Top 100 Complain Quotes
#1. If you have any fault to find with anyone, tell him, not others, of what you complain; there is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.
Robert E.Lee
#2. To find the beauty of life, don't complain, compliment.
Debasish Mridha
#3. Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Benjamin Franklin
#4. Codependents make great employees. They don't complain; they do more than their share; they do whatever is asked of them; they please people; and they try to do their work perfectly - at least for a while, until they become angry and resentful.
Melody Beattie
#6. That what most people desire more than anything, more than money or fame or stuff, is someone to complain to for thirty minutes a day.*
Mimi Strong
#7. 'Shun security,' I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. 'Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isn't agonizing enough. Your enemy is comfort.'
John Burdett
#8. She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.
Alan Garner
#9. I preach hard against that idea and plead with people to make war against sin. I tell them it's not going to be easy. Some people are meant to wrestle with their sin a long time before God brings them to freedom, but let's wrestle. Let's fight. Let's do something besides just complain.
Matt Chandler
#10. Don't close your eyes to the Universe and then complain: 'It's dark.
Paulo Coelho
#11. My mom played tennis for, like, six hours a day and went to college on a tennis scholarship, because that was the way she could go to school. So they instilled in me the idea that you have to work hard for the things you want in life and never complain.
Dakota Fanning
#12. Mud and rain and wretchedness and blood. Why should jolly soldier-boys complain? God made these before the roofless Flood - Mud and rain.
Siegfried Sassoon
#13. There's a billboard in a little farm town in the Midwest that says: IF YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT FARMERS, DON'T TALK WITH YOUR MOUTH FULL.
Lee Iacocca
#14. Take all self-determination from a man's life, and all that is left for him to do is complain.
Robin Hobb
#15. Accept your symptoms, don't complain of them; immerse yourself in your suffering.
Franz Kafka
#16. While teachers often complain that their students seem to do very little thinking, teachers who simply follow the manual should understand that they are actually contributing to the problem. Students seldom learn to think under the tutelage of teachers who do not think either.
Donovan L. Graham
#17. If she loves you back, no woman is going to complain about the hour if a man calls her to proclaim his undying love.
Linda Kage
#18. One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
Immanuel Kant
#19. I don't mean to complain. I wouldn't trade my life for anything.
Lucinda Williams
#20. Out with it, Bayning," he said coldly. "Did you come here merely to complain, or is there some point to all this?" "I'm taking her away from here. Away from you!" Harry gave a chilling smile. "I'll send you to hell first."
- Harry & Bayning
Lisa Kleypas
#21. I cannot understand why the poets of our day wax indignant at the vulgarity of their age and complain of having come into the world too early or too late. I believe that every man of intellect can create his own beautiful fable of life.
Gabriele D'Annunzio
#22. Some people complain there are too many people on earth,
Some people complain about secret societies,
Some people accuse others of not being able to wake up early.
Almost all people complain about something.
Dejan Stojanovic
#23. I don't purposely push the boundaries ... I think if you pay attention to a story, it will have exactly as much 'difficult material' as it needs, and nobody will complain about it because you've earnt it.
Patrick Ness
#24. I think we need to talk about mental illness a lot more. People complain about tax dollars and say we don't have the money. But if we can't put some of our investments, or some of our money back into humans, isn't that where it all begins?
Nia Long
#25. In nearly all cases, if the people complain of the length of our sermons it is because we fail to interest them personally in what we have to say.
Charles Grandison Finney
#26. When you find yourself ready to complain about what you don't have, stop for a moment to consider what incredible things you do have. And resolve to make the most of it all.
Ralph Marston
#27. First, it was some students who were for free sex and against the Vietnam War. As far as that went, this was OK with the president because students will always find something to complain about. But
Jonas Jonasson
#28. We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin.
Dave Barry
#29. If you accept working for 'peanuts' don't complain when you're treated like a monkey.
Rob Liano
#30. If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
Adam Mansbach
#31. People complain that our generation has no philosophers. They are wrong. They now sit in another faculty. Their names are Max Planck and Albert Einstein. Upon appointment as the first president of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, Berlin, formed for the advancement of science.
Adolf Von Harnack
#32. he wants people who make, say 30,000 dollars a year, to understand that they are not poor. In fact, they ARE the 1% they complain about. As of January of 2013 almost half the world lived on less than $2.5 a day, and 80% of the world lived on less than $10 a day.
