There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility. Votes: 6
Abu BakrContentment is accepting God's sovereign control over all of life's circumstances. Votes: 4
Linda DillowOne should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. Votes: 4
Eugene O'NeillAt some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you. Votes: 4
Elizabeth GilbertContentment travels rarely with fortune, but follows virtue even in misfortune. Votes: 3
Marie LeszczynskaContentment... is the soul's enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding. Votes: 3
Arthur W. PinkContentment and gratitude are signs that you are worthy of further receivership. Votes: 3
Bryant McGillContentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong. Votes: 3
Bill BaileyContentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want. Votes: 3
Wayne Gerard TrotmanHealth is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. Votes: 3
Gautama BuddhaContentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor. Votes: 3
Benjamin FranklinContentment empties the heart of all superfluous carriage, thus leaving it entirely for Allah. Votes: 3
Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-QarniContentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord. Votes: 3
Paul HendersonContentment is realizing that God has already provided everything we need for our present happiness. Votes: 3
Bill GothardContentment ... has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances. Votes: 3
Joni Eareckson TadaContentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble. Votes: 3
EpictetusOne often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment. Votes: 3
Merle ShainIn contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor. Votes: 3
William AmesOne should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. Votes: 3
Eugene O'NeillContentment comes when you find the people, places, and events in life you were created to impact. Votes: 3
T. D. JakesContentment gives peace and joy in our minds and hearts, which is the reward of living God's way. Votes: 3
Charles L. AllenContentment should be the hallmark of my life, as I put my affairs in the hands of God. Votes: 3
W. Phillip KellerHealth is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. Votes: 2
BuddhaWe may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory. Votes: 2
Bernard WilliamsOne often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment. Votes: 2
Harold CoffinThe foundation of joyful independence is being content with yourself; self-love. Votes: 1
Bryant McGillLearn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon. Votes: 1
Charles M. SchulzImagined happiness is still happiness. It's all in your state of mind. Votes: 1
Richelle E. GoodrichThe change from self-centeredness to human-centeredness is the key to peaceful existence. Votes: 1
Lailah Gifty AkitaWant is always hungry and searching whereas contentment is steady, calm and receiving. Votes: 1
Bryant McGillDaring faith; daring life.Daring life; graceful living.Graceful living; fullness of life. Votes: 1
Lailah Gifty AkitaHope combined with action is the only thing that will bring you contentment. Votes: 1
Shannon L. AlderHappiness is seeing blessings in disguise, beauty under camouflage, and love amid conflict. Votes: 1
Richelle E. GoodrichProgress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves. Votes: 1
Bryant McGillThink little of yourselves, but do not think too little of your calling. Votes: 1
Charles Haddon SpurgeonThoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre. Votes: 1
Rasheed OgunlaruGive yourself the love and attention you desire, it's the starting point of contentment. Votes: 1
Rob LianoWhen the symphony of life fills your heart, the chorus of contentment joins in. Votes: 1
Tom AlthouseContent people give fashion a life. All the rest seek a life from fashion. Votes: 1
Newton G KibiringiHappiness is in contentment, gratitude, and love. It is a lifestyle, not a location. Votes: 1
Ogwo David EmenikeThe world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. Votes: 1
Doug LarsonI live wherever you are cos honestly there's no better place to call home. Votes: 1
Nomzamo NhlumayoThe easiest way to combat greed is by recognizing the value of contentment and simplicity. Votes: 1
Donald L. HicksIn individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record. Votes: 1
Barbara W. TuchmanHaving contentment and gratitude in the present moment is the surest way to achieve success. Votes: 1
Bryant McGillHappiness is a choice, because being so much blessed doesn't make you happy, contentment does. Votes: 1
Joe Mari FadrigalanIf some talents were withheld, the Withholder knows why. He has done all things well. Votes: 1
Charles Haddon SpurgeonThe key to contentment was to never ask why; she had learned that long ago. Votes: 1
Elizabeth StroutIf you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it. Votes: 1
Criss JamiSerenity is a very elusive quality. I've been trying all my life to find it. Votes: 1
W. P. KinsellaWhat we decide does not mean will always happen, so be content with what you are Votes: 1
Sadashivan NairYou do not have to have the best of everything to make the best of everything. Votes: 1
Matshona DhliwayoThe happier person is one, that acknowledges and accepts life won't get any better than this. Votes: 1
Anthony LiccioneHappiness consists of living in the dailyness of life and not knowing how happy you are. Votes: 1
E. L. DoctorowIf you are not content today, there is nothing you can buy tomorrow to change that. Votes: 1
Joshua BeckerFor after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain. Votes: 1
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowBeing content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice. Votes: 1
