Quotes about complaining

Mason Cooley -

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.

Samuel Johnson -

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Debasish Mridha -

Some of us are busy doing things some of us are busy complaining.

Warren Farrell -

In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.

Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365

Stop giving complaints to people about what you can't do. Start giving compliments to God for what you can do. It'll amaze you you'll see yourself doing amazingly!

Beth Ramsay - #Networking is people looking for people looking for people

A bad attitude from a chronic complaining employee is like a cancer it will only spread and infect others. This can take your business down in a nanosecond. You must cut out the cancer and invite them to seek employment elsewhere. Quickly.

Debasish Mridha -

Forget to complain just be kind and compassionate.

Hannah Whitall Smith -

The soul that gives thanks can find comfort in everything the soul that complains can find comfort in nothing.

Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity

Don’t complain against life, it may hear you and double your suffering

Miya Yamanouchi - Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women

The difference between a conventional counsellor and an empowerment counsellor is that a conventional therapist will allow you to dwell in your pit of misery for months, years and possibly even decades; whereas an empowerment counsellor will challenge you to recognise that your past pains and seemingly negative experiences are the very key to accessing your greatest self.

Auliq Ice -

Complaining solves nothing but creative problem solving amongst people with a common focus will produce solutions.

Will Bowen - A Complaint Free World: How to Stop Complaining and Start Enjoying the Life You Always Wanted

A belief is an absolute but arbitrary mental stance.

Steve Goodier -

The world can use more light and less noise. More solvers and fewer blamers. More folks showing a better way and fewer folks complaining about how much better things used to be. More folks offering help and fewer folks wringing their hands about the problems. More hope bringers and fewer hope killers.

Steve Goodier -

The sun rises every morning and sheds light, vanquishing the night's darkness. The rooster also rises every morning only, unlike the sun, he simply makes noise. But the darkness of the night is dispelled by sunshine, not by the rooster's crowing. The world can use more light and less noise. Wherever I can, I want to be light.

Amit Kalantri -

They will cry, he will shout but you must sweat.

Amit Kalantri -

Don't wait, just sweat.

Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Complaining is a vain way of explaining pain without gaining relief. Keep complains distances away from you.

Charlotte Eriksson - Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps

I never have time to write anymore. And when I do I only write about how I never have time. It's work and it's money and I've written more lists than songs lately. I stay up all night to do all these things I need to do, be all these things I want to be, playing with shadows in the darkness that shouldn't be able to exist. Empty bottles and cigarettes while watching the sunrise, why do I complain? I have it all, everything I ever asked for.

Markus Zusak -

That's typically what writers do; we just sit around complaining most of the time. And the better things are going, the more they complain.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.

Israelmore Ayivor - Become a Better You

Better channel your words into prayer, than into complaints. Zip your mouth and make a plan.

Amit Kalantri - Wealth of Words

Resources are hired to give results, not reasons.

Mario L Castellanos -

What's the use of complaining about something you have no intentions of changing it?

George Sand - La Petite Fadette

God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.

Evinda Lepins -

Complaining is truly my strongest weakness.

Alan Paton -

I have always found that actively lovingsaves one from a morbid preoccupationwith the shortcomings of society.

Bangambiki Habyarimana - Book of Wisdom

Those who complain that fate is against them will have a hard time finding happiness in their lives

Wayne W. Dyer - Your Erroneous Zones

Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.

Maya Angelou - Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

Sunday Adelaja -

Instead of complaining, discover ways, tactics and tricks on how to reach out to people

Kilroy J. Oldster - Dead Toad Scrolls

The nonessential employees, the type of workers whom remain at home when it snows, are the quickest to complain about how the talented persons of an organization behave.

James Carl Nelson - Five Lieutenants: The Heartbreaking Story of Five Harvard Men Who Led America to Victory in World War I

He found his irritation that the American memory could be short.

Dada Bhagwan -

If anyone comes to me complaining about others that “this person is like this”, I will question that person first. ‘Why did you come complaining to me?’ You come complaining therefore you are the guilty one. If anyone comes complaining without being asked, then you should disregard him completely.

Tony Hendra - Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul

The Offices rerooted me in a tradition where, monk or not, I would always be at home. From long ago I knew the power of their repetition, the incantatory force of the Psalms. But they had an added power now. As a kid, the psalmist (or psalmists) had seemed remote to me, the Psalms long prayers which sometimes rose to great poetry but often had simply to be endured. For a middle-aged man, the psalmists' moods and feelings came alive. One of the voices sounded a lot like a modern New Yorker, me or

Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America

The only nations which deny the utility of provincial liberties are those which have fewest of them; in other words, those who are unacquainted with the institution are the only persons who passed censure upon it.

Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Ladder

The main way people waste time is by complaining of their past wasted time. Leaders respond even if it seems to be late.

David Pietrusza - 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies

Organizing a coup was not the same as wanting one.

Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

Don’t always complain the way isn’t there. If you can’t find the way, create it.

Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

Don’t complain of terrible circumstances. It has been proven several times that they are the sources of celebrated trophies.

Mike Foster -

Lobbing hand grenades on the bride of Christ takes zero talent or effort. I also think this really ticks God off. My five-year-old child complains and whines when things aren't the way she wants them, but courageous men and women roll up their sleeves and get busy. I want to be an active participant in putting back together the broken pieces.

Chris Matthews - Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

He was making the inevitable pivot from critic to manager.

Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Ladder

Leaders are solutions conscious. They don’t complain. You would find them repeating this common question; “how will it be done, and by who?

Mokokoma Mokhonoana - N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

People who complain about something that they cannot do anything about are as irritating as those who complain about something that they can do something about.

Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situatio

Robert Jordan -

They were the sort who berated a man for meddling and chased him away, then berated him again for not being there when he was needed. Not that they would admit he was needed, even then, not them. Raise a hand to help and you were interfering, do nothing and you were an un-trustworthy wastrel.

Sarah Silverman -

Mother Teresa didn't walk around complaining about her thighs -- she had shit to do.

Charlotte Eriksson -

People who truly live their lives don't have time to complain or judge others. They're too busy enjoying life and love and everything in between!

Michael Finkel - The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

Passion must be subject to reason; emotions lead one astray. "There was no one to complain to in the woods, so I did not complain.

Sameh Elsayed -

Complaining from lack of food doesn't always affect my emotions. complaining from lack of knowledge, passion, creative ideas and happiness always does.

Ana Claudia Antunes - Pierrot Love: When A Call From The Other Side Takes Its Own Side

Both tears and sweat are salty. but none of them are faulty. the tears can get you somewhere, the sweat will make you only wet.

Habeeb Akande -

Stop complaining and start living.

Paulo Coelho - Veronika Decides to Die

Haven't you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have the courage to complain, that's their problem

Manoj Arora - Dream On: Every setback is a little nudge from HIM to Dream On

With every breath you take, someone just took their last. Stop complaining about life. It has given you much more than what you appreciate.

Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Someone may have all the technical knowledge, scientific intellect and business know-how but when he/she decides to choose laziness, excuses, procrastination, complaining and other bad attitudes, his/her relevance is meaningless.

John Green - Paper Towns

pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast high ceilings and few horsepower!

Michael Bassey Johnson -

When people complain of your complexity, they fail to remember that they made fun of your simplicity.

Dejan Stojanovic -

Some people complain there are too many people on earth, Some people complain about secret societies, Some people accuse others of not being able to wake up early. Almost all people complain about something.

Jane Wagner - The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe

I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

Criss Jami - Killosophy

When you aren't satisfied with what has already been done, make something better. That is the greatest responsibility and the true freedom of creativity. The freedom is in that it doesn't need to complain.

Laura Ingraham -

There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.

Teddy Roosevelt -

Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.

Matthew Henry -

Those who complain most are most to be complained of.

Samuel Johnson -

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

Jonathan Swift -

Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.

Lisa Kleypas - Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor

A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances.

Anonymous -

Live,Die,Kill but don't complain!

Jeanette Coron -

Those who complain much get little, those who complain little get much.

George F. Will - The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric

The United States is a successful nation that is constantly susceptible to melancholy because things are not perfect.

Warren W. Wiersbe - Be Satisfied (Ecclesiastes): Looking for the Answer to the Meaning of Life

In spite of his painful encounters with the world and its problems, Solomon does not recommend either pessimism or cynicism. Rather, he admonishes us to be realistic about life, accept God's gifts and enjoy them. He advises us to trust God and enjoy what we do have rather than complain about what we don't have.

G.K. Chesterton - Orthodoxy

Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth?

Pat Conroy - The Lords of Discipline

I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.

Michael Grant - Hunger

Mother Mary wants to draft two more kids,” Astrid told Sam.“Okay. Approved.”“Dahra says we’re running low on kids’ Tylenol and kids’ Advil, she wants to make sure it’s okay to start giving them split adult pills.”Sam spread his hands in a helpless gesture. “What?”“We’re running low on kid pills, Dahra wants to split adult pills.”Sam rocked back in the leather chair designed for a grown man. “Okay. Whatever. Approved.” He took a sip of water from a bottle. The wrapper on the bottle said “Dasani”

Michael Bassey Johnson -

Don't let the disappointments of today kill tomorrow's blessings, destroy the negative flashes of pessimism, and focus on the mirror of optimism.

