Complaining Quotes - Page 5

I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it up in my persona. I felt like I wouldn't be able to do stand-up for a career if I was needy. I didn't want to be complaining or whining onstage. I wanted to be cool and do exactly what I wanted to do. That way I would never have to change for anybody.

I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be, I always forget to include myself.

Don't complain to others about your troubles. Half of them don't care and the other half are glad.

Complaining will not change things in your life; only action will. Make a list of all you need to do to change what doesn't work in your life and, little by little, begin making those changes.

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.

Instead of complaining about the current state of affairs, we need to offer better alternatives. [...] we need to stop cursing the darkness and start lighting some candles!

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.

Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

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.

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his.

Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.

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.

When you see anyone complaining of such and such a person's ill-nature and bad temper, know that the complainant is bad-tempered, forasmuch as he speaks ill of that bad-tempered person, because he alone is good-tempered who is quietly forbearing towards the bad-tempered and ill-natured.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

When a general complains of the morale of his troops, the time has come to look at his own.

I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of vaginas. They bother me in the way that spiders bother some people.

It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.

Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others.

Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

The only time I talk on the golf course is to my caddie. And then only to complain when he gives me the wrong club.

If you complain to someone, you assume that it's someone who really cares about you.

If you complain that Allah is testing you too much, you're failing the test.

There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.