.
Fernand Point
#91. When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
#92. Be content with yourself, because inside your being you have all the richness.
Debasish Mridha
#93. There are some persons who are content with everything and others who are scarcely content with anything. These latter need patience to bear with themselves.
Vincent De Paul
#94. She influenced by the positivism of her race, was gazing into the future. While he was content with the present moment, not caring to know what would be the end of their love
Vicente Blasco Ibanez
#95. For only fools, fanatics, and mental cases can stand living at the highest pitch of soul; a sane person must be content with declaring that life would not be worth living without a spark of that mysterious fire.
Robert Musil
#96. I don't want a player that's content with not playing ... But we wanted to play the guys that got us here.
Don Shula
#97. It is better to follow even the shadow of the best, than to remain content with the worst.
Henry Van Dyke
#98. Be content with what you have and take joy in the way things are. When you realize you have all you need, the World belongs to you.
James Frey
#99. There may be something petty in a refined taste; it easily degenerates into effeminacy. It does not consider the broadest use. It is not content with simple good and bad, and so is fastidious and curious or nice only.
Henry David Thoreau
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