147 Do Not Complain Quotes

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Famous Do Not Complain Quotes

Never complain. Never explain. — Katharine Hepburn

Never complain. Never explain. - Henry Ford

Never complain. Never explain. — Henry Ford

Never complain and never explain. - Benjamin Disraeli

Never complain and never explain. — Benjamin Disraeli

Don’t complain; just work harder. — Randy Pausch

He who avoids complaint invites happiness. — Abu Bakr

Do not go about complaining how hard it is to live in this world. such behavior is entirely unworthy of a real man. — Nichiren

Don't complain to others about your troubles. Half of them don't care and the other half are glad. — Emmitt Smith

Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many. — Mark Twain

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain. - Henry Ford

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain. — Henry Ford

Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses. — Brian Tracy

Try to avoid complaints. Self-pity even when legitimate never fails to undermine your strength. — Mariane Pearl

Don't complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land. — Joyce Meyer

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone. — Joan Didion

Champions never complain, they are too busy getting better — John Wooden

Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions - Ajahn Brahm

Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions — Ajahn Brahm

Short Do Not Complain Quotes

  • Never, never complain about your enemies. Only losers complain. Drive them to complain about you. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money. — Adam Smith
  • Before you complain today, be grateful you have breath to complain with. — LeCrae
  • Don't complain about not getting a chance and then be unprepared when you finally do. — Joe Montana
  • Complaining proves nothing but that you can hear the voice of the Devil — Bill Johnson
  • Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain. — Robert A. Cook
  • Complaining is silly. Either act or forget. — Stefan Sagmeister
  • Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain. — Linus Torvalds
  • Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean. — Confucius
  • Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain. — Billy Graham

Do Not Complain Image Quotes

Do not complain quote Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.
Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.

Why Complain Quotes

Comrade Blade Nzimande is complaining that EFF stole the ‘red colour’, he does not have a copyright on the ‘red colour’. There’s nothing we can steal from him because he has nothing but that skuurpot (pot scourer) face of his. Why didn’t he complain when Vodacom was red? — Julius Malema

I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living. — John Wayne

Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining? — George C. Wallace

Do not complain quote If you're not willing to do the work, don't complain about the result.
If you're not willing to do the work, don't complain about the result.

I cannot understand why the poets of our day wax indignant at the vulgarity of their age and complain of having come into the world too early or too late. I believe that every man of intellect can create his own beautiful fable of life. — Gabriele d'Annunzio

God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped. — Drew Barrymore

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married? — Barbra Streisand

Do not complain quote The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjust the sa
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjust the sails.

Curiosity killed the cat,” Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable. Aly rolled her eyes. Why did everyone say that to her? “People always forget the rest of the saying,” she complained. “‘And satisfaction brought it back. — Tamora Pierce

It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice. — James Whitcomb Riley

Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say "Long live impermanence!" — Nhat Hanh

Would you complain because a beautiful sunset doesn't have a future or a shooting star a payoff? And why should romance 'lead anywhere'? Passion isn't a path through the woods. Passion is the woods. — Tom Robbins

Never Complain Quotes

Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective. — LeCrae

Never lie; never cheat; never steal. Don't whine; don't complain; don't make excuses. — John Wooden

Never complain, about the number of hours you have put in, to do a job, Your nobility must estimate how much of you Was put into each hour of your daily work — Chinmayananda Saraswati

Do not complain quote The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sa
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.

Work hard, don't quit, be appreciative, be thankful, be grateful, be respectful, also to never whine ever, never complain, and, always, for crying out loud, keep a sense of humor. — Michael Keaton

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block. — Robert B. Parker

Jesus wept, but He never complained. — Charles Spurgeon

Do not complain quote We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

The biggest lesson I've learned . . . was that if you have all the fresh water you want to drink and all the food you want to eat, you ought never to complain about anything. — Eddie Rickenbacker

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. — Thomas Jefferson

Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude... Don't complain; just work harder... Never give up. — Randy Pausch

A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Stop Complaining Quotes

Many sisters complain that people don't want to marry them unless they stop wearing hijab. No man is worth your hijab, and a real man wouldn't request you to take it off in the first place. — Omar Suleiman

A complaining tongue reveals an ungrateful heart. — William Arthur Ward

You can't stop JPEGs on bitcoin. complaining will only make them do it more. trying to stop them and they'll do it in worse ways. the high fees drive adoption of layer2 and force . so relax and build things. — Adam Back

Do not complain quote Champions train, losers complain.
Champions train, losers complain.

