Complaining Quotes

• I'm never gonna stop the rain by complaining, because I'm free, nothing's worrying me.

  

  Billy Joe "B.J." Thomas
  • Free
  • Stop
  • Worry

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

  

  Gerald Brooks
  • Complaining
  • Praying
  • We Do

• It takes incredible fortitude to keep on the road, even though it's fun and it's rewarding and you can't complain, it's just a great life, but it takes a lot of energy.

  

  Kate Pierson
  • Energy
  • Incredibles
  • Fortitude

• I guess I need a hobby. Currently my primary hobby is complaining.

  

  Jay Duplass
  • Complaining

• You always see actors complaining about being typecast and ruining their career. Really, I don't see the point in complaining. If the only role you can play well is a black dude, you're never going to get ahead in this town, and you should just accept it.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Career
  • Black
  • Complaining

• Be a light, not a judge, be a model not a critic. Little by little, your circle of influence will explode and you will avoid the emotional metastasizing cancers of complaining, criticizing, competing, comparing and cynicism, all which reflect victimization, all of which are the opposite of being proactive.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Emotional
  • Cancer
  • Influence

• A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with light weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Soul
  • Pain
  • Adversity

• Don't criticize, condemn or complain. Constantly criticizing, condemning and complaining is what breaks most relationships. Instead of criticizing and condemning, figure out how you can solve the problem together. Instead of focusing on blaming the other person for what they did wrong, focus on how you can avoid the problem next time.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Time
  • Together
  • Focus

• We did not play. I don't know if we overlooked them, (but) there's no point in complaining about it. We deserved to lose. We should be going home and we will be going home in a couple of hours.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Lose
  • Complaining
  • Deserved

• Youths write me and tell me that their band will go nowhere because of all the bad bands in the world. I tell them there has always been awful music and that no great band ever wasted any time complaining, they just got it done. Their ropey ranting is just a way to get out of the hard work of making music that will do some lasting damage.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • World
  • Writing
  • Done

• I have never heard a dancer asking for advice about how to stay focused on her footwork, or a painter complaining about the dull day-to-day task of painting. What task worth doing isn't worth daily effort? Do you think Michelangelo was having fun the whole time he was on his back painting the Sistine Chapel's ceiling?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Effort

• You do get a lot of people complaining if you don't do songs they have come to expect. I have to be careful about fulfilling that side of things and keeping it fresh for other people who have come to see the show.

  

  Colm Wilkinson
  • People
  • Complaining

• We can sit between active drilling operations in neighboring countries, complaining that it's too risky to develop our own resources while the world around us does exactly that.

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • World
  • Complaining

• Well that would be nice but I am not complaining about things being hectic, it is great what I have been able to do, it's just that things get a bit much sometimes.

  

  Alex Parks
  • Nice
  • Sometimes
  • Able

• I'm thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Time
  • Kill
  • Complaining

• Tis the voice of the sluggard I heard him complain,You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Voice
  • Heard
  • Slumber

• Love is Enough Love is enough: though the world be a – waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining, Though the skies be too dark for dim eyes to discover The gold – cups and daisies fair blooming thereunder, Though the hills be held shadows, and the sea a dark wonder, And this day draw a veil over all deeds passed over, Yet their hands shall not tremble, their feet shall not falter: The void shall not weary, the fear shall not alter These lips and these eyes of the loved and the lover.

  

  William Morris
  • World
  • Love
  • Fear

• I told them (TFF) that I will pay the salary of a foreign coach but to date nobody has come to me with any plans concerning the hiring of a coach. I have only heard them saying that Tanzania has been drawn in a tough group. They are just complaining instead of starting preparations. They are waiting to make excuses when the team fails to qualify.

  

  Jakaya Kikwete
  • Team
  • Waiting
  • Excuses

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

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Thankful
  • Complaining

• Every person, whether in wartime or not, should keep a pistol and rifle in his house at all times. If a person is not going to protect himself, and wishes the government to do it for him, how can he complain when the government decides to protect itself against him, and executes him?

  

  William Powell
  • House
  • Wish
  • Protect

• 'Just Do It' is exactly what you need to hear when you're in a moment of doubt. When you're struggling, especially with sport... just do it. Stop talking about it, stop complaining about the cellulite, or that you're not able to run fast enough for the bus... just do it.

  

  Jessie J
  • Stop
  • Doubt
  • Complaining

• I have way too much going on, as usual, but fortunately it's all good stuff. I'm not complaining.

  

  Brad Listi
  • Stuff
  • Complaining

• You might have noticed Harry Reid is a little upset with Americans for Prosperity. Let me tell you, when the Democrat leader is complaining about you on the Senate floor, you know you are doing something right.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • Complaining

• On our Web site, we have people complaining about us not playing new stuff. But there's so many classic Lynyrd Skynyrd songs, you can't go out and just do a bunch of new things.

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • People
  • Complaining
  • Website

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