Useful Quotes to Enable Us Embody the Virtue of Contentment

 

“Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor.”_Benjamin Franklin

 

 

 Contentment is an important virtue. 

In my view, I feel that its deficiency in character of humankind is one of the main reasons for most of the problems on earth. Even if you disagree with me, read ahead to hear what some deep thinkers did say on the subject.

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

Oscar Wilde

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Contentment is natural wealth.

Socrates

 

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

 

Now, let's get to work to instill the virtue in our own character first.

 

Self-Responsibility: The Price of Greatness

 

 

“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”­_George Bernard Shaw

 

 

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Denis Waitley

 

Everything changes for the better when you take ownership of your own problems.

Robert Ringer

 

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln

 

“The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.”

John C. Maxwell

 

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston Churchill

 

The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Eleanor Roosevelt

 

“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.”

Jim Rohn

 

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Joan Didion

 

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Sigmund Freud

 

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Tony Robbins

 

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

John D. Rockefeller

 

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Erica Jong

 

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

James Allen

 

You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.

Ken Keyes Jr.

 

Self-responsibility is the core quality of the fully mature, fully functioning, self-actualizing individual.

Brian Tracy

 

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president.

Albert Ellis

         

Allah (The Mighty and Sublime) Is the Most Gracious

  

“God answers the mess of life with one word: Grace.”

Max Lucado

 

Grace means God's love in action towards men who merited the opposite of love. Grace means God moving heaven and earth to save sinners who could not lift a finger to save themselves.

J. I. Packer

 

Grace is the overflowing favor of God, and you can always count on it being available to draw upon as needed.

Oswald Chambers

 

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.

Denis Waitley

 

To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him.

Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God.

For the grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.

Thomas Merton

 

We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.

Timothy Keller

 

Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

Petrarch

 

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that the believer would stake his life on it a thousand times.

Martin Luther

 

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

Aeschylus

 

Soar back through all your own experiences. Think of how the Lord has led you in the wilderness and has fed and clothed you every day.

 

How God has borne with your ill manners, and put up with all your murmurings and all your longings after the 'sensual pleasures of Egypt!' Think of how the Lord's grace has been sufficient for you in all your troubles.

Charles Spurgeon