Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
Content Quotes
Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.
If a man has come to that point where he is so content that he says; I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state of which he ought to be changed into a mummy.
Contentment iz a kind of moral laziness; if thare want ennything but kontentment in his world, man wouldn’t be any more of a suckcess than an angleworm iz.
Who is content with nothing possesses all things.
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented.
One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. He has lain down to die, and the grass is already over him.
To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, […]
True contentment is a real, even an active, virtue – not only affirmative but creative. It is the power of getting out of any situation all there is in it.
