Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Complaining

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) (1818–85) American Humorist, Author, Lecturer

Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
Anthony J. D’Angelo

One chops the wood, the other does the grunting.
Yiddish Proverb

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.
Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey (1773–1850) Scottish Judge, Literary Critic

It’s better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
William Lonsdale Watkinson (1838–1925) English Congregationalist Theologian, Author

In trying to get our own way, we should remember that kisses are sweeter than whine.
Unknown

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
John Milton (1608–74) English Poet, Civil Servant, Scholar, Debater

Depend upon it, that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him: for where there is nothing but pure misery, there never is any mention of it.
Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist

You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.
Bernard M. Baruch (1870–1965) American Financier, Economic Consultant

Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses.
German Proverb

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
Lou Holtz (1893–1980) American Stage Performer

Intelligence is nothing without delight.
Paul Claudel (1868–1955) French Poet, Essayist, Dramatist

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet

I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known.
E. W. Howe (1853–1937) American Novelist, Editor

Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him.
Chinese Proverb

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.
Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) American New Thought Writer, Physician, Entrepreneur

He that falls by himself never cries.
Turkish Proverb

Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.
William Osler (1849–1919) Canadian Physician

Don’t complain that you are not getting what you want, Just be glad you are not getting what you deserve!
Unknown

When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist

To make a criticism is a bit like complaining about the shape of the Pyramids.
Unknown

People that pay for things never complain. It’s the guy you give something to that you can’t please.
Will Rogers (1879–1935) American Actor, Rancher, Humorist

Noise proves nothing, Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist

Firmness, both in suffering and exertion, is a character which I would wish to possess.—I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint, and the cowardly feeble resolve.
Robert Burns (1759–96) Scottish Poet, Songwriter

It is no use to grumble and complain; It is no use to grumble and complain;
It’s just as cheap and easy to rejoice;
When God sorts out the weather and sends rain –
Why, rain’s my choice.
James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) American Children’s Books Writer, Poet, Writer

Sweat silently. Let’s have no squawking about a little expenditure of energy.
Martin H. Fischer

Never complain. Never explain.
Henry Ford (1863–1947) American Businessperson, Engineer

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet

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