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Don't complain that you are not getting what you want, Just be glad you are not getting what you deserve!
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The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.
Those who complain about the way the ball bounces are often the ones who dropped it.
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
Don Marquis
It is rare indeed that there is not ample occasion for grumbling.
John Wagstaff
I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
Jane Wagner
When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
John Milton
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose
Kahlil Gibran
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
Joe Walsh
I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.
Clint Eastwood
Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.
William Jefferson Clinton
We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and brightness than we have to enter their houses and still their silverware.
Julia Moss Seton
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
Arnold Bennett
One chops the wood, the other does the grunting.
Yiddish Proverb
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.
George Bernard Shaw
You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
Samuel Goldwyn
A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde
When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
Ernest Renan
I find the pessimist to be, if not exactly pleasant, then at least sincere. You always know what a pessimist is thinking, and if you don
Christopher Orlet, from The Opti
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
Norman Cousins