Quotes about Contentment
Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.
- Zig Ziglar
The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
- Billy Sunday
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Do you see what little is required of a man to live a well-tempered and god-fearing life? Obey these precepts, and the gods will ask nothing more.
- Marcus Aurelius
Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness as well as virtue consists in mediocrity.
- Samuel Johnson
A man that is well ordered in his soul needeth little the unkind demeanor of worldly people nor yet their proud behavior.
- Thomas a Kempis
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
- John Donne
By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world.
- Charles Spurgeon
He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it.
- Charles Spurgeon
The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.
- Aristotle