Quotes About Contentment

There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.

I have no aspiration whatsoever to be the next great leading man.

If you please man and never please God, you have nothing; if you please God and man forsakes you, you have everything.

If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.

Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further.

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.

Every man should be content to mind his own business.

A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: either he abandons all earthly interests, or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.

The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.

A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.

Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

It is not being out at heels that makes a man discontented, it is being out at heart. To be contented is to be good friends with yourself.

Prosperity knits a man to the world.

A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he is lost and miserable.

I am a dolt of a man, easily made happy or even stupidly happy almost without cause and left alone I am mostly content.

That man is best Who does his best And leaves the rest, Then-do not worry.

The wise man delights in water, the Good man delights in mountains. For the wise move; but the Good stay still. The wise are happy; but the good secure.

Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.

I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men.