110 Thought-Provoking Contentment Quotes

Contentment is the state of satisfaction that leads to happiness.

The state of such serenity has been praised and preached by various religious teachers and scholars. Even prominent authors and scientists have given famous remarks about the same.

A state of contentment is when one has enough and does not desire resources above their needs. Such a state is bliss and only a few people attain it when they realize that everything they own is enough for them and they do not require more than they need.

They are thankful for everything they own. Some may call the life of contentment an ideal life, and the possibility of such an ideal life occurs when one does not seek another's approval and accepts oneself.

This brings peace to not only them but everyone around them. One who is content, is able to form great relationships with everyone.

People can find contentment in their own life; it is just a matter of how we want our human hearts to perceive our desires. There is no guarantee that a quiet secluded life can lead to contentment; we need to seek it within ourselves.

Contentment is what makes us find our happiness and brings out the best in what we have our faith secured in. Here are some of the famous contentment quotes curated to inspire, motivate and educate you in many ways.

Brilliant Contentment Quotes

"Contentment is a quiet garden in which to rest."

-Ernst Ferstl

"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty."

-Socrates

"Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence."

-Thomas Chander Hailburton

“Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend.”

-Lao Tzu

"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

"We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us"

-Eckhart Tolle

"Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these."

-Alexander Pope

"Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted."

-Ali ibn Abi Talib

"I don't look for bliss, just contentment."

-Alison Krauss

"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."

-Jerry Bridges

"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

"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

"The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment."

-Doug Larson

“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

“Within what is allotted to us, we can have spiritual contentment.”

-Neal A. Maxwell

"I'm sounding like Oprah, but if you're not practicing contentment where you are now, you're not getting contentment when you get what you want."

-Tony Hale

"There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility."

-Abu Bakr

"What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life."

– Hermann Hesse

"From labor health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy."

-James Beattie

“Search for contentment in each person you meet.”

-Life, Truth and Being Free, Steve Maraboli

"Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it."

-John Eldrege

“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

"A man may be happy anywhere that knows how to be contented."

– Wellins Calcott

Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.

-Friedrich Wilhiem Nietzsche

“Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.”

-Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis

"The life my grandparents had was thoroughly American. They built a small ranch into a huge operation and fulfilled my great-grandparents' dreams. Theirs was... a simpler time of contentment and patriotism."

-Dana Perino

"I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does."

-Abbas Kiarostami

"The life my grandparents had was thoroughly American. They built a small ranch into a huge operation and fulfilled my great-grandparents' dreams. Theirs was... a simpler time of contentment and patriotism. "

-Dana Perino

Contentment Quotes That Will Inspire

“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

"True humility is contentment."

-Henri Frederic Amiel

"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

"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."

-Herbert J.Grant

"Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire."

-Thomas Fuller

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

-Mark Twain

"Contentment is the greatest form of wealth."

-Acharya Nagarjuna

"I don't have everything I want but I have everything I need. That's contentment."

-James MacDonald

"I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more."

-Henry Fielding

"Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart."

-Sarah Ban Breathnach

"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."

-Herman Hesse

"Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul."

-George A.Smith

"True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have."

-Oscar Wilde

"Contentment is not the fulfilment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have."

-Anonymous

"Pleasures that we seek are not happiness at its peak. For it is contentment that gives true fulfilment."

– Ravi V. Melwani

"There's satisfaction and contentment in direction."

- Manivannan

“Contentment is a state of happiness and satisfaction. The choices we make are our own decisions for how we want to live our life.”

– Ellen J. Barrier

"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

"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

"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

"I'm always content. I hold much more store in contentment than happiness."

-Sue Perkins

"When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment."

-Anonymous

"There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment."

-Sivananda

"Fortify yourself with contentment for this is an impregnable fortress."

- 'Enchiridion and Selections from the Discourses', Epictetus

"The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. "

-Henry Ward Beecher

"I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more."

― Henry Fielding

“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”

– Martha Washington

“Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circumstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience.”

-Swindoll Charles R.

“Contentment does not come from achievement.”

- Paul Henderson

“No matter what they say or name it, I believe that there is a truth about love that we all need to know to lead a life of contentment."

-'The Awakneing', Joyti Patel

Motivational Contentment Quotes

"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship."

-Buddha

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

“It’s almost impossible to be satisfied in your own life if you’re constantly looking at what someone else has.

- Rachael Cruze

"At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you."

- Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia, Elizabeth Gilbert

"Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor."

-Benjamin Franklin

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

-Joseph Addison

"Many people lose the small joysin the hope for the big happiness."

-Pearl S. Buck

"A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future. "

– Albert Einstein

"Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plain living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment."

-Mahatma Gandhi

"Contentment does not mean I desire nothing, but rather it is a simple decision to be happy with what I have."

-Paula Rollo

"Having contentment and gratitude in the present moment is the surest way to achieve success."

-Bryant McGill

"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

"Contentment is the foundation of true happiness. The happiness that comes from fulfilling desires can never be permanent."

– Ravi V. Melwani

"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."

-Ophra Winfrey

"The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content."

- Bill Vaughan

“Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want but the realization of how much you already have.”

-Anonymous

“For my part, I am almost contented just now, and very thankful. Gratitude is a divine emotion: it fills the heart, but not to bursting; it warms it, but not to fever.”

—Charlotte Brontë

“Contentment is an inexhaustible treasure.” 

-The Prophet Muhammad

“If you are not content today, there is nothing you can buy tomorrow to change that.”

― Joshua Becker

“Contentment is an attitude that says, I will be satisfied with what God has given me.”

-Anonymous

"Self-esteem is crucial to how much or how little contentment you feel at the end of your life."

-Mark Goulston

Contentment Quotes For Kids

"Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied. "

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"A grateful heart is the 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

“Money can buy happiness but not contentment.”

- T. Josh

"Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness ."

-Peter S.Buck

"A contented heart is a calm sea in the midst of all storms."

-An0nymous

"Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside."

-An0nymous

"Happiness comes after contentment."

-E.A.Cabaltica

"Be happy with what you have, while working for what you want"

-Helen Keller

"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present."

-Jim Rohn

"Contentment is not escape from the battle, but rather an abiding peace and confidence in the midst of the battle."

-Warren W. Wiersbe

"Find contentment and happiness will find you."

-Anonymous

"Contentment is happiness."

-Anonymous

"True contentment comes with empathy."

-Tim Finn

“When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.”

– François de La Rochefoucauld

"As we start to get a little bit older, boy, keep your house in order. That's the key thing. It's not about the thrills anymore. It's about contentment, about having some serenity."

-Jim Irsay

"Contentment is the only real wealth."

-Alfred Nobel

“A harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment.”

-Amercian Proverb

"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

"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."

-Charles Spurgeon

"The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough."

- Aleksandar Hemon

“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”

― Dale Carnegie

“Strive to find things to be thankful for, and just look for the good in who you are.”

—Bethany Hamilton

“Thankfulness creates gratitude which generates contentment that causes peace.”

― Todd Stocker

"To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible."

-Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get.”

– Frank Clark

“Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.”

- Bill Bailey

“There is no contentment without cheerfulness.”

― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Contentment is realized when gratitude becomes a lifestyle.”

― Toyin Omofoye

"Lack of wealth cannot take away genuine contentment."

-Adrian Rogers

“Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.”

-Bilal Zahoor

“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”

– Charles Dickens