Complaining is a sign that something needs to change. In fact, compulsive complaining damages your brain and overall health. Inspirational stop complaining quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything. Let turn your complaints into action.
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Most Famous Complaining Quotes
What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain. – Maya Angelou
Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing. – Wayne W. Dyer
The best thing is to accept the circumstances, not take them personally, deal with them, stop complaining, and give everything your best. – Sushant Singh Rajput
When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints. – Samuel Johnson
To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness. – Eckhart Tolle
When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation, or accept it. All else is madness. – Eckhart Tolle
Complaining is a total waste of time! It does no good to complain. Complaining doesn’t resolve anything. – Jane Trumbull
Don’t complain; just work harder. – Randy Pausch
Champions never complain, they are too busy getting better. – John Wooden
Complaining does not work as a strategy.
We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them. – William Arthur Ward
If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it. – Anthony J. D’Angelo
Stay away from ‘still’ people. Still broke, still complaining, still hating, and still nowhere. – Anonymous
Untold suffering seldom is. – Franklin P. Jones
Complaining never makes anything better. – Anonymous
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain. – Maya Angelou
Never tell your problems to anyone…20% don’t care and the other 80% are glad you have them. – Lou Holtz
Go 24 hours without complaining. (Not even once). Then watch how your life starts changing. – Anonymous
Someone else is happy with less than what you have. – Anonymous
Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious. – Og Mandino
Sweat silently. Let’s have no squawking about a little expenditure of energy. – Martin H. Fischer
You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache. – Bernard M. Baruch
Happiness comes a lot easier when you stop complaining about your problems and you start being grateful for all the problems you don’t have. – Anonymous
I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct. – Robert Hugh Benson
Spending today complaining about yesterday won’t make tomorrow any better. – Anonymous
Be thankful and stop complaining. – Anonymous
The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects. – Lord Jeffrey
Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining – it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn’t solve any problems. – Zig Ziglar
Stop Complain Quotes
Haven’t you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that you’re in the way, that you’re bothering the person next to you. If people don’t like it, they can complain. And if they don’t have the courage to complain, that’s their problem. – Paulo Coelho
The only thing complaining does is convince other people that you are not in control. – Anonymous
Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious. – Og Mandino
One’s life must seem extremely flat With nothing whatever to grumble at! – W.S. Gilbert
You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. – Shirley Chisholm
Stop complaining about how your life isn’t what you want and start making your life the way you want it to be. – Anonymous
I think some people enjoy complaining almost as much as they enjoy doing nothing about it. – Anonymous
Complaining not only ruins everybody else’s day, it ruins the complainer’s day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get. – Dennis Prager
I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. – Jane Wagner
Happy are they who take life day by day, complain very little and are thankful for the little things in life. – Anonymous
Complaining is an insult to God. – Monica Johnson
The worst person to be around is someone who complains about everything and appreciates nothing. – Anonymous
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most do. – Dale Carnegie
Never complain and never explain. – Benjamin Disraeli
In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard. – Warren Farrell
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. – Joseph Addison
The world becomes a better place when people get busy doing what they love instead of complaining about what they hate. – Anonymous
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The realist adjusts the sail. – William A. Ward
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
Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity, and consume your own smoke with an extra draft of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints. – William Osler
Complaining is a complete waste of one’s energy. Those who complain the most accomplish the least. – Anonymous
Complaining is finding faults. Wisdom is finding solutions. – Ajahn Brahm
Life becomes more challenging if all you do is complain. – Anonymous
Excuses are only for those people who are unwilling to find the solution, who find greater solace in the loudness of their complaints rather than in the action they are taking to implement the actions that carry them steadily forward to their achievement. – Bryon Pulsifer
If you can quit, quit. If you can’t quit, stop complaining – this is what you chose. – J.A. Konrath
Train hard instead of complaining and making excuses. – Anonymous
Stop Complaining About Your Life Quotes
Stressing and complaining will change nothing. Take action, make a change, and never look back. – Anonymous
In trying to get our own way, we should remember that kisses are sweeter than whine. – Author Unknown
Now, 10 years later, the person who talked and complained is still talking and complaining and still remains in the same position. The person who took the initiative and found solutions has been promoted several times. – Catherine Pulsifer
Be happy with what you have while working for what you want. – Helen Keller
As you breathe right now, another takes his last. So stop complaining and learn to live with what you have. – Anonymous
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. – Unkown
I can’t complain, but sometimes I still do. – Joe Walsh
Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young. – Sigmund Freud
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. – William Arthur Ward
Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others. – Francois Fenelon
If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes. – Anonymous
Enough complaining! Take action to reduce the things in life that cause you irritation and grief. – Anonymous
I have the choice to be angry at God for what I don’t have, or be thankful for what I do have. – Nick Vujicic
You could at least complain, I say. I adore complaining. It calms the nerves. – Franny Billingsley
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
It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. – Confucius
If you aren’t willing to work for it. Don’t complain about not having it. – Fearless Motivation
A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances. – Lisa Kleypas
I think there’s an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we’re complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen. – Sherilyn Fenn
Complaining is truly my strongest weakness. – Evinda Lepins
Sweat silently. Let’s have no squawking about a little expenditure of energy. – Martin H. Fischer
The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. – Randall Jarrell
A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks. – Oscar Wilde
Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy. – Benjamin Franklin
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him. – Samuel Johnson
That’s typically what writers do; we just sit around complaining most of the time. And the better things are going, the more they complain. – Markus Zusak
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future. – Antoine Rivarol
The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects. – Lord Jeffrey
I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable to complain about what you have than it is to ask for what you want. – Phil Lout
I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception. – Mark Twain
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. – Edmund Burke
People that pay for things never complain. It’s the guy you give something to that you can’t please. – Will Rogers
Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. – Proverb
To make a criticism is a bit like complaining about the shape of the Pyramids. – Author Unknown
The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain. – Ronald Firbank
The squeaking wheel doesn’t always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced. – Unkown
When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away. – Samuel Johnson
We can choose to complain about the world or not. When we go to the quiet place in our hearts where our Spirit lives and we train ourselves to listen to that Voice, our mistakes and disgruntles become less and less. – Jeanne Aisthorpe-Smith
Do all things without grumbling or questioning, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain. – Philippians 2:14-16
Haven’t you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that you’re in the way, that you’re bothering the person next to you. If people don’t like it, they can complain. And if they don’t have the courage to complain, that’s their problem – Paulo Coelho
Short Complaining Quotes
I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known. – Edgar Watson Howe
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. – Samuel Johnson
Noise proves nothing, Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid. – Mark Twain
I hate to complain… No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches. – Abigail Adams
The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot. – James Allen
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain. – Maya Angelou
You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache. – Bernard Baruch
Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won’t make us happier. – Randy Pausch
Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn’t take any brains to complain. – Robert A. Cook
Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean. – Confucius
Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. – German Proverb
I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. – Jane Wagner
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
While you are complaining about the little problems in your life, somebody is actually fighting for theirs. – Jon Morrow
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. – Ephesians 4:29
Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door. – James 5:9
Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. – 1 Thessalonians 5:18
When you feel dog tired at night, it may be because you’ve growled all day long. – Unkown
Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help. – Criss Jami
What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain. – Maya Angelou
One’s life must seem extremely flat with nothing whatever to grumble at! – W.S. Gilbert
If you can quit, quit. If you can’t quit, stop complaining – this is what you chose. – J.A. Konrath
Never tell your problems to anyone…20% don’t care and the other 80% are glad you have them. – Lou Holtz
People that pay for things never complain. It’s the guy you give something to that you can’t please. – Will Rogers
