Quotes about Complaints

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.

In their wild state, before the appearance of the white man among them, the principal complaints they were subject to were those produced by long involuntary fasting, violent exercise in pursuit of game, and over-eating. Instinct more than reason had taught them a remedy for these ills. It was the steam bath.

The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

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Jesus.. says, 'Let go of your complaints, forgive those who loved you poorly, step over your feelings of being rejected, and have the courage to trust that you won't fall into an abyss of nothingness but into the safe embrace of a God whose love will heal all your wounds.

When you let your wounded self express itself in the form of apologies, arguments, or complaints—through which it cannot be truly heard—you will only grow frustrated and increasingly feel rejected.

The great temptation of our lives is to deny our role as chosen people and to allow ourselves to be trapped in the worries of our daily lives. Without the word that keeps lifting us up as God's chosen people, we remain, or become, small people, stuck in the complaints that emerge from our daily struggle to survive.

Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.

And those who complain and try to obstruct and thwart things—they help as much as anyone. The world needs them as well.

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

Make this the year you stop complaining about your weaknesses, and instead search for their God-given purpose.