Discontent quotations

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◆ Without patience, you have nothing, without work, you remain in the same place.

- 99

◆ Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton98

◆ The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent.

- William Watson98

◆ We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

- Lewis Thomas98

◆ Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.

- Edmund Leach98

◆ Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.

- Cyril Cusack98

◆ Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.

- Anna Freud98

◆ The discontented man finds no easy chair.

- Benjamin Franklin98

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

- Thomas A Edison98

◆ Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.

- Thomas A Edison98

◆ Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

- Mohandas Gandhi98

◆ We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

- Henri Frederic Amiel98

◆ Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore to such as are discontent, in woe, fear, sorrow, or dejected, it is a most present remedy

- Robert Burton98

◆ Creativity is discontent translated into arts.

- Eric Hoffer98

◆ In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.

- Samuel Johnson98