Definition of Contented

Contented

Content; easy in mind; satisfied; quiet; willing.

Related Definitions:

Content, Easy, In, Mind, Quiet, Satisfied, Willing

Contented Quotations

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates

He who is contented is rich.
Lao Tzu

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Norman Vincent Peale

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.
Jerome K. Jerome

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.
Jerome K. Jerome

Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
Thomas Hobbes

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
John Kenneth Galbraith

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
Plautus

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.
Chief Joseph

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.
Phillips Brooks

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
Lucretius

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
Joseph Addison

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
Horace

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
Frank Herbert

It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.
James Mackintosh

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.
Pearl Bailey

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
Walter Savage Landor

Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.
Lillie Langtry

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
Akhenaton

Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice.
Salmon P. Chase

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
Charles Lamb

I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.
Karen Carpenter

But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation.
Marcus V. Pollio

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.
Frances Wright

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defence of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
Thomas Hood

A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.
Ann Plato

And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.
Hart Crane

I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.
Karen Carpenter

I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play.
Michael Gambon

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Contented Translations

contented in Afrikaans is tevrede
contented in Danish is tilfreds
contented in Dutch is tevreden, voldaan, vergenoegd
contented in French is satisfait, content
contented in German is zufrieden, befriedigte
contented in Italian is soddisfatto
contented in Latin is contentus
contented in Spanish is contento

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