Alain de BottonTo esteem what makes you holy over what makes you happy - that is the greatest dare. Votes: 1
Criss JamiYou know someone's okay if they can ignore things they can't do anything about and move on. Votes: 1
Jo NesbøDon't ignore the love you DO have in your life by focusing on the love you DON'T. Votes: 1
Mandy HaleSome men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after. Votes: 1
Henry David ThoreauLife is like a story, when all the resolution is resolved, you heave a sigh of relief. Votes: 1
Michael Bassey JohnsonNo one's happy here, you know that. But I am content, and maybe that's enough for me. Votes: 1
Melissa de la CruzIf you're not content with the small things, then you won't be content with the big things. Votes: 1
Anthony LiccioneWhenever he was in company he wanted to get away, and whenever he was alone he wanted company. Votes: 1
J. K. RowlingThe writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored. Votes: 1
Criss JamiI should be contentto look at a mountainfor what it isand not as a comment on my life. Votes: 1
David IgnatowCottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was. Votes: 1
Charles DickensLike everything else, we know the futility of money only when we have more than enough of it. Votes: 1
R.N. PrasherOne of the fastest ways to dispel greed is for a person to realize how blessed he already is. Votes: 1
Kara DurbinWhen you have a distaste for what is not yours, you have set the stage for what is yours. Votes: 1
Dr Paul EnenchePerhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got. Votes: 1
Leo TolstoyLive near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.-- Votes: 1
Robert Murray McCheyneWe are all a great deal luckier that we realize, we usually get what we want - or near enough. Votes: 1
Roald Dahl..there are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything. Votes: 1
Jose SaramagoHe who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. Votes: 1
SocratesI am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more. Votes: 1
Henry FieldingThe low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment. Votes: 0
T. D. JakesHappiness comes out of contentment, and contentment always comes out of service. Votes: 0
Harbhajan SinghContent and Riches seldom meet together, Riches take thou, contentment I had rather. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinHappiness is the twin sister of optimism and the twin brother of contentment. Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanI flush with heaving passion's strange delight, Yet find contentment lost in appetite. Votes: 0
Brian SwimmeTrue art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiCheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks. Votes: 0
Charles DickensHealth, contentment, and trust are your greatest possessions. And freedom your greatest joy. Votes: 0
Gautama BuddhaUltimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances. Votes: 0
Linda DillowThe top of the band would be happiness, contentment and peace of mind. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellTrue contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeRiches does not mean, having a great amount of property, but riches is self-contentment. Votes: 0
MuhammadWhere wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails. Votes: 0
Oliver GoldsmithMarriage is not essential to the contentment, the dignity, or the happiness of woman. Votes: 0
Catharine Maria SedgwickI don't have everything I want but I have everything I need. That's contentment. Votes: 0
James MacDonaldIt is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us. Votes: 0
Vivien GreeneIt is in the everyday and the commonplace that we learn patience, acceptance, and contentment. Votes: 0
Richard J. FosterSecurity and contentment can come only through interdependence of every man upon every other man. Votes: 0
Walter RussellTo feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment. Votes: 0
George Edward WoodberryIf you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness. Votes: 0
Leon KassBut tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest. Votes: 0
Billy CollinsThe life must be a well-balanced life, not lopsided in any manner to bring contentment. Votes: 0
Edgar CayceThere's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment. Votes: 0
Ray CharlesI have received and I want to give. This is the path to happiness and contentment. Votes: 0
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarThe rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul. Votes: 0
Henry Ward BeecherSome place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeThe virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given Votes: 0
William AmesThe same know contentment, for beauty is their lover, and beauty is never absent from this world. Votes: 0
Teresa of AvilaWhat he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life Votes: 0
Hermann HesseHarmony is the inner cadence of contentment we feel when the melody of life is in tune. Votes: 0
Sarah Ban BreathnachAll your horse looks for is the thing that matters most, peace and contentment. Give it to him. Votes: 0
Buck Brannaman...surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.
Dodie SmithThe West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.
Ameen RihaniIn individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
Barbara TuchmanReverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck.
Gautama BuddhaAll those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind. Votes: 3 John Lubbock
Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world. Votes: 1 James K. Polk
There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment. Votes: 3 Swami Sivananda
A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being. Votes: 4 James E. Faust