48 Malcontents Quotes
Following is our list of the most famous malcontents quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational malcontents quotes. Hopefully, these malcontents quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your malcontents knowledge!
Famous Malcontents Quotes
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress. — Mahatma Gandhi
Discontent is the seed of ethics. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Discontent is the first necessity of progress. — Thomas A. Edison
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 A. Edison
He that is discontented in one place will seldom be content in another. — Aesop
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better. — Florence Nightingale
If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress. — David Rockefeller
Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are. — T. E. Lawrence
It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion. — Zora Neale Hurston
The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others. — Aesop
The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along. — Clarence Darrow
It's not rebels that make trouble, but trouble that makes rebels. — Ruth Messinger
A contented mind is the best source for trouble. — Plautus
He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress. — Helen Keller
Nearly 100% of innovation-from business to politics-is inspired not by "market analysis" but by people who are supremely pissed off by the way things are. — Tom Peters
Short Malcontents Quotes
- Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate. — Louis XIV
- The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. — Salvador Dali
- Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. — Hunter S. Thompson
- Every American carries in his bloodstream the heritage of the malcontent and the dreamer. — Dorothy Fuldheim
- Thou art the Mars of malcontents. — William Shakespeare
- There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters. — Dan Gable
- Every time I create an appointment, I create a hundred malcontents and one ingrate. — Louis XIV
- We have so many choices that it's only always our fault if we're malcontent. — Ian Bogost
- In the taverns all was amiable and easy, but the coffeehouses were cauldrons of edgy malcontents. — Barbara Holland
People Writing About Malcontents
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Thomas A. Edison |
348 | 8441 |
 Aesop |
259 | 2777 |
 Louis XIV |
25 | 1593 |
 Mahatma Gandhi |
3167 | 39957 |
 Friedrich Nietzsche |
2473 | 32550 |
 Florence Nightingale |
144 | 1504 |
More Malcontents Quotes
The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule. — A. A. Gill
There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters. One must neither celebrate insanely when he wins, nor sulk when he loses. He accepts victory professionally, humbly; he hates defeat, but makes no poor display of it. — Dan Gable
The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them. — John McCain
The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible — C. S. Lewis
A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come. — Eric Hoffer
This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid; Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege of all loiterers and malcontents. — William Shakespeare
You are a real find and you keep me satisfied, up to a point. After all, I'm a malcontent and you can't change that. — Charles Baxter
Countless people...will hate the New World Order...and will die protesting against it...we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents. — H. G. Wells
Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss. — Joan Didion
I'm perpetually curious as to what happened to all those supposed prodigies who were singled out while I and my coterie of far more interesting malcontents passed on. — Wendy Wasserstein
The malcontent is neither well, full nor fasting; and though he abounds with complaints, yet nothing dislikes him but the present; for what he condemns while it was, once passed, he magnifies and strives to recall it out of the jaw of time. What he hath he seeth not, his eyes are so taken up with what he wants; and what he sees he careth not for, because be cares so much for that which is not. — Joseph Hall
The capacity for "uncontaminated wonder," ultimately, is what distinguishes the successful from the ordinary, the happily engaged players of whatever era from the chronically disappointed and malcontent. Therein lies a lesson for geeks, geezers, and the sea of people who fall in between. — Warren G. Bennis
Unions are at a disadvantage in a company vote because the employees can see that the greatest advocates of unionization are often the malcontents and marginal workers. — James Cook
As for those deserters, malcontents, radicals, incendiaries, the civil and uncivil disobedients among the young, SDS, PLP, Weathermen I and Weathermen II, the revolutionary action movement, the Black United Front, Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, Lions and Tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for a single platoon of the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam. — Spiro T. Agnew
There is no greater fault than sensual indulgence. There is no greater misfortune than malcontent. There is no greater calamity than greed. — Lao Tzu
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