Collection of sentences on complaining, quotes on complaints, aphorisms on controversy and on those who always complain without knowing that it would be better to reduce expectations, contenting themselves with what you have to be happier.
Phrases on controversy
- Those who complain most, are those who suffer least.
- Don't complain about anyone, don't have expectations, just act. (Bill Parcells)
- Do not aspire to what has not been given to you, so that your disappointed hope has no reason to complain.
- Men complain about what they have lost; women of what they have not had. (Josh Billings)
- People who complain about their condition always blame the circumstances. The people who go on in this world are the ones who get busy and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, they create them.
- Do not console in the best way those who are overwhelmed by their sobs. (San Girolamo)
- Women complain of sex more frequently than men. Their complaints fall into two categories: not enough and too much.
- Men invented language to satisfy their unsustainable need to always complain. (Lily Tomlin)
- Man spends his life thinking about the past, complaining about the present, trembling for the future.
- Self-pity is a sign of weakness, while compassion shows strength. (Billy Graham)
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- Whoever complains that someone died, complains that he was a man.
- Listening to complaints with patience, even when complaints are useless, is one of the duties of friendship. (Samuel Johnson)
- If we thought about all the fortunes we had without deserving them, we wouldn't dare complain anymore.
- Do not make your evils more burdensome, do not oppress yourself with complaints: the pain is light if you do not increase it with your suggestion. (Lucio Anneo Seneca)
- Whoever provoked a witty arrow must not complain if it feels burning.
- Despite all our complaining in this world, it's not so bad. (Sigrid Undset)
- Those who destroy self-love, those who do not let themselves be helped, those who spend days complaining, their bad luck or incessant rain slowly die.
- Marxism will always be successful among artists without talent, because it gives them the opportunity to complain about the society that does not listen to what they have to say. (Clive James)
Phrases about the victimization of people
- We were born crying, we live complaining, and we die disappointed.
- Everyone is the architect of his own life, but sometimes someone looks back and is not satisfied with what he has built, so he looks for an excuse to complain instead of changing himself. (Sidney Madwed)
- Everyone complains about their memory, but nobody complains about their discernment.
- I have no reason to complain about what man has done to man? (William Wordsworth)
- Those who complain change the subject of their complaints, but never reduce the time spent complaining.
- The complaints that anyone who raises against his partner indicate exactly the qualities that stimulated the attraction before the wedding. (Rudolf Dreikurs)
- If we had no pride, we would not complain about that of others.
- The brevity of life, so often complained, could perhaps be what life has best. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
- The next time you feel like complaining about something, remember that your garbage can is probably better fed than thirty percent of the world's population.
- Happiness means not complaining about what there is nothing to do for. Complaints are the refuge of those who have no self-confidence. (Wayne W. Dyer)
- Those who spend their time badly are the first to complain that it passes too quickly.
- A look at the past. And ... complain? No: it is sterile. Learn: this is fruitful. (Saint Josemaria Escriva De Balaguer)
- The complaint takes energy away from your spirit, try to exploit that force that you feel born from within yourself to do something that you usually don't have the energy to do, or what you have long postponed, try, is magical.
- If life offers you a dream that exceeds all your expectations, it is not fair to complain because it ends in the end. (Stephenie Morgan Meyer)
- Happiness means not complaining about what there is nothing to do for. Complaints are the refuge of those who have no self-confidence.
- It will generally be found that men who constantly complain about their bad luck are only reaping the consequences of their own negligence, carelessness, and unpredictability, or lack of application. (Samuel Smiles)
- Business women are a problem: if you treat them like a man, they start complaining, if you treat them like a woman, your wife may find out.
- Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and many fools do it. (Dale Carnegie)
Phrases about complaining
- The habit of apologizing in advance is very bad, thus giving the opponent the opportunity to complain.
- We complain profusely, but we become cowards when it comes to taking action. We want everything to change, but we refuse to change ourselves. (Paulo Coelho)
- The next time you feel like complaining about something, remember that your garbage can is probably better fed than thirty percent of the world's population. (Robert Orben)
- Better to settle than complain. (Giovanni Verga)
- Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain, and almost all fools do. Instead, it takes character and self-control to listen, understand and forgive.
- We sometimes complain slightly of our friends to justify our lightness in advance. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld)
- Some people complain because roses have thorns. I am happy that the thorns have roses. (Alphonse Karr)
- Stop complaining, and the pain will go away. (Anton Pavlovic Chekhov)
- We complain profusely, but we become cowards when it comes to taking action. We want everything to change, but we refuse to change ourselves.
- Those who complain change the subject of their complaints, but never reduce the time spent complaining. (Mason Cooley)
- Suffering without complaining is the only lesson we have to learn in this life. (Vincent Van Gogh)
- Those who complain most are those who suffer least. (Publius Cornelius Tacitus)
- Many people complain about their fate, and do not take advantage of the thousands of small opportunities to feel better and be happier that arise daily in their lives.
- Man spends his life thinking about the past, complaining about the present, and trembling about the future. (Nicolas Chamfort)
- If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Do not complain. (Maya Angelou)
- We have to stop complaining about what we don't have and start asking for what belongs to us. (Isabel Coixet)
- Everyone complains of having little memory, nobody complains of having little judgment.
- Everywhere there are people who complain. (R. Lee Ermey)
- We were born crying, we live complaining, and we die disappointed. (Thomas Fuller)
- The same people who complain about the negative effects of television simultaneously complain that it does not bring about any change. (Clive James)
