Quotes about Discontent
Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.
— Edmund Burke
Nothing is too extravagant to expect from men who conceive they are ungratefully and unjustly dealt by.
— George Washington
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
— Henry David Thoreau
If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of play.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We dishonor God if we proclaim a Savior who satisfies and then go around discontent
— JI Packer
Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.
— Teresa of Avila