Top 100 Complaining Life Quotes
#1. I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish.
Fred Melamed
#2. Life flows at ease whenever a person ceases complaining about the past, worrying about the future, lives in the now without resisting pain, and accepts the moral sublimity of living in a state of grace.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#3. Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.
Anatole France
#4. It's not words, but years we should be editing. Remember: time spent on bad art is a form of redundancy, doing the same thing twice is a form of tautology, and wasting precious moments complaining about life is a form of pleonasm. We should all learn to live our lives concisely.
Anthony Marais
#5. A man with a victim mentality feels like being a victim who is complaining and crying all the time
Sunday Adelaja
#6. A lot of the women I know, that's what they're complaining about - either the man in their life or the lack of a man in their life.
Marc Cherry
#7. Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say "Long live impermanence!"
Nhat Hanh
#8. Life is like a rollercoaster with highs and lows. So quit complaining about it and enjoy the ride!
Habeeb Akande
#9. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life.
Kurt Cobain
#10. I'm not complaining about my life; every moment of it has been fantastic, and I'm so lucky.
Zoe Cassavetes
#11. My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding. All it will do is discolor my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more.
Og Mandino
#12. When we shift from negatively complaining to positively affirming, conditions change. Then complaining is no longer the operative law in our life-freedom is.
Michael Beckwith
#13. If your everyday life appears to be unworthy subject matter, do not complain to life. Complain to yourself, Lament that you are not poet enough to call up its wealth.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#14. No whining, no complaining about anyone. Everybody in your life has come to teach you lessons.
Iyanla Vanzant
#15. As you continue breathing others take their last. So stop complaining & enjoy living your life as best as you can.
Timothy Pina
#16. You can never make a woman happy, it's impossible. I've never met a happy woman in my life. They're always complaining about something.
Chris Rock
#17. Embrace your life, count your blessings, and don't complain about what you don't have.
Joyce Meyer
#18. People are complaining of having rags and not riches, but I find it a blessing just to have rags, to wipe away the dirt and dust that may come in the course of life.
Anthony Liccione
#19. The most judgmental people are often those who complain most about being judged. The ones not complaining will look as though they're the ones doing the judging.
Criss Jami
#20. This is the reason we cannot complain of life: it keeps no one against his will.
Seneca The Younger
#21. Life is full of choices, if you have the guts to go for it. That's why I get immediately bored with anyone's complaining about how boring their life is, or how bad their town is. Fucking leave and go somewhere else. Or don't.
Henry Rollins
#22. Balance in life is the key, as Aristotle taught us. Nobody likes a naive Pollyanna, but neither do we like to be around people who are constantly complaining and finding fault.
Mark Skousen
#23. I sometimes feel my entire life is a series of accidents and chances- not that I am complaining. One can be very happy having relinquished all expectation of control.
Kate Morton
#24. There are days that I wake up and I complain, and when I complain I pinch myself and say, 'that's for complaining.' Not many people can do what they really like in life.
Enrique Iglesias
#25. Everything that surrounds you right now in your life, including the things you're complaining about, you've attracted.
Rhonda Byrne
#26. He understood before any of us that this life is war; he permitted himself no indulgences, he lost no time complaining or commiserating with himself and with others, but entered the battle from the beginning.
Primo Levi
#27. On Being Afraid to Use the Elementary School Bathrooms to Defecate
Son, you're complaining to the wrong man. I can shit anywhere, at any time. It's one of my finer qualities. Some might say my finest.
Justin Halpern
#28. Half the world is screaming for water and freedom when the other half is ordering cocktails and complaining about the service.
Edward Docx
#29. One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself.
Mitch Albom
#30. The formula is simple enough. If you want more headaches and misery in your life, keep complaining, they're on the way. If you want happiness and joy, give your attention to the things you are grateful for, and then sit back and watch them grow.
D.S. Luca
#31. It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. - Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
#32. Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses and start making changes.
Roy Bennett
#33. 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
#34. Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining?
Robert Breault
#35. 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
#36. With every breath you take, someone just took their last. Stop complaining about life. It has given you much more than what you appreciate.
Manoj Arora
#37. Most people, they're trying to escape from boredom, but I'm trying to get into the thick of boredom. That's why I'm not complaining when I say my life is boring. It was enough to make my wife bail out, though.
