Quotes about Contentment

“He that is well paid is well satisfied.”

“People are never free of trying to be content.”

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

“Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.”

“Try to be like the turtle -- at ease in your own shell”

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

“My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.”

“Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.”

“I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.”

“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”

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

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

“Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.”

“It is invariable found that a content man is usually a weak one.”

“Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.”

“To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.”

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

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

“It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are.”

“Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind.”

“There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.”

“To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.”

“When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.”

“He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.”

“There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.”

“One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.”

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

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

“The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.”

“If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.”