My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
Charles Lamb

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.
Pearl Bailey

Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice.
Salmon P. Chase

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.
Jerome K. Jerome

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.
Phillips Brooks

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defence of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
Thomas Hood

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
Thomas Hobbes

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
John Kenneth Galbraith

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
Akhenaton

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Norman Vincent Peale

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
Walter Savage Landor

You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.
Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.
Chief Joseph

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
Horace