Haruki Murakami
#38. If you want to be really successful, and I know you do, then you will have to give up blaming and complaining and take total responsibility for your life
that means all your results, both your successes and your failures. That is the prerequisite for creating a life of success.
Jack Canfield
#39. If life hands you a lemon, don't complain, but instead make lemonade to sell those who are thirsty from complaining.
Napoleon Hill
#40. Life was messy. Always had been and always would be and that was just the way it was, so why bother complaining? You either did something about it or you didn't, and then you lived with the choice you made.
Nicholas Sparks
#41. When you are optimistic, when you are not complaining, when you look at the good side of your life, everybody loves you.
Alice Herz-Sommer
#42. 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
#44. Instead of complaining about problems in your stomach, mind what goes into your stomach to cause the problems in your stomach.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#45. If I could live my life over again, there is one thing I would change. I would want to be able to eat less.
Luciano Pavarotti
#46. Failing adds to your experience, Success adds to your self-image. In life everything has its bright sides, you just need to perceive life positively, and focus on what you have instead of complaining on what you can't have
Jeekeshen Chinnappen
#47. People who truly live their lives don't have time to complain or judge others. They're too busy enjoying life and love and everything in between!
Charlotte Eriksson
#48. To you wives who are constantly complaining and see only the dark side of life, and feel that you are unloved and unwanted, look into your own hearts and minds. If there is something wrong, turn about. Put a smile on your faces. Make yourselves more attractive. Brighten your outlook.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#49. People who complain about something that they cannot do anything about are as irritating as those who complain about something that they can do something about.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#50. We are stuck in the maize that we created. Most people keep complaining about being stuck rather than finding the way out, and they call themselves unlucky!
Maddy Malhotra
#51. He [Ryan White] had a kind of angelic aura about him. And his family, too, it's like, they are going through all this suffering, and I'm living this "Life of Riley" and I'm complaining about everything, and they are living this horrific life and complaining about nothing.
Elton John
#52. I've wanted one thing in my life. I don't want to be that girl that gets that one thing then complains.
Taylor Swift
#53. You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck - and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee - or you can go out and become an entrepreneur.
Al Michaels
#54. A few years ago I met an old professor at the University of Notre Dame. Looking back on his long life of teaching, he said with a funny wrinkle in his eyes: I have always been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I slowly discovered that my interruptions were my work.
Henri Nouwen
#55. Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I've always believed that if you took one tenth the enrgy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out.
Randy Pausch
#56. To realize in an instant that you aren't going to have the life you'd hoped for, but not waste a moment complaining, instead acting instantly to save what good you can? That's more guts than I'd have had.
Brent Weeks
#57. You want to own your own life," Eric said. "As much as anyone can." "Just when I think you're very simple, you say something complex," Eric said. "Are you complaining?" I tried to smile, failed. "No.
Charlaine Harris
#58. Practice increasing your time spent counting your blessings versus complaining.
Eveth N Colley
#59. There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.
Rita Dove
#60. Instead of complaining about how things should be, I embraced how things were. I stopped putting energy into wishing my life were any different - into wishing bad things didn't happen to me - and instead focused 100% on making the best of what I had. Since I
Hal Elrod
#61. Before complaining about your burden of life, you must first try to see what other people's burden of life is!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#62. Happy Monday! Don't victimize yourself and let life pass you by as you sit around and complain about problems. Be empowered and create solutions. You can!
Tracey Edmonds
#63. I'm a comedian and there are a lot of things I'm still learning. I love one liners because I love smart jokes. I also don't like complaining about society or whining about my life on stage.
Anthony Jeselnik
#64. People are always complaining that life's not fair, but that simply isn't true. Life is extraordinarily fair. It's just not centered on you.
Lynn Marie Sager
#65. Women often forget that the man she is complaining about is a creation of a mother like her.
Debasish Mridha
#66. Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
Antoine Rivarol
#67. Less gossiping, more encouraging.
Less complaining, more thanksgiving.
Less criticizing, more complimenting.
Less hurting, more helping.
Less hating, more caring.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#68. I live a great life. I can't complain. I'm healthy, my family's good and there's nothing I can really complain about.
