Top 295 Discontent Quotes & Sayings

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.

Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls have fallen by mistake; but the sense of a stupendous self and an insignificant world may have its consolations. Lydgate's discontent was much harder to bear; it was the sense that there was a grand existence in thought and effective action lying around him, while his self was being narrowed into the miserable isolation of egoistic fears, and vulgar anxieties for events that might allay such fears.

Discontent is the wheel that moves people forward.

Tragedy is chic but discontent is dowdy.

The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.

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

It would much conduce to the settlement of your hearts, to consider, That by fretting and discontent, you do yourselves more injury thart till the afsltilions you lie under could do; your own discontent is that which arms your troubles with a sting; it is you that make your burden heavy, by struggling under it. Could you but lie quiet under the hand of God, your condition would be much easier and sweeter than it is.

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

Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

We can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

All writers are discontent. That's because they're aware of a potential and believe they're not reaching it.

Men are suspicious; prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

One whisper, added to a thousand others, becomes a roar of discontent

Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair.

The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I've got sarcastic company.

Discontent is the seed of ethics.

People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent.

Jihadist organizations attempt to exploit discontent among marginalized groups in unstable societies.

I felt it from within. We have tremendous discontent in the country. We have tremendous problems in the country. And I felt it early on or I wouldn't have done this. But I see tremendous discontent.

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

If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

Discover your own discontent, and be grateful, for without divine discontent there would be no creative force.

Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual.

Creativity is discontent translated into arts.

Discontent is the catalyst for change.

There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.

There is no greater disaster than discontent.

What is more miserable than discontent?

The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence.

Now is the winter of our discontent.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.

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

Discontent with the status quo is a great catalyst for vision.

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

I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person.

We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

We dishonor God if we proclaim a Savior who satisfies and then go around discontent

The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.

The very first temptation in the history of mankind was the temptation to be discontent...that is exactly what discontent(ment ) is - a questioning of the goodness of God.

Each week, I post a video about some 'Pigeon of Discontent' raised by a reader. Because, as much as we try to find the 'Bluebird of Happiness,' we're also plagued by those small but pesky 'Pigeons of Discontent.'

Man's worst enemies are boredom and discontent.

Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent.

One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.

Today be happy with what you have - not discontent with what you don't have.

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

If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

literature is the record of our discontent.

Love is maintain'd by wealth: when all is spent, Adversity then breeds the discontent.

Never be discontent with the life you've been dealt, be discontent with the way you're living it.

Dismantling the architecture of my discontent

Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.

Noble discontent is the path to heaven.

The discontent that lies in the human condition is not satisfied simply by material things.