Contentment is happiness and satisfaction, often because you have everything you need:. Profoundly inspirational contentment quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.
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Famous Contentment Quotes
He who is contented is rich. – Lao Tzu
Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. – Lao Tzu
Contentment is accepting what God has given us, and, by His strength, making the most of it. – C. J. Jackson
Contentment is never the outcome of fulfillment, of achievement, or of the possession of things; it is not born of action or inaction. It comes with the fullness of what is, not in the alteration of it. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
Contentment is not about getting what you want. Contentment is about wanting what you’ve got. – Ken Clark
Contentment is the greatest form of wealth. – Acharya Nagarjuna
Comparison makes finding contentment a million times harder. – Anonymous
A contented heart is a calm sea in the midst of all storms. – Anonymous
Contentment makes poor men rich, discontent makes rich men poor. – Benjamin Franklin
If one’s life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having a few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements. And finally, there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation. – Dalai Lama
Patience is the key to contentment. – The Prophet Muhammad
Content hangs not so high but that a man on the ground may reach it. – Eliza Cook
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. – Charles Lamb
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. – Joseph Addison
The contented man can be happy with what appears to be useless. – Hung Ko
It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are. – James Mackintosh
It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us. – Vivian Greene
Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything. – Aesop
A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. – Fred Estabrook
If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably. – Plautus
True contentment is a real, even an active virtue – not only affirmative but creative. It is the power of getting out of any situation all there is in it. – G. K. Chesterton
To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible. – Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Contentment has been worn as a crown by no end of sleepy heads. – Henry S. Haskins
Contentment: The smother of invention. – Ethel Watts Mumford
A contented mind is the best source for trouble. – Plautus
Progress is not created by contented people. – Frank Tyger
Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances. – Linda Dillow
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment. – George Woodberry
At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you. – Elizabeth Gilbert
To know when you have enough is to be rich beyond measure. – Lao Tzu
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. – Epicurus
Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire. – Thomas Fuller
Discontentment makes rich people poor while contentment makes poor people rich. – unknown
Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it. – John Ford
Contentment has the ability to squeeze out of every situation all the good there is to get. – Shantidasa
When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. – Francois La Rochefoucauld
Contentment, and indeed usefulness, comes as the infallible result of great acceptances, great humilities of not trying to make ourselves this or that, but of surrendering ourselves to the fullness of life of letting life flow through us. – David Grayson
The key to contentment is to consider. Consider who you are and be satisfied with that. Consider what you have and be satisfied with that. Consider what God’s doing and be satisfied with that. You will be amazed at how much more comfortable you’ll feel with yourself. Finally, consider this: If contentment cannot be found within yourself, you’ll never find it. – Luci Swindoll
Neither circumstances nor surroundings can bring contentment. Only by fitting ourselves to meet conditions as they are, calmly and courageously, may we hope to reconcile ourselves to our position and conditions of life. – Fred Van Amburgh
A harvest of peace grows from seeds of contentment. – Indian Proverbs
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough. – Lao Tzu
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment. – Mohandas Gandhi
There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment. – Swami Sivananda
He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature. – Socrates
Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase. – John Balguy
Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn’t anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn’t be any more of a success than an angleworm is. – Josh Billings
Contentment … has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances. – Joni Eareckson Tada
A good life with contentment is itself a great wealth. For we brought nothing with us into this world, and we can take nothing out of it. So if we have enough of what we need, let us be content with that. – Saint Timothy
Contentment is for cows; a challenging purpose is for people. – Denis Waitley
Contentment is just the realization that God has already provided for me today all that I need for my present peace and happiness. – Nancy Leigh Demoss
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress. – Epictetus
The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach. – Lin Yutang
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. – Socrates
The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better. – Jose Saramago
