Discontented People Quotes

#1. What absurd victims of contrary desires we are! If a man is settled in one place he yearns to wander; when he wanders he yearns to have a home. And yet how bestial is content - all the great things in life are done by discontented people.

Christopher Morley

#2. Discontented people are exactly the kind of people that made America so Great. Sometimes it's good to be frustrated; it leads to change.

Bradford Winters

#3. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.

Neil Gaiman

#4. Earl Moncrief, the butler, built his financial, procurement, and secret service organizations with the brute power of cash and a profound understanding of clever, malicious, discontented people who lived behind servile facades.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. Buddhism has always been a religion for people who've worked their way through a cycle of materialism and still feel discontented and want more, or have questions that their state of prosperity is not answering.

Pankaj Mishra

#6. I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.

G. Willow Wilson

#7. The Tang went into decline and people became discontented. There was hunger and unrest, and as is common at such times, the troublemakers looked to place the blame on the foreigners.

Amitav Ghosh

#8. yes i am selfish. but i am still in LOVE, because Love Is Always In My favor

Sushil Singh

#9. Like most discontented and disappointed people who have no real object in life, Orsino Saracinesca read a good deal ...

Francis Marion Crawford

#10. By compassion one can be brave.

Laozi

#11. Very few companies can perform at scale over the course of decades, and Yahoo has done that.

Ross Levinsohn

#12. Integrity means that if our private life was suddenly exposed, we'd have no reason to be ashamed or embarrassed. Integrity means our outward life is consistent with our inner convictions.

Billy Graham

#13. Emily and I have some funny scenes where we quarrel and it gets quite heated, the mother-daughter relationship. You know, film mothers and daughters adore each other. And some don't. But how could you not love Emily Blunt? But I think I'm just one of those people who's always discontented.

Jacki Weaver

#14. Of course advertising creates wants. Of course it makes people discontented, dissatisfied. Satisfaction with things as they are would defeat the American Dream.

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

#15. Because the tribe is its members, the tribe is what its members want it to be - nothing more and nothing less.

Daniel Quinn

#16. Be the kind of person that sees an obstacle as a Mountain, and throws on their hiking gear

Casar Jacobson

#17. Since nobody is in a position to substitute his own value judgments for those of the acting individual, it is vain to pass judgment on other people's aims and volitions. No man is qualified to declare what would make another man happier or less discontented.

Ludwig Von Mises