Instead Of Complaining Quotes

“Instead of complaining about the current state of affairs, we need to offer better alternatives. [ ... ] we need to stop cursing the darkness and start lighting some candles!”

— Mark Batterson

“It is has been a long time since I have written one of my statuses about life. I have been very busy trying to promote my Fan page, Friends and services, and my books. However, I can tell you all one thing for certain. I am not a Quitter. I will not stop writing books. I will not stop pushing myself to succeed. I will not stop being who I am.
I am a winner. Winning is an attitude. You take the good with the bad and you keep on going. It gets hard, you get tired and sometimes burnt out but you keep on going anyway, because you can.
Winners have setbacks, but winners learn tighten their belts and go on. Winner look at what has gone wrong and instead of complaining they find ways of doing it better. Winners know that Rome was not built in a day and take every day as it comes.
Winners do not whine, they roar.”

— Alexander Stone

“Failing adds to your experience, Success adds to your self-image. In life everything has its bright sides, you just need to perceive life positively, and focus on what you have instead of complaining on what you can't have”

— Jeekeshen Chinnappen

“In every failure, there's the seed to even greater success. However, people waste their time complaining, instead of looking for the seed among the rubble of what was.”

— Mauricio Chaves Mesén

“There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life.”

— Kurt Cobain

“Some people simply REFUSE to be happy. If they were stuck in a tunnel you can show them the way out and give them a light, but they will just sit there complaining about how they got there. They are more willing to fight to STAY there instead of fighting to coming out. Okay it happened. Now what? Stop focusing so hard on how you got there, focus on how you're going to get out! Keep it moving!”

— Yvonne Pierre

“The secret is this: When you have the single mind, you look on your circumstances as God-given opportunities for the furtherance of the gospel, and you rejoice at what God is going to do instead of complaining about what God did not do.”

— Warren W. Wiersbe

“Stop your complaining, stop your doctoring; this tumult has arisen and is direct from above, and it will not cease till it makes all the adversaries of the Word like the mud on the streets. But it is sad to have to remind a theologian like you of these things, as if you were a pupil instead of one who ought to be teaching others.”

— Martin Luther

“There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.”

— Rita Dove

“I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.”

— Kurt Cobain

“I think it's important as a women to know who you are and what you deserve. We, ourselves set the boundaries of what we choose to accept.
Instead of complaining about the men who's actions don't fit your own & move on and find one that does.”

— Nikki Rowe

“It was like wanting ice cream instead of meat loaf, and being told that children in refugee camps would be grateful for the meat loaf. Yes, of course she had nothing to complain about, compared to so many people, but when had that ever stopped anyone from complaining? Happiness was a balloon that always hovered just out of arm's reach.”

— Emma Donoghue

“An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead of complaining about it they sat up all night and invented the game of chess so that everyone else in the world, on evenings when there is nothing to do, can also be bored by the perplexing and tedious game they invented.”

— Lemony Snicket

“Make this the year you stop complaining about your weaknesses, and instead search for their God-given purpose.”

— John Piper

“The more you talk about investing problems, the worse you feel. Instead of complaining, it's better to do something.”

— Kenneth Fisher

“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Instead of complaining about what you don't like about your job, start commending what you do like and see how quickly it improves.”

— Napoleon Hill

“Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring. Instead of complaining, O my heart, of their brief duration, try to enjoy them.”

— Friedrich Ruckert

“Instead of complaining at his lot, a contented man is thankful that his condition and circumstances are no worse than they are. Instead of greedily desiring something more than the supply of his present need, he rejoices that God still cares for him. Such an one is "content" with such as he has (Heb. 13:5).”

— Arthur W. Pink

“Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective.”

— LeCrae

“Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say "Long live impermanence!"”

— Nhat Hanh

“Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.”

— Blaise Pascal

“When you get old, everything changes - your body changes, your family changes. You can't do what you've always done, anymore. And, either you can complain about things changing - or you can be content. Instead of complaining, you can say: "Oh, yesss! Look at all this change!" You can welcome it.”

— Ram Dass

“Be grateful for what you have to be thankful for instead of complaining about the little things that annoy you.”

— Dale Carnegie

“Complaining about your current position in life is worthless. Have a spine and do something about it instead.”

— Robert Kiyosaki