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• I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

  James A. Michener

  Writing, Tradition, Nineteenth Century

  The Observer, November 26, 1989.

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• No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

  Ira Hayes

  Women, Speech, Public Speaking

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• 'Always speak the truth - think before you speak - and write it down afterwards.'
  'I'm sure I didn't mean - ' Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen interrupted her impatiently.
  'That's just what I complain of! You should have meant! What do you suppose is the use of child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning - and a child's more important than a joke, I hope.

  Lewis Carroll

  Queens, Children, Honesty

  Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches it hides within itself, how many joys and delights! No one would complain about his cross or about troubles that may happen to him, if he would come to know the scales on which they are weighed when they are distributed to men.

  Rose of Lima

  Beautiful, Men, Joy

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• If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?

  John Churton Collins

  Punishment, Vices, Virtue

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• One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Stars, Fear, Successful

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To the grumbler who complains about the unfairness of the market system only one piece of advice can be given: If you want to acquire wealth, then try to satisfy the public by offering them something that is cheaper or which they like better....Equality under the law gives you the power to challenge every millionaire.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Equality Under The Law, Offering, Giving

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• One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.

  Thomas Sowell

  President, Liberty, Economic

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.328, Hoover Press

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• If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves

  Thomas Sowell

  Giving, Voting, Promise

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• If a person weren't failing in some way, shape or form, would he or she need to blame, justify, or complain? The obvious answer is no.

  T. Harv Eker

  Secret, Needs, Answers

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Nov 02, 2010

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• Four Lessons on Life 1. Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. 2. If you get too far ahead of the army, your soldiers may mistake you for the enemy. 3. Don't complain about the bottom rungs of the ladder; they helped to get you higher. 4. If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Life, Change, Mistake

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• I know I live a charmed, beautiful life and nobody wants to hear a celebrity whine. The last thing I want to do is complain; I love what I do and I know every job comes with a downside.

  Jennifer Garner

  Beautiful, Jobs, Want

  "Jennifer Garner interview: Still the girl next door". Interview with Stephen Whitty, www.nj.com. August 12, 2012.

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• For the next seven days, I challenge you not to complain at all.

  T. Harv Eker

  Challenges, Secret, Next

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• You can be a victim or you can be rich, but you can't be both. Listen up! Every time, and I mean every time, you blame, justify, or complain, you are slitting your financial throat.

  T. Harv Eker

  Mean, Secret, Blame

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Mar 13, 2013

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• Rich people do not back away from problems, do not avoid problems, and do not complain about problems. Rich people are financial warriors.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Warrior, People

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• Ah! sinner, remember this, there is no way on earth effectually to be rid of the guilt, filth, and power of sin, but by believing in a Saviour. It is not resolving, it is not complaining, it is not mourning, but believing, that will make thee divinely victorious over that body of sin that to this day is too strong for thee, and that will certainly be thy ruin, if it be not ruined by a hand of faith.

  Thomas Brooks

  Strong, Believe, Hands

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• Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Fear, Atheism, Cages

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• Ye have cast out yer brothers for devils and now complain ye, lamenting, that ye've been left to fight alone.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Brother, Fear, Fighting

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• Complaining about your current position in life is worthless. Have a spine and do something about it instead.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Inspire, Life Is

  Twitter post from Jan 16, 2014

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• Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Being Yourself

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jul 26, 2014

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• Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency and regularity of former times, and celebrates the discipline and sobriety of the age in which his youth was passed; a happy age which is now no more to be expected, since confusion has broken in upon the world, and thrown down all the boundaries of civility and reverence.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Men, Discipline, Broken

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• It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.

  Liza Minnelli

  Mother, Daughter, Children

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was so drunk last night I fell down and missed the floor.

  Dean Martin

  Drinking, Night, Drunk

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• 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.

  Seve Ballesteros

  Golf, Giving, Caddies

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• You create opportunities by performing, not complaining

  Muriel Siebert

  Positive, Opportunity, Initiative

  Muriel Siebert, Aimee Lee Ball (2002). “Changing the Rules: Adventures of a Wall Street Maverick”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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