Discontented Quotes

The discontented man finds no easy chair.
Benjamin Franklin

Easy, Chair, Finds

To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
Marlene Dietrich

Life, Women, Respect

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
John Muir

Travel, Far, Though

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.
Mason Cooley

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.
Aesop

Happy, Place, Another

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Others, Ourselves

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
Florence Nightingale

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.
Laurence Sterne

Mind, Him, Making

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
Frank Herbert

Wise, Rich, Poor

The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.
Shimon Peres

History, Greatest, Whatever

When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don't worry - I'm very capable of making myself discontented.
Florence Welch

Creativity, Else, Creative

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
Joseph de Maistre

Power, Complain, Loves

A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.
Zebulon Pike

Self, Young, Pride

Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.
Louis XIV

Time, Office, Vacant

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