Quotes About Contentment

Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.

Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him.

Do you prefer that you be right or happy?

A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.

How many things there are which I do not want.

Poor and content is rich and rich enough.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.

Happy thou art not for what thou hast not still thou striv'est to get and what thou hast forget'est.

Let him who has enough wish for nothing more.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have instead of what you don't have.

If you desire many things many things will seem but a few.

Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches.

He is not rich that possesses much but he that covets no more and he is not poor that enjoys little but he that wants too much.

Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.

He is poor who does not feel content.

He is not poor that hath not much but he that craves much.

He who is content in his poverty is wonderfully rich.

I wept because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet.

If thou covetest riches ask not but for contentment which is an immense treasure.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Nothing will content him who is not content with a little.

The man who thinks his wife his baby his house his horse his dog and himself severely unequalled is almost sure to be a good-humored person.