100 Complaint Quotes

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Famous Complaint Quotes

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money. — Adam Smith

Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions - Ajahn Brahm

Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions — Ajahn Brahm

Complaining proves nothing but that you can hear the voice of the Devil — Bill Johnson

We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it. — W. E. B. Du Bois

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment. — Horace

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness. — Eckhart Tolle

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain. - Henry Ford

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain. — Henry Ford

A complaining tongue reveals an ungrateful heart. — William Arthur Ward

If people are complaining about something, it means the product is good enough that they care about it. — Cliff Lerner

A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed. — Eric Hoffer

Complaining is silly. Either act or forget. - Stefan Sagmeister

Complaining is silly. Either act or forget. — Stefan Sagmeister

Before you complain today, be grateful you have breath to complain with. - LeCrae

Before you complain today, be grateful you have breath to complain with. — LeCrae

He who avoids complaint invites happiness. — Abu Bakr

Never complain. Never explain. — Katharine Hepburn

Never complain. Never explain. - Henry Ford

Never complain. Never explain. — Henry Ford

Short Complaint Quotes

  • I was so drunk last night I fell down and missed the floor. — Dean Martin
  • Bewildered, bewildered, you have no complaint. You are what you are, and you ain't what you ain't. — John Prine
  • Dry-cleaners suck. — James Murray
  • Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty. — Doris Day
  • Try to avoid complaints. Self-pity even when legitimate never fails to undermine your strength. — Mariane Pearl
  • It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. — Jane Wagner
  • A man endures misfortune without complaint. — Franz Schubert
  • A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income. — George Bernard Shaw
  • We are tired out in making complaints and getting no redress. — Joseph Brant
  • It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that'. — Stephen Fry

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Customer Complaint Quotes

Customer complaints are the schoolbooks from which we learn. — Lou Gerstner

If your users have many questions, it's a failure of your primary site design. It becomes not so much customer support, as much as customer complaints. — Jakob Nielsen

When handling a customers complaint, remember: If you can't fix it, don't drop it. — Unknown

We have the best customer satisfaction record, based on Transportation Dept. statistics, of any airline in America, the fewest complaints filed per 100,000 passengers carried. So you're not just getting low fares, you're also getting wonderful customer service. — Herb Kelleher

Any small business owner wears many hats. We [New View Window Cleaning] are the salesman, bookkeeper, scheduler, cleaner, customer complaint department, etc. If you aren't organized and willing to do all these things (at least in the beginning) you are better off working for someone. — Tony Evans

A complaint is a chance to turn a customer into a lifelong friend. I say that seriously, not as some press release baloney. — Richard Branson

Always welcome your customer's scorn. This rule says read the complaint letters. Categorize them. Decide how you are going to wipe them out. — Michael J. Silverstein

My biggest complaint about customer service is that I am put on hold too long. — Jon Jones

Listen to the customer's complaint and act fast. — Richard Branson

Deal with complaints. If you give the complaint your attention, you may be able to please this one person this one time - and position your business to reap the benefits of good customer service. — Susan Ward

No Complain Quotes

Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves. — Pope John Paul II

The people do not complain because they have no voice; do not move because they are lethargic, and you say that they do not suffer because you have not seen their hearts bleed. — Jose Rizal

Many sisters complain that people don't want to marry them unless they stop wearing hijab. No man is worth your hijab, and a real man wouldn't request you to take it off in the first place. — Omar Suleiman

I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet. — Confucius

I had no shoes and complained until I saw a man who had no feet. — Indian Proverbs

If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves — Thomas Sowell

We have to realize that our lives could be gone in a moment. There are no guarantees that we will be here at this time next year. Learn to live each day to the fullest. Don't complain. Don't focus on what's wrong. Be grateful for the opportunity to experience each day. — Joel Osteen

There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire. If you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain. Do something to make more money yourself - spend less time drinking, or smoking and socializing and more time working. — Gina Rinehart

When it's not always raining there'll be days like this. When there's no one complaining there'll be days like this. When everything falls into place like the flick of a switch. Well my mama told me there'll be days like this. — Van Morrison

Complain that you have no shoes until you meet a man who has no feet — Irish Proverbs

Complaining Quotes

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. — Maya Angelou

Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective. — LeCrae

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. — William Arthur Ward

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. — Shirley Chisholm

We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them. — Jackie Kennedy

Losers assemble in small groups & complain, winners assemble as a team & find ways to win. — Bill Parcells

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude. — Joyce Meyer

Comrade Blade Nzimande is complaining that EFF stole the ‘red colour’, he does not have a copyright on the ‘red colour’. There’s nothing we can steal from him because he has nothing but that skuurpot (pot scourer) face of his. Why didn’t he complain when Vodacom was red? — Julius Malema

