Quotes about complaints and complaining

"If I were to say, God, why me? about the bad things, then I should have said, God, why me? about the good things that happened in my life."

Ashe, Arthur on complaints and complaining
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"Those who do not complain are never pitied."

Austen, Jane on complaints and complaining
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"It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare."

Burke, Edmund on complaints and complaining   

"Intelligence is nothing without delight."

Claudel, Paul on complaints and complaining   

"It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness."

Confucius on complaints and complaining
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"Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean."

Confucius on complaints and complaining
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"Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain."

Cook, Robert A. on complaints and complaining
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"It is the growling man who lives a dog's life."

Cox, Coleman on complaints and complaining   

"What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?"

Custine, Marquis De on complaints and complaining   

"Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it."

D'Angelo, Anthony J. on complaints and complaining
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"There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on complaints and complaining   

"Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others."

FeNelon, Francois on complaints and complaining   

"There are some people who knock the pyramids because they don't have elevators."

Ferree, Jim on complaints and complaining   

"Never complain. Never explain."

Ford, Henry on complaints and complaining   

"Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy."

Franklin, Benjamin on complaints and complaining   

"I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on complaints and complaining   

"Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect."

Hill, Benny on complaints and complaining
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"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it."

Holtz, Lou on complaints and complaining
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"What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment."

Horace on complaints and complaining   

"I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known."

Howe, Edgar Watson on complaints and complaining   

"The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects."

Jeffrey, Lord on complaints and complaining   

"To hear complaints is tiresome to the miserable and the happy."

Johnson on complaints and complaining   

"When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others."

Johnson on complaints and complaining
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"When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away."

Johnson on complaints and complaining   

"The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity."

Johnson, Samuel on complaints and complaining   

"Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him."

Johnson, Samuel on complaints and complaining   

"I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable to complain about what you have than it is to ask for what you want."

Lout, Phil on complaints and complaining   

"The world is sad enough without your woe."

Marden, Orison Swett on complaints and complaining   

"When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for."

Milton, John on complaints and complaining   

"Never excuse, never explain, never complain."

Motto on complaints and complaining
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"The sun was shining in my eyes, and I could barely see to do the necessary task that was allotted me. Resentment of the vivid glow I started to complain. When all at once upon the air I heard the blind man's cane."

Musselman, Earl on complaints and complaining
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"One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him."

Proverb, Chinese on complaints and complaining   

"I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes -- until I met a man who had no feet."

Proverb, Jewish on complaints and complaining
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"He that falls by himself never cries."

Proverb, Turkish on complaints and complaining
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"One chops the wood, the other does the grunting."

Proverb, Yiddish on complaints and complaining   

"When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it."

Renan, Ernest on complaints and complaining   

"He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on complaints and complaining   

"We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and brightness than we have to enter their houses and still their silverware."

Seton, Julia Moss on complaints and complaining   

"The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease."

Shaw, Henry Wheeler on complaints and complaining   

"Rich folks always talk hard times."

Smith, Lillian on complaints and complaining