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Quotes About Contentment

A lot of the ups and downs for me, especially the downs, I feel like it came in a lot of indirect ways because I didn't appreciate what I had.
~ T. J. Perkins
Listen, the way I am, I'm never going to please everyone. But I wouldn't change a thing. There are ups and downs. But overall life is great. I love being Robbie Savage.
~ Robbie Savage
Dream big, but don't be upset if it doesn't happen.
~ Mikaela Shiffrin
It's like, now you're actually complaining because you're making $9 million and guys are making more? If it makes you that upset, quit. Leave the game. Go home then and try finding another job that's going to pay you that.
~ Eric Davis
I was never upset that I did not get an Emmy. That I did get an Emmy nomination, I couldn't be happier and prouder.
~ Kyle Chandler
I don't let myself get upset about the little nitpicky things anymore.
~ Eric Shanteau
There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren't worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.
~ Joyce Meyer
If I could go upstairs and write every day, I would be happy. I don't need recreation.
~ Henry Petroski
I've never tried to enhance my reputation. Never moved upwards from one thing to another. That sort of thing is of no interest to me at all.
~ Nicolas Roeg
What do women want?" Sigmund Freud cried. Books and cats are a good start.
~ Carole Nelson Douglas
I'm learning not to hope for what I can't control...
~ Leila Meacham, Roses
After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough, ' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'
~ Anna Quindlen
Work hard to discover your gift and you will never envy or hate another human being who is manifesting theirs.
~ Louis Farrakhan
The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.
~ Rafael Nadal
I would not be cured if the price of the cure was that I must leave the island and give up my work I am perfectly resigned to my lot. Do not feel sorry for me.
~ Father Damien
Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.
~ Tom Petty
I used to work in a factory and I was really happy because I could daydream all day.
~ Ian Curtis
A smart man can't beat a hardworking man and a hard working man can't beat a happy working man.
~ Taeyang
I believe four ingredients are necessary for happiness: health, warm personal relations, sufficient means to keep you from want, and successful work.
~ Bertrand Russell
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.
~ Grandma Moses
Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
~ Edward Bernays
Where our work is, there let our joy be.
~ Tertullian