These complaining quotes will inspire you. Complaining, to express grief, pain, or discontent.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging complaining quotes, complaining sayings, and complaining proverbs.
Best Complaining Quotes
- “Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.” ~ Billy Graham
- “Happiness comes when we stop complaining about the troubles we have and offer thanks for all the troubles we don’t have.” ~ Thomas S. Monson , Stop complaining quotes
- “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
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“People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.” ~ Stephen Hawking
- “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” ~ William Arthur Ward
- “When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
- “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.” ~ Arthur Ashe
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“Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.” ~ Og Mandino
- “See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
- “The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.” ~ Lou Holtz
- “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
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“Never complain. Never explain.” ~ Katharine Hepburn
- “1-Don’t analyze. 2-Don’t complain. 3-Don’t compare yourself to others. 4-Don’t expect things to be done for you. 5-Don’t expect perfection in the relative. 6-Look to the knowledge aspect daily. 7-Own the movement. 8-Problems are all in your head. 9-Hold yourself together.” ~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
- “Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.” ~ Dale Carnegie
- “I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet.” ~ Confucius
- “What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.” ~ Maya Angelou
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“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” ~ Maya Angelou
- “You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.” ~ Shirley Chisholm
- “It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.” ~ Joseph Addison
- “Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.” ~ Mason Cooley
- “Those who complain most are most to be complained of.” ~ Matthew Henry
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“If you can’t change it.. change the way you think about it” ~ Mary Engelbreit
- “Never complain and never explain.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.” ~ Antoine Rivarol
- “There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.” ~ Rita Dove
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“I have the choice to be angry at God for what i don’t have, or be thankful for what i do have” ~ Nick Vujicic
- “Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.” ~ Lily Tomlin
- “The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.” ~ Samuel Johnson
- “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
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“I’ve eaten things that didn’t complain this much.” ~ Denis Leary
- “We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.” ~ George Berkeley
- “However brief our time in the sun, if we waste a second of it, or complain that it is dull or barren or (like a child) boring, couldn’t this be seen as a callous insult to those unborn trillions who will never even be offered life in the first place?” ~ Richard Dawkins
- “Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “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
- “It is no use to grumble and complain; It’s just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain – Why, rain’s my choice.” ~ James Whitcomb Riley , Grumbling and complaining quotes
- “I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.” ~ Barack Obama
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“If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “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
- “Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.” ~ Grace Jones
- “I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.” ~ Lily Tomlin
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“The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.” ~ Zig Ziglar
- “When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.” ~ Ernest Renan
- “Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Complaining is good for you as long as you’re not complaining to the person you’re complaining about.” ~ Lynn Johnston
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“You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “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
- “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.” ~ Lyndon B. Johnson
- “My mind was always set on joining Manchester United. How can you not go to United? I don’t play for money. I play for glory and winning championships. I’m happy here. I hear people complain about the weather, there’s nothing to do and the food. But, for me, it’s not like that. I play for a club I love, the biggest club, and everything else doesn’t matter.” ~ Dimitar Berbatov , Stop complaining love
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“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.” ~ Jean de la Bruyere
- “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
- “People that pay for things never complain. It’s the guy you give something to that you can’t please.” ~ Will Rogers , Never complaining quotes
- “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
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“The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.” ~ Josh Billings
- “I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.” ~ Bill Joy
- “Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.” ~ Francois Fenelon
- “The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.” ~ Randall Jarrell
- “Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.” ~ Jef Raskin
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“Don’t Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.” ~ Dale Carnegie
- “Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.” ~ Confucius
- “The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.” ~ Ronald Firbank
- “Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.” ~ Prince Philip
- “When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints, but exert your whole care to hide it; by endeavoring to hide it; you will dry it away. Be always busy.” ~ Samuel Johnson
