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Humans are forever discontent - always thinking there are better alternatives to their present circumstances.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.
— Neil Gaiman
It is our response to our circumstances rather than the degree of difficulty that determines whether or not we are discontent
— Jerry Bridges
Discontent is the catalyst for change.
— Mike Murdock
Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts, Or carry smiles and sunshine in my face, When discontent sits heavy at my heart.
— Joseph Addison
Frequent discontent must proceed from frequent hardships.
— Samuel Johnson
Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.
— Eugene V. Debs
Bitterness is anger gone sour, an attitude of deep discontent that poisons our souls and destroys our peace.
— Billy Graham
This is what happens when you look back to happiness, this pain, this heart-break, this discontent
— Margaret Mitchell
Man hath a weary pilgrimage,As through the word he wends;
On every stage, from youth to age,
Still discontent attends. — Robert Southey
Tragedy is chic but discontent is dowdy.
— Emilie Loring
The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
People who are unhappy in relationships carry about them a distinct air of discontent and isolation.
— Patricia Cornwell
For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.
— Charles Kingsley
There is more good in contentment, than there is in the thing that you would fain have to cure your discontent ...
— Jeremiah Burroughs
Discover your own discontent, and be grateful, for without divine discontent there would be no creative force.
— Deepak Chopra
There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
— Garry Kasparov
For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.
— W.E.B. Du Bois
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.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Discontent is good if it makes you long for home, but bad if it makes you doubt the One who prepares a place for you in his home.
— Paul David Tripp
Creativity is discontent translated into arts.
— Eric Hoffer
Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty, misery, and discontent on which it thrives.
— Robert Kennedy
Discontent is the seed of ethics.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.
— Saul Alinsky
I used to think I had ambition ... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
— Rachel Field
All writers are discontent. That's because they're aware of a potential and believe they're not reaching it.
— William, Saroyan
The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
— Susan B. Anthony
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
— Berthold Auerbach
There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.
— Eric Hoffer
There is nothing quite like this novel with its rage and ragings, its discontent and angry restlessness. Wuthering Heights is a virgin's story.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
Move thy tongue,For silence is a sign of discontent. — Elizabeth Cary
It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
— Susan B. Anthony
In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.
— Samuel Johnson
When you have no choice, you have no discontent either.
— Vivek Shanbhag
Let thy discontents be thy secrets
— Benjamin Franklin
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Principle of Change #1: Discontent + Passion Drive Change
— Brett Blumenthal
One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots it off.
— Thomas De Witt Talmage
Kennedy saw the insurgency as a anti-colonial, essentially nationalist movement, feeding on social discontent. So you don't shoot people.
— Roger Hilsman
Even envy, wants to even the score.
— Anthony Liccione
Dependence, she knew, and the longing for more than what you had, led to unhappiness and discontent.
— Nora Roberts
The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent.
— William Watson
These fundamental imbalances led them into concentric circles of ever decreasing size: a nautilus shell of their discontent.
— John L. Parker Jr.
No his mind is not for rent To any god or government Always hopeful, yet discontent He knows changes aren't permanent But change is
— Bradley J. Birzer
Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor.
— Benjamin Franklin
Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.
— Anna Freud
Love is maintain'd by wealth: when all is spent,Adversity then breeds the discontent. — Robert Herrick
You should not open your mouth except to express gratitude for benefits you have received, and never to mention your discontent.
— Vincent De Paul
Now is the winter of our discontent.
— William Shakespeare
Hello, you've reached the winter of our discontent.
— Ethan Hawke
The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I've got sarcastic company.
— John Green
To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.
— Francesco Guicciardini
Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
— Eckhart Tolle
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Noble discontent is the path to heaven.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
layer after layer of discontent had settled in her, and formed a mass that now propelled her. She
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Discontent with the status quo is a great catalyst for vision.
— John C. Maxwell
Literature is the record of our discontent.
— Virginia Woolf
What is more miserable than discontent?
— William Shakespeare
All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent
— John Steinbeck
He who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.
— Ieyasu Tokugawa
Gratitude is like that. It transforms. It is such a force that it cannot coexist with selfishness, with discouragement, with discontent.
— Rachel Jankovic
Keep burning the flame of discontent within you until you get the joy of satisfaction.
— Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram
The ones that always, always want something better, will never find better.
— Anthony Liccione
Discontent has a creative force in it.
— Sunday Adelaja
Man's worst enemies are boredom and discontent.
— George W. Buck
