Top 30 Contented Quotes

In this post, you will find great Contented Quotes from famous people, such as Ellen Swallow Richards, Ann Plato, Joseph Sobran, Lucretius, Joseph Addison. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.

You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.

Ellen Swallow Richards

A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.

Ann Plato

Most Americans aren’t the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.

Joseph Sobran

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

Lucretius

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Joseph Addison

It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.

James Mackintosh

Being ‘contented’ ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The rich are not a contented tribe. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, so insistent, they often decide they must insulate themselves. Insulation eventually breeds a mild form of paranoia.

Felix Dennis

I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I’m determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

Karen Carpenter

All I want is to live a happy, healthy and contented life.

Liza Soberano

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defence of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.

Thomas Hood

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Norman Vincent Peale

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

Akhenaton

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Walter Savage Landor

And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I’ll be more contented working in an office than ever before.

Hart Crane

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing – where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.

Phillips Brooks

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

Frances Wright

Now that I’m 50 and respectably settled in New England and markedly happier and more contented than I was in my youth, I modestly hope there’s time to realize some of my youthful goals before I croak, but I’ll take what I can get.

Kate Christensen

I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man.

Eric Idle

Anyone’s life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.

Lillie Langtry

I think if you make others happy you are contented.

Manushi Chhillar

The necessary thing for anyone to be happy and contented as long as he lives is working for the ones who will come after him rather than working for himself… One can reach the true delight and happiness in the life only by working for the existence, honor, and happiness of the future generations.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

You can sit down with Reason or Ableton and literally in a couple of hours make a very good-sounding record. But then a lot of people become contented with that, rather than pushing themselves to making something that sounds great.

Moby

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.

Pearl Bailey

One doesn’t want to feel too contented; you have to feel challenged by the music.

Alex Lifeson

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you’d think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.

Lewis Thomas

I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.

Jack Dee

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‘why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,’ and they abandon their values.

Thich Nhat Hanh

It becomes us, therefore, to be contented, and dutiful subjects.

Jonathan Mayhew

There’s a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

John Kenneth Galbraith