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Quotes About Complaining

And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
~ Bible
Complaining proves nothing but that you can hear the voice of the Devil
~ Bill Johnson
The more you stay with and/or complain about a toxic person, the more you're merely delaying doing the important inner work you need to do - to heal your wounds, expand your limiting beliefs, and show yourself far more love and respect.
~ Karen Salmansohn
Whining writers are a hideous sight; we should really shut up, because we are lucky if we can cobble together a living from all of this.
~ Deborah Moggach
The idea that each one of us was astronomically lucky to have been born at all, and that complaining that our lives aren't infinite is like winning a million dollars in the lottery and complaining that we didn't win a hundred billion, or indeed all the money in the world.
~ Greta Christina
It's easier to complain than to laugh, easier to yell than to joke around, easier to be demanding than to be satisfied.
~ Gretchen Rubin
The soul that gives thanks can find comfort in everything; the soul that complains can find comfort in nothing.
~ Hannah Whitall Smith
I won't complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just absurd. Like, 'Boo hoo hoo! I have to stand on stage and people pay attention to me!'
~ Moby
Mum—my real mum, not Mrs. Cornish—always told me that men hate it when women bring up their menses. I thought it was ridiculous. They love to moan about their own aches and pains, why should they begrudge us a little complaining about ours?
~ Sherry Thomas
One should not confuse creativity with whining.
~ Silvia Hartmann
La gente si lamenta per niente (...). Basta fare qualcosa di diverso, perché cominci subito a lamentarsi. Non bisognerebbe essere diversi, no?
~ Silvio D'Arzo
The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, The trouble with this country is...
~ Sinclair Lewis
I'm doing what I love, and then I get months and months of rest. I have a lot of money for a 21-year-old. I can't stand it when actors complain.
~ Jennifer Lawrence
Nada acalla a los gruñones como la gratitud.
~ Max Lucado
There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. 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.
~ Maya Angelou
Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.
~ Maya Angelou
He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever quit.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
The magus said thoughtfully, That lying little monster complained about everything: the food, the horses, the blankets, the company. He even found fault with the stories I told by the fire but I cannot recall that he ever once complained about the climbing. So many things are obvious in retrospect, aren't they? I said.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
Yet to complain of the world's unfairness was the same as grumbling that the sun was hot or that the wind sometimes changed its direction. Unfairness existed, it always had and it always would, and the miracle, to Sharpe's eyes, was that some men like Hill and Wellesley, though they had become wealthy and privileged through unfair advantages, were nevertheless superb at what they did.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Jesus, knowing in Himself that His disciples were complaining about this, asked them, "Does this offend you?" John 6:61
~ Beth Moore
Appropriation is a fact of life; no point in complaining about it. But if that's the way the game's being played, let's do it on both sides. I don't want some white guy making 'A Rage in Harlem III' if I can't do 'The Godfather V' or 'E.T. III.'
~ Bill Duke
No woman wants to be a complainer, but in her attempt to make life good for her husband, her children, herself, and others, she often sees things that are wrong and tries to change them with her words. If you ever find your wife saying the same thing over and over to you out of the frustration of her heart, pray with her about it.
~ Stormie Omartian
If we are filled with anger and bitterness, or insist on complaining and blaming God, things tend to turn out badly.
~ Stormie Omartian
As Mark Twain famously quipped, "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
~ Joshua Coleman