Content Quotes

The greatest wealth is to live content with little. (Plato)
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. View quote
Laozi
If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably. View quote
Plautus
Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything. View quote
Aesop
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid. View quote
Epictetus
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest. View quote
Horace
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. View quote
Paul Valéry
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic. View quote
Charles Darwin
The real leader has no need to lead. He is content to point the way. View quote
Henry Miller
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which humans communicate than by the content of the communication. (Marshall McLuhan)
It is right to be content with what we have, but never with what we are. View quote
James Mackintosh
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. View quote
Andrew Carnegie
Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be. View quote
Barack Obama
In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator. View quote
Jean Cocteau
The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. View quote
John Updike
Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. View quote
Alexander Pope
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station. View quote
Joseph Addison
Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Nature, not content with denying to Mr - the faculty of thought, has endowed him with the faculty of writing. (A. E. Housman)
I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment the sober second thought of the people. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. View quote
William Osler
Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand; he goes one further and clinches his fist. View quote
Kenneth Tynan
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. View quote
Helen Keller
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