Best 824 quotes in «complaining quotes» category

And in Canada we, you know, it costs us three or $400 million to have an election. You know, it's always been my position that we shouldn't complain about that; that's the price of admission for a living in a great democracy.

An intolerant sect has no right to complain when it is denied an equal liberty... A person's right to complain is limited to principles he acknowledges himself.

Anna Petrovna (to Shabelsky): You can't make a simple joke without an injection of venom. You are a poisonous man. Joking apart, Count, you're very poisonous. It's hideously boring to live with you. You're always grumpy, complaining, you find everyone bad, good for nothing. Tell me frankly, Count, did you ever speak well of anyone?

An unaspiring person always complaints. There is no end to his complaints. He bitterly complains even when the blessings of opportunity knock at his very door.

Anybody can decide if they have got the money to fight a case if they don't like a particular thing, and they complain to the watch committee, local council or whatever.

Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.

A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

A person who complains that his children don´t treat him well, should recall how he brought them up.

Arnold Schwarzenegger blew away dozens of cops as the Terminator. But I don't hear anybody complaining about that.

As long as we complain, we remain stuck in our problems. But a thankful attitude brings deliverance and makes God smile.

As long as you are stationary, no one will complain. Dogs don't bark at parked cars.

As we pass through the trials of life, let us keep an eternal perspective, let us not complain, let us become even more prayerful, let us serve others, and let us forgive one another. As we do this, 'all things [will] work together for good to [us] that love God.'

A sure sign of a crisis is the prevalence of cranks. It is characteristic of a crisis in theory that cranks get a hearing from the public which orthodoxy is failing to satisfy.

Before you complain today, be grateful you have breath to complain with.

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

Be a source of joy. And let haters complain about the world.

Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't complain, the wounded would have given far more than that to escape as they have, and the unwounded regard the money as a consolation prize for still being here.

a woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance.

Beautiful leaving (hajr), is to leave without harming, beautiful pardoning is to pardon without rebuking, and beautiful patience is to be patient without complaining.

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

Besides, I could hardly complain to the administration that I was being forced to learn magic.

Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are and the less you complain, the more likely you are to be taken for granted.

Be willing to work for nothing in things you think are stupid. Make work for yourself. Make your own luck. Don't complain. Hopefully, the work will find you if you are ready.

But if anything in thy own dispositiongives thee pain, who hinders thee from correcting thy opinion? And even if thou art pained because thou art not doing some particular thing which seems to thee to be right, why dost thou not rather act than complain?- But some insuperable obstacle is in the way?- Do not be grieved then, for the cause of its not being done depends not on thee.- But it is not worth while to live if this cannot be done.- Take thy departure then from life contentedly, just as he dies who is in full activity, and well pleased too with the things which are obstacles.

But all that being said about modulation, if you're serving people delicious food, they won't complain.

But when he thought to complain about the burden of its weight, he remembered that, because he had the jacket, he had withstood the cold of the dawn. We have to be prepared for change, he thought, and he was grateful for the jacket's weight and warmth. The jacket had a purpose, and so did the boy.

By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.

Catch fire today! Make today the day you stop complaining and do something!

Canadians complain too much. 'I like seasons.' So do I; that's why I live in a place that skips the [unpleasant] ones.

Comedy is just complaining in an entertaining way, Enterplaining.

Complaining about your current position in life is worthless. Have a spine and do something about it instead.

Complaining is never powerful because at the root of a complaint is powerlessness

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

Complaining does not work as a strategy.

Complaining doesn't make a difference; it's useless and it's wasted energy.

Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.

Complaining that a comic is drunk is like going to a titty bar and complaining because your lapdancer is a communist.

Complaint is. more contemptible than pitiful.

Complaints bring misery; compliments brings strength.

Complaining is an insult to God.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

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

Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself.

Complaining is the favorite pastime of millions.

Complaining will not change things in your life; only action will. Make a list of all you need to do to change what doesn't work in your life and, little by little, begin making those changes.

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.

Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.

Complaining is another way of saying to others, YOU SOLVE THE PROBLEM.

Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions

Comrade Blade Nzimande is complaining that EFF stole the ‘red colour’, he does not have a copyright on the ‘red colour’. There’s nothing we can steal from him because he has nothing but that skuurpot (pot scourer) face of his. Why didn’t he complain when Vodacom was red?