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  • It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. - Confucius


  • Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean. - Confucius


  • It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. - Edmund Burke


  • Those who do not complain are never pitied. - Jane Austen


  • 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. - Arthur Ashe


  • 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


  • 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


  • Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy. - Benjamin Franklin


  • Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others. - Francois FĂ©Nelon


  • What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain? - Marquis De Custine


  • 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


  • Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain. - Robert A Cook


  • What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment. - Horace


  • The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. - Lou Holtz


  • 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. - Johnson


  • 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. - Johnson


  • To hear complaints is tiresome to the miserable and the happy. - Johnson


  • I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known. - Edgar Watson Howe


  • Noise proves nothing, Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid. - Mark Twain



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