Contentment Quotes - Quotes on Contentment

Sometimes, reading a couple contentment quotes is all you need when you're torturing yourself with those seemingly unending cravings for more.

While it's always OK to strive for more, always remember to allow yourself the peace of knowing that achieving more is not going to finally offer you contentment.

You need to find contentment with your present in order to find fulfillment in your future.

Contentment Quote #1
"A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them."
- Joseph Addison
Quote on Contentment #2
"Riches are not from an abundance of wordly goods, but from a contented mind."
- Muhammad
Contentment Quote #3
"God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it."
- A. W. Tozer
Quote on Contentment #4
"Contentment consists not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire."
- Thomas Fuller
Contentment Quote #5
"A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical. We are fulfilling our proper destiny, and those around us feel the sunshine of our own hearts."
- Edward George Earle Lytton
Quote on Contentment #6
"The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith."
- Bertrand Russell
Quote on Contentment #7
"Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase."
- John Balguy
Quote on Contentment #8
""This morning in paradise was not much better than the one yesterday. In other words, it was perfect. And morning in paradise is the perfect time of day."
- Tom Selleck
Contentment Quote #9
"What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life."
- Hermann Hesse
Quote on Contentment #10
"In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor."
- William Ames
Contentment Quote #11
"We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit."
- Henry Ward Beecher
Quote on Contentment #12
"My crown is in my heart, not on my head, Nor decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen: My crown is called content: A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy."
- William Shakespeare
Contentment Quote #13
"If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot."
- John Bunyan
Quote on Contentment #14
"We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory."
- Unknown
Quote on Contentment #15
"True humility is contentment."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
Quote on Contentment #16
"A contented heart is an even sea in the midst of all storms."
- Unknown
Quote on Contentment #17
"When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment."
- Unknown
Quote on Contentment #18
"If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably."
- Plautus
Contentment Quote #19
"There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment."
- Swami Sivananda
Quote on Contentment #20
"Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have."
- Unknown
Contentment Quote #21
"Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead."
- Scottish Proverb
Contentment Quote #22
"Try to be like the turtle -- at ease in your own shell."
- Bill Copeland
Contentment Quote #23
"The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach."
- Lin Yutang

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