Always Complaining Quotes

• Those who do not complain are never pitied.

  Jane Austen

  Mrs Bennet, Ironic, Prejudice

  Jane Austen, Pamela Jane, Deborah Guyol (2015). “Pride and Prejudice and Kitties: A Cat-Lover's Romp through Jane Austen's Classic”, p.73, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

  Stephen Hawking

  Anger, People, Disability

  "Return of the time lord". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2005.

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• I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Complaining, Resentment

  Mark Twain (1917). “Mark Twain's Letters”

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• 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

  Power, Anxiety, Mind

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• Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Life, Fear, Past

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• The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

  Randall Jarrell

  Birthday, Yellow, People

  Randall Jarrell (1965). “A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables”

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• Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good and doesn't solve any problems!

  Zig Ziglar

  Thanksgiving, Meaningful, Grateful

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• Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.

  William Osler

  Hard Work, Dust, Aggravation

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.301, Duke University Press

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• The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.

  Victor Gold

  Grease, Complaining, Wheels

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• The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

  Zig Ziglar

  Business, Opportunity, Loyal Customers

  "Smarter Branding Without Breaking the Bank: Five Proven Marketing Strategies You Can Use Right Now to Build Your Business at Little Or No Cost". Book by Brenda Bence (p. 91), November 7, 2011.

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• Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

  Zig Ziglar

  Loyalty, Business, Educational

  "Smarter Branding Without Breaking the Bank: Five Proven Marketing Strategies You Can Use Right Now to Build Your Business at Little Or No Cost". Book by Brenda Bence (p. 91), November 7, 2011.

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• Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Self, Effort, Foundation

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• You can never make a woman happy, it's impossible. I've never met a happy woman in my life. They're always complaining about something.

  Chris Rock

  Complaining, Impossible, Mets

  "Chris Rock: Never Scared". TV Special, April17, 2004.

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• When I see a 9/11 victim family on television, or whatever, I'm just like, 'Oh shut up' I'm so sick of them because they're always complaining.

  Glenn Beck

  Stupid, Silly, Sick

  "Fox News' rabid propagandist Glenn Beck has lured me to America". www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2009.

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• I'm just happy to be a film where for once I don't have to worry about my hair, because my managers are always complaining about my hair looking depressing in my movies. Which is true. I mean, it's true.

  Emily Mortimer

  Depressing, Mean, Hair

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• Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?

  John Kricfalusi

  Running, Humor, Cartoon

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• She [Eva Braun] was always complaining later on, "I know nothing that's going on." They [with Adolf Hitler] talked about other things: dogs, movies, music, Munich gossip, who was going with who, who was cheating on their spouses, who was drinking too much or trying to quit. All sorts of local things like that.

  Gretl Braun

  Dog, Cheating, Drinking

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Motivational, Procrastination

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• I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.

  Randy Newman

  Song, Complaining, Records

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• 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

  Men, What If, Fascination

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• Critics are always complaining about the materialism of hip-hop and accusing the artists of living way above their means. But this ostentatious sort of spending isn't strictly the province of hip-hop. It's almost like a continuation of the American Dream.

  Simon de Pury

  Dream, Mean, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others.

  C. S. Lewis

  Grumbling, Complaining, Blame

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• Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?

  Voltaire

  Philosophy, Complaining, Employed

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French”, p.357

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• In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student... I was always complaining that music education was too academic.

  Bjork

  School, Complaining, Students

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 29, 2011.

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• In the same way the eminence attaching to the mere possession of great wealth disappoints us nine times out of ten, especially if the wealth has been accumulated rapidly. For great wealth is accumulated rapidly by cunning or chance, or a mixture of the two. Cunning has nothing to do with high qualities; it is rather a presumption against them; while chance has nothing to do with them either. Therefore it is that men are always complaining after meeting So-and-so, that he seemed to be astonishingly stupid, though he made a million in ten years and started as a pauper.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Stupid, Men, Years

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