Complaining is sometimes a signal, a little flare from the soul, saying “something needs attention.” But when it becomes a habit, it can drain the day of joy and distort our thoughts. As Marquis de Custine asks: “What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?” ~ Marquis de Custine

All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy. ~ Dennis Prager

Don’t complain to others about your troubles. Half of them don’t care and the other half are glad. ~ Emmitt Smith

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

This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others. ~ François Fénelon

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

Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean. ~ Confucius

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 von Goethe

I can’t complain, but sometimes I still do. ~ Joe Walsh

My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding. All it will do is discolor my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more. ~ Og Mandino

I can’t stand it when a player whines to me or his teammates or his wife or the writers or anyone else. A whiner is almost always wrong. A winner never whines. ~ Paul Brown

Just because nobody complains doesn’t mean all parachutes are perfect. ~ Benny Hill

Complaining doesn’t change people. All that “This is terrible.” It’s not so terrible. ~ Alice Herz-Sommer