Complaining Quotes - Page 22

• You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.

  Martial

  Friendship, Writing, Length

  "Martial epigrams". Book by Martial, I, 110, 1897.

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

  Steven Morrissey

  Home, Dating, Romance

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• Stop complaining about having no time for yourself and get up an hour earlier. You have the option, why not exercise it?

  Robin Sharma

  Exercise, Why Not, Time For Yourself

  Robin Sharma (2003). “Who Will Cry When You Die?: Life Lessons From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”, p.64, Jaico Publishing House

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• 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!

  Mark Batterson

  Darkness, Needs, Alternatives

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• It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards with no conversation but what is made up of a few game-phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red spots arranged together in different figures. Would not a man laugh to hear any one of his species complaining that life is short?

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Laughter, Men

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• Microsoft knows that reliable software is not cost effective. According to studies, 90% to 95% of all bugs are harmless. They're never discovered by users, and they don't affect performance. It's much cheaper to release buggy software and fix the 5% to 10% of bugs people find and complain about.

  Bruce Schneier

  Learning, People, Cost

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• Examine yourself to see whether you have within you a strong sense of your own self importance, or negatively, whether you have failed to realize that you are nothing. This feeling of self-importance is deeply hidden, but it controls the whole of our life. Its first demand is that everything should be as we wish it, and as soon as this is not so we complain to God and are annoyed with people.

  Theophan the Recluse

  Love, Life, God

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• I would never complain about the position I'm in or the attention I get. At the end of the day, I'm very lucky to have what I have and do what I do, but I don't see myself as any different from anyone else who works hard and is a dad and a husband.

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Husband, Dad

  "David Beckham: 'Always have something to look forward to. If you don't have that you lose interest.'" by Alex Bilmes, www.esquire.com. May 16, 2013.

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• Be a source of joy. And let haters complain about the world.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Joy, World

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• Our time on this earth is sacred, and we should celebrate every moment.
  The importance of this has been completely forgotten: even religious holidays have been transformed into opportunities to go to the beach or the park or skiing. There are no more rituals. Ordinary actions can no longer be transformed into manifestations of the sacred. We cook and complain that it's a waste of time, when we should be pouring our love into making that food. We work and believe it's a divine curse, when we should be using our skills to bring pleasure and to spread the energy of the Mother.

  Paulo Coelho

  Mother, Beach, Religious

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• 'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Red, Enough

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• I've been in the league 12 years. To sit on the bench and complain about the way things were, that doesn't get anything done. I don't know. I'm playing for a championship and trying to make the playoffs. My effort has never changed.

  Chris Webber

  Basketball, Years, League

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• If you behave like a doormat, expect to be stepped on and don't complain about it.

  Suzette Haden Elgin

  Doormat, Behave, Ifs

  Suzette Haden Elgin (1980). “The Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defense”, Prentice Hall

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• Never complain or make excuses. If something seems unfair, just prove yourself by working twice as hard and being twice as good.

  Amy Chua

  Excuse, Unfair, Proving Yourself

  Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The more you complain the longer God lets you live

  Bertrand Russell

  Serious, Funny Bumper Sticker, Religious Humor

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• A poor teacher complains, an average teacher explains, a good teacher teaches, a great teacher inspires.

  Hosur Narasimhaiah

  Teacher, School, Average

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• There is nothing on God's green earth that someone won't complain about including both God and green earth.

  Vicki Myron

  Earth, Green, Including

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• It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout - not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now.

  Jean Anouilh

  Voice, Tragedy, World

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• Gratitude requires awareness and effort, not only to feel it but to express it. Frequently we are oblivious to the Lord's hand. We murmur, complain, resist, criticize; so often we are not grateful.

  Bonnie D. Parkin

  Gratitude, Grateful, Hands

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• Never complain about what you permit.

  Mike Murdock

  Motivational, Permit

  FaceBook post by Dr. Mike Murdock from Feb 21, 2017

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• A lot of them complain because they say the word denial puts them in the same bin as holocaust deniers. That's too bad. But the thing is, they do have something in common: a denial of evidence and of scientific consensus.

  Phil Plait

  Holocaust, Denial, Common

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• Dress your best on your execution day. Be extremely courteous to your assistant when you lose money. Try not to blame others for your fate, even if they deserve blame. Never exhibit any self-pity. Do not complain.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Adversity, Fate, Self

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• There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as I was concerned had to be left to Fortune or to God - or to whatever may decide these things. I am content and shall not complain.

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Issues, Doubt

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• You're so caught up in grumbling, complaining, and seeing what's wrong that you have no energy or time to appreciate what's good.

  Joyce Meyer

  Appreciate, Energy, Grumbling

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• The biggest lesson I've learned . . . was that if you have all the fresh water you want to drink and all the food you want to eat, you ought never to complain about anything.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Funny, Water, Lessons

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