Quotes About Complaining

Low-leverage people tend to waste a lot of energy on complaining, worrying, blaming, gossiping, scheming, and whining. High-leverage people focus their energy on producing results and building relationships. They concentrate on positive goals and things they can control.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...."

We worry. We complain. We make mistakes. We don't yet know who we are. We forget out worries. We let go. We just have fun. We make these years the best of our lives. We're teenagers.

I don't know the secret to success but complaining about what you could have achieved if things were right, is definitely not helping.

Stop complaining about being single. We have bigger problems here. Like why McDonalds doesn't serve breakfast after 10:30.

Too often the church complains about culture instead of creating it. The energy we spend on criticism is being stolen from creativity. It's sideways energy. We need fewer commentators and more innovators.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

Grumbling is the death of love.

The effect of emotional venting is to sustain an unsatisfactory status quo. Most people think the opposite, that complaining is part of an effort to change an unsatisfying situation. Nope. Complaining lets off pressure so that we neither explode with frustration nor feel compelled to take the often risky steps of openly opposing a difficult person or situation. Keeping emotional pressure tolerably low doesn't change problematic circumstances but rather perpetuates them.

Grumbling is the death of love.

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.

None talk more absurdly than murmurers.

Those who complain most are most to be complained of.

Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

My ever-present loneliness only grew worse. How could I complain? I'd come from nothing. I was the luckiest girl in the world. I had a family now. How ungrateful I was, to want anything more.

We grow angry at our suffering; we resent and complain and make others pay for our unhappiness.

Tell me, McFadden, what do you think of our beloved Mr. Chamberlain?" Mac didn't care for such direct questions. All his adult life had been spent in the mentality of the gulag, never openly complaining, always seeming to conform, never risking a row. Perhaps that's why he had agreed to marry, not so much to avoid disappointing the lady but more because it was the simplest way to fit into the flow of things.

When I got to San Francisco that afternoon, it was one of those days that arrives at the end of summer just as the last tourists are leaving complaining about the cold and fog.

When I started at my first church," Tom went on, "I was on fire with everything I wanted to do. I moved in, opened my office door, and one by one each staff person and maybe half the members came in and complained about everyone else. I called my mentor and said, 'I can't take it! I have ideas! I want to get to work, not be a wailing wall!' And he said, 'This is your work. Listening to people. Managing people.

This arcane system has been in place, unchanged, for over a hundred years. It contains no procedure for modification, no avenue for improvement or reform. Complaining or resisting is taboo. As noted, I had been trying to initiate changes in the system since I was fifteen. To no avail.

Un homme incommode à tout le monde, malpropre, dégoûtant, sans cesse un lavement ou une médecine dans le ventre, mouchant, toussant, crachant toujours ; sans esprit, ennuyeux, de mauvaise humeur, fatiguant sans cesse les gens, et grondant jour et nuit servantes et valets.

You create opportunities by performing, not complaining.

Some prayers have contributed so much in teaching men how to complain and whine to God instead of doing things themselves. Thus, they have become idle and expecting more than their abilities can ever achieve.

Sometimes it rains and other times clear skies, life is full of compensations. We must compromise to its terms and conditions; without complaining.