Complaining Quotes

There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

When it's impossible, it's better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.

Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems.

See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.

Whining is just unbecoming.

When people cease to complain, they cease to think.

If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes. If you continue complaining, it won't be long before they haul you out to a financial desert and there let you choke on the dust of your own regret.

Have an attitude of gratidude and you will have more to be grateful for; have a complaining spirit and you will attract more to complain about.

If you are a complainer you might have already spent your HELP quota.

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

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren't worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

Complain and remain. Praise and be raised.

All complaining comes from pride.

It's time to break our ties with anything in us that would rather complain about its situation than go to work to change it.

The more you gripe about your problems, the more problems you have to gripe about!

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.

If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

Most people do not realize that as they continue to find things to complain about, they disallow their own physical well-being. Many do not realize that before they were complaining about an aching body or a chronic disease, they were complaining about many other things first. It does not matter if the object of your complaint is about someone you are angry with, behavior in others that you believe is wrong, or something wrong with your own physical body. Complaining is complaining, and it disallows improvement.

Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.