Quotes About Complaining

#1. 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

#2. Complaining that a comic is drunk is like going to a titty bar and complaining because your lapdancer is a communist.

Doug Stanhope

#3. Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

Zig Ziglar

#4. Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I pray that you may rebel against what is wrong, not with feeble negative complaining but with strong positive assertion of what is right for all humanity.

Pearl S. Buck

#5. they can all stand quiescent in airless venues for extended periods, their eyes' expressions that unique NYC combination of Zen meditation and clinical depression, clearly unhappy but never complaining.

David Foster Wallace

#6. You're a dirty bastard"
"Are you complaining?"
"No

Moira Rogers

#7. Strong minds suffer without complaining; weak minds complain without suffering.

Lettie Cowman

#8. My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It's the new ones that I haven't identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body - at least by mine.

Ted Danson

#9. In the olden days I always got the impression that TVR built a car, put it on sale, and then found out how it handled. Usually when one of their customers wrote to the factory complaining about how dead he was.

Jeremy Clarkson

#10. 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

#11. Complaining is like vomiting. You might feel better after you get it out, but you make everybody around you sick.

Paul Molitor

#12. Complaining doesn't do any good," I pointed out. "If the person you complain to is the kind who would listen, they've already done what they can, and anyone else either won't listen, doesn't care, or can't do anything.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#13. Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say "Long live impermanence!"

Nhat Hanh

#14. It's senseless to think of complaining, since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are .

Tom Hodgkinson

#15. 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

#16. Life is like a rollercoaster with highs and lows. So quit complaining about it and enjoy the ride!

Habeeb Akande

#17. I've become a guy who's like a complaining, whining neurotic.

Billy Corgan

#18. Neighbours complaining about someone's dog making an awful racket. You could hardly blame the poor beast, its owner had died in her bed at least a fortnight before and there hadn't been much left of the old girl worth eating.

James Oswald

#19. So the Clinton-Gore era culminates with an election as stained as the blue dress, a Democratic chorus complaining that the Constitution should not be the controlling legal authority, and Clinton's understudy dispatching lawyers to litigate this: It depends on what the meaning of 'vote' is.

George Will

#20. 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

#21. Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective.

LeCrae

#22. I'm not complaining about my life; every moment of it has been fantastic, and I'm so lucky.

Zoe Cassavetes

#23. 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

#24. I'm not about talking and finger-pointing and complaining. I'm about getting things done.

Christine Quinn

#25. Griffin rolled his eyes. "You should have heard him complaining in wardrobe." His voice went up an octave in a poor imitation of Kellan's. "Oh, poor me, I have to make

S.C. Stephens

#26. The sun was up - stuck like half a tinned apricot on a sky awash with all the colours of a fading bruise. Down below the living dead were forming their complaining queues at bus stops.

Helen Hodgman

#27. 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

#28. Mother Teresa didn't walk around complaining about her thighs
she had shit to do.

Sarah Silverman

#29. 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

#30. Stop complaining and start living.

Debasish Mridha

#31. Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can't see anything.

Gottfried Leibniz

#32. Complaining about nothing doesn't seem like coping to you, but okay.

N.K. Jemisin

#33. 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

#34. How about Oversized Dickhead?"
He shrugged. "Didn't hear you complaining about my oversized - "
She shot to her feet, jostling the table. "Can I speak with you in private?"
"You need it right now?" He feigned exasperation. "We're in the middle of dinner, woman. You're insatiable.

Tessa Bailey

#35. I'm thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time.

Kurt Cobain

#36. You'll never change the world just by complaining.

Tadahiko Nagao

#37. Gratitude and complaining cannot co-exist simultaneously. Choose the one that best serves you.

Hal Elrod

#38. Stop complainin." Jess climbed up to the cab and leaned down to pull me up beside him. "I'm not complaining." His fingers clung to my wrists as the soles on my gray, canvas shoes slipped up the worn steps. "It's hot. I'm sweatin'. I don't want to go campin'," his voiced pitched high to mock me.

S.D. Hendrickson

#39. Be happy with your stereotype. Asians - that's the stereotype I want. Being the smartest person in the world? You're the smartest, what are you complaining about? You know what I get? 'Wassup?

Godfrey

#40. 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

#41. Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.

Lynn Johnston

#42. I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.

Rosie O'Donnell

#43. 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

#44. If you are crying fight against it! If you are regretting walk forward! Only complaining about your misfortune, you're nothing but a common pig!

Yana Toboso

#45. I think India is very passionate about films. It's almost a second religion back home. Due to that, I think film stars are - are really held in great esteem. Not that we're complaining, but I think with that comes a lot of responsibility.

Abhishek Bachchan

#46. Suppose there was no anger, no profanity, no lying, no grumbling or complaining; suppose there were no dirty stories told, no unjust criticism - what a different world this would be!

Billy Graham

#47. I have gotten some of the most beautiful experiences that a person can possibly ask for so I'm not at all complaining.

Gina Carano

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. When you're on TV in America, the girls love you. I'm not complaining.