Derrick Rose
#69. The surest sign that you're working with the life-affirming kind of discipline, rather than the spirit-depressing kind, is that you don't complain very much about doing what it takes.
Danielle LaPorte
#70. Life is far too precious to waste it complaining. If you don't like where you are change it ... it's just that simple.
Sanjo Jendayi
#71. It's really easy to complain. If you're not careful, then you end up complaining about your whole life. Concentrating on the good things is really good. Catch people doing good.
Lisa Williams
#72. Unfortunately complaining is one thing Eeyores are not afraid to do. They grudgingly carry their thimbles to the Fountain of Life, then mumble and grumble that they weren't given enough.
Benjamin Hoff
#73. There are so many good reasons to stop complaining if you want to live a more creative life.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#74. It takes incredible fortitude to keep on the road, even though it's fun and it's rewarding and you can't complain, it's just a great life, but it takes a lot of energy.
Kate Pierson
#75. They are the living dead and we have many of those among us, spending their days whining and complaining and never making any attempt to change their lives for the better.
Og Mandino
#76. So you're going to horrible places and meeting horrible people and you're complaining about it? Live your life like a decent person. Go to the grocery store, buy your own food, take care of yourself. If you live a responsible life, you'll run into responsible people," he said.
Aziz Ansari
#77. If you are complaining, the law of attraction will powerfully bring into your life more situations for you to complain about.
Rhonda Byrne
#78. 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
#80. Complaining about your current position in life is worthless. Have a spine and do something about it instead.
Robert Kiyosaki
#81. I've done a lot of complaining here, but of all the things I've complained about, I can't complain about my life.
Andy Rooney
#82. Those who are to follow the arts should have a training in what is called poverty. Given a comfortable middle-class start in life, the artist is almost sure to end up by becoming a bellyacher, constantly complaining because the public does not rush forward at once to proclaim him.
Sherwood Anderson
#83. I'm very thankful for the people that I've had the opportunity to work with. I have a good life. It's been amazing. I'm not complaining. It's not like acting has ruined me so I have to leave. It's not that. I'm just done with it.
Joaquin Phoenix
#84. Instead of complaining, discover ways, tactics and tricks on how to reach out to people
Sunday Adelaja
#85. Complaining will not change things in your life; only action will. Make a list of all you need to do to change what doesn't work in your life and, little by little, begin making those changes.
Susan Jeffers
#86. O love! Poor love! How did you pierce my heart?
How did touch my soul?
How did you win my mind?
The judgmental ever-complaining mind.
Debasish Mridha
#87. The short time we actually focus on today's journey is often wasted on complaining, grumbling, wishing to be in a different place, or simply and mindlessly going through the motions of life.
Lysa TerKeurst
#88. I too complain ceaselessly in my heart and in my words too. My very life is a protest. Against government, for instance.
Dorothy Day
#89. You don't have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don't have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.
Joyce Meyer
#90. Once my brother was very angry on my parents and told them "You should have killed me when I was a child"
Interestingly I was present and told him "I don't think it is still too late" and I have never heard him complaining about life.
M.F. Moonzajer
#91. People keeps on complaining, but they're not doing anything about the things that they're complaining about.
Jayson Engay
#92. If you're a writer, you've chosen art as a way of life. You must accept that some will like your work and others will not. It's the life you chose, so live with it and don't complain.
Mark Rubinstein
#93. You apply Pilates in everyday life, like how you sit, how you walk. You've heard a lot of people complain about back problems; it is because these people walk incorrectly with the last vertebra of their tailbone. They stick it out instead of pulling it in and down.
Romana Kryzanowska
#94. One actor in my life is enough, and that's me. With actors, it's too easy to go into this world of complaining. Someone will always be better, richer, more loved, do more work. Those dynamics don't interest me. The friends I hang out with, we create our own work rather than complain about acting.
Bojana Novakovic
#95. Complaining or picketing will not solve a problem but understanding will.
Debasish Mridha
#97. It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.
Elisabeth Elliot
#99. We have been mysteriously gifted this amazing life. Let us not complain.
Robert Genn
#100. Most people would rather complain about some painful life pattern than dare to meet the level of their own consciousness responsible for its repeated appearance ... and therein do the work needed to change it once and for all.
Guy Finley
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