Complaining Quotes - Page 9

• When life gives you lemons, make lemonade and sell it to all of those who get thirsty from complaining.

  Napoleon Hill

  Giving, Thirsty, Lemonade

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• Leaders don’t complain about what’s not working. Leaders celebrate what is working and work to amplify it.

  Simon Sinek

  Motivational, Leadership, Work

  Twitter post from Sep 19, 2012

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• The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Dream, Sorry

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• The Democrats complain; I choose to compete.

  Jan Brewer

  Democrat

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• This is the reason we cannot complain of life: it keeps no one against his will.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Reason

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• If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.

  Epictetus

  Purple, Slave, Ifs

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• To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world; war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble under these pressures and complain. They are cowards. They lack splendour. But there is another sort of man who is under the same pressure but does not complain, for it is the friction which polishes him. It is the pressure which refines and makes him noble

  Saint Augustine

  War, Men, Worry

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• There is no greater love than that a man lays down his life for his neighbor. When you hear someone complaining and you struggle with yourself and do not answer him back with complaints; when you are hurt and bear it patiently, not looking for revenge; then you are laying down your life for your neighbor.

  Poemen

  Christian, Hurt, Revenge

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• Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Memories, Humorous, Judgement

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• ...Be grateful for what you have to be thankful for instead of complaining about the little things that annoy you.

  Dale Carnegie

  Gratitude, Grateful, Being Thankful

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• Never complain about growing old... Some never have the privilege.

  Mark Hart

  Growing, Privilege, Growing Old

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.19, Franciscan Media

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• Never complain about what you permit to be.

  Orrin Woodward

  Permit

  Twitter post from Jul 17, 2016

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• Complaining is like vomiting. You might feel better after you get it out, but you make everybody around you sick.

  Paul Molitor

  Feel Better, Sick, Vomiting

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• The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.

  Ian MacKaye

  Moving, Rivers, People

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 5, 1999.

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• Never complain about your troubles; they are responsible for more than half of your income.

  Robert Updegraff

  Work, Adversity, Income

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• You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.

  Gena Rowlands

  Death, Husband, Self

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• Gratitude and complaining cannot co-exist simultaneously. Choose the one that best serves you.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Gratitude

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from May 05, 2011

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• Replace your judgments with empathy, upgrade your complaining to gratitude and trade in your fear for love.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Attitude

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from May 05, 2011

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• I thought that I was going to be like this earth mother. When people would complain about being pregnant, I was like, 'What are you talking about? It's incredible! Just enjoy it.'

  Gwen Stefani

  Mother, Talking, People

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• Over the years, I’ve worried that my directness could come off as brusque or my criticisms heard in an outsize way, especially by male colleagues. I sometimes wondered whether expressing even my mildest reservation reminded someone of a chastising mother or complaining wife.

  Jill Abramson

  Mother, Years, Wife

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• We cut these numerous windings in our destinies daily with our own hands, while we imagine that we are pursuing a track on the royal high road of respectability and duty, and then complain of those ways being so intricate and so dark. We stand bewildered before the mystery of our own making, and the riddles of life that we will not solve, and then accuse the great Sphinx of devouring us.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Cutting, Dark, Destiny

  H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.506, Penguin

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• If I die tomorrow, I've done the two hardest things anybody can do in this life with the least amount of security - music and acting - and I've had success in both. I can't really complain. I try not to live my life that way.

  Yul Vazquez

  Two, Trying, Acting

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• We have a funny concept of time in this culture. We revere it as we revere money, yet we rarely spend any of it on ourselves. We complain that we can't make what time we have go around, yet day after day we spend our allotment doing things we don't really want to be doing.

  Jan Phillips

  Time, Culture, Want

  Jan Phillips (2012). “Marry Your Muse: Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity”, p.5, Quest Books

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• Obviously I like pretty girls, but I'm also looking for someone who can take control. I know guys complain about girls telling them what to do, but I think we all kind of enjoy it.

  Damian McGinty

  Girl, Thinking, Guy

  "Glee Star Secrets!". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. April 26, 2012.

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• People who complain often say things like, 'I'm not being negative, I'm just being realistic.' Really? How is it anymore 'realistic' to focus on and talk about things that discourage us and make us feel bad, than to focus on and talk about the POSITIVE aspects of life that make us feel GOOD? Both area equally REALISTIC, but which you choose to dwell on has a very different impact on the quality of YOUR life.

  Hal Elrod

  Thinking, Impact, People

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from May 04, 2011

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