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• Those who complain most are most to be complained of.

  Matthew Henry

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• Barefooted workers would take apart, bit by bit, the dying ships with their bare hands, shipyard in Gaddani, Pakistan. On their shoulders, workers bore great metal plates to their destination. People complain about their crappy lives working in an air conditioned work place, imagine having this as your only option in life.

  G.M.B. Akash

  Air, Hands, People

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• 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

  Beautiful, Girlfriend, Heart

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• But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being built upon "made ground"; so they do without both, and few of the living complain, and none of the others.

  Mark Twain

  Rain, New Orleans, People

  Mark Twain (2015). “Life On The Mississippi: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.205, 谷月社

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• If there were nothing you'd still be complaining!

  Sidney Morgenbesser

  Stills, Ifs

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• If you complain about the world moving too fast, slow down.

  Michael Dolan

  Moving, Haste, World

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• Champions never complain, they are too busy getting better

  John Wooden

  Champion, Get Better, Motivational Basketball

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• If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes.

  Jim Rohn

  Minutes, Five, Ifs

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• 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

  Thanks, Trouble, Offers

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• Sometimes we are tempted to find excuses and complain, acting as if we could only be happy if a thousand conditions were met...I can say that the most beautiful and natural expressions of joy which I have seen in my life were in poor people who had little to hold on to.

  Pope Francis

  Beautiful, Expression, People

  "Evangelii Gaudium". Book by Pope Francis, w2.vatican.va. November 24, 2013.

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• The key to a better life: Complain less, appreciate more. Whine less, laugh more. Talk less, listen more. Want less, give more. Hate less, love more. Scold less, praise more. Fear less, hope more.

  Michael Josephson

  Hate, Keys, Appreciate

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• Innovative people have always been in high demand. Help those around you to develop that “never-say-die” attitude by developing it yourself. Make a decision, today, to outlaw complaining, whining and negative thinking in your own personality. And, a word of caution: if and when you are criticized for being so positive or as some call it, “unrealistic,” you will know you are on the right track.

  Bob Proctor

  Attitude, Thinking, Ifs And

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 07, 2011

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• Losers assemble in small groups & complain, winners assemble as a team & find ways to win.

  Bill Parcells

  Team, Winning, Groups

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• My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.

  Caitlin Moran

  Should Have, Two, Three

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• Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the writing of fiction. Criticism drove Thomas Chatterton, the English poet, to suicide. . . . 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

  Suicide, Giving Up, Writing

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

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• There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or if you have slept or if you have head ache or sciatica or leprosy or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace and not pollute the morning.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Attitude, Angel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.392

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• There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leprosy, Topics, Sciatica

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.104, Harvard University Press

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• If you don't toot your own horn, don't complain that there's no music.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Enchantment, Horns, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Guy Kawasaki from Nov 01, 2013

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• Don't whine, complain, or make excuses.

  John Wooden

  Positivity, Excuse

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• When you complain, you make yourself a victim. When you speak out, you are in power.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Success, Speaks Out, Power Of Now

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• If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise of everyday violence which people have become accustomed to, and the dehumanization of feelings, then the ultimate development on an organized social level is the concentration camp... The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.

  Arthur Miller

  Communication, Responsibility, Expression

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• Law of attraction says: "We'll give you whatever it is you say and focus on." and so if you are complaining about how bad it is, what you're creating is more of how bad it is.

  Jack Canfield

  Law Of Attraction, Creating, Giving

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• It is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Imperfection, Littles, Little Things

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• The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Grief, Heart, Sickness

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  If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.

  Kim Kardashian

  Life, Success, Years

  "We Finally Found Out Why Rob Kardashian Skipped Kim And Kanye's Wedding" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. August 13, 2014.

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