Complaining Quotes - Page 30

• 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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• I have no doubt that over the years my children will find plenty of things about me to criticize. But something tells me that twenty years from now not one of them will sit on some therapist's couch complaining because their mother didn't spend enough time vacuuming up glitter.

  Joyce Maynard

  Mother, Children, Years

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• So I have no grounds to complain; on the contrary, writers should consider the condition of permanent controversiality to be invigorating, part of the risk envolved in choosing the profesión. It is a fact of life that writers have always and with due consideration and great pleasure spit in the soup of the high and mighty. That is what makes the history of literature analogous to the development and refinement of censorship.

  Gunter Grass

  Risk, Development, Literature

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• Ungrateful are those on this earthly road, Who do complain that life is made of tears, That happiness on earth one cannot find, That we are made of sorrows and of fears.

  Frithjof Schuon

  Gratitude, Ungrateful, Sorrow

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• The Victorians pioneered numbers of commercial rackets about which their descendants complain (the manufacturers of Bovril, it appears, were virtually official sponsors of the Boer War).

  D. J. Taylor

  War, Numbers, History

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• A few years ago, everybody was saying we must have more leisure, everyone's working too much. Now everybody's got more leisure time they're complaining they're unemployed. People don't seem to make up their minds what they want.

  Prince Philip

  Years, People, Mind

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• It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Profound, Causes

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• People complain that the religious ground is unsure who have never compelled themselves to examine it with a tithe of the care spent on a contract; but they have taken current suggestions in a dreamy and hypnotised way. They will not attend, they will not force themselves to attend, gravely to the gravest things.... they read everything in a vagrant, browsing fashion. They turn on the most serious subjects the holiday, seaside, newspaper habit of mind

  Peter Forsyth

  Religious, Fashion, Taken

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• The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids.

  Etgar Keret

  Hemorrhoids, Should, Spine

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• The chef has kids complaining to their parents the food they get in school is better than what they get at home. He's turned this group of kids into curious, adventurous eaters.

  Marion Nestle

  Home, School, Kids

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• If you're a writer, you've chosen art as a way of life. You must accept that some will like your work and others will not. It's the life you chose, so live with it and don't complain.

  Mark Rubinstein

  Art, Way, Like You

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• But just like I've always said when people complain about tee times, 'I just want a tee time. Just give me one so I can play.

  David Duval

  Play, People, Giving

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• Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.

  Tatyana Tolstaya

  Art, Needs, Too Much

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