Complaining Quotes - Page 32

• Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Mistake, Thinking, Sirens

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.41, Dial Press

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• Those who approach their jobs and careers with enthusiasm always find plenty of opportunities, while those who complain about no one ever giving them a chance are merely observers of life. When you are determined that you will not allow others to determine your future for you, when you refuse to allow temporary setbacks to defeat you, you are destined for great success. The opportunities will always be there for you.

  Napoleon Hill

  Jobs, Opportunity, Careers

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.65, Penguin

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• Complaining is what we do when we are really not praying.

  Gerald Brooks

  Praying

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• You want to make a difference in your world? Live a holy life: Be faithful to your spouse. Be the one at the office who refuses to cheat. Be the neighbor who acts neighbors. Be the employee who does the work and doesn't complain. Pay your bills. Do your part and enjoy life. Don't speak one message and live another. People are watching the way we act more than they are listening to what we say.

  Max Lucado

  Differences, Office, People

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• If you have enough breath to complain about anything, you have more than enough reason to give thanks about something.

  Mattie Stepanek

  Giving, Thanks, Reason

  FaceBook post by Mattie Stepanek from Oct 29, 2012

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• 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.

  T. Harv Eker

  Impact, Negative, Habit

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from May 02, 2013

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

  Drake

  Heart, Men, Certain

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• I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses' plastic surgery.

  Bette Midler

  Ocean, America, Wish

  Twitter post from Oct 22, 2014

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• Preaching Christianity to skeptics without first setting out the praeambula fidei [preambles of faith], and then complaining when they don’t accept it, is like yelling in English at someone who only speaks Chinese, and then dismissing him as a fool when he doesn’t understand you. In both cases, while there is certainly a fool in the picture, it isn’t the listener.

  Edward Feser

  Yelling, Chinese, Fool

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• Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

  Mark Twain

  Getting Older, Growing, Untimely Death

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• Patience is that the heart does not feel anger towards that which is destined and that the mouth does not complain.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Heart, Doe, Mouths

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

  George C. Marshall

  Military, Troops, Looks

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• God expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part.

  Oswald Chambers

  Explanation, No Complaining, Offers

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.725, Discovery House

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• Be ruthless in one important area: Yourself. Be ruthless about your commitment to Christ. Be ruthless about your intellectual growth. Be ruthless about finishing well. One of the biggest areas we should be ruthless about is our time. How much time do you spend complaining about your problems to people who can't help you solve them? How much time do you talk when you should be doing? When it comes to others, be gracious. But when it comes to you and your time, be ruthless.

  Phil Cooke

  Commitment, People, Intellectual

  "Maybe It’s Time Christians Learned These “Non-Christian” Habits" by Phil Cooke, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2013.

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• At the same time, eroticism in the home requires active engagement and willful intent. It is an ongoing resistance to the message that marriage is serious, more work than play; and that passion is for teenagers and the immature. We must unpack our ambivalence about pleasure, and challenge our pervasive discomfort with sexuality, particularly in the context of family. Complaining of sexual boredom is easy and conventional. Nurturing eroticism in the home is an act of open defience.

  Esther Perel

  Teenager, Passion, Home

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• Embrace your life, count your blessings, and don’t complain about what you don’t have.

  Joyce Meyer

  Blessing, Count Your Blessings, Embrace

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• The people who complain the loudest about never having an opportunity in life are usually the ones who have no idea what they really want.

  Dan Miller

  Opportunity, Ideas, People

  Dan Miller, Jared Angaza (2012). “Wisdom Meets Passion: When Generations Collide and Collaborate”, p.37, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Weirdly, the people complaining about the healthcare website not working after three weeks were quiet about the Iraq war not working after eight years.

  Andy Borowitz

  War, Eight, Years

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• Demons don't move because we complain. They move because we speak the name of Jesus.

  Mike Bickle

  Jesus, Moving, Names

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• Every soul who comes to earth with a
  leg or two at birth must wrestle his
  opponents knowing its not what is, but
  what can be that measures worth. Make it hard, just make it possible and through
  pain, I wont complain. My spirit is unconquerable. Fearless I will face each
  foe for I know I am capable. I don't care whats probable, through blood sweat and tears I am unstoppable.

  Anthony Robles

  Pain, Blood, Sweat

  "Jay Leno Honors Anthony Robles". www.hollywoodreporter.com. 2011.

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• Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude... Don't complain; just work harder... Never give up.

  Randy Pausch

  Thank You, Gratitude, Giving Up

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• No whining, no complaining about anyone. Everybody in your life has come to teach you lessons.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Lessons, Whining, Teach

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• When we complain, we remain. When we whine, we stay behind. When we praise, we raise.

  Jim Bakker

  Praise, Raises, Behinds

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• The games haven't even started yet and already there are people complaining about the horrible accommodations at the Sochi Olympic village. Toilets don't flush. The faucets spew discolored water. They say it's like being on a Royal Caribbean cruise.

  Jay Leno

  Games, People, Water

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• As long as a man is alive and out of hell, he cannot have any cause to complain.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Long, Alive

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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