Discontent

(165 votes)   Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(110 votes)   Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.

Chinese Proverbs
Sayings of Chinese Origin

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(107 votes)   Let thy discontents be thy secrets.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(104 votes)   Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Thomas A. Edison
1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE

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(94 votes)   Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.

Robert Herrick
1591-1674, British Poet

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(88 votes)   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
1883-1955, Spanish Essayist, Philosopher

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(86 votes)   All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(84 votes)   Discontent is something that follows ambition like a shadow.

Henry H. Haskins

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(75 votes)   If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.

David Rockerfeller
American Businessman, Financier

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