Never Be Content Quotes

#1. Work and play go hand in hand. A lot of people want to work, work, and work until 40, and then relax. Who says you'll get to 40? Or 50? Who knows what'll happen in the next five minutes? The only reality is the present. And if you can't learn to live in the moment, you'll never be content.

Gautam Singhania

#2. We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater than ourselves, and will never be content unless we are.

Charles Eisenstein

#3. MISSION EARTH
You can never be content as long as the very purpose of coming to Earth is not fulfilled - that of making your mind unshakeable, loving, pure, obedient and integrated.

Sirshree

#4. If we are always demanding something out of life, then we will never be content. But if we accept life as it is, then we will know contentment.

Thich Thien-An

#5. To grow in your passion for what Jesus has done, increase your understanding of what He has done.
Never be content with your grasp of the gospel. The gospel is life-permeating, world-altering, universe-changing truth. It has more facets than any diamond. Its depths man will never exhaust.

C.J. Mahaney

#6. We shall never be content until each man makes his own weather and keeps it to himself.

Jerome K. Jerome

#7. Never be content to wear a cloak of religion. Be all that you profess. Though you may err, be real. Though you may stumble, be true. Keep this principle continually before your eyes, and it will be well with your soul throughout your journey from grace to glory.

J.C. Ryle

#8. 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

#9. If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

Leo Tolstoy

#10. May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.

Chuck Palahniuk

#11. The most amazing fact about Jesus, unlike almost any other religious founder, is that he found God in disorder and imperfection - and told us that we must do the same or we would never be content on this earth.

Richard Rohr

#12. Misery is a heart that can never be content with what it has and, by always craving something more, brings about its own destruction. And desolation is a heart so fearful of losing what it hoards that it never knows the richness that comes from being able to give.

Anne Bishop

#13. A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people.

J.C. Ryle

#14. Never be content with your current grasp of the gospel.

C.J. Mahaney

#15. If you are searching for your purpose in life then you're never going to be satisfied. This life will never satisfy you. You'll never be happy and you'll never be content. The only really contentment or true happiness is with Christ.

Mark Teixeira

#16. Forever be happy, never be content, and always know the difference.

Hal Elrod

#17. Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

Isabelle Eberhardt

#18. Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.

Doris Mortman

#19. 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

#20. This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.

Albert Camus

#21. I guess people can't be content without answers, even if they're wrong. We'd rather have a lie than a question that we can never know the answer to.

Stephanie Oakes

#22. Sometimes people have a wild past because they have an essentially wild nature, and that's how they plan to go through life. Sometimes such people settle into happy monogamy, and can be content there because they never have to wonder, "What did I miss?"

Emily Yoffe

#23. 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

#24. In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.

Robert Bork

#25. Life is about balance. Be kind, but don't let people abuse you. Trust, but don't be deceived. Be content, but never stop improving yourself.

Zig Ziglar

#26. There is so much of suffering that I will never even begin to understand. But I am content in believing that I don't even have to understand why the story unravels the way it does so long as I know that in the end everything will be all right.

Ann Tatlock

#27. To talk about communication theory without communicating its real mathematical content would be like endlessly telling a man about a wonderful composer, yet never letting him hear an example of the composer's music.

John R. Pierce

#28. If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable ... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

John Henry Newman

#29. [ ... ] to be absolutely modern means: never to question the content of modernity and to serve it as one serves the absolute, that is, without hesitation.

Milan Kundera

#30. But of God you can never have a sufficiency. The more you have of God, the more you desire. If you could ever have enough of God, so that you were content with him, then God would not be God.

Meister Eckhart

#31. The confession of the authority of the Word of God can never be isolated from the saving content of the Word of God.

G. C. Berkouwer

#32. 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

#33. Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown.

Albert Einstein

#34. The 'serial kisser' tag that has been thrust on to me is a lame stereotype. It irritates me. Yes, there is sexual content in my movies, and I have never been apologetic about doing bold scenes. But it's not fair to tag me this way because that can be very stifling.

Emraan Hashmi

#35. But there we are. Some things never do make perfect sense. There must be some explanation, and it is perhaps a little like the Doctrine of the Perfect Partner. We must be content to know that she exists, somewhere in the world, and try not to care overmuch that we will probably never meet her.

Iain M. Banks

#36. I never dreamed that my future would be my husband's past. But it's such a huge past in terms of the recorded content.

