Top 46 Self Contentment Quotes
#1. Comparison is the death of true self-contentment.
John Powell
#2. Confidence equals contentment with self; contentment is knowing you have all you need for the present circumstances.
John C. Maxwell
#3. Riches does not mean, having a great amount of property, but riches is self-contentment.
Muhammad
#4. If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
Leon Kass
#5. Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
May Sarton
#6. I want true love in this life, and true contentment and peace. But maybe the only way I can find those things is to let go of the belief that this life is my reality.
Elizabeth Kim
#7. Complacency traps people and besiege them until longer period. The biggest challenge is to become aware of its existence and stepping out of it quickly.
Ashish Patel
#8. By becoming aware of how you eat your eating will become a rich experience blessed with tasteful flavor, joyful texture, a deep sense of gratitude, and pleasurable contentment.
Ilchi Lee
#9. Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#10. The foundation of joyful independence is being content with yourself; self-love.
Bryant McGill
#11. Compare your life only with the commandments of God.
Be like God. He is the mighty being that dwells in you.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#13. Ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know ...
John Geddes
#14. Give yourself the love and attention you desire, it's the starting point of contentment.
Rob Liano
#15. Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
Marcus Aurelius
#16. Happiness is found within Oneself. It can't be accessed through People or Things.
Joan Ambu
#17. There's a way,
a way way too long but reachable,
not for everyone a way but possible ...
Go and don't lose your way!
Rossana Condoleo
#19. If you are satisfied, you bring your satisfaction to the moment and fill the circumstances of your life with that satisfaction. If you are dissatisfied, however, no one and nothing can produce contentment for you.
Shya Kane
#20. Introspection and self-awareness were the enemies of contentment,
James Runcie
#21. Think of a world where "Detachment", "Gratitude" and "Empathy" were subjects included in every grade school's curriculum. A new generation would emerge with an attitude of peace, contentment and an overall appreciation for everything and everyone
Gary Hopkins
#22. People will ask you the question 'how is life treating you?' But my question is 'how are you treating life?' On that your happiness rests
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#23. Thank you God, for joy and good health, sadness and sickness, and the happiness, prosperity, and contentment you have given me. I love you!
Haresh Buxani
#26. Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.
Charles Spurgeon
#28. The real virtue is not to be free from desires but to be content with what you have.
Abhijit Naskar
#29. Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.
Lao-Tzu
#30. Gratitude is a way of contentment.
Miss Brit
#31. By living a life based on wisdom and truth, one can discover the divinity of the soul, its union to the universe, the supreme peace and contentment which comes from satisfying the inner drive for self discovery.
Muata Ashby
#33. In a lifestyle where there are no boundaries, it becomes a challenge to find one's true self. If everything comes easily, there is no way to establish worth. And if nothing has real value, then there is no way to gauge satisfaction or accomplishment or contentment.
Tami Hoag
#35. Self-control, in every station and to every individual, is indispensable, if people would retain that equanimity of mind, which, depending on self-respect, is the essential of contentment and happiness.
Sarah Josepha Hale
#36. I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace.
Criss Jami
#37. Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.
Plato
#38. There are so many paths to contentment if you're open to self-delusion.
Anthony Marra
#39. Seeming contentment is real discontent, combined with indolence or self-indulgence, which, while taking no legitimate means of raising itself, delights in bringing others down to its own level.
John Stuart Mill
#40. Gracious Providence, to whom I owe all my powers, why didst thou not withhold some of those blessings I possess, and substitute in their place a feeling of self-confidence and contentment?
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#41. Ive been waiting for this moment,
The one where looking back doesn't seem fascinating anymore & looking forward doesn't seem to be the greatest seek, I am so darn content with creating and living right now that there honestly isn't any room left for the ordinary.
Nikki Rowe
#42. To be unique calls for being unique in such a way that your uniqueness doesn't make others appear inferior, and a uniqueness that doesn't crave for anything apart from your own thing.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#43. To seek contentment is to release the novelty that lies within monotony
Ilyas Kassam
#44. Giving materialistically is the soft option, but when you give from what you do for others then your reward is immeasurable contentment.
Stephen Richards
#45. He believed that the secret of happiness was to concentrate on things outside oneself. Introspection and self-awareness were the enemies of contentment, and
James Runcie
