Quotes About Discontentment

#1. I've always been dissatisfied, I know that. But lately I find that I reek of discontentment. It fills my throat, and it floods my brain. And sometimes I fear there is no longer a dream, but only the discontentment.

David McCullough

#2. We have to use our discontentment to engage rather than disengage - our hope has to be more powerful than our cynicism.

Shane Claiborne

#3. There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.There is no greater guilt than discontentment.And there is no greater disaster than greed.

Lao-Tzu

#4. G. K. Chesterton once said that to be thankful is the highest form of thought and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. Thanklessness, then,must be the lowest form of thought, and ingratitude is discontentment, bankrupted of wonder.

Ravi Zacharias

#5. Drifting away from faith tends to start with the small things, the unintentional things, the seemingly insignificant moments of discontentment.

Kasey Van Norman

#6. The feeling "I'll be happy when X happens" will never bring you anything but discontentment.

Thomas M. Sterner

#7. Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.

Bryant H. McGill

#8. What contentment brings is greater than what discontentment takes away.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#9. Discontentment is a gift. It's the stuff that changes the world.

Shane Claiborne

#10. A Sense Of Outrage Is Essential For The Entrepreneurial Spirit. I Think Discontentment Drives You To Want To Do Something About It. And My Outrage Came Very Early On.

Anita Roddick

#11. We can start by living by the Spirit while we stop following the heart of discontentment and doubt.

Candace Cameron

#12. I preyed on this sort of thing, discontentment, a clash of passions among the rivals, and the zealots. Open sores opened secrets. That's how I roll."
Jackson Guild, The Trinity Conspiracy, Betrayal at Black Mesa

Jeff Shear

#13. Holy discontentment produces a lot of restless energy that seeks rest in Christ and His gospel.

Matt Chandler

#14. A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.

David A. Bednar

#15. If we are to say no to covetousness, we must learn to say yes to contentment. This involves learning to be content with what we have (Hebrews 13:5). Much of our discontentment may be traced to expectations that are essentially selfish and more often than not completely unrealistic.

Alistair Begg

#16. Long, I am woman who speaks but one language, the language of the fall
discontentment and self-condemnation, the critical eye and the never satisfied.

Ann Voskamp

#17. Contentment leads to having more.
Discontentment leads to wanting more.
The contented man is rich, even if poor.
The discontented man is poor, even if rich.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#18. WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL DANGERS TO THE WHOLE.

Oliver Cromwell

#19. Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men like poisoned rats, which, when they have tasted of their bane, cannot rest till they drink, and then can much less rest till they die

Joseph Hall

#20. I will be able to love above all discontentment.
To give even when I am stripped of everything.
To dry tears even when I am still crying.
To believe even when I am discredited.

Paulo Coelho

#21. Discontentment shows up when we focus on what we can't have rather than what we do have.

Emily P. Freeman

#22. Because we are self-focused, we tend to be scorekeepers, constantly comparing our piles of stuff to the piles of others. It's a life of discontentment and envy. Envy is always selfish.

Paul David Tripp

#23. 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.

John Kramer

#24. People on the spiritual path are people of unquenchable discontent. It is being propagated that spirituality means contentment. Contentment means you have contented yourself with what you have. A spiritual person means he is unwilling to settle for anything less than the Ultimate.

Jaggi Vasudev

#25. There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.

Haruki Murakami

#26. The romance of travel wasn't always terribly evident to those who were actually experiencing it.

Bill Bryson

#27. I really am just as discontented, but I don't seem to notice it so much.

Dodie Smith

#28. He cross-examined his very wine when he had nothing else at hand.

Charles Dickens

#29. 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.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#30. Humans are forever discontent - always thinking there are better alternatives to their present circumstances.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#31. And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy," O God, in fact it was Irwin Garden once warned me not to think the madhouses are full of "happy nuts." (p. 200)

Jack Kerouac

#32. Her face felt like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a whole lot worse than being hungry for any dinner, yet it was like that. I want
I want
I want
was all that she could think about
but just what this real want was she did no know.

Carson McCullers

#33. Millions upon millions will attain your ceremony, but don't think all of them are in a ceremonius mood.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#34. Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.

Criss Jami

#35. Our greatest limitation isn't the leader of the lives; it is the spirit within us.

John F. MacArthur Jr.