Showing posts with label quotes on complaining. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quotes on complaining. Show all posts

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Quotes and Verses on Grumbling...

Quotes and verses on Grumbling

"Do not let any unwholesome talk
come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful
for building others up according to their needs,
that it may benefit those who listen."

- Ephesians 4:29

"And do not grumble, as some of them did -
and were killed by the destroying angel."

- 1 Corinthians 10:10

"It is a general error to suppose
the loudest complainers for the public to be
the most anxious for its welfare."

- Edmund Burke

"Complaint is more contemptible than pitiful."

- Christian Nestell Bovee

"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

"Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay
for all the comforts we enjoy."

- Benjamin Franklin

"This life is not for complaint,
but for satisfaction."

- Henry David Thoreau

"To tell thy mis'ries will no comfort breed;
Men help thee most, that think thou hast no need;
But if the world once thy misfortunes know,
Thou soon shall lose a friend and find a foe."

- Thomas Randolph