Top 100 Quotes About Complaining
#1. Thinking about writing isn't writing. Planning to write isn't writing. Neither is talking about it, posting about it, or complaining how hard it is. These may be part of the process. But only writing is writing.
Jack Ketchum
#2. The only thing money really buys? ... Space. A bigger house, a bigger car, a larger hotel room. First-class plane tickets. But it doesn't even buy comfort. No one complains more than the rich and entitled. Comfort, security, ease. None of them come with money.
Louise Penny
#3. The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#5. It's like, now you're actually complaining because you're making $9 million and guys are making more? If it makes you that upset, quit. Leave the game. Go home then and try finding another job that's going to pay you that.
Eric Davis
#6. Don't accommodate complains in your chamber, else you have a sleepless and restless night. Keep them away and fall in love with actions for solution!
Israelmore Ayivor
#7. I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.
Aneurin Bevan
#8. Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't complain, the wounded would have given far more than that to escape as they have, and the unwounded regard the money as a consolation prize for still being here.
Robert Graves
#9. We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.
Fanny Burney
#10. I have always found that actively loving
saves one from a morbid preoccupation
with the shortcomings of society.
Alan Paton
#11. When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.
Daniel Clowes
#12. There's always haters, no matter what you're doing - whether they're complaining that everything you do sounds the same, or it's too different.
Avicii
#13. They say it'll be even hotter tomorrow. that's how we spend the summer. complaining about the heat.
Yoko Ogawa
#14. Either way, you wrote the book and now you're complaining about the reviews I'm giving it," I quipped.
"Fair enough." He held up his hands, "I'm going to start writing the sequel which will be considerably less narcissistic. Will you read it?"
"Only if every other girl on campus hasn't.
Tarryn Fisher
#15. The Internet is disrupting every media industry ... people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling.
Jeff Bezos
#17. There is no fortune so good that you can find nothing in it to complain of.
Publilius Syrus
#18. Money is another pressure. I'm not complaining, I'm just saying that there's a certain luxury in having no money. I spent ten years in New York not having it, not worrying about it. Suddenly you have it, then you worry, where is it going? Am I doing the right thing with it?
Dustin Hoffman
#19. I guess I need a hobby. Currently my primary hobby is complaining.
Jay Duplass
#21. Complaining from lack of food doesn't always affect my emotions. complaining from lack of knowledge, passion, creative ideas and happiness always does.
Sameh Elsayed
#22. Complaining is the favorite pastime of millions.
Mason Cooley
#23. A temporary coalition of anger against the old regime was no basis for a stable government.
Charles Emmerson
#24. Thank your customer for complaining and mean it. Most will never bother to complain. They'll just walk away.
Marilyn Suttle
#25. We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#27. If anything diminishes a person, it is the cancer of constant complaining.
Joan D. Chittister
#28. We must look within ourselves, become responsible and provide fresh solutions if we ever want to do more than complain,or make excuses.
Nelson Mandela
#29. I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be, I always forget to include myself.
George Burns
#30. Attitude is everything, they say . . . and I believe this to be true. If we learn to see the positive side of things, then we'll live longer, healthier, happier lives. A good way to do so is to stop complaining and start being grateful.
David Hamilton
#31. What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
Horace
#32. Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.
Wayne W. Dyer
#33. To this day, I don't love my arms. People want more fit arms, but my arms are too fit. But I'm not complaining. They pay my bills.
Serena Williams
#34. The next time you feel like complaining, remember that your garbage disposal probably eats better than 30 percent of the people in the world
Robert Orben
#35. Girls are always complaining that they can never meet a nice guy. Nice guys are everywhere. The problem isn't that there aren't any nice guys, the problem is that all of the nice guys are ugly.
Carroll Bryant
#36. We are too prone to find fault; let us look for some of the perfections.
Friedrich Schiller
#37. If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?
John Churton Collins
#38. Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes an eternal kindness in God's refusals.
Norman Vincent Peale
#39. Raising the standard of the work, not complaining about somebody not voting.
Denzel Washington
#40. 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
#41. 'Just Do It' is exactly what you need to hear when you're in a moment of doubt. When you're struggling, especially with sport ... just do it. Stop talking about it, stop complaining about the cellulite, or that you're not able to run fast enough for the bus ... just do it.
Jessie J.
#42. When Noah Crawford wanted something, you couldn't bat a lash around him or you were going to miss seeing how he got it. Not that I was complaining or anything.
C.L. Parker
#43. It isn't done easily," he said with a half smile. "I'm just not one to complain overmuch.
Lynn Kurland
#44. Forget the complaints against complexity; instead, complain about confusion.
Donald A. Norman
#45. 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
#46. We start to create enduring happiness when we cease to complain about anything and try to find the remedies for everything.
Debasish Mridha
#47. We have all been guilty of complaining, but God does not look at it as lightly as we may think. Complaining was the reason the Jews ended up wandering in the desert for forty years. If we were more grateful for what God has done for us, abasing ourselves would not be a problem.
Monica Johnson
#48. The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it.
Susan Faludi
#49. I hope I did not offend Miss Nightingale by complaining about the rat," said the countess. "I like her very much. Miss Nightingale, I mean, not the rat.
Mary Pope Osborne
#50. To anyone complaining about our schedule - call us. We'll put you on it.
Gregg Marshall
#51. If you feel trapped in a situation and are complaining about it, figure out how to untrap yourself and stop complaining. Save your energy for further figuring out and when there is an increase in courage.
Art Hochberg
#52. My cousin Shirley, who never complains, screamed and screamed when she was having her baby. True, this was just during conception.
Joan Rivers
#53. In all pursuits men complain of failure when they have not attained the measure of success they proposed to themselves.