Dear Google, stop teaching my girl that her path to financial freedom lies not in coding but in complaining to HR. — Eric Weinstein

Stop wishing for things you complain you have not, and start making the best of all that you've got. — Helen Steiner Rice

I have the choice to be angry at God for what i don't have, or be thankful for what i do have — Nick Vujicic

Do not complain quote Instead of complaining about your circumstances, get busy and create some new ones.
Instead of complaining about your circumstances, get busy and create some new ones.

Everybody has a part of her body that she doesn't like, but I've stopped complaining about mine because I don't want to critique nature's handiwork ... My job is simply to allow the light to shine out of the masterpiece. — Alfre Woodard

If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose. — J.A. Konrath

Catch fire today! Make today the day you stop complaining and do something! — Steve Harvey

Leaders don’t complain about what’s not working. Leaders celebrate what is working and work to amplify it. — Simon Sinek

Can't Complain Quotes

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. — Maya Angelou

You can't complain about the sea if you suffer shipwreck for the second time. — Icelandic Proverbs

Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe. — Bill Bryson

Do not complain quote People who complain in private want an answer. People who complain in public want an audience.
People who complain in private want an answer. People who complain in public want an audience.

I have a girlfriend. I give my heart to her. She's around, she's everywhere, we travel together. She's beautiful, she's gorgeous, she's everything you want in a woman. She doesn't complain.. but I can tune her out just enough. — The Miz

I don't complain about playing time. My job is to play so well the coach can't sit me. — Shane Battier

I can't stand it when a player whines to me or his teammates or his wife or the writers or anyone else. A whiner is almost always wrong. A winner never whines. — Paul Brown

Do not complain quote Champions train. Losers complain.
Champions train. Losers complain.

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. — Maya Angelou

A woman doesn't find it contradictory to complain about not having anything to wear and about not having enough closet space in the same conversation. You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. — Marie Stopes

I don't know. I don't like girls whining and complaining about wanting a man! I never liked "Sex and the City", the kind of thing where women only feel empowered once they find The Man. It is just not up my alley. I don't believe in it. There is nothing you can control about love. — Jennifer Aniston

We have a funny concept of time in this culture. We revere it as we revere money, yet we rarely spend any of it on ourselves. We complain that we can't make what time we have go around, yet day after day we spend our allotment doing things we don't really want to be doing. — Jan Phillips

No Complaining Quotes

Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves. — Pope John Paul II

The people do not complain because they have no voice; do not move because they are lethargic, and you say that they do not suffer because you have not seen their hearts bleed. — Jose Rizal

I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet. — Confucius

Do not complain quote A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

I had no shoes and complained until I saw a man who had no feet. — Indian Proverbs

If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves — Thomas Sowell

We have to realize that our lives could be gone in a moment. There are no guarantees that we will be here at this time next year. Learn to live each day to the fullest. Don't complain. Don't focus on what's wrong. Be grateful for the opportunity to experience each day. — Joel Osteen

Do not complain quote People often complain about lack of time when lack of direction is the real problem.
People often complain about lack of time when lack of direction is the real problem.

There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire. If you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain. Do something to make more money yourself - spend less time drinking, or smoking and socializing and more time working. — Gina Rinehart

When it's not always raining there'll be days like this. When there's no one complaining there'll be days like this. When everything falls into place like the flick of a switch. Well my mama told me there'll be days like this. — Van Morrison

Complain that you have no shoes until you meet a man who has no feet — Irish Proverbs

No one ever complains about a speech being too short! — Ira Hayes

No Complain Quotes

You create opportunities by performing, not complaining — Muriel Siebert

The hardest thing in the world is to assume the mood of a warrior. It is of no use to be sad and complain and feel justified in doing so,believing that someone is always doing something to us. Nobody is doing anything to anybody, much less to a warrior. — Carlos Castaneda

We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies. — John Marsden

A soprano in Massenet's Don Quixote complained that she had missed her entry in the aria, "because Mr. Challiapin always dies too soon." "Madam, you must be profoundly in error," said Sir Thomas, "No operatic star has yet died half soon enough for me." — Thomas Beecham

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his. — Drake

We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them. — Seneca

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

An intolerant sect has no right to complain when it is denied an equal liberty... A person's right to complain is limited to principles he acknowledges himself. — John Rawls

