Content Quotes

We cannot be content, no matter how high that general standard of living may be, if some fraction of our people-whether it be one-third or one-fifth or one-tenth-is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed, and insecure.

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.

Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts .... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

For some, music is a limitless source of cheap content, just waiting to be exploited.

In their presence, there's no need for continuous conversation, but you find you're quite content in just having them nearby.

What makes a song last is real content from a mind that is thinking a little bit harder about certain things. A lot of artists don't really think that hard.

If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

He who is not content to look, like a savage, at the phenomena of nature as disconnected, cannot any longer believe that man is the work of a separate act of creation ... Man is the co-descendant with other mammals of a common progenitor.

It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

He whose son is obedient to him, whose wife's conduct is in accordance with his wishes, and who is content with his riches has his heaven here on earth.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.