Charles Tomlinson
#54. Raindrops keep fallin' on my head. But that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turning red. Crying's not for me. Cause I ain't gonna stop the rain by complaining.
B. J. Thomas
#55. Rather than complaining about inconsequential little irritations, I'm asking God to get right to the root of the problem, to eradicate the dry rot and fix the cracks in my foundation. I need Him to show me how to love Him and how to love His people. Even the ones I don't like - even myself.
Craig Groeschel
#56. In an ideal world, the time English speakers devote to steeling themselves against, and complaining about, things like Billy and me, singular they, and impact as a verb would be better spent attending to genuine matters of graceful oral and written expression.
John McWhorter
#57. The secret to happiness is complaining very little.
Nikki Rowe
#58. I would love to play Nefertiti or Cleopatra or the Queen of Sheba. We preserve more male history than we do female. We have to preserve [female history]. No more complaining. We have to do it.
Zoe Saldana
#59. Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest, men will not complain of one another, and they will make more progress, because every one will be attending to his own business.
Aristotle.
#60. 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
#61. Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To be less than your best is a sin.
Oprah Winfrey
#62. Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.
Jean De La Bruyere
#63. I'm not going to complain about the fact that people are paying attention to my work. I suppose that wouldn't be fair.
Frank Miller
#64. 'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#65. I finally stopped complaining about 'Why isn't everybody else making me what I want to be?' You can't rely solely on your agent or your managers to educate people as to who you are.
Laura Benanti
#67. Pray when you feel like worrying. Give thanks when you feel like complaining. Keep going when you feel like quitting.
Dave Willis
#68. Some members of Congress now are complaining they are underpaid. They want to propose a pay raise. You can't blame them. A lot of them took a big income hit when Enron folded.
Jay Leno
#69. Complains are like the clouds that give no rain no matter how thick they gather.
Israelmore Ayivor
#70. I was in a hotel room in Dallas, and I was jerking off so much and so sadly and pathetically, that the phone rang, and I thought it's them, they're complaining ... "Sir, could you please stop?"
Louis C.K.
#71. The game has changed. What's going on now is nonsense. You have guys complaining about not being paid.
David Wells
#72. The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
Randall Jarrell
#73. Consumers never complain about ads being too smart.
Lee Clow
#74. I'm not complaining about my cell phone - all my friends are in there, and all my favorite songs and all my favorite Benedict Cumberbatch GIFs; I don't want to give it up. But cell phones are the worst for talking on the phone.
Rainbow Rowell
#75. There are so many good reasons to stop complaining if you want to live a more creative life.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#76. With various people complaining about "price gouging? ... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused of either "greed" or "gouging" ? not even when they bulldoze people's homes in order to turn.
Thomas Sowell
#77. Love sees a need and tries to meet it, rather than seeing a problem and doing nothing about it - or, worse, complaining about it. Another
Tony Payne
#78. Never complain about growing old ... Some never have the privilege.
Mark Hart
#79. I think 'Dilbert' will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too loudly. 'Dilbert' is the designated voice of discontent for the workplace. I never planned it that way. It just happened.
Scott Adams
#80. Pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast high ceilings and few horsepower!
John Green
#81. Complaining becomes a habit. Focusing on the negative also becomes a habit. It's one of the most detrimental habits you can possibly have. It can negatively impact you socially, affecting your personal happiness, but it can also subconsciously sabotage your money and success.
T. Harv Eker
#82. When does a wife know that her husband is cheating on her? When he starts complaining about the lack of water as he wants to have two showers a week." This was one of the many popular jokes.
Felix Abt
#83. 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
#84. Christ was willing to suffer wrongs and to be despised, and do you dare to complain of anything?.
Thomas A Kempis
#85. Fine! Do whatever you want. And when you get fleas, don't come complaining to me.
Shelly Laurenston
#86. Complaining of unfairness is like assigning blame, Percy Jackson. It does no one any good.
Rick Riordan
#87. Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.
Simon Sinek
#88. Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring. Instead of complaining, O my heart, of their brief duration, try to enjoy them.
Friedrich Ruckert
#89. If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend.
Richard P. Feynman
#90. An air car was just landing in the garden by the pool and beings under it were complaining of injuries and indignities done them. Perhaps this was the trouble he could feel? Grasses were for walking on, flowers and bushes were not - this was a wrongness.
Robert A. Heinlein
#91. Everybody complains that people are so flaky in LA. I'd rather be flaky than mean.
Valerie Bertinelli
#92. Nice: meaning I'm going to be dating leather-wearing alcoholics and complaining about them - to you.
Raymond Chandler
#93. I'm never gonna stop the rain by complaining, because I'm free, nothing's worrying me.
B. J. Thomas
#94. This bad habit of fault-finding, criticizing and complaining is a tool that grows keener by constant use, and there is grave danger that he who at first is only a moderate kicker may develop into a chronic knocker, and the knife he has sharpened will sever his head. Hooker
Elbert Hubbard
#95. I'm really, really blessed. Not only am I blessed to have found that I love making films, but I'm also insanely blessed to be able to do it. I have to remind myself that when I'm complaining.
Michael Pitt
#96. Complaining is negative energy and the enemy of greatness.
Erik Qualman
#97. Those focused on the future don't complain about their past; those complaining about their past aren't focused on their futures.
Orrin Woodward
#98. For senators to complain that they didn't know this was happening, we had many, many meetings that have been both classified and unclassified that members have been invited to.
Harry Reid
#99. Act not just react. Take 'HE' out of 'WHINE,' you get 'WIN.' Spare yourself from the trap of the destructive habit called 'complaining.
Jay Mark Mateo Balmes
#100. Listening to Democrats complain about inflation is like listening to germs complain about disease.
Spiro T. Agnew