You're so caught up in grumbling, complaining, and seeing what's wrong that you have no energy or time to appreciate what's good. — Joyce Meyer

When You Complain Quotes

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness. — Eckhart Tolle

You've been complaining, you've been depressed, you've been despondent. But take off those garments of heaviness and put back on your garments of praise. I didn't come when you thought I was going to come, but I'm going to be right on time. — Paula White

Complaining about not achieving success despite working hard is like complaining about an ice cube not melting when you heated it from twenty-five to thirty-one degrees. Your work was not wasted; it is just being stored. All the action happens at thirty-two degrees. — James Clear

When you see anyone complaining of such and such a person's ill-nature and bad temper, know that the complainant is bad-tempered, forasmuch as he speaks ill of that bad-tempered person, because he alone is good-tempered who is quietly forbearing towards the bad-tempered and ill-natured. — Rumi

When you serve your mother and father it is okay to try to correct them once in a while. But if you see that they are not going to listen to you, keep your respect for them and don't distance yourself from them. Work without complaining. — Confucius

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it's feet first! — Henny Youngman

I find many drawbacks of myself. But, each time when I visit Lourdes, I receive a lesson of reconciliation. When you see ill people or invalids around, you realize that it is a sin to complain! — Mireille Mathieu

When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don't get carried away-it's only dresses. — Karl Lagerfeld

But honestly, it's pretty weird; there are girls who'd do absolutely everything just to get a backstage pass. I don't know what it is, but really, when you're on national TV in America the girls love you. They all want you! And I'm not complaining! — Kid Rock

A word must become a friend or you will not understand it. Perhaps you do well to be cool and detached when you are seeking information, but I remind you of the wife who complained, 'When I ask John if he loves me, he thinks I am asking for information'. — Edward Coke

Never Complain Never Explain Quotes

Never complain, never explain personal motto of — Kerry Packer

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains. — James A. Michener

You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain. — Stanley Baldwin

My mother told me never explain, never complain. Even as a young actress, I determined I would never give personal interviews, since they made me so uncomfortable. — Jennifer Jones

Gossip is the currency of the discourse, so you should shut up about yourself. Never confess, never explain, never apologize, and never complain. — Dave Hickey

Never explain, never complain. — Wallis Simpson

Never complain, never explain, get the thing done and let them howl. — Nellie L. McClung

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More Do Not Complain Quotes

We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them. — Jackie Kennedy

The pure righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom. — Abraham Isaac Kook

If you need to vent. then vent. If you need to complain, then complain. If you need to share how you feel, then do that. But recognize that those feelings are not permanent. — Jay Shetty

Those who enter to buy, support me. Those who come to flatter, please me. Those who complain, teach me how I may please others so that more will come. Those only hurt me who are displeased but do not complain. They refuse me permission to correct my errors and thus improve my service. — Marshall Field

Any industry in which people complain about their *sshole boss is likely part of the bezzle, because bosses can only really afford to be *ssholes in the economic fake reality of the bezzle. In a productive firm offering valuable service to society, success depends on pleasing customers. Workers are rewarded for how well they do that essential task, and bosses who mistreat their workers will either lose the workers to competitors or destroy their business quickly. In an unproductive firm that does not serve society and relies on bureaucratic largesse for its survival. — Saifedean Ammous

It's really easy to complain. If you're not careful, then you end up complaining about your whole life. Concentrating on the good things is really good. Catch people doing good. — Lisa Williams

Some people complain that they will not live forever, but cannot think of things to do on a wet Sunday afternoon. — Keith Ward

You do wrong to complain of your crosses and sufferings. Believe me, you know not what it is to suffer. God preserve you from suffering even one day what has been endured by a certain soul, whose name I must not disclose! — Paul of the Cross

When dealing with people, let us remember that we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity. ...Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving. — Dale Carnegie

Complaining will not change things in your life; only action will. Make a list of all you need to do to change what doesn't work in your life and, little by little, begin making those changes. — Susan Jeffers

Those who do not complain are never pitied. — Jane Austen

Parents make sure homework is returned without error, drill their kids on upcoming tests to the saturation point, and then complain if teachers do not give the grades they think their kids deserve. By that point, it's hard to tell whose grades they are. — John Rosemond