H.W. Brands - 1865-1900

Teain had no difficulty generating the indignation of a satirist. He lack the patience of a reformer.

J.A. Konrath -

If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.

Ida Løkås - Det fine som flyter forbi

He’s always complaining about the fucking recession and how the government is working against people like him. He calls himself working class, which I think is a bit ironic since he doesn’t work.

Christian Baloga -

Never allow carping critics to deter you from success. Instead, silence them with it.

Matt Chandler -

It is an EVIL thing to be an expert in the weaknesses of our brothers and sisters. We need to be experts in the strengths of our brothers and sisters.

Scott Hahn - Hope for Hard Times

If you complain to someone, you assume that it's someone who really cares about you.

Michael Bassey Johnson -

Don't look shy if you wear rag and people gag, many are in the grave wearing skeleton, and you should even be happier for wearing a skin without clothes.

Michael Thomas Ford - Suicide Notes

i swear to God, that was the question. Sometimes, I think there's someone up there just sitting around thinking of ways to make me look like a complete moron. Seriously, I bet there's an angel or more likely a demon assigned just to me. And every day it gets up and asks itself what it can do to ruin my life. well, today it got an A plus

Criss Jami - Killosophy

Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.

Louise Penny - A Rule Against Murder

The only thing money really buys?...Space. A bigger house, a bigger car, a larger hotel room. First-class plane tickets. But it doesn't even buy comfort. No one complains more than the rich and entitled. Comfort, security, ease. None of them come with money.

Israelmore Ayivor -

Stop complaining and do something... Shut up! Rise up! Grow up! And show up! See you at the top!

Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Complains are like the clouds that give no rain no matter how thick they gather.

Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Don't accommodate complains in your chamber, else you have a sleepless and restless night. Keep them away and fall in love with actions for solution!

Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes

How I wish the police service is instructed to arrest people who over-complain! Just arrest them, do no harm to them, but make them do the "work" they complain about with hard labour!

Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Leave complains behind; Stop worrying and murmuring about the difficulty of something that you have not even attempted doing! How do you know that it's difficult if you have not even attempted doing it? Go, give a try!

Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes

When you complain, you explain pain for no gain. Endure and balance yourself through the pain, be hopeful and persist to the end.

Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes

You have been complaining so long about your labour pains. It's time to show us your baby! What at all have you been dreaming about that long? Let's see it and give it a name!

Dennis Merritt Jones - The Art of Uncertainty: How to Live in the Mystery of Life and Love It

It can be very seductive to tell our story to others who will listen because, lets face it, who doesn't love to 'commiserate' (in this context, meaning to share their misery) with other likeminded people. It justifies our attachment to the drama. The interesting thing about telling our story over and over is that it becomes even more deeply ingrained in our minds each time we tell it, and the universe delights in keeping whatever we claim as our story alive.

Annora Rose - Annabel's Fate

Do I seriously have to go on this date? I mean seriously what if he's like the last one?"Jana complained to her best friend of Fifteen Years, as Destiny replied,"Girl, I have already settled down and had a child, you need to give this guy a chance heck who knows Gunther could be the one ever thought of that?"Jana rolled her eyes then looked herself in the mirror she has brunette short hair,grey eyes,five feet ten inches, one hundred eighty pounds and loves to be outgoing with her friends.

Israelmore Ayivor - Shaping the dream

Complains are like the clouds that produce no rain no matter how thick they gather. Never depend on your complaint thinking they are stair cases. Drop that thing.

Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes

It's not bad to cough. But cover your mouth when coughing. It's not bad to complain. But cover your mouth when complaining, else you'll spread infections of complains on us!

Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365

Empty complaints are the sources of everyday failure, but not the problem being complained about. Problems are solvable; but not with complaints. A complainer is just an explainer of problems!

Arthur W. Pink -

The apprehension of this blessed truth (God's faithfulness) will check our murmurings. The Lord knows what is best for each of us, and one effect or resting on this truth will be the silencing of our petulant complainings. God is greatly honored when, under trial and chastening, we have good thoughts of Him, vindicate His wisdom and justice, and recognize His love in His very rebukes.

Marty Rubin -

The hammer never complains of the noise.

Randy Pausch - The Last Lecture

If you took one-tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out... Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.

Robert Tew -

Complaining is a complete waste of one's energy. Those who complain the most accomplish the least.

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