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Quotes About Complaining

Is this not enough? This blessed sip of life Is it not enough? Staring down at the ground Then complain and pray for more from above Greedy little pig
~ Dave Matthews
Unfortunately complaining is one thing Eeyores are not afraid to do. They grudgingly carry their thimbles to the Fountain of Life, then mumble and grumble that they weren't given enough.
~ Benjamin Hoff
those who complain too much can't hear nice noises.
~ Eiko Kadono
Those who violate these laws, criticizing and complaining, are utterly deluded, and are the cause of their own suffering.
~ Eknath Easwaran
This bad habit of fault-finding, criticizing and complaining is a tool that grows keener by constant use, and there is grave danger that he who at first is only a moderate kicker may develop into a chronic knocker, and the knife he has sharpened will sever his head. Hooker
~ Elbert Hubbard
He said we lived in a provincial country, where every occasion was an opportunity for complaining, but meanwhile no one rolled up his sleeves and reorganized things, trying to make them function.
~ Elena Ferrante
Disse que vivíamos num país provincianíssimo, onde toda ocasião era boa para se lamentar, mas enquanto isso ninguém arregaçava as mangas e reorganizava as coisas tentando fazê-las funcionar.
~ Elena Ferrante
It's not words, but years we should be editing. Remember: time spent on bad art is a form of redundancy, doing the same thing twice is a form of tautology, and wasting precious moments complaining about life is a form of pleonasm. We should all learn to live our lives concisely.
~ Anthony Marais
Oh, drat,' said Toad. 'Not only do my feet hurt, but I have lost one of the buttons on my jacket.
~ Arnold Lobel
If you come into Formula 1, and you try to eat each other or perform on the highest level, and equalisation is what you need after the first race, and you cry out after the first race, it's not how we've done things in the past and not how we've moaned.
~ Toto Wolff
If people are going to complain about stereotyping, it's as likely to be Italian-Americans as gay people.
~ Jason Bateman
I'm kind of a complainer, but not about getting old. I complain about, you know, something that can be fixed.
~ Martha Stewart
There is nowadays, throughout almost the whole of Europe, a sickly irritability and sensitiveness towards pain, and also a repulsive irrestrainableness in complaining, an effeminizing, which, with the aid of religion and philosophical nonsense, seeks to deck itself out as something superior—there is a regular cult of suffering.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
One of Enoch Powell's wiser remarks was that politicians complaining about the press were like sailors complaining about the sea. It is not the job of newspapers to win elections; it is the job of political parties.
~ Damian Green
I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine.
~ Hugh Laurie
To you wives who are constantly complaining and see only the dark side of life, and feel that you are unloved and unwanted, look into your own hearts and minds. If there is something wrong, turn about. Put a smile on your faces. Make yourselves more attractive. Brighten your outlook.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Does anyone want to see a person who's making the money that the newspapers say I'm making complaining, 'Woe is me, my life is terrible, and people are being unfair?' No one would've had any patience for that. I wouldn't have any patience for that.
~ Matt Lauer
I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.
~ Kurt Cobain
Those who do not complain are never pitied.
~ Jane Austen
Beyond a row of dwarf palms the sea was snoring and complaining like a drunk in a doorway.
~ Ross MacDonald
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
It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
As long as we complain, we remain stuck in our problems. But a thankful attitude brings deliverance and makes God smile.
~ Joyce Meyer
A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even in paradise.
~ Baha'u'llah