(77 quotes found)
“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation”
Oscar Wilde
“Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.”
Benjamin Franklin
“The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.”
Jose Ortega y Gasset
“We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
“Discontent is the seed of ethics”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress”
David Rockefeller
“Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.”
Thomas Alva Edison
“Discontent is the first necessity of progress.”
“Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York.”
William Shakespeare
