Complaining Quotes - Page 35

• If we give out thoughts of grouchiness and complaining, etc., we'll find more to complain about. If we send out love and affirm 'life loves me', then we are drawing experiences to ourselves that prove it's true.

  Louise Hay

  Love Life, Drawing, Giving

  Source: www.trulyalive.net

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• My mum said that as you age you have to smell good and be clean and don't hate anybody because that makes you older. Um I don't agree. I think that of course you have to smell good and be clean but there's much more that you have to do. Don't complain, exercise, be be strong, um work, be creative, be related to the world, have causes, fight for them passionately. I think all those things are important. I I'm not going to give up and just smell good.

  Isabel Allende

  Strong, Giving Up, Hate

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• The worst thing is to sit and whine and complain and obsess about money as if that were the only sign of your worth as a human.

  Robert Greene

  Worst, Humans, Ifs

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Complaining is the favorite pastime of millions.

  Mason Cooley

  Complaints, Pastime, Millions

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• In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.

  Norm MacDonald

  Adversity, Evil, Suffering

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• It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.

  Norm MacDonald

  Failing, Vain, Fortune

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• Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women--the quality of shifting from child to woman, theseeming helplessness one moment and the utter self-reliance the next that baffle us, that seem most difficult to understand. These are the qualities that make her a mystery, the qualities that provoked Freud to complain, "What does a woman want?

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Children, Often Is, Self

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• Complaining advertizes your fears.

  Rhonda Britten

  Fear

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• Your pitching coach is almost like your spouse. He's someone to go to when you want to gripe and complain. The big thing for me with Mel (Stottlemyre) is that we've been through so much together. He's been through everything I've been through on the mound. He was a Yankee who won twenty games in New York and a Yankee who didn't win twenty games in New York. For me, he's been there and that's what makes a good pitching coach. He's a good man, too.

  Andy Pettitte

  New York, Men, Winning

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• Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.

  H. L. Mencken

  Marriage, Husband, Men

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• We are too prone to find fault; let us look for some of the perfections.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Perfection, Looks, Faults

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• Today's woman puts on wigs, fake eyelashes, false nails, sixteen pounds of make-up/shadows/blushes/creams, living bras, various pads that would make a linebacker envious, has implants and assorted other surgeries, then complains that she cannot find a 'real' man

  Maynard James Keenan

  Real, Men, Eyelashes

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• When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Sorrow, Income, May

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• I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from within. I believe in individual people. I see salvation in discrete individuals, intellectuals and peasants, strewn hither and yon throughout Russia. They have the strength, although there are few of them.

  Anton Chekhov

  Integrity, Believe, Russia

  Letter to I.I. Orlov, February 22, 1899.

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• It a wretched thing to suffer at the hand of one of whom we cannot complain.

  Publilius Syrus

  Hands, Suffering, Wretched

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• My mom worked in restaurants for 60 years, and what I learned from her is a lot. But if I had to boil it down, take your work very seriously, but don't take yourself too seriously. Work harder than everyone else and never complain about it. Don't go to bed if you're not proud of the product of your day; stay awake until you are.

  Rachael Ray

  Mom, Hard Work, Years

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• The pilot who is always dreading a rock or a tempest must not complain if he remain a poor fisherman. We must at times trust, something to fortune, for fortune has often some share in what happens.

  Pietro Metastasio

  Rocks, Pilots, Anticipation

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• 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.

  Rumi

  Speak, Temper, Ill

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• Geologists complain that when they want specimens of the common rocks of a country, they receive curious spars; just so, historians give us the extraordinary events and omit just what we want,--the every-day life of each particular time and country.

  Richard Whately

  Country, Rocks, History

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.194

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• There's something tragic in the fate of almost every person--it's just that the tragic is often concealed from a person by the banal surface of life.... A woman will complain of indigestion and not even know that what she means is that her whole life has been shattered.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Life, Mean, Fate

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.485, Northwestern University Press

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• People seem to think themselves in some ways superior to heaven itself, when they complain of the sorrow and want round about them. And yet it is not the devil for certain who puts pity into their hearts.

  Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie

  Heart, Thinking, People

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• I'd never complain about the attention - ever. I feel very fortunate to be doing what I love to do. Not everyone gets that chance every day. This is just part of it, and it comes down to managing my time to make sure I concentrate on my passion, which is the hockey, and have time away from hockey.

  Sidney Crosby

  Passion, Hockey, Attention

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• A few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian. I think the complaint was confession; a religious church would not complain.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Christian, Religious, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.416, Modern Library

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• With vivid words your just conceptions grace,
  Much truth compressing in a narrow space;
  Then many shall peruse, but few complain,
  And envy frown, and critics snarl in vain.

  John Wolcot

  Space, Envy, Grace

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• There are, indeed, two forms of discontent: one laborious, the other indolent and complaining. We respect the man of laborious desire, but let us not suppose that his restlessness is peace, or his ambition meekness. It is because of the special connection of meekness with contentment that it is promised that the meek shall 'inherit the earth.' Neither covetous men, nor the grave, can inherit anything; they can but consume. Only contentment can possess.

  John Ruskin

  Ambition, Men, Two

  John Ruskin (1860). “Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of Cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation”, p.343

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