Complaining Quotes - Page 37

• ... bear with him as Our Lord bore with His disciples, who gave Him good reason to complain - at least, some of them did. Yet, He allowed them to remain in His company and tried to bring them around gently.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Bears, Reason

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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• I am determined, even if they throw mud in my face, never to show any resentment, nor break with them, nor deviate from the esteem and honor I owe them in the sight of God. If they forget themselves and say or do something offensive against your little bark, even if it is done purposely to make it sink, bear with it for the love of God, who will save you from shipwreck and calm the storm. Do not complain or even say a single work about it. In spite of everything, continue to compliment them when you meet, as if nothing were amiss.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Sight, Honor

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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• Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to our selves. That we have first raised a dust, and then complain, we cannot see.

  George Berkeley

  Philosophy, Math, Thinking

  A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge introduction, sec. 3 (1710)

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• In a Nutshell - Fundamental Techniques In Handling People; Principle 1 - Don't criticize, condemn or complain; Principle 2 - Give honest and sincere appreciation; Principle 3 - Arouse in the other person an eager want.

  Dale Carnegie

  Appreciation, People, Giving

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.50, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• The pessimistic coach complains about the play. The optimistic coach expects it to change. The realistic coach adjusts what he can control.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Optimistic, Play

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• It's my belief that history is a wheel. 'Inconstancy is my very essence,'? says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but don't complain when you're cast back down into the depths. Good times pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it's also our hope. The worst of times, like the best, are always passing away.

  Boethius

  Essence, Tragedy, Passing Away

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• Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?

  Marquis de Sade

  Fate

  Marquis de Sade, David Coward (1999). “The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales”, p.15, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Grown-ups do a lot of complaining!

  Dav Pilkey

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

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• Public sentiment is not observed. The wealthy and powerful gain a ready hearing, but the plodding, suffering, unorganized complaining multitude are spurned and derided.

  James B. Weaver

  Powerful, Political, Suffering

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• I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards - When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.

  Anthony Trollope

  Hate, Humility, Men

  "The Letters of Anthony Trollope", (p. 691), 1983.

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• There's always haters, no matter what you're doing - whether they're complaining that everything you do sounds the same, or it's too different.

  Avicii

  Sound, Different, Matter

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

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• Parents make sure homework is returned without error, drill their kids on upcoming tests to the saturation point, and then complain if teachers do not give the grades they think their kids deserve. By that point, it's hard to tell whose grades they are.

  John Rosemond

  Teacher, Kids, Thinking

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• If you are complaining about things in your life, you are on the complaining frequency, and you are not in a position to attract what you want.
  Get on to the frequency of good with your thoughts and words. Firstly you will feel good, and secondly you will be on the frequency of receiving more good.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Feel Good, Receiving, Want

  Rhonda Byrne (2016). “How The Secret Changed My Life: Real People. Real Stories.”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• We have to realize that our lives could be gone in a moment. There are no guarantees that we will be here at this time next year. Learn to live each day to the fullest. Don't complain. Don't focus on what's wrong. Be grateful for the opportunity to experience each day.

  Joel Osteen

  Grateful, Opportunity, Years

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• Political corruption is to Rhode Islanders as smog is to people who live in Los Angeles: nobody complains of its absence, but when it rolls around everyone feels right at home.

  Philip Gourevitch

  Home, People, Political

  "Can You Forgive Him?" by Philip Gourevitch, www.newyorker.com. September 2, 2002.

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• If my time has come I shall have nothing to complain of. For fifty-tree years I have been painting; so I have been able to devote myself entirely to what I loved best in the world. I had never suffered poverty; I had good parents and excellent friends; I can only thank God.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Art, Years, Tree

  Letter to M. Francais, 1875.

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• The paparazzi stuff is a little weird. I used to leave the house in my pajamas. I can't do that anymore, but I'm not complaining!

  Pixie Lott

  House, Littles, Stuff

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• Against the background of the Obama administration' s negotiating what can turn out to be the most catastrophic international agreement in the nation's history, to complain about protocol is to put questions of etiquette above questions of annihilation.

  Thomas Sowell

  Agreement, Administration, Annihilation

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  We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Should, First Lady

  "The Eloquent Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis : A Portrait in Her Own Words" by ill Adler, (p. 174), 2004.

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• Whatever Juice this sky will pour this gaping parched old throat will drain; What time the Harper harps I'll dance: 'tis He, not I, who shall complain. Meal may be scarce and cakes be burnt, yet I weep not nor even scold: The sun is food enough for me, 't is large, and has not yet grown cold.

  Ridgely Torrence

  Gratitude, Sky, Cake

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• A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry. But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain: So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee, With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me; But if thou live to see like right bereft, This fool-begged patience in thee will be left.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Adversity, Grieving

  William Shakespeare, Alfred Harbage (1977). “The complete works”

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• The man who is fond of complaining likes to remain amid the objects of his vexation. He will most strongly revolt against every means proposed for his deliverance. This is what suits him. He asks nothing better than to sigh over his position and to remain in it.

  Francois Guizot

  Mean, Responsibility, Men

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• People used to complain to me all the time, 'I can't even hear you sing because your clothes are so loud.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Clothes, People, Singing

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• But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain.

  Francis Bacon

  Fashion, Philosophy, Believe

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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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