Top 356 Contented Quotes & Sayings

I won't change my legs. because I'm contented with my long-legged.

In most marriages, there is a contented partner and a restless one.

Be contented, when you have got all you want.

It becomes us, therefore, to be contented, and dutiful subjects.

A champion's strength comes from never being contented.

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

A contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

To be contented—that’s for the cows.

It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all.

Joy and openness come from our own contented heart.

What man have you ever seen who was contented with one crime only?

He who is contented is rich.

Contented children are valuable, as is the peace that surrounds them.

since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit.

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

Pray for a peaceful and contented mind in all circumstances.

If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage.

Self-discipline is crucial to a simpler, more contented life.

Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.

When men are employed they are best contented.

For in a dearth of comforts, we art taught To be contented with the least.

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

I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.

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.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

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.

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

That best of blessings, a contented mind.

A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence.

No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.

I'm not contented to capture the world. I want to change it.

We must be contented to amuse, when we cannot inform.

If all were gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless.

A reflective, contented mind is the best possession.

I think if you make others happy you are contented.

Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells.

Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.

All I want is to live a happy, healthy and contented life.

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.

Success is not just money in the bank but a contented heart and peace of mind.

I definitely hope and pray everyone has this kind of a married life - contented and happy.

Instead (Harry) contented himself with scrawling a note to Ron: Let's do it tonight.

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.

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.

Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness; none can be happy with a small portion of content.

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

Angels contented with their face in heaven, Seek not the praise of men.

I feel completely contented at Bayern - one of the biggest clubs in the world.

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.

The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.

We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.

Man is never perfect nor contented.

How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!

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

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

You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

Happiness is possible only when we are kind to others and contented within.