When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness. — Eckhart Tolle
Complaining proves nothing but that you can hear the voice of the Devil — Bill Johnson
Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions — Ajahn Brahm
All the time that you spend complaining, you could instead be hustling. You could be chasing your dream. You could be figuring out what you’re doing wrong and improving your life. — Joe Rogan
Before you complain today, be grateful you have breath to complain with. — LeCrae
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. — Stephen Hawking
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
People complain not because something sucks. People complain because they’re looking for empathy and to feel connected with those around them. — Mark Manson
Try to avoid complaints. Self-pity even when legitimate never fails to undermine your strength. — Mariane Pearl
No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money. — Adam Smith
If people are complaining about something, it means the product is good enough that they care about it. — Cliff Lerner
Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain. — Robert A. Cook
Short When You Complain Quotes
Complain that you have no shoes until you meet a man who has no feet — Irish Proverbs
If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose. — J.A. Konrath
Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain. — Linus Torvalds
Never complain and never explain. — Benjamin Disraeli
You create opportunities by performing, not complaining — Muriel Siebert
Don't complain to others about your troubles. Half of them don't care and the other half are glad. — Emmitt Smith
A complaining tongue reveals an ungrateful heart. — William Arthur Ward
Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain. — Henry Ford
He who avoids complaint invites happiness. — Abu Bakr
Don't complain about not getting a chance and then be unprepared when you finally do. — Joe Montana
When You Complain Image Quotes
Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.
Stop Complain 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
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 about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many. — Mark Twain
If you're not willing to do the work, don't complain about the result.
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
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjust the sails.
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
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
Catch fire today! Make today the day you stop complaining and do something! — Steve Harvey
It has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of being married to a woman whom he called Sister. — Sister Parish
It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it. — Mark Twain
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
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
I would be the last person on earth to complain about what I do - I feel very fortunate and I know there are a million jobs in the world that are much, much harder - but it's not always an easy or glamorous thing to do, that's for sure. — Douglas Booth
With the pay gap in Hollywood, I think it's very easy to say - 'oh, what are they complaining for? They're making millions of dollars.' But by having a woman in the industry do this, it's easier for others to see it. — Debby Ryan
I preach hard against that idea and plead with people to make war against sin. I tell them it's not going to be easy. Some people are meant to wrestle with their sin a long time before God brings them to freedom, but let's wrestle. Let's fight. Let's do something besides just complain. — Matt Chandler
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
Sitcom hours are silly easy compared to drama. Whenever an actor on a sitcom complains, I feel like smacking them! — Tricia Helfer
When things get difficult it can be easy to complain. How you respond makes all the difference — Tony Dungy
Do Not Complain Quotes
We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them. — Jackie Kennedy
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
Champions train, losers complain.
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
Instead of complaining about your circumstances, get busy and create some new ones.
Some people complain that they will not live forever, but cannot think of things to do on a wet Sunday afternoon. — Keith Ward
Do not go about complaining how hard it is to live in this world. such behavior is entirely unworthy of a real man. — Nichiren
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
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
Never Complain Quotes
Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective. — LeCrae
Never, never complain about your enemies. Only losers complain. Drive them to complain about you. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Never lie; never cheat; never steal. Don't whine; don't complain; don't make excuses. — John Wooden
People who complain in private want an answer. People who complain in public want an audience.
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
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses. — Brian Tracy
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
Champions train. Losers complain.
Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block. — Robert B. Parker
Champions never complain, they are too busy getting better — John Wooden
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
Stop Complaining Quotes
Leaders don’t complain about what’s not working. Leaders celebrate what is working and work to amplify it. — Simon Sinek
From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining. — Leonard Bernstein
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 pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes. If you continue complaining, it won't be long before they haul you out to a financial desert and there let you choke on the dust of your own regret. — Jim Rohn
Stop complaining about results you didn’t get from work you didn’t put in. — Chris Williamson
We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
People often complain about lack of time when lack of direction is the real problem.
I was in a hotel room in Dallas, and I was jerking off so much and so sadly and pathetically, that the phone rang, and I thought it's them, they're complaining. ... "Sir, could you please stop?" — Louis C. K.
