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Complaining Quotes

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Patience is that the heart does not feel anger towards that which is destined and that the mouth does not complain.
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

"Tolerant acceptance of what is unavoidable is a virtue of the wise."
Authors on Complaining Quotes: Joyce Meyer Samuel Johnson Francois de La Rochefoucauld T. Harv Eker Henry David Thoreau Mason Cooley Michel de Montaigne Rush Limbaugh Drake Adam Smith Anthony Jeselnik Paulo Coelho Randy Pausch Kurt Cobain Tony Dungy Katharine Hepburn Gilbert K. Chesterton Benjamin Franklin Thomas Sowell Mark Twain Saint Francis de Sales Dennis Prager Eckhart Tolle Donald Trump Publilius Syrus Oswald Chambers Eva Longoria Laurell K. Hamilton Richard M. Nixon Kenneth Goldsmith John Wooden Nicholas Sparks Julius Malema
2.
We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.
W. E. B. Du Bois

We must protest. Yes, forthright complaint, persistent agitation, consistent disclosure of deception and injustice - this is the traditional, infallible way to freedom and we must pursue it.
3.
Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.
Pope John Paul II

Do not forget that genuine affection imposes no stipulations; it does not analyze or grumble, but merely cherishes.
4.
Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
Ajahn Brahm

Grumbling is identifying flaws, sagacity is finding answers.
5.
When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.
Eckhart Tolle

When you whine, you position yourself as a casualty. Abandon the predicament, modify the circumstance or acquiesce to it, anything else is folly.
6.
The first thing to do about an obstacle is simply to stand up to it and not complain about it or whine under it but forthrightly attack it. Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break and it won't be you, it will be the obstacle.
Andrew Carnegie

7.
Before you complain today, be grateful you have breath to complain with.
LeCrae

Before you voice your grievances today, be thankful for having the breath to do so.
8.
Beautiful leaving (hajr), is to leave without harming, beautiful pardoning is to pardon without rebuking, and beautiful patience is to be patient without complaining.
Ibn Taymiyyah

Graceful departure, clemency and forbearance are the hallmarks of a noble spirit.
9.
When you’re not patient, you start complaining. And the fact that you’re complaining is a sign that you’re not grateful.
Nouman Ali Khan

When you lack in fortitude, you begin to grumble. And your grievances are a sign that you're unappreciative.
10.
We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them.
Jackie Kennedy

We should all actively work to rectify the injustices that we observe rather than simply grousing about them.
11.
Comrade Blade Nzimande is complaining that EFF stole the ‘red colour’, he does not have a copyright on the ‘red colour’. There’s nothing we can steal from him because he has nothing but that skuurpot (pot scourer) face of his. Why didn’t he complain when Vodacom was red?
Julius Malema

12.
My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work.
Henri Nouwen

My entire existence I have been grumbling that my activities were continually disrupted, until I understood that my disruptions were in fact my duties.
13.
When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.
Edward R. Murrow

14.
It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

15.
Your mantra is thank you. Just keep saying thank you. Don't explain. Don't complain. Just say thank you. Say thank you to existence.
Mooji

Your maxim is appreciation. Just keep expressing gratitude. Don't elaborate. Don't grumble. Just utter thank you. Express thanks to beingness.
16.
1-Don't analyze. 2-Don't complain. 3-Don't compare yourself to others. 4-Don't expect things to be done for you. 5-Don't expect perfection in the relative. 6-Look to the knowledge aspect daily. 7-Own the movement. 8-Problems are all in your head. 9-Hold yourself together.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

17.
Embrace your life, count your blessings, and don’t complain about what you don’t have.
Joyce Meyer

18.
Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.
Mark Twain

19.
A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
Oscar Wilde

20.
Never complain. Never explain.
Katharine Hepburn

21.
If you are complaining about things in your life, you are on the complaining frequency, and you are not in a position to attract what you want. Get on to the frequency of good with your thoughts and words. Firstly you will feel good, and secondly you will be on the frequency of receiving more good.
Rhonda Byrne

22.
Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain.
Billy Graham

23.
Never complain and never explain.
Benjamin Disraeli

24.
A complaining tongue reveals an ungrateful heart.
William Arthur Ward

25.
There is no need of a way out! Don't you see that a way out is also part of the dream All you have to do is see the dream as dream. ...Wherever it leads you, it will be a dream. The very idea of going beyond the dream is illusory. Why go anywhere Just realize that you are dreaming a dream you call the world and stop looking for ways out. The dream is not your problem. Your problem is that you like one part of your dream and not another. Love all, or none of it, and stop complaining. When you have seen the dream as a dream, you have done all that needs be done.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

26.
You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.
Richard M. Nixon

27.
I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.
Mick Jagger

28.
The farms you live in will be yours for free. When mineworkers strike, it will be to complain that we are giving them too much money.
Julius Malema

29.
Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.
C. J. Cherryh

30.
I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.
Meg Ryan

31.
I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.
David Niven

32.
People always complain about something. If you face yourself and stand up strong, you're OK. You can't go wrong.
James Hetfield

33.
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
Josh Billings

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You've been complaining, you've been depressed, you've been despondent. But take off those garments of heaviness and put back on your garments of praise. I didn't come when you thought I was going to come, but I'm going to be right on time.
Paula White

35.
I am what you designed me to be.I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt
Charles Dickens

36.
Never complain, about the number of hours you have put in, to do a job, Your nobility must estimate how much of you Was put into each hour of your daily work
Chinmayananda Saraswati

37.
Merely complaining without proposing an alternative offers nothing.
Jacque Fresco

38.
Don’t complain; just work harder.
Randy Pausch

39.
The grace of the Guru is like an ocean. If one comes with a cup he will only get a cupful. It is no use complaining of the niggardliness of the ocean. The bigger the vessel the more one will be able to carry. It is entirely up to him.
Ramana Maharshi

40.
The woman's position in the world today is so much harder than a man's that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.
Katharine Hepburn

41.
Complain and remain. Praise and be raised.
Joyce Meyer

42.
I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.
Tom Welling

43.
Things will go wrong at times. You can't always control your attitude, approach, and response. You options are to complain or to look ahead and figure out how to make the situation better
Tony Dungy

44.
Pray when you feel like worrying. Give thanks when you feel like complaining. Keep going when you feel like quitting.
Dave Willis

45.
One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
Thomas Sowell

46.
If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

47.
These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power. In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

48.
He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. - Ben Franklin
Benjamin Franklin

49.
But you have such dimples," said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. "Lovely dimples, like little dents in cream. I have given up all hope of dimples. My dimple-dream will never come true; but so many of my dreams have that I mustn't complain. Am I all ready now?
Lucy Maud Montgomery

50.
I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.
Kurt Cobain