Quotes About Complaining

I watched Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Good grief. What whining weenies.

Can't wait for tomorrow when I get to exercise my patriotic duty as an American: Complaining about how long it's taking to VOTE.

You create opportunities by performing, not complaining

Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain.

The more you gripe about your problems, the more problems you have to gripe about!

If I were to complain about complainers. Am I a culprit comparable conveyor? Let go of the anger. It's crimping my colossal contentment.

Don't waste your time complaining, use your energy to create a solution. Even a 10% resolution is progress.

You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy.

It is not by regretting what is irreparable that true work is to be done, but by making the best of what we are. It is not by complaining that we have not the right tools, but by using well the tools we have. What we are, and where we are is God's providential arrangement - God's doing, though it may be man's misdoing; and the manly and the wise way is to look your disadvantages in the face, and see what can be made our of them.

Besides advising us to avoid people with vices, Seneca advises us to avoid people who are simply whiny, "who are melancholy and bewail everything, who find pleasure in every opportunity for complaint.

Don't complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.

When we complain about the weather, we are, in reality, murmuring against God.

If your therapist asks if you have a quarter, then politely tells you to call someone who cares ... there's a good chance you're whining!

A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.

Complaining is the absolute worst possible thing you could do for your health or your wealth. The worst!

Some people take pleasure in regaling one and all with details of their poor health. They are happy to give an organ recital to anyone who will listen.

From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.

Gratitude and complaining cannot co-exist simultaneously. Choose the one that best serves you.

Inner resistance to whatever arises in the present moment pulls you back into unconsciousness. Inner resistance is some form of negativity, complaining, fear, aggression, or anger. This is important because whenever you complain about what somebody else does you're already beginning to fall into that trap of unconsciousness.

Can you give some more examples of ordinary unconsciousness?   See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what

How dare you serve me cold soup…." That's complaining. There is a "me" here that loves to feel personally offended by the cold soup and is going to make the most of it, a "me" that enjoys making someone wrong. The complaining we are talking about is in the service of the ego, not of change. Sometimes it becomes obvious that the ego doesn't really want change so that it can go on complaining.

A very common role is the one of victim, and the form of attention it seeks is sympathy or pity or others' interest in my problems, "me and my story." Seeing oneself as a victim is an element in many egoic patterns, such as complaining, being offended, outraged, and so on.

they also strengthen the ego in another way by giving it a feeling of superiority on which it thrives. It may not be immediately apparent how complaining, say, about a traffic jam, about politicians, about the "greedy wealthy" or the "lazy unemployed," or your colleagues or ex-spouse, men or women, can give you a sense of superiority. Here is why. When you complain, by implication you are right and the person or situation you complain about or react against is wrong.