Discontent quotes and words of wisdom

"Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will."
Ralph Waldo Emerson


"He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses."
Pilpay


"If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress."
David Rockefeller


"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


"One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common ? discontent."
Matthew Arnold


"The discontented man finds no easy chair."
Benjamin Franklin


Interesting Quotes

Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.Dick Brandon

No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.Henry Louis Mencken