Quotes About Contentment

There are three great friends an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it.

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. [misquote of a letter about wine, see quotes/831031]

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Contentment makes poor men rich, Discontent makes rich men poor.

Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.

He that's content, hath enough; He that complains, has too much.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Let thy discontents be thy secrets

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and chearful; and with the consciousness of having done a good Days work they spent the Evenings jollily; but on the idle Days they were mutinous and quarrelsome, finding fault with their Pork, the Bread, and in continual ill-humour. (Autobiography, 1771)

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one.

Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.

I do not find that I grow any older. Being arrived at seventy, and considering that by traveling further in the same road I should probably be led to the grave, I stopped short, turned about, and walked back again; which having done these four years, you may now call me sixty-six. Advise those old friends of ours to follow my example; keep up your spirits, and that will keep up your bodies.

Happiness is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Money has never made man happy,nor will it,there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.