Claudia Azula Altucher
#33. Never criticize, complain or condemn. Never forget to appreciate with love what is good in a person.
Debasish Mridha
#34. It's not bad to cough. But cover your mouth when coughing. It's not bad to complain. But cover your mouth when complaining, else you'll spread infections of complains on us!
Israelmore Ayivor
#35. When you complain you advertise your stupidity.
Yehuda Ashlag
#36. What cause have we to complain about their fierce hatred to us? For eight years now, they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we turn into our homestead the land and villages in which they and their forefathers have lived.
Moshe Dayan
#37. People complain of the unequal distribution of wealth [but it is a far greater] injustice that any one man should have the power to write so many brilliant essays ... There is no one who writes like [Thomas Huxley].
Charles Darwin
#38. A lot of times, people complain about how books and stories change when they're translated to the screen. But I think sometimes people forget that a lot of changes have to be made because we're not in a book when we're watching a movie.
Brian Selznick
#39. I had a great career. I have no reason to complain. It's the way it goes in nature. You slow down. And I believe I lasted a lot longer than a lot of people.
Jens Voigt
#40. The old man dance, where I tense up, shuffle my feet intermittently, complain about the music volume, and sit down for a rest.
David Thorne
#41. So, Hitchcock wouldn't say anything about my work in the movie but, on the other hand, he wouldn't complain, either.
Kim Novak
#42. And why is an orange the only fruit that has to share its name with its color? A banana isn't called yellow. It's not fair. If I were an orange, I would complain.
Wendy Mass
#43. That's my credo - My work is play. I don't complain about work. I enjoy it. I like the feeling of being able to lay down at night and you're so doggone tired, you're just hoping to get undressed before you fall asleep.
Buck Brannaman
#44. He knew suddenly that nobody, living upon the remotest, most barren crag in the ocean, could complain of a dull landscape so long as he would lift his eyes. In the sky there was a new landscape every minute, in every pool of the sea rocks, a new world.
T.H. White
#45. Contentment and happiness! Do everything happily. Walk,
talk, sit happily; even if you complain against somebody,
do it happily.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#46. The Democrats complain; I choose to compete.
Jan Brewer
#47. Complain. Whine. Be a fusser. The story needs those as well, because every butt needs a joke, and the audience must laugh. Whether they (and God) laugh at or with us is up to you.
N.D. Wilson
#48. Struggle and pain aren't something to fear. We will all face trials while here on earth. What matters is how we're dealing with the challenges that come our way. Do we let them mold us into stronger, better people, or do we grouse and complain about our lot in life?
Colleen Coble
#49. Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.
Carlos Castaneda
#50. My Irish Catholic mother loved romantic movies, provided they ended with a kiss before the screen went dark. If things went any further than that, she'd complain, Why can't they leave something to the imagination? I sort of subscribe to her philosophy when it comes to writing sex.
Catherine Brady
#51. It's not enough to love your product. You have to love your customers, too, every single one - those who complain the most are the ones who control the keys to your survival.
Ken Goldstein
#52. Try to see the world as a great education in Love and do not quarrel with your lot in life. Do not complain because of your unending cares and anxieties, your mean surroundings, the small and sordid souls you are obliged to live with. That is God's way of making you practise.
Paulo Coelho
#53. I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.
Debi Thomas
#54. No voice comes from outer space, from the folds of dust and carpets of wind to tell us that this is the way it was meant to happen, that if only we knew how long the ruins would last we would never complain.
Mark Strand
#55. An honest cop still can't find a place to go and complain without fear of recrimination. The blue wall will always be there because the system supports it.
Frank Serpico
#56. You can't complain when people appreciate what you're doing.
Jacoby Ellsbury
#58. I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix those moments up.
Karen Joy Fowler
#59. My mother told me never explain, never complain. Even as a young actress, I determined I would never give personal interviews, since they made me so uncomfortable.
Jennifer Jones
#60. When a pitcher's throwing a spitball, don't worry and don't complain, just hit the dry side like I do.
Stan Musial
#61. The measure of woman's distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr's crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.
Quentin Crisp
#62. People only complain about things they can do something about.
