“When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.”
“We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.”
“Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain.”
“Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.”
“Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.”
“I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.”
“It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.”
“The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.”
“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.”
“If I were to say, ''God, why me?'' about the bad things, then I should have said, ''God, why me?'' about the good things that happened in my life.”
“When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.”
“We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and ;brighten possibilities.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The sun was shining in my eyes, and I could barely see to do the necessary task that was allotted me. Resentment of the vivid glow I started to complain. When all at once upon the air I heard the blind man's cane.”
“Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.”
“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.”