Quotes on Complaining

This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.

Those who are content have enough; those that complain, have too much.

When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints, but exert your whole care to hide it; by endeavouring to hide it; you will dry it away. Be always busy.

One of the things that people complain about is loneliness, disconnectedness. If you live in a society where your life is rarely threatened and most of your relationships are more on an economic exchange basis, then this could leave people feeling less connected.

Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree of Life, lest we might eat of it.

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.

We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

The poor give us much more than we give them. They're such strong people, living day to day with no food. And they never curse, never complain. We don't have to give them pity or sympathy. We have so much to learn from them.

Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.

Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.

On the Internet, all those same guys that are complaining I made a change are completely changing the movie. I’m saying: ‘Fine. But my movie, with my name on it, that says I did it, needs to be the way I want it.’

If women are breadwinners and men bring home the bacon, why do people complain about having no dough? I'm confused. Also hungry.

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

I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.

In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: 'When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?'

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.