Best 824 quotes in «complaining quotes» category

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.

Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!

You and I must not complain if our plans break down if we have done our part. That probably means that the plans of One who knows more than we do have succeeded.

You always see black people complaining about this and that, but you never see me complaining about how slow they work on my plantation.

You apply Pilates in everyday life, like how you sit, how you walk. You've heard a lot of people complain about back problems; it is because these people walk incorrectly with the last vertebra of their tailbone. They stick it out instead of pulling it in and down.

You can either complain about how hard your life is, or you can realize that only you are responsible for it.

You can never make a woman happy, it's impossible. I've never met a happy woman in my life. They're always complaining about something.

You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.

You can't complain about your dressing room or you'll look like Celine Dion.

You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal.

You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.

You create opportunities by performing, not complaining

You don't realize - the great thing about change is how quickly we get used to it. So I'm not complaining. the more things change,the more they don't stay the same. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. They might not change everywhere all at once - but there are moments when the impossible becomes the inevitable, and the rest is just a matter of time.

You get so used to a world that you complain, but never actually want anything different. Why crave the unfamiliar?

You don't have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don't have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline

You have to listen to Trump in a nonpolitical way. When Trump starts talking on the campaign trail, "NATO's pointless, it's worthless. We're paying the lion's share and these people aren't contributing, and that's gonna end. This make America great, put America first." People think, "Wow! We're gonna get out of NATO, finally. He's gonna close up NATO!" No. If you listen very carefully, he was complaining that the other members were not doing their part.

You have to keep people engaged until you get them through the next commercial. I'm not complaining about working in TV, at all, but just as an artistic reaction, I find myself being so drawn to moments of silence where things are allowed to breathe.

You have to pretend that you're not bothered by your record leaked early. So that's the tack that I'm taking. It's like if you're working in a store and people come and openly shoplift from you, and you're not allowed to say anything about it. Instead, you're supposed to smile and go, "Hope you enjoy that!" I'm not going to complain about it, I don't get to make the rules. It's just really funny how that works.

You know, I'm the mayor of Realville. I'm Mr. Literal. And I never saw the benefit of complaining and whining and moaning. I don't complain and whine and moan anyway, and I don't deal well with people that do. I don't know how to react to complaining, other than say, "Oh, gee, I'm sorry." I don't know how to react to whining and moaning. It kind of bothers me. So I don't do it myself. Lord knows, I got all kinds of things. I could spend the rest of this week whining and moaning if you wanted me to about things. I just don't.

You know what, my new mantra is this: ANT AND DEC. Ant and Dec. I might get their names tattooed on each wrist. Because they smile, and they never complain, and it seems to work for them and I wish I could be more like that.

You know, these conservative women, somebody really needs to go repossess their ovaries. Really, truly, they have no right to them. They are fabulous, little organs and they have absolutely no right to be estrogen-bearing beings. Okay? Just cut 'em off, let 'em go through the hot flashes, let 'em just sit there and complain about hormone therapy, okay? Just take the ovaries and get it over with. Because they don't deserve to have estrogen. They really don't. It's a privilege.

You know the economy is bad when illegals start complaining that Americans are taking their jobs.

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.

You must be willing to take whatever pieces of life come your way and arrange them so that they work with and for you rather than against you. The key is to be willing. The willingness to arrange rather than complain or make excuses will pay off.

Your favorite volhv showed up half an hour ago, complaining about his lack of sleep and stupid gods. He says he brought his Batman belt.

Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring. Instead of complaining, O my heart, of their brief duration, try to enjoy them.

Your tomorrow has no right to complain about your today, as long as your today gives you a bliss, unknown and incomprehensible to both your yesterday, and tomorrow!

Youth is a period of idealism. The Communists attract young people by appealing directly to that idealism. Too often, others have failed either to appeal to it or to use it and they are the losers as a consequence. We have no cause to complain if, having neglected the idealism of youth, we see others come along, take it, and harness it to their cause - and against our own.

Your mantra is thank you. Just keep saying thank you. Don't explain. Don't complain. Just say thank you. Say thank you to existence.

You should not complain, it's not attractive.

You've been complaining, you've been depressed, you've been despondent. But take off those garments of heaviness and put back on your garments of praise. I didn't come when you thought I was going to come, but I'm going to be right on time.

You've got two choices: you could either complain about it, or use it as fuel to make you a better person.

You want to go to a summer concert and not watch a band staring at its shoes for six hours and complaining.

You walk on water, and complain that you can't find anything to drink!

You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

A bad attitude from a chronic complaining employee is like a cancer; it will only spread and infect others. This can take your business down in a nanosecond. You must cut out the cancer and invite them to seek employment elsewhere. Quickly.

A little leavening of dissatisfied temper will spread through a group and change outlooks.

A belief is an absolute but arbitrary mental stance.

Although airing your grievances with others may help you feel less alone and on rare occasions gets you good advice, more often than not it keeps you stuck in a bad mood.

As a child, I cried because I had no toy until I met a child who had no bread.

A positive change has never been a result of worrying, complaining and making excuses instead of focusing on manifesting your true destiny.

At times it is what we do not say, or not saying a thing, that says a lot about us.

A temporary coalition of anger against the old regime was no basis for a stable government.

Author sees the "congested idealism" of the generally discontent as reservoir that will support centralized power even while disagreeing with many specific provisions.

Before you complain about the lack of big opportunities in your life, be sure to first seize all the small ones that are already in your presence.

Better channel your words into prayer, than into complaints. Zip your mouth and make a plan.

Bemoaning my existence wasn’t changing my existence.

Chronic complainers, in other words, idiots.