Quotes About Complaining People

#1. I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.

John Wayne

#2. I often hear people talk about how corrupt their politicians are, it makes me laugh because, the very same people who are complaining are just as corrupt. When they get to those same places of authority, they do exactly the same thing for which they were complaining against the previous politicians.

Sunday Adelaja

#3. Time, time," Toot complained. "Is that all you mortals can ever think about? Everyone's complaining about time! The whole city rushes left and right screaming about being late and honking horns! You people used to have it right, you know.

Jim Butcher

#4. You always see black people complaining about this and that, but you never see me complaining about how slow they work on my plantation.

Zach Braff

#5. I'd rather talk to people who do things than complain about other people who do things. I say they're idiots.

Tom Clancy

#6. I won't complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just absurd. Like, 'Boo hoo hoo! I have to stand on stage and people pay attention to me!'

Moby

#7. Bad news: Complainers are rewarded for complaining. Indicative of the victim culture in which we live, people have not only come to expect something for nothing, but are then rewarded for how loudly they can ventilate their sense of having been victims of fraud.

John Ridley

#8. What's the point of complaining. It just makes the people around you feel bad too. - Savannah

Suzanne Brockmann

#9. 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

#10. What we all tend to complain about most in other people are those things we don't like about ourselves.

William Wharton

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. And busyness has become a cultural symbol of status. Even though people say they're complaining, they're secretly bragging.

Carnegie Mellon

#14. 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

#15. There's a great drought in my village. People are dying. The price of rice and pulses has rocketed. There is no water anywhere. And here, people are complaining about the rain ...

Renita D'Silva

#16. Money and time, those were the two things that he always heard people complaining about, and he had plenty of both.

Rainbow Rowell

#17. I am extremely sorry if I irritate people by asking them to smile ... ..I should be the one complaining because it kills me.

Amit Abraham

#18. The games haven't even started yet and already there are people complaining about the horrible accommodations at the Sochi Olympic village. Toilets don't flush. The faucets spew discolored water. They say it's like being on a Royal Caribbean cruise.

Jay Leno

#19. Weirdly, the people complaining about the healthcare website not working after three weeks were quiet about the Iraq war not working after eight years.

Andy Borowitz

#20. I'm not comically oriented. I get angry and I start complaining and then people start laughing. I don't even want them to laugh half the time.

Adam Carolla

#21. Let's admit it; the only use for complaining is to make people laugh.

Amity Gaige

#22. 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

#23. You have to keep people engaged until you get them through the next commercial. I'm not complaining about working in TV, at all, but just as an artistic reaction, I find myself being so drawn to moments of silence where things are allowed to breathe.

Charlie Hunnam

#24. I was always complaining that there weren't enough good people going into public service, so I figured I had to get behind someone I found so compelling.

Mona Sutphen

#25. Instead of complaining, discover ways, tactics and tricks on how to reach out to people

Sunday Adelaja

#26. 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

#27. But we had to stop 'cause Larry can't throw for shit, and people in other punts were complaining about being hit by strawberries. Even though they was Marks and Spencer's strawberries.

J.L. Merrow

#28. 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

#29. You can't complain when people appreciate what you're doing.

Jacoby Ellsbury

#30. 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

#31. I am surprised at the way people seem to perceive me, and sometimes I read stories and hear things about me and I go "ugh." I wouldn't like her either. It's so unlike what I think I am or what my friends think I am.

Hillary Clinton

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. Never allow carping critics to deter you from success. Instead, silence them with it.

Christian Baloga

#36. In every failure, there's the seed to even greater success. However, people waste their time complaining, instead of looking for the seed among the rubble of what was.

Mauricio Chaves Mesen

#37. I see a lot of people complaining about the things they can fix, and a lot of people being accepting of the things they cannot change.
Maybe tragedy really is the catastrophic event, for the way people view their lives.
I would rather be wise, than nieve.

Nikki Rowe

#38. When I was an orphan, I was the richest kid at the orphanage because everyone else was complaining about not having anything. But when I discovered that you could get two cents for a Coca-Cola bottle, I would follow people around who were drinking it and ask them if they were almost through with it.

Wayne Dyer

#39. People always complain about The Grammys because they're not a pop contest, but they're not supposed to be a pop contest. They're about excellence.

Emily Lazar

#40. I have noticed this, that when a man is full of the Holy Ghost he is the very last man to be complaining of other people.

Dwight L. Moody

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. People who are complaining about the Fed are people who've been predicting runaway inflation for five and six years, and it hasn't happened.

Paul Krugman

#44. Over half a century on and they're still complaining about it. Compare it to the fact that Garden State didn't win an Oscar and they seem a little petty if you ask me. I guess that just goes to show what kind of people they really are.

Zach Braff

#45. 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

#46. We need to have financial literacy in America, not just complaining about obstructionism. We need solutions. And I think the solutions are using high finance to make capitalism work for people around the world.

