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Tag Name "Discontent" (164)

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Discontent is the catalyst for change.
Mike Murdock
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Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.
Neil Gaiman
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Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual.
Aneurin Bevan
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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
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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Oscar Wilde
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Discontents are sometimes the better part of our life. I know not well which is the most useful joy I may choose for pleasure, but adversities are the best for profit and sometimes those do so far help me, as I should, without them, want much of the joy I have.
Owen Feltham
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Discontent is the wheel that moves people forward.
Lu Xun
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Discontent with the status quo is a great catalyst for vision.
John C. Maxwell
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Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
Eckhart Tolle
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Discontent is the seed of ethics.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Berthold Auerbach
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Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.
Owen Feltham
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Discontent is want of self-reliance it is infirmity of will.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Creativity is discontent translated into arts.
Eric Hoffer
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How often do we use other people as screens upon which to project our obsessions? Our discontents, dreams, desires, and fears? Well, I always thought, often enough that its a wonder the whole waking world isn't simply viewed as an endless improvised film. One with as many screenwriters, producers, and directors as there are actors
Bradford Morrow
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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One of Satan's greatest tools is pride: to cause a man or a woman to center so much attention on self that he or she becomes insensitive to his Creator or fellow beings. It is a cause for discontent, divorce, teenage rebellion, family indebtedness, and most other problems we face.
Ezra Taft Benson
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It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.
Charles Dickens
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It all boils down to the fact that we must never allow ourselves to become satisfied with unattained goals. We must always maintain a kind of divine discontent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing. In this way boredom can act as an invitation to freedom by opening me to new options and thoughts. For example, if I can't change the activity, can I look at it more honestly?
Hugh Prather
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Three causes especially have excited the discontent of mankind and, by impelling us to seek remedies for the irremediable, have bewildered us in a maze of madness and error. These are death, toil, and the ignorance of the future.
Charles Mackay
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In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack of fulfillment.
Maya Angelou
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While to live in the past and think of what was good and beautiful about it amounts to a sort of seasoning of the present, the perennial wait for tomorrow is bound to result in chronic discontent that poisons one's entire outlook.
Isabelle Eberhardt
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