A Quote by James Mackintosh

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

James Mackintosh

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Contented Never Right

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James Mackintosh
Scottish - Judge
October 24, 1765 - May 30, 1832

If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.

Indira Gandhi

The secret of happiness is in a cheerful, contented mind. He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and can enjoy what others own.

Orison Swett Marden

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

Pearl Bailey

The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world.

Charles Spurgeon

Man is never perfect nor contented.

Jules Verne

A champion's strength comes from never being contented.

Stephan El Shaarawy

Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.

Charles Caleb Colton

Ignorance, which is contented and clumsy, will produce what is imperfect, but not offensive. But ignorance dis contented and dexterous, learning what it cannot understand, and imitating what it cannot enjoy, produces the most loathsome forms of manufacture that can disgrace or mislead humanity.

John Ruskin

The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world. He is like a traveler in an inn, perfectly satisfied with the inn and its accommodation, considering it as an inn, but putting quite out of all consideration the idea of making it his home.

Charles Spurgeon

No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.

William Cowper

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

Frank Herbert

The contented have time to worry about trivialities; often to the extent that they never achieve anything worthwhile.

Jules Eckert Goodman

Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted against, and they make a respectable, if not particularly intelligent, audience for the active spirits of the age to play before. I have not a word to say against contented people so long as they keep quiet.

Jerome K. Jerome

No rage is equal to the rage of a contented right-thinking man when he is confronted in the marketplace by an idea which belongs in the pulpit.

Thurman Arnold

Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.