Contentment Quotes

My crown is in my heart, not on my head, Nor decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen: My crown is called content: A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy.

William Shakespeare

He that is well paid is well satisfied.

William Shakespeare

The contented man can be happy with what appears to be useless.

Hung Ko

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Joseph Addison

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

Steven Wright

Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

Plutarch

Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

Thomas Fuller

That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.

William Wordsworth

She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard and red and coarse, and then her life had been laundering, scrubbing, laundering, first for children, then for grandchildren, over thirty years. At the end of it she was still singing.

George Orwell

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

William Ewart Gladstone

A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do.

Fred Estabrook

Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.

Francis Quarles

No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself

Plato

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Plato

People are never free of trying to be content.

Murray Bookchin

Whenever he was in company he wanted to get away, and whenever he was alone he wanted company.

J.K. Rowling

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Thomas C. Haliburton

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.

Proverb

I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.

Charles Dickens

If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.

Plautus