Discontent Quotes

Discontent Quotes & Sayings

These discontent quotes and discontent sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection. Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilisation. - Oscar Wilde


A man's discontent is his worst evil. - George Herbert


Contentment makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor. - Benjamin Franklin


Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton


Restlessness is discontent, and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure. - Thomas Alva Edison


Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor. - Benjamin Franklin


The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox


It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care. - George Eliot


God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. - Thomas Jefferson