My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work. — Henri Nouwen

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. - Stephen Hawking

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. — Stephen Hawking

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More Complaint Quotes

Man is equal to man. There should not be exploitation. One should help the other. No one should harm anybody. Generally there should be no room for grievance or complaint from anybody. Everyone should live and let others live, with a national spirit. — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

The spirit of complaint is born out of an unwillingness to trust God with today. Like the Israelites, it means you are spending your time looking back toward Egypt or wishing for the future all the while missing what God is doing right now. — Priscilla Shirer

There are days when we can bring before God...laughter of joy and gratitude. There will be other days when we can only muster a bitter, angry complaint. Be confident that God will accept whatever we lift up before him, and he will make it serve his purpose and our good. — Gardner C. Taylor

The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts. — Thomas Brooks

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. — Sigmund Freud

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me. — Soren Kierkegaard

Women do not get enough attention in a healthcare professional's office. We have been trained as healthcare professionals to look 'lightly' at women's complaints. — Steven Gundry

Do not think that your crying and complaints can force Jesus to become sentimental and then give Himself out so cheaply. — T. B. Joshua

Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world. — Pema Chodron

A guy complains of a headache. Another guy says, Do what I do. I put my head on my wife's bosom, and the headache goes away. The next day, the man says, Did you do what I told you to? Yes, I sure did. By the way, you have a nice house! — Henny Youngman

I was getting tired of hearing the complaint, "My kid could do this," and "We don't get it. What's modern art? Blah, blah, blah." And I wondered what would really happen if you gave people what they wanted, something they always look at. — John Baldessari

Women will tell you, 80 percent of the time - if you listen - what is wrong with them. And what frustrates me, as a physician who takes care of a lot of women with autoimmune diseases, is that women have to request and find a physician... who will actually take their complaints seriously and investigate. — Steven Gundry

I still don't know what leads to success. But I know what leads to insuccess: a temperament of complaint, the mentality of permanent victimhood, and the collective and individual propensity for lamentation. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side — Audre Lorde

We always have the potential to rise. Rise out of our slump. Rise out of our negative thoughts. Rise out of our comfort zone. Rise out of our complaints. GET UP AND RISE. Rising is a choice that's one powerful thought away. — Kris Carr

I think He intends to try you like gold in the crucible, so as to number you amongst His most faithful servants. Therefore you must lovingly embrace all occasions of suffering, considering them as precious tokens of His love. To suffer in silence and without complaint is what He asks of you. — Margaret Mary Alacoque

Some of the most vocal critics of the way things are being done are people who have done nothing themselves, and whose only contributions to society are their complaints and moral exhibitionism. — Thomas Sowell

Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal. — Marilyn vos Savant

Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints. — William Osler

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve. — Robert Burns

The dogma of cultural relativism is challenged by the very people for whose moral benefit the anthropologists established it in the first place. The complaint the underdeveloped countries advance is not that they are being westernized, but that the westernization is proceeding too slowly. — Claude Levi-Strauss

A soprano in Massenet's Don Quixote complained that she had missed her entry in the aria, "because Mr. Challiapin always dies too soon." "Madam, you must be profoundly in error," said Sir Thomas, "No operatic star has yet died half soon enough for me." — Thomas Beecham

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

Social reform is not to be secured by noise and shouting; by complaints and denunciation; by the formation of parties, or the making of revolutions; but by the awakening of thought and the progress of ideas. Until there be correct thought, there cannot be right action; and when there is correct thought, right action will follow. — Henry George

I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of vaginas. They bother me in the way that spiders bother some people. — Boy George

I have discovered a few things that help me when God seems silent... - Press in to God when you want to pull away. - Praise God out loud when you want to get lost in complaints. - Put yourself in the company of truth (reading Scriptures and surrounding yourself with positive, Godly people.) — Lysa TerKeurst

For people sometimes believed that it was safer to live with complaints, was necessary to cooperate with grief, was all right to become an accomplice in self-ambush... Take heart to flat out decide to be well and stride into the future sane and whole. — Toni Cade Bambara

I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents. — Thomas Jefferson

We took risks. We knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint. — Robert Falcon Scott

As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. — Helen Keller

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge. — Francesco Guicciardini

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints. — Bruce Barton

Anxiety, heartbreak, and tenderness mark the in-between state. It's the kind of place we usually want to avoid. The challenge is to stay in the middle rather than buy into struggle and complaint. The challenge is to let it soften us rather than make us more rigid and afraid. — Pema Chodron

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