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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.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Character, Live, Children

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Character, Color, Judged

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Lao Tzu

Nothing, Whole, Realize

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

Great, Failure, Whether

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Helen Keller

Everything, Silence, May

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin

Wise, Powerful, Rich

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

Nature, Wealth, Richest

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Lao Tzu

Respect, Yourself, Everybody

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

Path, Stand, Quite

You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.
Zig Ziglar

Positive, Powerful, Reading

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
Khalil Gibran

Life, Happiness, Truth

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.
William Shakespeare

Enough, Rich, Poor

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
William Shakespeare

Enjoy, Seldom, Kings

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
Benjamin Franklin

Men, Rich, Poor

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life, Knowing, Urge

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Elbert Hubbard

Knowledge, Ignorance, Opinions

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
Edgar Allan Poe

Dreams, Hope, True

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He has the most who is most content with the least.
Diogenes

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Plato

Live, Greatest, Wealth

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Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
Louis L'Amour

Nobody, Simply, Anywhere

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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
Samuel Johnson

Blessings, Before, Choice

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

Beginning, Agnostic, Mystery

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
Plato

Themselves, Appear, Seeking

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
Marcus Aurelius

Change, Long, Wish

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
Epictetus

Stupid, Thought, Foolish

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
Robert Kennedy

Change, Live, Him

Be content to seem what you really are.
Marcus Aurelius

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
Andrew Carnegie

Matter, Themselves, Mediocrity

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Dale Carnegie

Success, Age, Men

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