Quotes About Contentment

Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.

I don't want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don't want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis.

Success is not defined by money or status, necessarily, but by how many people you've impacted and how fulfilled you feel with your decisions. If you can garner all of these things, then more power and success to you, but all in all, you must feel happy and satisfied with what you personally have put out into the world.

Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

It's not been a bad life, and I do know that I could never have been a world champion. All I ever wanted to do was be the best I could with what I had, which wasn't very much, really. And that's what I think I did.

After winning the World Cup and the European Footballer of the Year award too, I do not think I can ask for anything else.

Of course I would have liked to have played at the World Cup, but I achieved so much in my career as a footballer that I can't have any complaints.

I won the quadruple at 18 with Arsenal, so I didn't really know what I was chasing after the World Cup, and I was a bit lost, so I didn't know whether to just be content at home and just play my football or go for another challenge.

If anyone comes along, I'm more than happy to welcome them, but I'm not interested in world domination.

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.

My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful.

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never present itself, comfort your mind with this reflection: that, though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least, will not be more than you can bear.

The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.

The time to be happy is now, and the place to be happy is here.

One need not spend too much of time and money to look beautiful.

Because I'm always with other people, I don't have private times and can't easily do what I really want to do. However, this is not necessarily so bad.

One of the happiest times of my life, I lived in a tent on a porch on Hawaii.

My dachshunds are not substitutes for children. But the pattering of tiny feet around the place is a joy.

I kinda like where I am. If I'm recognized all the time, I have to leave better tips in restaurants.

Even nice things don't make you happy when you're tired.

I retired simply because I didn't have the passion and motivation anymore; I was tired. At the time I thought, 'Well, I had a great time, there is the end.' At some moment, there is the right time to call it an end.