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Grumbling and gratitude are, for the child of God, in conflict. Be grateful and you won't grumble. Grumble and you won't be grateful. -- Billy Graham
Grumbling is the death of love -- Marlene Dietrich
Grumbling is the death of love. -- Marlene Dietrich
Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses. -- Alphonse Karr
I get sort of short with people and start grumbling and clearing my throat - in honor of my father - when I'm impatient. It's very charming. -- Maria Bamford
When doubt comes against us, we have to lift up the shield of faith. We do this when we open our mouth and say what God's Word says, rather than grumbling and complaining about the problem. -- Joyce Meyer
Let us be ashamed of our slowness in thanking God when He gives, and of our quickness in grumbling at Him when He takes away. -- Nikolaj Velimirovic
Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others. -- C. S. Lewis
I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known. -- E. W. Howe
Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic. -- Douglas William Jerrold
It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints. -- Bruce Barton
You're so caught up in grumbling, complaining, and seeing what's wrong that you have no energy or time to appreciate what's good. -- Joyce Meyer
Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good. -- John Piper
What are the physical sensations you associate with hunger? For most people, these sensations include stomach grumbling, headaches, light-headedness, irritability, fatigue and inability to focus. -- Joel Fuhrman
Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual poverty so characteristic of today. -- Charles Handy
I have always been a grumbler. I am designed for the part - sagging face, weighty underlip, rumbling, resonant voice. Money couldn't buy a better grumbling outfit. -- J. B. Priestley
Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, quickly and willingly, without grumbling and contradiction, they do all your commands that are not against God. -- Robert Grosseteste
What the Lord wants is that you shall go about the business to which He sets you, not asking for an easy post, nor grumbling at a hard one. -- Catherine Booth
I can have my day carefully planned, but if someone wakes up with a cough or a sniffle, then everything changes. Thinking quickly and adapting without grumbling are essential skills to learn, in my opinion. -- Susanna Kearsley
Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms. -- Anton Chekhov
One motivation for the 'Soul Train' awards was the grumbling that all of us in the industry have heard about the way black music tends to be viewed as a secondary phenomenon by the other awards shows. -- Don Cornelius
If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings and complaints. If, on the contrary, you pitch your expectations low, taking folks as the inefficient creatures which they are, you are frequently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped. -- Bruce Barton
What women will say to other women grumbling in their kitchens and complaining and gossiping or what they make clear in their masochism is often the last thing they will say aloud - a man may overhear. Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. -- Doris Lessing
I think, like a lot of actors and people in the arts who are struggling to get where they want to be, you spend a lot of time sitting around grumbling about how you're not doing the kind of work you really want to do. But there's a lot of complacency in that, too. -- Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, Your laboring people think beyond all question, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion. -- Lord Byron
Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst; it discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot; it regards problems, large or small, as opportunities; it pushes ahead when it would be easy to quit; it lights the candle instead of cursing the darkness. -- Tony Robbins
[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling. -- T. S. Eliot
The very large, very respectable, and very knowing class of misanthropes who rejoice in the name of grumblers,--persons who are so sure that the world is going to ruin, that they resent every attempt to comfort them as an insult to their sagacity, and accordingly seek their chief consolation in being inconsolable, their chief pleasure in being displeased. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
Those who grumble at the little thing that has fallen to their lot to do will grumble at everything. Always grumbling, they will lead a miserable life, and everything will be a failure. But those who do their duties as they go, putting their shoulders to the wheel, will see the light, and higher duties will fall to their share. -- Swami Vivekananda
Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic. This is a most searching and true diagnosis. Gratitude can be a vaccine that can prevent the invasion of a disgruntled attitude. As antitoxins prevent the disastrous effects of certain poisons and diseases, thanksgiving destroys the poison of faultfinding and grumbling. When trouble has smitten us, a spirit of thanksgiving is a soothing antiseptic. -- John Henry Jowett
Hope discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot. -- James Keller
Sunlight streamed through grumbling storm clouds that played like tiger kittens around the mountain ridges. -- Jane Wilson-Howarth
grumbling, as things are at present arranged in this world, does not always, nor I might say often, do good ... -- Mary Louisa Molesworth
Cultivate these, then, for they are wholly within your power: sincerity and dignity; industriousness; and sobriety. Avoid grumbling, be frugal, considerate, and frank; be temperate in manner and speech; carry yourself with authority. -- Marcus Aurelius

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