Quotes about Contentment
I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.
- Lauren Bacall
Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience
- Thomas a Kempis
A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.
- Thomas a Kempis
To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.
- Henry Ward Beecher
I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
- Herman Melville
Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall.
- Jeremiah Burroughs
No man is safe above but he that will gladly be beneath.
- Thomas a Kempis
If you've got a billion dollars and you're ungrateful, you're a poor man. If you have very little but you're grateful for what you have, you're truly rich.
- Tony Robbins
Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity
- Vance Havner
A thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth.
- Charles Spurgeon
A man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer.
- Charles Spurgeon
To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family?
- Billy Graham