Gail Zappa

#37. So much the better - so much the better; for I have always found that a conceited man never knows content. All things prove it. Why have we not the wings of the pigeon, the eyes of the eagle, and the legs of the moose, if it had been intended that man should be equal to all his wishes?

James Fenimore Cooper

#38. I realized that there was an intellectual content in music, a kind of thinking, that I would never be able to hear.

Garth Greenwell

#39. There are some people men and women both who will never be happy no matter what the circumstances they find themselves. There's not enough money, no Castle grand enough, no life easy enough to content them.

Lynn Kurland

#40. I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.

Ally Condie

#41. People are never free of trying to be content.

Murray Bookchin

#42. I aim to be content with what I produce. It's an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.

Graham Greene

#43. I'm not suffering Trisha, I've never suffered all these years, someone long back taught me by example that its very easy to be content with one's solitude. I've enjoyed mine all these years.

Dixy Gandhi

#44. Do not any longer contend for mastery, for power, money, or praise. Be content to be a private, insignificant person, known and loved by God and me ... of what importance is your character to mankind, if you was buried just now. Or if you had never lived, what loss would it be to the cause of God.

John Wesley

#45. Siri whispered an answer to my unasked question. "No, Merin, one is never really too old. At least not too old to want the warmth and closeness. You decide, my love. I will be content either way." I decided. Towards the dawn we slept.

Dan Simmons

#46. I'm sure there are people who are content to run errands and report for work on time and wait, with an enlivening eagerness, for the lunch bell. I wish them well. They have, however, never been the subjects of novels, and in all likelihood, will never be.

Michael Cunningham

#47. To win in life, never forget to be content competing with yourself.

Debasish Mridha

#48. Grow taller than your failures; never give up. People who are content with where they are will never be passionate about making greater accomplishments in their lives.

Israelmore Ayivor

#49. American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.

Christopher Dawson

#50. When you cannot answer a skeptic, be content to wait for more light; but never forsake a great principle.

J.C. Ryle

#51. There lives at least one being who can never change-one being who would be content to devote his whole existence to your happiness-who lives but in your eyes-who breathes but in your smiles-who bears the heavy burden of life itself only for you.

Charles Dickens

#52. As far as possible, Arianne realized, each soul had to be content alone before plunging into love, because one never knew when the other would move out of that love. It was the greatest paradox: Souls need each other, but they also need to not need each other.

Lauren Kate

#53. I want to create amazing art and content that inspires people to want to be the best versions of themselves everyday, and never let anyone (even themselves) hold them back.

Rachele Brooke Smith

#54. And yet never had she felt herself more totally committed to a will which was not her own, more totally a slave, and more content to be so. When

Pauline Reage

#55. Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

Dorothy Parker

#56. A person content to be bland will never be anyone's first choice as a companion for an idle afternoon.

Nancy Moser

#57. The idea of political content is irrelevant. Content is irrelevant. I always tell my students, "Never forget you're writing words! You know, word one, word two, word three, word four. The words have to be organized. Nothing else does."

Dave Hickey

#58. It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! to hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul; never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred ...

Virginia Woolf

#59. I hope I don't get driven to the point where, to be honest, I'm never satisfied. I hope there's some part of me that can be content.

Ben Schwartz

#60. Couldst thou in vision see, thyself the man God meant, thou never then could be, the man thou art content.

Augustus Hopkins Strong

#61. He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of mankind, Virtue will never desert him. He returns to the state of a little child.

Laozi

#62. But one never quite reached the point at which one could relax and know that one had made it through to the other side of suffering and could now be simply content, even happy, inside a balanced mix of body, mind, and spirit.

Mary Balogh

#63. One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself.

C.S. Lewis

#64. Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as mere consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve within a stable, solid relationship.

Nick Hornby

#65. I may never be happy, but tonight I am content.

Sylvia Plath

#66. There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is

William George Jordan

#67. Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion.

Martin Amis

#68. A man could be content with bread alone if he'd never tasted anything else. But one taste of sugar and John knew he'd never know such sweetness again.

Inez Kelley

#69. ...despite the rain, I felt I had never been more content. I had gold, a friend, a horse, and brandy. I could envisage no end to my life but a bullet, yet even if I never had more than this, it would be enough.

Cherie Pugh

#70. No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.

William Osler

#71. 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

#72. Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content.
But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.

Sun Tzu