I'd never complain about the attention - ever. I feel very fortunate to be doing what I love to do. Not everyone gets that chance every day. This is just part of it, and it comes down to managing my time to make sure I concentrate on my passion, which is the hockey, and have time away from hockey. — Sidney Crosby

Listen carefully to the words and tone of voice you use with your spouse. Are you complaining all the time and telling her what she's not doing right? Or are you doing like Solomon-blessing, encouraging, and uplifting that woman? — Joel Osteen

Every person, whether in wartime or not, should keep a pistol and rifle in his house at all times. If a person is not going to protect himself, and wishes the government to do it for him, how can he complain when the government decides to protect itself against him, and executes him? — William Powell

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied. — Jane Austen

Astronomers who do not draw theistic or deistic conclusions are becoming rare, and even the few dissenters hint that the tide is against them. Geoffrey Burbidge, of the University of California at San Diego, complains that his fellow astronomers are rushing off to join 'the First Church of Christ of the Big Bang.' — Hugh Ross

Most bodybuilders only have a hazy notion of what they want to look like. They do not say, 'I am going to be a winner.' The negative impulses around the gym can be incredible. I would hear bodybuilders complaining, 'Oh,no! Not another set!' That destroyed them. I have always believed that if you're training for nothing, you're wasting your effort! — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Some of them are funny. Some of them are ridiculous. Some of them are annoying. I don't want to be one of those people that complains about the rumours. I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, "This isn't true!" It is what it is, I tend not to do that. — Harry Styles

People used to complain about 'the idle rich.' But the idle rich did not do the kind of harm being done by today's busybody rich, who feed their own egos by bankrolling political crusades on the left which hurt the very people that the left claims to care about -- working people, minorities, and children. — Thomas Sowell

Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I pray that you may rebel against what is wrong, not with feeble negative complaining but with strong positive assertion of what is right for all humanity. — Pearl S. Buck

The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through us. God calls us to His service and places tremendous responsibilitie s on us. He expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part. God wants to use us as He used His own Son. — Oswald Chambers

Don't complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege. — Earl Warren

Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious. — Og Mandino

Did she just-" "Yes." "But I don't-" "Yes you do. We both stink." "Well, I'm not-" "Yes. You are." He huffed. "You wont let-" "No. No complaining. Let's go." I grabbed a clean shirt and pants from my saddlebags. "Well, she could have handled it better," he grumped. "No. She couldn't." He settled into a sulky silence as we visited the bathhouse. — Maria V. Snyder

Dress your best on your execution day. Be extremely courteous to your assistant when you lose money. Try not to blame others for your fate, even if they deserve blame. Never exhibit any self-pity. Do not complain. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial. — David Gemmell

A lot of people complain in the year 2003 that it's not the world of tomorrow as foreseen in the 1950s. 'Where are the flying cars?' people say. 'Where are the robots who bring us blue drinks and warn us of danger?' Alright. We don't have those things, specifically, folks, but you know what we do have? Laser vaginal rejuvenation surgery. — Chris Hardwick

Of course the sexiest thing a girl can do is not complain about her body. — Daniel Tosh

I've always thought if you don't like what somebody says, don't hang out with that person. Why do you have to complain about it? Here's the thing. I don't hang out with, and I'm not friends with anybody that would offend me or I think offends me or lives a different way than I do. — Larry the Cable Guy

If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who labor little and receive or consume much. But indeed there is always a difficulty in men living together and having all human relations in common, but especially in their having common property. — Aristotle

There is no greater love than that a man lays down his life for his neighbor. When you hear someone complaining and you struggle with yourself and do not answer him back with complaints; when you are hurt and bear it patiently, not looking for revenge; then you are laying down your life for your neighbor. — Poemen

We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach; but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how to hear? — J. I. Packer

If you're aware of injustice, you can either ignore it, say there is nothing you can do about it, complain about it and not do anything, or put your energies into doing something about it. — Ben Cohen

I know I'm not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else I'd rather be. So, yeah, that's how I'd define myself. I want to do it right, and prove people wrong once and for all about the myth of child stars. — Daniel Radcliffe

What we do wrong with teenagers is we talk down to you instead of treating you as equals. Adults complain that you're not good listeners but really, adults are not listening to what you're trying to tell us. We're always trying to give you advice. We should treat you with lots of respect and dignity and groom you to be future leaders. — Deepak Chopra

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