C Quotes
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“Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.”
“Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions”
“Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.”
“Complaining is like vomiting. You might feel better after you get it out, but you make everybody around you sick.”
“Complaining is never any good: it stems from weakness. Whether one charges one's misfortune to others or to oneself — the socialist does the former; the Christian, for example, the latter — really makes no difference. The common and, let us add, the unworthy thing is that it is supposed to be somebody's fault that one is suffering; in short, that the sufferer prescribes the honey of revenge for himself against his suffering. The objects of this need for revenge, as a need for pleasure, are mere occasions: everywhere the sufferer finds occasions for satisfying his little revenge. If he is a Christian — to repeat it once more — he finds them in himself. The Christian and the anarchist are both decadents. When the Christian condemns, slanders, and besmirches "the world," his instinct is the same as that which prompts the socialist worker to condemn, slander, and besmirch society. The "last judgment" is the sweet comfort of revenge — the revolution, which the socialist worker also awaits, but conceived as a little farther off. The "beyond" — why a beyond, if not as a means for besmirching this world?”
“Complaining is never powerful because at the root of a complaint is powerlessness”
“Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.”
“Complaining is the absolute worst possible thing you could do for your health or your wealth. The worst!”
“Complaining is the favorite pastime of millions.”
“Complaining is truly my strongest weakness.”
“Complaining is what we do when we are really not praying.”
“Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.”
“Complaining proves nothing but that you can hear the voice of the Devil”
“Complaining solves nothing but creative problem solving amongst people with a common focus will produce solutions.”
“Complaining to police internal affairs does not work.”
“Complaining will not change things in your life; only action will. Make a list of all you need to do to change what doesn't work in your life and, little by little, begin making those changes.”
“Complains are like the clouds that give no rain no matter how thick they gather.”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“Complains are like the clouds that produce no rain no matter how thick they gather. Never depend on your complaint thinking they are stair cases. Drop that thing.”
Source: Shaping the dream
“Complaint is a cancer to wealth. But gratitude is an amplifier of wealth.”
Source: The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic
“Complaint is a prayer to the devil.”
“Complaint is often the result of an insufficient ability to live within the obvious restrictions of this god damned cage.”
“Complaint is poverty.”
Source: The Christian Science Journal
“Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.”
Source: The works of Jonathan Swift ...: accurately revised ... adorned with copperplates; with some account of the author's life, and notes historical and explanatory
“Complaint is. more contemptible than pitiful.”
“Complaint was made, then and since, that Meade failed to coordinate his attacks, that he was not up to managing these offensive operations. But Cold Harbor was a stark demonstration that by 1864, whether coordinated or not, no frontal assault on the entrenched Army of Northern Virginia could possibly succeed. And at Cold Harbor Meade recognized that fact before Grant did.”
Source: Lincoln's Lieutenants: The High Command of the Army of the Potomac
“Complaints about reality are immature.”
“Complaints about the social irresponsibility of the intellectual typically concern the intellectual's tendency to marginalize herself, to move out from one community by interior identification of herself with some other community - for example, another country or historical period... It is not clear that those who thus marginalize themselves can be criticized for social irresponsibility. One cannot be irresponsible toward a community of which one does not think of oneself as a member. Otherwise runaway slaves and tunnelers under the Berlin Wall would be irresponsible.”
“Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable, that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.”
Source: The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution
“Complaints are prayers to the devil.”
“Complaints are useless said one, complaints are like alarms said second. Neither are complaints useless neither alarms - only useless alarms are useless, great complaints can lead to great things.
If no one knows of the fire, who calls [or] comes to help.
Character of the act.”
“Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.”
Source: Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
“Complaints drain joy.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“Complaints of feeling cut off, shut off, out of touch, feeling apart or strange, of things being out of focus or unreal, of not feeling one with people, or of the point having gone out of life, interest flagging, things seeming futile and meaningless, all describe in various ways this state of mind. Patients usually call it 'depression', but it lacks the heavy, black, inner sense of brooding, of anger and of guilt, which are not difficult to discover in classic depression. Depression is really a more extraverted state of mind, which, while the patient is turning his aggression inwards against himself, is part of a struggle not to break out into overt angry and aggressive behaviour. The states described above are rather the 'schizoid states'. They are definitely introverted. Depression is object-relational. The schizoid person has renounced objects, even though he still needs them.”
Source: Schizoid Phenomena, Object Relations and the Self
“Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.”
Source: Works, including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition: withletters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works
“Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every talent a man can be possessed of. It was Plato's advice to an unpolished writer that he should sacrifice to the graces. In the same manner I would advise every man of learning, who would not appear in the world a mere scholar or philosopher, to make himself master of the social virtue which I have here mentioned.”
Source: The Tatler and the Guardian: Complete in One Volume, with Notes, and a General Index
“Complementary currencies work in addition to existing money, rather than replacing existing, official money. There are whole different families of complementary currencies. One of them is local currencies. One is regional currencies. Another is functional currencies. Another is social-purpose currencies.”
“Complementing the nation-state as it reaches its limits amid globalization: That is what Europe must offer.”
“Complements from your companion will do you no good, but if you get complements from your competitors it means you are really doing good.”
“Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.”
“Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.”
“Complete and accurate surveillance as a means of control is probably a practical impossibility. What is much more likely is a loss of privacy and constant inconvenience as the wrong people gain access to information, as one wastes time convincing the inquisitors that one is in fact innocent, or as one struggles to untangle the errors of the errant machine.”
Source: Technological Man: The Myth and the Reality
“Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.”
“Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings
“Complete control can be the death of a work.”
“Complete equality isn't compatible with democracy, but it is a agreeable to tolitarianism. After all the only way to ensure the equality of the slothful, the inept and the immoral is to suppress everyone else.”
“Complete focused applied awareness of the Soul (shuddha upayog) is considered absolute Knowledge (keval gnan).”
“Complete free trade is not politically feasible. Why? Because it's only in the general interest and in no one's special interest.”
“Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.”
“Complete garbage. It's like Garden State, but in outer space.”