Grumbling Quotes

• Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

  Alphonse Karr

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• Grumbling and gratitude are, for the child of God, in conflict. Be grateful and you won't grumble. Grumble and you won't be grateful.

  Billy Graham

  God, Thankful, Christian

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Complaining, Blame, Hell

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• 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

  Appreciate, Energy, Complaining

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• Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic. This is a most searching and true diagnosis. Gratitude can be a vaccine that can prevent the invasion of a disgruntled attitude. As antitoxins prevent the disastrous effects of certain poisons and diseases, thanksgiving destroys the poison of faultfinding and grumbling. When trouble has smitten us, a spirit of thanksgiving is a soothing antiseptic.

  John Henry Jowett

  Inspirational, Life, Gratitude

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• If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.

  Bruce Barton

  Marriage, Disappointment, Perfection

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• Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good.

  John Piper

  Your Side, Christian Inspirational, Together

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• We have received too much from God to allow ourselves opportunities for unbelief. We have received too many gifts and privileges to allow a grumbling, murmuring heart to disqualify us of our destiny. In contrast, the thankful heart sees the best part of every situation. It sees problems and weaknesses as opportunities, struggles as refining tools, and sinners as saints in progress.

  Francis Frangipane

  Struggle, Heart, Opportunity

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• Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Laughter, Laughing, May

  "Aphorisms on Man" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, (c. 1788).

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• I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known.

  E. W. Howe

  Believe, Fighting, Complaining

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• Grumbling is the death of love

  Marlene Dietrich

  Love

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.55, Open Road Media

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• Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Trouble, Deserve

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Comfort, Complaining, Pay

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• Truly, we have much to thank God for, but if we would be thankful, we must set our hearts to do it with a will. We grumble and complain without thought, but we must think to give thanks.

  Samuel Logan Brengle

  God, Thankful, Christian

  Samuel Logan Brengle (2013). “Take Time to Be Holy: 365 Daily Inspirations to Bring You Closer to God”, p.328, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.

  Banksy

  Negativity, Negative People, Graffiti

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• Hope discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot.

  James Keller

  Hopeful, Done

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• It's not a question of God 'sending' us to Hell. In each of us there is something growing up which will of itself be Hell unless it is nipped in the bud.

  C. S. Lewis

  Growing Up, Bud, Hell

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.170, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Those who grumble at the little thing that has fallen to their lot to do will grumble at everything. Always grumbling, they will lead a miserable life, and everything will be a failure. But those who do their duties as they go, putting their shoulders to the wheel, will see the light, and higher duties will fall to their share.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Fall, Light, Littles

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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• You say, 'The country is messed up.' That's like cursing the soil and the seed and the sunshine and the rain, which is all you've got. Don't curse all you've got. When you get your own planet, you can rearrange this whole deal. This one you've got to take like it comes.

  Jim Rohn

  Country, Rain, Sunshine

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 03, 2013

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• The very large, very respectable, and very knowing class of misanthropes who rejoice in the name of grumblers,--persons who are so sure that the world is going to ruin, that they resent every attempt to comfort them as an insult to their sagacity, and accordingly seek their chief consolation in being inconsolable, their chief pleasure in being displeased.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Class, Names, Knowing

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1871). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.199

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• It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

  Edmund Burke

  Errors, Liberty, Complaining

  'Observations on...the Present State of the Nation' (1769)

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• Let us be ashamed of our slowness in thanking God when He gives, and of our quickness in grumbling at Him when He takes away.

  Nikolaj Velimirovic

  Love, Gratitude, Peace

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• Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.

  John Henry Jowett

  Inspirational, Happiness, Thank You

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• It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  People, Comfort, Imaginary

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• He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything; and even when he did anything, it did not prevent him from grumbling, losing his temper and swearing (mostly to himself).

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Way, Losing

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.285, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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