Being Content Quotes (page 9)

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• contentment
• world
• anywhere

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content. Louis L'Amour

• colorful
• saying
• contentment

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim. Robert Kennedy

• peace
• contentment
• conscience

He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure. Thomas Kempis

• kindness
• thinking
• contentment

My aggression out there is my weapon. I think it's more letting them know that I'm not going to let them get away with something, and I'm not just going to kind of poke it back and be content to stay in rallies. Andy Roddick

• understanding
• support
• contentment

The trade unions, far from being content with these declarations, established international liaisons and supported every policy based on pacification and understanding. Leon Jouhaux

• running
• manly
• contentment

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up. Chief Joseph

• fitness
• people
• contentment

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out. Warren Bennis

• blessed
• contentment
• choices

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. Samuel Johnson

• contentment
• enough
• shows

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest. Jerome K. Jerome

• contentment
• little
• contented

Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big? Charles L. Allen

• silence
• words
• images

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. Ansel Adams

• strength
• work
• best

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. Charles Kingsley

• best
• book
• contentment

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites. Lord Acton

• different
• kindness
• music

I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc. Howard Gardner

• power
• freedom
• free

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must... Frederick Douglass