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He who is contented is rich.
- Lao Tzu
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If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap
whence everyone must take an equal portion,
most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
- Socrates
There are nine requisites for contented living:
HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure;
WEALTH enough to support your needs;
STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them;
GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them;
PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished;
CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor;
LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others;
FAITH enough to make real the things of God;
HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
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He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin
I look to a day when people will not be judged
by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Be content with what you have,
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.
- Lao Tzu
My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln
One cannot have a mind that is empty of all thoughts,
but one can have a mind that is content with
whatever thoughts fill it at the moment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You should never be content with so little,
when you can reach out for something big.
- Charles L. Allen
(This quote is about making a big difference
in the world - not about greed)
Find your balance and stand with it.
Find your song and sing it out.
Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance.
Find the questions that only you know how to ask and
The answers that you are content to not know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life,
and urge doing.
I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence,
and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
- Helen Keller
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives,
I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
- Winston Churchill
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents
that press upward from the unconscious.
- Carl Jung
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Albert Schweitzer
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
It doesn't matter how long my hair is
or what color my skin is
or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- John Lennon
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
The man form is higher than the angel form;
of all forms it is the highest.
Man is the highest being in creation,
because he aspires to freedom.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
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