Discontent Quotes

What is more miserable than discontent?

Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.

Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.

Discontent is the seed of ethics.

How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world.

The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.

Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.

Discontent with the status quo is a great catalyst for vision.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

The world belongs to the discontented.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Now is the winter of our discontent.

I do not speak to those who are well employed, in whatever circumstances, and they know whether they are well employed or not; but mainly to the mass of men who are discontented, and idly complaining of the hardness of their lot or of the times, when they might improve them.

literature is the record of our discontent.

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

There is no greater disaster than discontent.

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.