Complaining Quotes
Complaining Quotes
Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
1 Thessalonians 5:18
I hate to complain… No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
Abigail Adams
If you have the time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
Benjamin Franklin
You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.
Bernard Baruch
Excuses are only for those people who are unwilling to find the solution, who find greater solace in the loudness of their complaints rather than in the action they are taking to implement the actions that carry them steadily forward to their achievement.
Bryon Pulsifer
Now, 10 years later, the person who talked and complained is still talking and complaining and still remains in the same position. The person who took the initiative and found solutions has been promoted several times.
Catherine Pulsifer
Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.
Confucius
It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Confucius
Complaining not only ruins everybody else’s day, it ruins the complainer’s day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.
Dennis Prager
I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known.
Edgar Watson Howe
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Edmund Burke
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
Ephesians 4:29
Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
Francois Fenelon
Untold suffering seldom is.
Franklin P. Jones
Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses.
German Proverb
If you can quit, quit. If you can’t quit, stop complaining – this is what you chose.
J.A. Konrath
Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door.
James 5:9
The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.
James Allen
I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
Jane Wagner
We can choose to complain about the world or not. When we go to the quiet place in our hearts where our Spirit lives and we train ourselves to listen to that Voice, our mistakes and disgruntles become less and less.
Jeanne Aisthorpe-Smith
I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
While you are complaining about the little problems in your life, somebody is actually fighting for theirs.
Jon Morrow
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
Joseph Addison
The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.
Lord Jeffrey
I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.
Mark Twain
Noise proves nothing, Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
Mark Twain
Sweat silently. Let’s have no squawking about a little expenditure of energy.
Martin H. Fischer
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.
Maya Angelou
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. Don’t complain.
Maya Angelou
Complaining is an insult to God.
Monica Johnson
Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.
Og Mandino
A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
Oscar Wilde
I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable to complain about what you have than it is to ask for what you want.
Phil Lout
Do all things without grumbling or questioning, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
Philippians 2:14-16
Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn’t take any brains to complain.
Robert A. Cook
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.
Samuel Johnson
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Samuel Johnson
When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
Samuel Johnson
I think there’s an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we’re complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen.
Sherilyn Fenn
You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
Shirley Chisholm
The squeaking wheel doesn’t always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.
Unkown
When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
Unkown
When you feel dog tired at night, it may be because you’ve growled all day long.
Unkown
One’s life must seem extremely flat with nothing whatever to grumble at!
W.S. Gilbert
In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.
Warren Farrell
People that pay for things never complain. It’s the guy you give something to that you can’t please.
Will Rogers
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward
Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining – it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn’t solve any problems.
Zig Ziglar