Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Contentment

A day’s work is a day’s work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day’s sustenance, a night’s repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman.
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright

Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet

Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within.
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American Author

The contented man is never poor; the discontented never rich.
George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French Theologian, Musician, Philosopher, Physician

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
Doug Larson (1926–2017) American Columnist

I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.
Epictetus (55–135) Ancient Greek Philosopher

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
Socrates (469BCE–399BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher

The noblest mind the best contentent has.
Edmund Spenser (1552–99) English Poet

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
Charles Lamb (1775–1834) British Essayist, Poet

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind; and he who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he proposes to remove.
Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist

To be content with life—or to live merrily, rather—all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–99) German Philosopher, Physicist

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Socrates (469BCE–399BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher

When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese-born American Philosopher, Poet, Painter, Theologian, Sculptor

It is much easier in many ways for me-and for other Presidents, I think, who felt the same way-when Congress is not in town.
John F. Kennedy (1917–63) American Head of State, Journalist

Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own;
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.
John Dryden (1631–1700) English Poet, Literary Critic, Playwright

My God, give me neither poverty nor riches, but whatsoever it may be thy will to give, give me, with it, a heart that knows humbly to acquiesce in what is thy will.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–81) German Writer, Philosopher

I look back on my life like a good day’s work; it is done and I am satisfied with it.
Grandma Moses (1860–1961) American Painter, Artist

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
John Locke (1632–1704) English Philosopher, Physician

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you’ve done the best you can, you can’t do any better. So when I go to sleep I turn everything over to the Lord and forget it.
Harry S. Truman (1884–1972) American Head of State

If two angels were sent down from heaven, one to conduct an empire, and the other to sweep a street, they would feel no inclination to change employments.
John Newton (1725–1807) English Clergyman, Writer

A man who finds no satisfaction in himself, seeks for it in vain elsewhere.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer

He that is never satisfied with anything, satisfies no one.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer

If the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man’s stature as to his happiness.
Laurence Sterne (1713–68) Irish Anglican Novelist, Clergyman

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
Louis L’Amour (1908–88) American Novelist, Short-story Writer

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness.
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–98) English Liberal Statesman, Prime Minister

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