Grumbling Quotes - Page 2

• When doubt comes against us, we have to lift up the shield of faith. We do this when we open our mouth and say what God's Word says, rather than grumbling and complaining about the problem.

  Joyce Meyer

  Doubt, Complaining, Mouths

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• Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.

  Anton Chekhov

  Art, Miscarriage, Apathy

  Letter to A.S. Suvorin, December 27, 1889.

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• If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings and complaints. If, on the contrary, you pitch your expectations low, taking folks as the inefficient creatures which they are, you are frequently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped.

  Bruce Barton

  Inspirational, Disappointment, Perfection

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• What women will say to other women grumbling in their kitchens and complaining and gossiping or what they make clear in their masochism is often the last thing they will say aloud - a man may overhear. Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long.

  Doris Lessing

  Men, Long, Kitchen

  Doris Lessing (2012). “The Golden Notebook”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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• I have always been a grumbler. I am designed for the part - sagging face, weighty underlip, rumbling, resonant voice. Money couldn't buy a better grumbling outfit.

  J. B. Priestley

  Voice, Sagging, Faces

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• Holy Father, forgive me for grumbling. I know I've sounded just like the Israelites. I long to dwell not on the If Onlys but on You. Make me wise like the old woodcutter - content with what I know, not perturbed by what I don't know.

  Linda Dillow

  Wise, Father, Long

  Linda Dillow (2014). “Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment”, p.95, Tyndale House

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• 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

  Rain, Positive Attitude, Weather

  James Whitcomb Riley, “Wet Weather Talk”

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• What the Lord wants is that you shall go about the business to which He sets you, not asking for an easy post, nor grumbling at a hard one.

  Catherine Booth

  Asking, Want, Easy

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• Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst; it discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot; it regards problems, large or small, as opportunities; it pushes ahead when it would be easy to quit; it lights the candle instead of cursing the darkness.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Opportunity, Light

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• Praise is the rehearsal of our eternal song. By grace we learn to sing, and in glory we continue to sing. What will some of you do when you get to heaven, if you go on grumbling all the way? Do not hope to get to heaven in that style. But now begin to bless the name of the Lord.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Song, Names, Heaven

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 36: Sermons 2121-2181”, p.21, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual poverty so characteristic of today.

  Charles Handy

  Spiritual, Ordinary, Citizens

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• Cultivate these, then, for they are wholly within your power: sincerity and dignity; industriousness; and sobriety. Avoid grumbling, be frugal, considerate, and frank; be temperate in manner and speech; carry yourself with authority.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Power, Sobriety, Speech

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• Grumbling, as things are at present arranged in this world, does not always, nor I might say often, do good.

  Mary Louisa Molesworth

  Doe, Complaining, World

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• [On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.

  T. S. Eliot

  Land, Honor, Criticism

  Quoted in The Waste Land, ed. Valerie Eliot (1971)

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• People always get what they want. But there is a price for everything. Failures are either those who do not know what they want or are not prepared to pay the price asked them. The price varies from individual to individual. Some get things at bargain-sale prices, others only at famine prices. But it is no use grumbling. Whatever price you are asked, you must pay.

  W. H. Auden

  Pay The Price, People, Use

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• The eating of meat was unknown up to the big flood, but since the flood they have put the strings and stinking juices of animal meat into our mouths, just as they threw in front of the grumbling sensual people in the desert. Jesus Christ, who appeared when the time had been fulfilled, has again joined the end with the beginning, so that it is no longer allowed for us to eat animal meat.

  St. Jerome

  Jesus, Animal, People

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• It is a part of English hypocrisy or English reserve, that whilst we are fluent enough in grumbling about small inconveniences, we insist on making light of any great difficulties or grief's that may beset us.

  Max Beerbohm

  Grief, Light, Hypocrisy

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.71, 1st World Publishing

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• If you fall into poverty, live that way without grumbling - then your poverty will not burden you. Likewise, if you are rich, live with your riches. All this is the functioning of Buddha-nature. In short, Buddha-nature has the quality of infinite adaptability.

  Philip Kapleau

  Fall, Quality, Riches

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• As he poured carefully, Arrow's head turned toward the sound. The horse made a low grumbling noise in his throat. "Hold your horses," he said. The he laughed. It seemed absurd to say tat to a horse.

  John Flanagan

  Horse, Arrows, Sound

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• I think, like a lot of actors and people in the arts who are struggling to get where they want to be, you spend a lot of time sitting around grumbling about how you're not doing the kind of work you really want to do. But there's a lot of complacency in that, too.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Art, Struggle, Thinking

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• Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, Your laboring people think beyond all question, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.

  Lord Byron

  Food, Men, Thinking

  Lord Byron (2017). “Don Juan”, p.102, BookRix

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• I get sort of short with people and start grumbling and clearing my throat - in honor of my father - when I'm impatient. It's very charming.

  Maria Bamford

  Father, People, Honor

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