Kabir Sehgal

#47. Complaining doesn't change people ... All that complain, this is terrible ... It's not so terrible.

Alice Herz-Sommer

#48. What's all this whining about the environment? They're always talking about 'stop the clearcuts.' I mean do the math people. If we were out of trees then we wouldn't have any clearcuts to be complaining about now would we?

George W. Bush

#49. I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far as I can see, people read it when they were half stoned and listening to the TV. Then they come back and say gee, it's impossible to figure out what's going on in a story.

Gene Wolfe

#50. People who refuse to accept unpleasant truths have no right to complain about politicians who lie to them. What other kind of candidates would such people elect?

Thomas Sowell

#51. It is the dream of every white person to be able to resolve all conflicts by complaining to unrelated parties. Because of this, white people are able to endure years of frustration and anger without saying a word in the hopes that everything will just work itself out without having to make a scene.

Christian Lander

#52. Everybody complains that people are so flaky in LA. I'd rather be flaky than mean.

Valerie Bertinelli

#53. The only way to stop the blaming-complaining cycle is to start being truly positive. No matter how bad your day is, always find something to be grateful for everyday. And expect only the best from people.

Kevin J. Donaldson

#54. Complaining about life's little miseries was one of the few conversational luxuries people were allowed, and at the moment, Kaylin couldn't put herself behind complaint.

Michelle Sagara

#55. I find it funny because people complain about Brooklyn becoming too hip, but would they prefer stock brokers or gunfights or something?

Kemp Muhl

#56. Many people are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed; they chew the bitter pill which they would not even know to be bitter if they had the sense to swallow it whole in a cup of patience and water.

Charles Spurgeon

#57. As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was going to change philosophy and the course of human thought in ways that wouldn't necessarily be good.

James Gleick

#58. Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#59. I can see criticizing, complaining, protesting - anything but choosing not to vote. Too many people died for us not to vote.

Darryl Pinckney

#60. Clean your home first before complaining about others.

Debasish Mridha

#61. I hate complaining to strangers
you can only complain satisfactorily to people you know really well.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#62. 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

#63. I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.

Bill Joy

#64. Complaining solves nothing but creative problem solving amongst people with a common focus will produce solutions.

Auliq Ice

#65. The phrase 'I just turn on my monkey and it makes me feel good' sounds very dirty, but I can't explain why. It's great to try to use expressions like that on the comics page. People want to complain but they can't, because they can't figure out quite what they should be complaining about.

Stephan Pastis

#66. 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

#67. The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

Randall Jarrell

#68. 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

#69. 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

#70. 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

#71. 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

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. 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

#75. 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

#76. 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

#77. Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining, ... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

Martha Gellhorn

#78. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Stephen Hawking

#79. People like to complain about the state of contemporary literature, but I can only assume they don't read it very widely.

Laura Miller

#80. Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

Joyce Meyer

#81. People keeps on complaining, but they're not doing anything about the things that they're complaining about.

Jayson Engay

#82. When people criticize the free market, they are usually complaining about what happens when you intervene in the free market.

James Cook

#83. 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

#84. Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?

George C. Wallace

#85. A few years ago, everybody was saying we must have more leisure, everyone's working too much. Now everybody's got more leisure time they're complaining they're unemployed. People don't seem to make up their minds what they want.

Prince Philip

#86. I absolutely love the public transportation system in New York. No matter what, no matter how people complain, it is the best in the world.

Malachy McCourt

#87. If you vote and you elect dishonest, incompetent people into office who screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You caused the problem; you voted them in; you have no right to complain

George Carlin

#88. 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

#89. I'm one of those people who has to write. If I don't write, I feel itchy and depressed and cranky. So everybody's glad when I write and stop complaining already.

Libba Bray

#90. 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

#91. All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it's truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.

Dennis Prager

#92. My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.

Jay Weatherill

#93. 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

#94. The public doesn't want to hear people complaining about having their picture taken.

Kristen Wiig

#95. The great teachers are always those who can live the tension. They are not criticizing everybody, they're not complaining. They give young people a vision.

Henri Nouwen

#96. Stop Looking for Permission to Be Yourself.
The true individual is no more concerned over what others may think of him or her than is the sun troubled by people complaining that it's too warm, or that it shines too bright!

Guy Finley

#97. I'm perfectly happy complaining, because it's cathartic, and I'm perfectly happy arguing with people on the Internet because arguing is my favourite pastime - not programming.

Linus Torvalds

#98. When I got hit by the car, I became depressed. As a result, I've been on antidepressants and I feel like I have no sexuality left. People complain about that side effect, but I love it. I feel outside of society.

Bradford Cox

#99. Before complaining about your burden of life, you must first try to see what other people's burden of life is!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#100. Haven't you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have the courage to complain, that's their problem

Paulo Coelho