Contentment is a long-term state of being where one is at peace with their conditions and knows that things are okay. It is the peaceful realization that we are whole and completes just as we are, despite the anger, sadness, joy, frustration, and excitement that may come in and out from time to time.
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150 Contentment Quotes
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“You say, ‘If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.’ You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.” – Charles Spurgeon
“We should purify our innate well of contentment – what a wonderful expression – and then external things will be in harmony with us.” – Eckhart Tolle
“True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
“To rejoice in another’s prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another’s grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.” – Tryon Edwards
“This is God’s universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.” – John Piper
“The very first temptation in the history of mankind was the temptation to be discontent…that is exactly what discontent(ment) is – a questioning of the goodness of God.” – Jerry Bridges
“If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means.” – Heber J. Grant
“He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose conscience is pure. You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with. What you are, that you are; neither by word can you be made greater than what you are in the sight of God.” – Thomas a Kempis
“Discouragement is dissatisfaction with the past, distaste for the present, and distrust of the future. It is ingratitude for the blessings of yesterday, indifference to the opportunities of today, and insecurity regarding strength for tomorrow. It is unawareness of the presence of beauty, unconcern for the needs of our fellowman, and unbelief in the promises of old. It is impatience with time, immaturity of thought, and impoliteness to God.” – William Ward
“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” – Oprah Winfrey
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“Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.” – Epictetus
“Contentment with our lot is an element of happiness.” – Aesop
“Contentment makes poor men rich, discontent makes rich men poor.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.” – Thomas Chandler Haliburton
“Contentment is work so engrossing that you do not know that you are working.” – Donald Hall
“Contentment is the soil in which true joy grows.” – Socrates
“Contentment is the realization of how much I already have.” – Dave Grant
“Contentment is the only real wealth.” – Alfred Nobel
“Contentment is the greatest form of wealth.” – Acharya Nagarjuna
“Contentment is simply acknowledging that God has given me enough. It is understanding that all of which I have is a gracious and sovereign gift from His hands. It is accepting what the Lord has entrusted to my care with an attitude of gratitude.” – Randy Smith
“Contentment is one of the most distinguishing traits of the godly person, because a godly person has his heart focused on God rather than on possessions or position or power.”
“Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want but the realization of how much you already have.”
“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.” – Socrates
“Contentment is just the realization that God has already provided for me today all that I need for my present peace and happiness.” – Nancy Leigh DeMoss
“Contentment is an inexhaustible treasure.” – The Prophet Muhammad (saw)
“Contentment is an attitude that says, I will be satisfied with what God has given me.”
“Contentment doesn’t come from doing what we like to do, but from liking what we must do.” – Wilfred Peterson
“Contentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord.” – Paul Henderson
“Contentment consists not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.” – Thomas Fuller
“Contentment comes from many great and small acceptances in life.”
“Contentment always eludes those who don’t count themselves blessed for what they already have.”
“Contentment is the continuing act of accepting the process of your own life.” – David Gerrold
Self Contentment Quotes
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“When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‘Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.’” – Dalai Lama
“Of all that have tried the selfish experiment, let one come forth and say he has succeeded. He that has made gold his idol, has it satisfied him? He that has toiled in the field of ambition, has he been repaid? He that has ransacked every theater of sensual enjoyment, is he content? Can any answer in the affirmative? Not one!” – Samuel Johnson
“When a man no longer seeks his comfort from any creature, then he first begins to enjoy God perfectly, and he will be well content with whatever befalls him. Then he will neither rejoice over having much, nor grieve over having little, but will commit himself fully and trustfully to God, who is all in all to him.” – Thomas a Kempis
“The antidote for covetousness is contentment. The two are in opposition. Whereas the covetous, greedy person worships himself, the contented person worships God. Contentment comes from trusting God.” – John MacArthur
“Self-esteem is crucial to how much or how little contentment you feel at the end of your life.” – Mark Goulston
“Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.” – Og Mandino
“My brethren, the reason why you have not got contentment in the things of the world is not because you have not got enough of them. That is not the reason. But the reason is because they are not things proportionable to that immortal soul of yours that is capable of God Himself. Many men think that when they are troubled and have not got contentment, it is because they have but a little in the world, and if they had more then they would be content. That is just as if a man were hungry, and to satisfy his craving stomach he should gape and hold open his mouth to take in the wind, and then should think that the reason why he is not satisfied is because he has not got enough of the wind. No, the reason is because the thing is not suitable to a craving stomach.” – Jeremiah Burroughs
“Money is a self-defeating pursuit. In my efforts to find contentment in money, I actually become more discontent if I love money. The more I believe money will satisfy my needs, the more I will depend on money, only to realize that I never have enough. As long as there is always a new item to purchase, I will never be satisfied or content with what I possess.” – Randy Smith
“It is necessary to the contentment of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.” – Thomas Paine
“In my own personal life, it’s been pretty hard navigating love, and so I’ve found this kind of contentment in loving myself and waiting for the world to catch up.” – Trace Lysette
“If one’s life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having a few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements. And finally, there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.” – Dalai Lama
“I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion and elimination of ignorance, selfishness and greed.” – Dalai Lama
“Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.” – Epictetus
“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.” – Lao Tzu
“Life is about balance. Be kind but don’t let people abuse you. Trust but don’t be deceived. Be content but never stop improving yourself.”
