J. A. Konrath Quotes

Patience is important, and also, if you don't want to do it, don't do it. But if you do, do. That's a general rule in how I live my life.

Life was messy. Always had been and always would be and that was just the way it was, so why bother complaining? You either did something about it or you didn’t, and then you lived with the choice you made.

You've just got to do the best that you can.

All you can do is the best you can do.

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

I don't like to complain.

The only thing I pray for is the strength to go out without complaining.

All you can do is to do your best.

I was raised, right or wrong, you make a decision and you don't quit. You fight your way through it; that's what you did.

Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.

Quitting’s not hard. Deciding to quit is hard. Once you make that mental leap, the rest is easy.” “Really? Was that how you quit me?

It's not can you, it's will you

We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.

Never complain about what you permit.

Do not kick against the pricks.

Christ was willing to suffer wrongs and to be despised, and do you dare to complain of anything?.

All delay is irksome, but it teaches us wisdom.

Do something you hate every day, just for the practice.

I guess in the end, it doesn’t matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had.

A man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently.

If I simply do my best, I cannot complain even if I am taken to hell.

Never complain or make excuses. If something seems unfair, just prove yourself by working twice as hard and being twice as good.

Don't moan, don't whine, don't blame. Just get on with it.

How long could we do this before you started bitching?" Simon said as we turned down another street of apartment buildings. "What?" "We've been walking for two days now, and you haven't complained once. It's damned annoying, you know." I looked at him. "If you don't complain, then I can't complain. Not without sounding like a whiny little snot.