Complaining Quotes

• Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain.

  Billy Graham

  Hard Work, Honest, Honestly

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

  Emmitt Smith

  Half, Care, Trouble

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• If you vote and you elect dishonest, incompetent people into office who screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You caused the problem; you voted them in; you have no right to complain

  George Carlin

  Office, People, Done

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  We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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  The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

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

  Stephen Hawking

  Anger, People, Always Complaining

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

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

  Eckhart Tolle

  Hate, Madness, Victim

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Maya Angelou (1993). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, Random House Canada

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

  Og Mandino

  Funny, Smile, Listening

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• 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 a victim. Leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Weather, People

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.82, New World Library

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• One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

  Immanuel Kant

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

  Immanuel Kant (1996). “Kant: The Metaphysics of Morals”, p.23, Cambridge University Press

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• When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Kindness, Littles, Complainers

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• 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

  Gratitude, Character, Self

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.21, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

  Barack Obama

  Rewards, Future Destiny, Presses

  "American Citizen Killed in Attack; Government Shutdown Looms; Five Bodies Found In Two Homes; Patient Death Investigated; Freed Hikers Back On U.S. Soil". "American Morning: Wake Up Call", edition.cnn.com. September 26, 2011.

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

  Victor Gold

  Grease, Wheels, Belief

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• If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.

  Arthur Ashe

  Life, Sports, Failure

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• Never complain. Never explain.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Positivity, Complaints, Explanation

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• Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Grumbling, Comfort, Pay

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• Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.

  Roseanne Barr

  Time, Women, Humor

  "Heard the one about ..." by Andy Barker, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2006.

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• Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.

  Sigmund Freud

  Talking, Lioness, Neurosis

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.

  Wim Wenders

  Music, Hardship, Misery

  "Wim Wenders talks with WSWS: 'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

  Agnes Repplier

  Inspirational, Memorable, Tourists

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• But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain?

  Billie Burke

  People, Laughing, Sound

  Billie Burke (2015). “With A Feather On My Nose”, p.248, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Tis the voice of the sluggard I heard him complain,You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again.

  Isaac Watts

  Voice, Slumber, Heard

  'The Sluggard'

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• People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant.

  Bernard Pivot

  People, Feelings, Language

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