“He who is contented is rich.” – Lao Tzu
“I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.” – Henry Fielding
“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.” – Socrates
“A grateful person is rich in contentment.” – David Bednar
“Content is the true riches, for without it there is no satisfying.” – Martin Tupper
“A harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment.” – Proverb
“The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.” – Charles Caleb Colton
“The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God.” – Jerry Bridges
Contentment Love Quotes
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“Satan loves to fish in the troubled waters of a discontented heart.” – Thomas Watson
“Gratitude and love are always multiplied when you give freely. It is an infinite source of contentment and prosperous energy.” – Jim Farglano
“All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.” – Dalai Lama
“A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.” – James E. Faust
“A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.” – J. I. Packer
“Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake 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
“Comparison makes finding contentment a million times harder.”
“A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.” – Frances Burney
“Education was not about consumption, but about contentment with less and less. This is what Buddha taught and this is what the Vedas say.” – Sonam Wangchuk
“Contentment, then, is the product of a heart resting in God. It is the soul’s enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding. It is the outcome of my will being brought into subjection to the Divine will. It is the blessed assurance that God does all things well, and is, even now, making all things work together for my ultimate good.” – A.W. Pink
“True contentment comes with empathy.” – Tim Finn
“There’s a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. When you truly know God, you have energy to serve Him, boldness to share Him, and contentment in Him.” – J. I. Packer
“The person with the discontented heart has the attitude that everything he does for God is too much, and everything God does for him is too little.” – Don Kistler
“The noblest mind the best contentment has.” – Edmund Spenser
“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” – Plato
“There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honor in humility.” – Abu Bakr
“You say, “If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.” You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.” – C. H. Spurgeon
“We need much less than we think we need.” – Maya Angelou
“True humility is contentment.” – Henri Frederic Amiel
“The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world. He is like a traveler in an inn, perfectly satisfied with the inn and its accommodation, considering it as an inn, but putting quite out of all consideration the idea of making it his home.” – C. H. Spurgeon
“Passion is overcome only by him who has won through stillness of spirit the perfect vision; it comes through the contentment that is regardless of the world.” – Shantideva
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“To be content doesn’t mean you don’t desire more, it means you’re thankful for what you have and patient for what’s to come.” – Tony Gaskins
“We must come back to the soul and to God who made it. We were made for Him, we are meant for Him, we have a correspondence with Him, and we will never come to rest until, like that needle on the compass, we strike that northern point, and there we come to rest – nowhere else.” – Martyn Lloyd-Jones
“The richest person is not the one who has the most, but the one who needs the least.”
“The rarest feeling that ever lights the human face is the contentment of a loving soul.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.” – Linda Dillow
“This is the secret of being content: to learn and accept that we live daily by God’s unmerited favor given through Christ, and that we can respond to any and every situation by His divine enablement through the Holy Spirit.” – Jerry Bridges
“There’s satisfaction and contentment in direction.” – Manivannan
“The Christian experiences and lives a paradox. He possesses joy in sorrow, fulfillment in exile, light in darkness, peace in turmoil, consolation in dryness, contentment in pain and hope in desolation.” – Mother Angelica
“Thankfulness creates gratitude which generates contentment that causes peace.” – Todd Stocker
“Simplify. Simplify. Simplify.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Search for contentment in each person you meet.” – Steve Maraboli
“Riches and contentedness are like two buckets; while one comes up full the other goes down empty.” – Thomas Adams
“Patience is the key to contentment.” – The Prophet Muhammad (saw)
“Hope combined with action is the only thing that will bring you contentment.” – Shannon L. Alder
“Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.” – Lao Tzu
“Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” – Buddha
“Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.” – Joseph Hall
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” – Epicurus
“Disappointment is a sticky one, because no one can steal contentment, joy, gratitude, or peace – we have to give it away.” – Kristin Armstrong
“One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.” – Merle Shain
“No one person can be the source of your contentment. Contentment comes only from God, and the sooner we start seeking it in Him, the better off we will be (Richard and Sharon Phillips).”
“Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God’s wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.” – Jeremiah Burroughs
“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
“At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
“If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.” – C. H. Spurgeon
“True contentment is within.” – ATGW
“The sin is not in having more, the sin is being discontent. The sin is not in having wealth, the sin is in what you do with it. It’s not the amount, it’s the attitude… It’s not about what you have, it’s about how you feel about what you have.” – John MacArthur
“A contented heart is a calm sea in the midst of all storms.”
Happiness And Contentment Quotes
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“You can own everything in the world but if you lack contentment, you’ll never be happy.”
“You are only a poor person if you are not happy with what you have.” – Debasish Mridha
“This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.” – Hermann Hesse
“The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.” – Doug Larson
“There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.” – Swami Sivananda
“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“Someone is happy with less than what you have.”
“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Money can buy happiness but not contentment.” – T. Josh
“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.” – Pearl S. Buck
“Just become totally content and happy from within. Then you will get all that you want.” – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
“It’s up to us to choose contentment and thankfulness now—and to stop imagining that we have to have everything perfect before we’ll be happy.” – Joanna Gaines
“Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.” – Charles Spurgeon
“I think instead [of happiness] we should be working for contentment… an inner sense of fulfillment that’s relatively independent of external circumstances.” – Andrew Weil
“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.” – John Stuart Mill
“He is much happier that is always content, though he has ever so little, than he that is always coveting, though he has ever so much.” – Matthew Henry
“Happiness. Contentment. Inner peace. Have you ever gone looking for something only to realize you had it with you the whole time?”
“Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.” – Bilal Zahoor
“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” – Jim Rohn
“Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.” – Dale Carnegie
“Happiness comes after contentment.” – E.A. Cabaltica
“Desire upon desire causes the greatest sorrow; contentment, the greatest happiness.” – Sanskrit
“God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it.” – Aiden Wilson Tozer
“Content is wealth, the riches of the mind; / And happy he who can that treasure find.” – John Dryden
“Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness.” – William E. Gladstone
Contentment In Life Quotes
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“Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.” – Dawn Powell
“Whether you choose to move on from your struggles and enjoy life or waddle in your misery, life will continue.” – Germany Kent
“The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right.”
“My main job is to live with deep contentment, joy, and confidence in my everyday experience of life with God. Everything else is job number two.” – John Ortberg
“It’s almost impossible to be satisfied in your own life if you’re constantly looking at what someone else has.” – Rachael Cruze
“Christians can be and ought to be content with the simple necessities of life… First, when you have God near you and for you, you don’t need extra money or extra things to give you peace and security… God is always better than gold… Second, we can be content with the simplicity because the deepest, most satisfying delights God gives us through creation are free gifts from nature and from loving relationships with people. After your basic needs are met, accumulated money begins to diminish your capacity for these pleasures rather than increase them. Buying things contributes absolutely nothing to the heart’s capacity for joy… Third, we should be content with the simple necessities of life because we could invest the extra we make for what really counts (God’s kingdom).” – John Piper
“By taking the time to live life in the slow lane, we quickly experience a deeper, more profound experience of contentment.” – Michael Neill
“As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.” – Anthony Trollope
“For me, true contentment on earth means asking less of this life because more is coming in the next. Godly contentment is great gain. Heavenly gain. Because God has created the appetites in your heart, it stands to reason that He must be the consummation of that hunger. Yes, heaven will galvanize your heart if you focus your faith not on a place of glittery mansions, but on a Person, Jesus, who makes heaven a home.” – Joni Eareckson Tada
“Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Gratitude is a handmaiden of contentment. An ever-growing attitude of gratitude will certainly make us more content since we will be focusing more on what we do have, both spiritually and materially, than on what we do not have. But contentment is more than focusing on what we have. It is focusing on the fact that all we do have; we have by the grace of God. We do not deserve anything we have, materially or spiritually. It is all by His grace.” – Jerry Bridges
“From labor health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.” – James Beattie
“If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.” – Socrates
“I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God’s thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest, and most precious thing in all thinking.” – George MacDonald
“I don’t have everything I want but I have everything I need. That’s contentment.” – James MacDonald
“Godliness with contentment is great gain.” The godly person has found what the greedy or envious or discontented person always searches for but never finds. He has found satisfaction and rest in his soul.” – Jerry Bridges
“The contented man is never poor, the discontented never rich (George Eliot).”
“One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.” – Eugene O’Neill
“If I am not satisfied with what I have, I will never be satisfied with what I want.”
“True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.” – Oscar Wilde
“I don’t look for bliss, just contentment.” – Alison Krauss
“A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.” – Joseph Addison
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