Kid Rock

#51. Less gossiping, more learning. Less complaining, more excelling. Less walls, more bridges. Less fear, more courage

Robin Sharma

#52. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.

Seneca The Younger

#53. Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself.

Eckhart Tolle

#54. 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

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

Suzanne Brockmann

#56. As you continue breathing others take their last. So stop complaining & enjoy living your life as best as you can.

Timothy Pina

#57. Remember, if you are criticising, you are not being grateful. If you are blaming, you are not being grateful. If you are complaining, you are not being grateful.

Rhonda Byrne

#58. 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

#59. Remember this-all the sighing, mourning, sobbing, and complaining in the world, does not so undeniably evidence a man to be humble, as his overlooking his own righteousness, and living really and purely upon the righteousness of Christ.

Thomas Brooks

#60. This is the biggest lot of abolitionist trash I ever saw."
"No it isn't," I said. "That book wasn't even written until a century after slavery was abolished."
"Then why the hell are they still complaining about it?

Octavia E. Butler

#61. 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

#62. 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

#63. You could at least complain," I say. "I adore complaining. It calms the nerves.

Franny Billingsley

#64. The more you talk about investing problems, the worse you feel. Instead of complaining, it's better to do something.

Kenneth Fisher

#65. Oh, stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay, Nor quit for me the trembling spray, A hapless lover courts thy lay, Thy soothing, fond complaining.

Robert Burns

#66. At first we tried to keep up, but soon we were tired of boiling and pickling and deviling, and my mother started complaining that all these free eggs were costing her way too much.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#67. And as for you and those damn ten pounds you're always complaining about? I think you should just stop obsessing and start living.

Camille Pagan

#68. We all like to complain about movies, shows, comics, and the like. This is your chance to put your money where your mouth is! Instead of complaining about what bad stories there are, create something better yourself.

Comfort Love

#69. 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

#70. Kvetching means complaining, and complaining is really what will forever keep New York the city it is.

Sari Botton

#71. 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

#72. 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

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

Carnegie Mellon

#74. there is nothing more patronizing to an Infertile than to hear a new mother complaining,

Liane Moriarty

#75. 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

#76. If you want friends you must be friendly. Always complaining and posting negative comments is not going to bring you friends. No one likes to get puked on.

John Patrick Hickey

#77. A director once said, when I was complaining about something or other, "I agree, it is terrible. The worst thing you can do to an actor is give him a job." That shut me up and broke off a big hunk of my actor's cynical armor.

Jeff Raz

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

Amity Gaige

#79. 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

#80. Be grateful for what you have to be thankful for instead of complaining about the little things that annoy you.

Dale Carnegie

#81. The destination of the journey could not be altered, only the manner in which one approached it - whether one chose to walk erect or to be dragged complaining through the dust.

Robert Harris

#82. The truly patient man neither complains of his hard lot nor desires to be pitied by others. He speaks of his sufferings in a natural, true, and sincere way, without murmuring, complaining, or exaggerating them.

Francis De Sales

#83. He drove me home in the van, complaining, 'Women only like me for my mind'.

Steven Morrissey

#84. He said we lived in a provincial country, where every occasion was an opportunity for complaining, but meanwhile no one rolled up his sleeves and reorganized things, trying to make them function.

Elena Ferrante

#85. A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea.

Enoch Powell

#86. Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions

Ajahn Brahm

#87. You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.

Joni Mitchell

#88. In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.

Warren Farrell

#89. The simple recipe for success that Mendel had instilled in his children from the cradle on consisted in never complaining, never asking for anything, striving to be the best in everything you do, and never trusting anyone.

Isabel Allende

#90. When we feel that old spirit of complaining start to bubble up in our hearts, we need to remind ourselves to take time to thank God for His blessings.

David Jeremiah

#91. All over China, parents tell their children to stop complaining and to finish their quadratic equations and trigonometric functions because there are sixty-five million American kids going to bed with no math at all.

Michael Cunningham

#92. But honestly, it's pretty weird; there are girls who'd do absolutely everything just to get a backstage pass. I don't know what it is, but really, when you're on national TV in America the girls love you. They all want you! And I'm not complaining!

Kid Rock

#93. When I got to San Francisco that afternoon, it was one of those days that arrives at the end of summer just as the last tourists are leaving complaining about the cold and fog.

Michael Nava

#94. Ultimate stupidity: Mistakenly thinking you will get what you want by complaining about and focusing on exactly what you don't want.

John Phillips

#95. Complaining about the universe's unfairness is never part of a successful strategy.

Cory Doctorow

#96. When we were born, we were thrown off to land on earth. The successful kept calm and created their wings on their way down. The losers were busy complaining against the creator why he did not give wings to them knowing they had to fly.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#97. How liberating it must be to stop evading, questioning, or complaining about your trials and start embracing them as opportunities to draw closer to God, to realize that even if Jesus is all you have, He is enough

Colleen Carroll Campbell

#98. 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

#99. Constructive complaint requires only two things: that what you are complaining about should be different, and that it can be different. It sounds simple, but too often our protests fail this test.

Julian Baggini

#100. Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.

Theodore Roosevelt