Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything.
~By Laurel Lee ~
Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
~By Edmund Leach ~
Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.
~By Cyril Cusack ~
A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.
~By Zebulon Pike ~
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
~By B. R. Ambedkar ~
The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
~By Marlene Dietrich ~
The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.
~By Jose Ortega y Gasset ~
The discontented man finds no easy chair.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?
~By Bob Geldof ~
Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.
~By Lewis Thomas ~
Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.
~By Ieyasu Tokugawa ~
Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
Now is the winter of our discontent.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
~By Florence Nightingale ~
The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
~By Daniel Defoe ~
The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages.
~By William Herschel ~
Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
~By Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
~By Susan B. Anthony ~
The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.
~By Fanny Kemble ~
When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life.
~By Norman Rockwell ~
The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.
~By John L. Lewis ~
As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.
~By Albert J. Nock ~
There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
~By Garry Kasparov ~
The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.
~By Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.
~By Louis XIV ~
He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.
~By Aesop ~
Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.
~By Kenneth Grahame ~
And there is no getting away from the fact - and this is a key point of discontent among many who are upset with the health care reform bill is it didn't go far enough. They say why isn't it in place now? Why don't I see some benefits now? All I see is the potential for losing insurance coverage, for premiums going up. That's hurting Obama.
~By Juan Williams ~
I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
~By Rachel Field ~
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
~By Frank Herbert ~
Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
~By Joseph de Maistre ~
Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.
~By Anna Freud ~
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
~By John Muir ~
When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent.
~By William Watson ~
Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.
~By John Steinbeck ~
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