#Dissatisfaction Quotes

“Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse.”

“Though I have many words,What woman's satisfied,I am no longer faintBecause at her side?O who could have foretoldThat the heart grows old?”

“Through winter-time we call on spring,And through the spring on summer call,And when the abounding hedges ringDeclare that winter's best of all:And after that there's nothing goodBecause the spring time has not come-Not know that what disturbs our bloodIs but its longing for the tomb.”

“Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is one of failure. Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or else he has secret ideals of which the world knows nothing, and in regard to which he inwardly knows himself to be found wanting.”

“We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it”

“I also remember the moment my life changed, the moment I finally said, "I've had it!" I know I'm much more than I'm demonstrating mentally, emotionally, and physically in my life. I made a decision in that moment which was to alter my life forever. I decided to change virtually every aspect of my life. I decided I would never again settle for less that I can be.”

“Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing.”

“I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.”

“Until you get dissatisfied, you won't do anything to really move your life to another level. Dissatisfaction is a gem. If you're totally satisfied, you're going to get comfortable. And then your life begins to deteriorate.”

“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”

“We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.”

“and there had been times when he wished he'd been born into a different family.”

“How can a man be satisfied to entertain an opinion merely, and enjoy it? Is there any enjoyment in it, if his opinion is that he is aggrieved? If you are cheated out of a single dollar by your neighbor, you do not rest satisfied with knowing that you are cheated, or with saying that you are cheated, or even with petitioning him to pay you your due; but you take effectual steps at once to obtain the full amount, and see that you are never cheated again.”

“Time, time, time, see what's become of me,While I looked around,For my possibilities;I was so hard to please”

“The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?”

“You're going to have a racial explosion, and a racial explosion is more dangerous than an atomic explosion. It's going to explode because black people are dissatisfied; they're dissatisfied not only with the white man, but they're dissatisfied with these Negroes who have been sitting around here posing as leaders and spokesmen for black people and actually making the problem worse instead of making the problem better.”

“No disaster is worse than being discontented.”

“He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.”

“The fact that we still live well cannot ease the feeling that we no longer live nobly.”

“I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.”

“Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render.”

“The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.”

“If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.”

“Within the human being there exists both the needful and the needed. You know that the needful exists in you. Your own dissatisfaction tells you so. But you believe the needed is somewhere outside of you.”

“It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements.”

“Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there'.”

“Learn from nature. See how everything gets accomplished and how the miracle of life unfolds without dissatisfaction or unhappiness.”

“Stress is wanting something to be the way it isn't.”

“I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another.”

“We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.”

“The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.”

“No one is ever satisfied where he is.”