Top 1200 Always Complaining Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.

I remember my dad always complaining about getting pulled over. I remember the differences in school systems. I remember seeing police officers, not knowing their names, and knowing that they were there not to protect us, not to serve us, but to watch us.

A few years ago I met an old professor at the University of Notre Dame. Looking back on his long life of teaching, he said with a funny wrinkle in his eyes: I have always been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I slowly discovered that my interruptions were my work.

Shooting takes up all my time. But I'm not complaining!

I will never stop complaining.

When it's not always raining there'll be days like this. When there's no one complaining there'll be days like this. When everything falls into place like the flick of a switch. Well my mama told me there'll be days like this.

A complaining tongue reveals an ungrateful heart.

Most bodybuilders only have a hazy notion of what they want to look like. They do not say, 'I am going to be a winner.' The negative impulses around the gym can be incredible. I would hear bodybuilders complaining, 'Oh,no! Not another set!' That destroyed them. I have always believed that if you're training for nothing, you're wasting your effort!

A wise man will always allow a fool to rob him of ideas without yelling “Thief.” If he is wise he has not been impoverished. Nor has the fool been enriched. The thief flatters us by stealing. We flatter him by complaining.

If anything diminishes a person, it is the cancer of constant complaining.

You don't hear Metallica complaining about Pearl Jam.

Complaining is an insult to God.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

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

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?

Worry is not thought; complaining is not action.

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

Comedy is just complaining in an entertaining way, Enterplaining.

One actor in my life is enough, and that's me. With actors, it's too easy to go into this world of complaining. Someone will always be better, richer, more loved, do more work. Those dynamics don't interest me. The friends I hang out with, we create our own work rather than complain about acting.

Grown-ups do a lot of complaining!

What annoys me most is it is so easy to focus on negatives all the time. All you hear is a lot of people - whether it is industry leaders or politicians - complaining about everything. I don't deny things are not always perfect, but the stage it gets is huge compared with the simple things that make people happy, like winning a football match.

If you are somebody who has a disease, you are not complaining when someone starts to do work for you. That is your hope.

I work in between complaining.

Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?

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

You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck - and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee - or you can go out and become an entrepreneur.

It put me upon reflecting how little repining there would be among mankind at any condition of life, if people would rather compare their condition with those that were worse, in order to be thankful, than be always comparing them with those which are better, to assist their murmurings and complaining.

Complaining advertizes your fears.

You create opportunities by performing, not complaining

I did have a constituent four or five years ago - she never liked me. So, she called, I returned her call, and she was complaining about something, and she said: 'And why do you always use green? I think it's narcissistic.' And I said, 'Well, ma'am, everyone has to have a gimmick, and that's my gimmick.'

If there were nothing you'd still be complaining!

If you are complaining you can't be thinking about or creating what you do want.

I'm surrounded by men, and the muse is complaining that I have neglected her.

There's no point about whining or complaining or screaming.

When you're on TV in America, the girls love you. I'm not complaining.

Merely complaining without proposing an alternative offers nothing.

don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?

Complaining proves nothing but that you can hear the voice of the Devil

Let's admit it; the only use for complaining is to make people laugh.

I've become a guy who's like a complaining, whining neurotic.

The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

Loss is essential, loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. Mind you, I'm not complaining. Thanks to some inexplicable universal guiding force, it is always the worthless things we lose - slough off, like a moulting snake. Losing and losing again, is the very basis of the process, til all we are left with is the bare essence of human existence.

I'm not complaining if my work is getting more recognition than me.

You know, I'm the mayor of Realville. I'm Mr. Literal. And I never saw the benefit of complaining and whining and moaning. I don't complain and whine and moan anyway, and I don't deal well with people that do. I don't know how to react to complaining, other than say, "Oh, gee, I'm sorry." I don't know how to react to whining and moaning. It kind of bothers me. So I don't do it myself. Lord knows, I got all kinds of things. I could spend the rest of this week whining and moaning if you wanted me to about things. I just don't.

When you get old, everything changes - your body changes, your family changes. You can't do what you've always done, anymore. And, either you can complain about things changing - or you can be content. Instead of complaining, you can say: "Oh, yesss! Look at all this change!" You can welcome it.

All complaining comes from pride.

Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.

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

You don't see players at United complaining to their manager when they are taken off.

Complaining does not work as a strategy.

Raising the standard of the work, not complaining about somebody not voting.

Try to do exactly as you are taught without complaining or quibbling.

The money is great, no way am I complaining.

I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.

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

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

She [Eva Braun] was always complaining later on, "I know nothing that's going on." They [with Adolf Hitler] talked about other things: dogs, movies, music, Munich gossip, who was going with who, who was cheating on their spouses, who was drinking too much or trying to quit. All sorts of local things like that.

Look forward to where you want to be and spend no time complaining about where you are.

Complaining is the favorite pastime of millions.

Innovative people have always been in high demand. Help those around you to develop that “never-say-die” attitude by developing it yourself. Make a decision, today, to outlaw complaining, whining and negative thinking in your own personality. And, a word of caution: if and when you are criticized for being so positive or as some call it, “unrealistic,” you will know you are on the right track.