Jack Canfield
#63. As soon as it's out of my mouth, I cringe, realizing that it's probably pretty crappy to complain about your parents to someone who doesn't have any. It's like bitching that your shoes are too tight to someone who's walking across broken glass barefoot.
Katja Millay
#64. Microsoft knows that reliable software is not cost effective. According to studies, 90% to 95% of all bugs are harmless. They're never discovered by users, and they don't affect performance. It's much cheaper to release buggy software and fix the 5% to 10% of bugs people find and complain about.
Bruce Schneier
#65. Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices.
Barbara Kingsolver
#66. Don't whine, complain, or make excuses.
John Wooden
#67. If you do not like anything, alter it. If you can not change it, adjust your mindset. Will not complain.
Maya Angelou
#68. I never complain that I'm tired, because I know as soon as I get a good nine hours' sleep, I'm cool.
Jessie J.
#69. Until you've lived through all that," he said, "don't you ever complain about what we have. Because to me ... to me ... " He choked on the words, but he barely paused before he continued. "This - us - is heaven. I can't bear to hear you say otherwise.
Julia Quinn
#70. It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
Norm MacDonald
#72. Betsy: "Do you have daddy issues, Warren?"
Warren: "Dad was supportive, intelligent, read to me as a kid, left me a trillion dollars. It's hard to complain.
Rick Remender
#73. The future is bright, but fools run straight ahead and get blinded then complain, because they didn't prepare by simply wearing a pair of shades.
James Jean-Pierre
#74. Whatever our destiny is or may be, we have made it ourselves, and we do not complain of it.
Leo Tolstoy
#75. People become so deeply attached to the sound of one period that they blow a fuse when you move on. I've heard people complain bitterly about recordings they haven't even heard.
Elvis Costello
#76. Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don't complain. Fight the big fights.
Barbara Walters
#78. A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It's not always someone else's fault. If you're the common denominator in 57 different relationships that didn't work out, then maybe, just maybe ... it's you!
Karrine Steffans
#79. You are alone, I am alone; we don't get together why we complain so much.
M.F. Moonzajer
#80. Remember not to complain about the matter but construct, compose, compass and conquer the matter
Ikechukwu Joseph
#81. It seems logical that he who supports total war in principle cannot complain of a war against civilians.
John Hersey
#82. Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.
Tori Amos
#83. Where else but in America could the women's liberation movement take off their bras, then go on TV to complain about their lack of support?
Bob Hope
#84. If we give out thoughts of grouchiness and complaining, etc., we'll find more to complain about. If we send out love and affirm 'life loves me', then we are drawing experiences to ourselves that prove it's true.
Louise Hay
#85. If you aren't diligently working towards changing something that bothers you, you rescind your right to complain about it.
Rob Liano
#86. You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.
Stanley Baldwin
#87. In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.
Alexander Pope
#88. No matter what God does for us, no matter how many calls, opportunities, or invitations we are offered, we can always find something to complain about. We can always rationalize our way out of having to repent and change our ways.
The Daughters Of St. Paul
#89. When I am tempted to complain about God's lack of presence, I remind myself that God has much more reason to complain about my lack of presence.
Philip Yancey
#90. When my children complain that I'm forgetful, I remind them that DAD is just ADD spelled sideways.
Harvey Stanbrough
#91. How can you find time to complain if your life is always changing?
Debasish Mridha
#92. Conservatives frequently complain of being frozen out of the culture industry, though, like all industries, the culture industry will produce or sell anything it expects to profit from.
Alex Pareene
#93. A fool always finds something to complain about, and a wise person always finds something to appreciate.
Debasish Mridha
#94. If people are going to complain about stereotyping, it's as likely to be Italian-Americans as gay people.
Jason Bateman
#95. The hits always wind up being the songs with big, high choruses. They're the ones too high to sing every night - not that you'll ever, ever hear me complain about having to try.
Chris Daughtry
#96. I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things considered, I can't complain.
Anthony Kiedis
#97. Women need attention therefore women will complain, develop hatred for men and say that you're the one to blame.
Drake
#98. If you were given the chance to be reborn after your death, buy you could only come back as a squirrel, would you complain?
Peter James West
#99. And when I think there are people around me who complain they can't find anything good to read. What nonsense ... every month you and I discover a masterpiece.
Laurence Cosse
#100. Don't complain about not getting a chance and then be unprepared when you finally do.
Joe Montana
