Complaints Quotes

• He who avoids complaint invites happiness.

  Abu Bakr

  Caliphs, Invites

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• There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

  Rita Dove

  Life, Motivational, Time

  Interview with Jesse Kornbluth for "The Book Report", www.math.buffalo.edu. April 8, 1997.

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• As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

  Helen Keller

  Night Vision, True Joy, Selfish People

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.170, Book Tree

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• To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

  Samuel Johnson

  Patience, Be Patient, Vain

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.32

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• It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

  Jane Wagner

  Complaining, Needs, Belief

  "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe". Play by Jane Wagner, 1985.

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• When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Kindness, Complaining, Littles

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Grumbling, Comfort, Complaining

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• 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

  Wise, Men, Liberty

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 1

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• Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain.

  Robert A. Cook

  Positive, Brain, Complaining

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• When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.

  Samuel Johnson

  Power, Anxiety, Mind

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• The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

  Josh Billings

  Business, Grease, Complaining

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• A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Work, Rights, Credit

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays”, p.59, Oxford University Press

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• I've been blessed. I have no complaints. I've been surrounded by people in radio, on stage and in motion pictures and television who love me. The things that have gone wrong have been simply physical things.

  Dick York

  Love, Blessed, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A man endures misfortune without complaint.

  Franz Schubert

  Men, Endure, Misfortunes

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• I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.

  Tina Yothers

  Childhood, Fatherhood, Acting

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• The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'

  Tertullian

  Usual, Way, Earning

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• Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.

  Jim Harrison

  Writing, Literature, Problem

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• Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

  Denis Diderot

  Justice, Literature, Firsts

  "The Golden Treasury of Thought: A Gathering of Quotations from the Best Ancient and Modern Authors". Book by Theodore Taylor, p. 227, 1873.

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• Now my complaint is there are only 18 hours to work in a day.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Hours

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints.

  Loretta Lynn

  Winning, Awards, Nashville

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• Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Divorce, Lawyer, Bigs

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.

  Mason Cooley

  Complaining, Literature, Complainers

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• The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Singing, Suffering, Want

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me.

  Joseph Epstein

  Complainers, Has Beens

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• The FBI has had a history of sex discrimination complaints brought against it, as well as race discrimination

  Anita Hill

  Sex, Race, Discrimination

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