Discontent Quotes

Discontent is the seed of ethics

Friedrich Nietzsche

There are some who complain most energetically and inconsolably of any, because they are, as they say, doing their duty. I also have in my mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.

Henry David Thoreau

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

Oscar Wilde

If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.

David Rockefeller

The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.

Jos

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

Eric Hoffer

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Thomas Alva Edison

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Soren Kierkegaard

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be content in another.

Aesop

Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.

Robert Herrick

Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there

Henry Vaughan

Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.

Chinese Proverb

Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.

E. M. Cioran

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

Benjamin Franklin

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

Benjamin Franklin

Let thy discontents be thy secrets.

Benjamin Franklin

It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!

Luigi Pirandello

I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.

A. Whitney Brown

Discontent is something that follows ambition like a shadow.

Henry H. Haskins