Contentment Quotes

Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

Philippians 4:11

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Boethus

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Socrates

He who is contented is rich.

Lao Tzu

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Socrates

Content is the true riches.

Tupper

He has enough who is content.

J R Colbert

Contentment is a continual feast.

Herder

He who is content has everything.

Bartholomew

Contentment swells a mite into a talent.

Countess Houdedot

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

1 Timothy 6:6

The spirit of contentment ever wears the hues of joy.

Calderon

No worldly riches are comparable to a contented mind.

Plutarch

Some have too much, many too little; none are content.

Justinian II

Many may lose by desire, but are crowned by content.

Plato

Contentment gives a crown where fortune hath denied it.

J Ford

If you are but content, you have enough to live upon with comfort.

Plautus

A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others.

Bulwer

Content hangs not so high but that a man on the ground may reach it.

J N Colbert

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Addison

God grant that, having a competency, we may be content and thankful.

I Walton

To live content with our state is the best means to prevent ambitious desires.

Archimedes

It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are.

Sir J Mackintosh

Contentment consisteth not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire; not in multiplying of wealth, but in subtracting men’s desires.

T Fuller

Without contentment…there is no profit, no pleasure in anything.

H Spencer

He is richest who is content with the least; for content is the wealth of nature.

Socrates

Without content we shall find it almost as difficult to please others as ourselves.

Greville

To learn the art of contentment, is only to learn what happiness actually consists in.

Paley

Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

Hebrews 13:5

Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself: not he whom the world believes but he who believes himself to be so, is content; and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality.

Montaigne

Happy are the moments when sorrow forgets its cares, and misery its misfortunes; when peace and gladness spring up upon the radiant wings of hope, and the light of contentment dawns once more upon the disconsolate, unfortunate and unhappy heart.

Acton

That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we can say, I have enough, is the highest attainment in philosophy. Happiness consists, not in possessing much, but in being content with what we possess; he who wants little always has enough.

Zimmerman

If thou hast but little, make it not less by murmuring; if thou hast enough, make it not too much by unthankfulness.

F Quarles

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind; and he, who has so little knowledge of human nature, as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove.

Samuel Johnson

They that deserve nothing should be content with anything; bless God for what you have, and trust God for what you want; if we cannot bring our condition to our mind, we must bring our mind to our condition; if a man is not content in the state he is in, he will not be content in that state he would be in.

Erskine Mason

Learn to be contented with your condition. Is that animal better that hath two or three mountains to graze on, than a little bee that feeds on dew or manna, and lives on what falls every morning from the clouds, the storehouses of heaven? Can a man quench his thirst better out of a river than a full cup, or drink better from the fountain which is finely paved with marble than when it falls over the green turf?

Jeremy Taylor

And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.

1 Timothy 6:8