Happiness comes when we stop complaining about the troubles we have and offer thanks for all the troubles we don't have. — Thomas S. Monson
There is a movement bubbling up that goes beyond cynicism and celebrates a new way of living, a generation that stops complaining about the church it sees and becomes the church it dreams of. — Shane Claiborne
Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get. — Dennis Prager
Always Complaining Quotes
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
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
Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man. — Joseph De Maistre
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
I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be, I always forget to include myself. — George Burns
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
We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them. — Seneca
Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I've always believed that if you took one tenth the enrgy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out. — Randy Pausch
Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way? — Jonathan Carroll
A few years ago I met an old professor at the University of Notre Dame. Looking back on his long life of teaching, he said with a funny wrinkle in his eyes: I have always been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I slowly discovered that my interruptions were my work. — Henri Nouwen
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
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
You can't complain about the sea if you suffer shipwreck for the second time. — Icelandic Proverbs
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
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
You can be a complainer. Or you can be an achiever. But you can't be both — Robin Sharma
Complaining Quotes
We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it. — W. E. B. Du Bois
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. — William Arthur Ward
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. — Shirley Chisholm
Losers assemble in small groups & complain, winners assemble as a team & find ways to win. — Bill Parcells
Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude. — Joyce Meyer
My whole life I have been complaining
that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered
that my interruptions
were my work. — Henri Nouwen
I was so drunk last night I fell down and missed the floor. — Dean Martin
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
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. — Abraham Lincoln
When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained. — Edward R. Murrow
No Complaining Quotes
I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet. — Confucius
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
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
No one ever complains about a speech being too short! — Ira Hayes
We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies. — John Marsden
In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: 'When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?' — Angeles Arrien
It's my belief that history is a wheel. 'Inconstancy is my very essence,'? says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but don't complain when you're cast back down into the depths. Good times pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it's also our hope. The worst of times, like the best, are always passing away. — Boethius
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
To young men who are looking for an opportunity and who complain there is no opening for them, permit me to say this: 'Go where the poor and the under-privileged are. They will be glad to hear you. When you have learned to bless them, others will be calling for your services. Don't wait for opportunity to come walking up to you. Go to meet it.' — James Gordon Lindsay
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
Personally, I like it much better when someone else does the decision making. That way you have legitimate grounds to whine and complain. I tend to find both whining and complaining quite interesting and amusing, though sometimes--unfortunately--it's hard to choose which one of the two I want to do. Sigh. LIfe can be so tough sometimes. — Brandon Sanderson
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
I call 'em complaining machines. Things are never right with a guy to them. And man, when you throw that hysteria in there ... forget it. I gotta get out, get in the car, and go. Anywhere. Get a cup of coffee somewhere. Anywhere. Anything but another woman. I guess they're just built different, right? — Charles Bukowski
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
Christ willed to suffer and be despised and do you dare complain of the same? Christ had adversaries and backbiters; and do you wish to have all men your friends and benefactors? When shall your patience attain her crown if no adversity befalls you? If you are willing to suffer naught that is against you, how will you be the friend of Christ? — Sayings
When you complain, you make yourself a victim. When you speak out, you are in power. — Eckhart Tolle
What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy. — Jeff Bezos
You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death. — Gena Rowlands
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize it you cannot complain. — William S. Burroughs
When you're in a situation, you can complain about it, you can feel sorry for yourself, you can do a lot of things. But how are you gonna make the situation better? — Tony Dungy
I was a feature one time and they gave me host money. When I called to complain the guy goes "no you didn't feature, you co-hosted". He literally invented a term so he didn't have to pay me. And obviously that check bounced! — Bill Burr
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade and sell it to all of those who get thirsty from complaining. — Napoleon Hill
When you face challenges, ask yourself what is the lesson here? Focus on the lesson and don't complain about the test. Everything happens for a reason. Every person you meet, may teach you something - good or bad. — Rita Zahara
I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it's going well, you're not allowed to complain. — Eddie Redmayne
When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do. — Daniel Clowes
As a friend at a major American newspaper said to me when I complained about this tendency in his own paper, "You know how these media narratives are. They're like bamboo." Meaning, once they start growing, you can't kill them. — George Weigel
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
When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints, but exert your whole care to hide it; by endeavouring to hide it; you will dry it away. Be always busy. — Samuel Johnson
When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away. — Samuel Johnson
When you go through enough dark places, you don't complain about little things. You don't lose your joy because you got stuck in traffic; you don't get offended because a coworker was rude to you. You've been through too much to let that sour you. — Joel Osteen
Have you found your life distasteful?
My life did, and does, smack sweet.
Was your youth of pleasure wasteful?
Mine I saved and hold complete.
Do your joys with age diminish?
When mine fail me, I'll complain.
Must in death your daylight finish?
My sun sets to rise again. — Robert Browning
I was taught when there's somethin' you can change around keep quiet, you got nothin' to complain about. — Mos Def
I understand people who boo us. It's like going to Broadway show, you pay for your tickets and expect to be entertained. When you're not, you have a right to complain. — Sparky Anderson
When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect. — M. H. Abrams
Some members of Congress now are complaining they are underpaid. They want to propose a pay raise. You can't blame them. A lot of them took a big income hit when Enron folded. — Jay Leno
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. — Criss Jami
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
Idiots are not responsible for what they do. The real guilt falls on rational people who sit on their hands while morons run wild. You can opt out if you want to. Play it safe. But if you do, don't complain when the roof comes down. — Jack McDevitt
It's my belief that history is a wheel. 'Inconstancy is my very essence,' says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but don't complain when you're cast back down into the depths. Good time pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it's also our hope. The worst of time, like the best, are always passing away. — Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severinus)
When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away. — Johnson
Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes. — Roy Bennett
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