Francois Fenelon Quotes

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

Francois Fenelon

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• Whenever I went to a wedding or a party, girls kept complaining about their shoes. I love to dance, and I wanted them to have shoes they could keep on all night.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Night
  • Party
  • Dance

• Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Life
  • Different
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• I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Up
  • Always
  • Blame

• It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Men
  • Girl
  • Action

• When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • People
  • Fall
  • Vision

• Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I've always believed that if you took one tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• The rules of sexism do not free men from the terror of violence; they only keep men from complaining about it.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Free
  • Violence

• Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Patience
  • Ego
  • Solitude

• 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
  • World
  • God
  • Men

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

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Time
  • Complaining

• For me, for a very long time, I was in denial because when you say you're sad or you're overwhelmed, we consider it whining or complaining. People say, 'Count your blessings,' and it's like, 'Yeah, I am, but I'm still sad. Something is wrong with me.' I had to acknowledge it.

  

  Karen Civil
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Grown-ups do a lot of complaining!

  

  Dav Pilkey
  • Complaining

• At some point, you got to stop caring about people's expectations and care only about your expectations of yourself.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • People
  • Stop
  • Caring

• The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself.

  

  Marcel Pagnol
  • Opinion

• I enthuse about Scrivener to all of my friends. Some of them even listen to me and download it. This is often swiftly followed by an email complaining that it's all very confusing, and they'll stick to Microsoft Word, thanks.

  

  Antony Johnston
  • Friends
  • Thanks
  • Complaining

• Anytime you're the creative force behind something and in front of the camera - we're not complaining, but it is an avalanche of work.

  

  Billy Eichner
  • Work
  • Complaining

• 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
  • Weird
  • Complaining

• In February of 1996, about six months after I created eBay, I started receiving a spate of complaints. Everyone was complaining about each other. I felt very much like I was a parent who had to adjudicate the brothers beating each other up.

  

  Pierre Omidyar
  • Up
  • Complaining
  • February

• There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Life
  • Tomorrow
  • Complaining

• Complaining about your luck is not allowed. Rokutarou, you’re not the only one that matters but they leave that aside and do their best.If you start comparing misfortunes, it would never end. What’s the meaning in that? Everyone knows you had a hard time.

  

  Chica Umino
  • Luck
  • Complaining
  • Allowed

• When you focus upon lack in an attitude of complaining, you establish a vibrational point of attraction that then gives you access only to more thoughts of complaint. Your deliberate effort to tell a new story will establish a new pattern of thought, providing you with a new point of attraction from your present, about your past, and into your future. The simple effort of looking for positive aspects will set a new vibrational tone that will begin the immediate attraction of thoughts, people, circumstances, and things that are pleasing to you.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Past
  • Simple
  • Focus

• Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin.

  

  Melissa Bean
  • Security
  • Social
  • Causes

• Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

  

  Francois Fenelon
  • Complaining