Top 50 Do Not Whine Quotes
#1. Fate deals you a hand, and you play the hand you are dealt. You do not whine, you do not complain. That, he used to believe, was his philosophy. Why then can he not resist these plunges into darkness?
J.M. Coetzee
#2. Among the humble and great alike, those who achieve success do so not because fate and circumstance are especially kind to them. Often the reverse is true. They succeed because they do not whine over their fate but take whatever has been given to them and go on to make the most of their best.
Sidney Greenberg
#3. Do not whine ... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.
Joan Didion
#4. Winners do not whine, they roar. Let me hear you roar!
Ken Polson
#5. Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
Robert Greene
#6. Don't whine to your spouse about your daily troubles. He's had a harder day providing for you and your children. This is what you're aspiring to?
Lindsey Leavitt-Going Vintage
#7. The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega. It is God's brooding over the face of the waters; it is the blended note of the ten thousand things, the whine of wings.
Annie Dillard
#8. I listened to the whine in my voice with a detached fascination. It was a false question. No answer would have pacified me. I had simply given in to a perverse need to ask, to expose and torment myself, and as soon as I heard the words, I experienced both relief and humiliation.
Siri Hustvedt
#9. In the household in which I was raised, the themes were pretty simple. 'Work hard. Don't quit. Be appreciative, be thankful, be grateful, be respectful. Also, never whine, never complain. And always, for crying out loud, keep a sense of humor.'
Michael Keaton
#10. He had never seen fly-fishing like this before. There were wet flies, and there were dry flies, but this fly augured into the water with a saw-toothed whine and dragged the fish out backwards.
Terry Pratchett
#11. I love pouring my heart out. People don't want to hear you whine when you're with friends, so you can sing about it instead - it's the best outlet.
Lykke Li
#12. And the continual non-up-turnance of so valuable a commodity as a giant squid - the thought of getting their alembics on which made the city's alchemists whine like dogs - was provoking more and more interest from London's repo-men and -women.
China Mieville
#13. Because Fox News is allegedly biased in favor of conservatives, critics whine like children whose lunch money got snatched. Conservatives have been pummeled for decades. Now that Fox News and conservative talk radio give people alternatives, critics squeal as if being sodomized.
Larry Elder
#14. You've got to embrace the future. You can whine about it, but you've got to embrace it.
Matt Groening
#15. Sit up, and no whining."
"I don't whine."
"Rarely," he agreed. But when you do, you make up for the lack of quantity with quality.
J.D. Robb
#16. The moment you tell someone else is the moment you become a whiner and the world's smallest violin starts to play. The truth is, we all have problems; we all go through hardships and pain, and my pain is paradise compared to a lot of people's and I really have no right to whine at all.
J.A. Redmerski
#17. Of course it's true: the public want to see young people - young people are the people who go to the cinema. It's a sad fact of life, but you've got to accept it and not whine about it.
Joan Collins
#18. A truck shot past in a whine of spray.
Donna Tartt
#19. Taint no use to sit and whine 'Cause the fish ain't on your line; Bait your hook an' keep on tryin', Keep a-goin'!
Frank Lebby Stanton
#20. If you have the strength to whine, you have the strength to do something about it.
Dan Wells
#21. The heat was so intense that my memory of it is not so much a sensation as a sound, a whine that rose to a dissonant keen with my head at its very center.
Cheryl Strayed
#22. After all, if a girl whines in her walk-in closet and no one's there to hear her, did she really whine at all? Something
Lena Dunham
#23. All that I do is right - for me. I make it so by doing it. Do you think that I am conquered by the laws that other women crouch and whine before, because they dare not break them, though they long to do so? I am my own law - and the law of some others.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#24. They do not sweat and whine about their condition. They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins.' [ ... ] To be a perfect animal and a perfect human - that was the ideal.
Aldous Huxley
#25. Tell the truth. Do your best no matter how trivial the task. Choose the difficult right over the easy wrong. Look out for the group before you look out for yourself. Don't whine or make excuses. Judge others by their actions and not by their race or other characteristics.
James F. Amos
#26. No, Newt, I don't understand," Minho said, the frustration in his voice escalating. "We risked our necks to come to this place and you're our friend and we're taking you home. You wanna whine and cry while you go crazy, that's fine. But you're gonna do it with us, not with these shuck Cranks.
James Dashner
#27. They have no gods. They work magic, and think they are gods themselves. But they are not. And when they die, they (...) become dust and bone, and their ghosts whine on the wind a little while till the wind blows them away. They do not have immortal souls.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#28. Some people never want to be part of the solution. All they want to do is bitch and whine and create complications for other people. You
Jonathan Maberry
#30. Well?"
"Well, what" she asked.
"Are we gonna do this or not?"
... "Do what? Should I whine and complain like the little bitch I am so you can pat me on the head and buy me something pretty to shut me up?
Kit Rocha
#31. Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.'
Maya Angelou
#32. Doc seemed to gather himself to say something important, and spoke as firmly as he could, though his voice was somewhere between a whisper and a whine. Wyatt, I cannot make you another denture. No more fights. You get that mad again, shoot the bastard. Promise me.
Mary Doria Russell
#34. if you want to work on data covering more than about one month you're supposed to phone Mr. Jobsworth at BT and whine for help.
Charles Stross
#35. Never lie; never cheat; never steal. Don't whine; don't complain; don't make excuses.
John Wooden
#36. I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.
James Whistler
#38. "Something on a line, it's discord and rhyme - whatever, whatever, la la la - Mouth is alive, all running inside, and I'm hungry like the -" Warmth spread down my neck.
"It's actually,'I howl and I whine. I'm after you,' and not blah or whatever.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#40. Yeah, he's taking this little kid home." I let the sarcasm drip. "At least I won't whine like a spoiled brat, unlike you, you bleach-blonde brainless moron. Really, Officer Dan, I am sooooo disappointed in you. This is your girlfriend? Really? I thought you had better taste than this.
Apryl Baker
#41. Would you like a little Sheesh with that Whine?
Paul Johnson
#42. I know; I don't care to die either. But when whining mendeth nothing, wherefore whine?
Robert Louis Stevenson
#43. You going to try the rest of your gear on?" he asked on an exhale. "Or you want to whine about your pants a little more?"
"Don't make me flip you off."
"Why would I deprive you of a favorite hobby?" [Vishous to Butch]
J.R. Ward
#44. If you give an actor any wiggle room to whine in situations where they want to whine, you're gonna whine.
Emile Hirsch
#45. Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They can churn, check, channelize. They can be a "Hup two three four." They can forge a fiery army of a hundred languid men.
Gwendolyn Brooks
#46. You can only hurt a person so much and then he doesn't feel the pain anymore. A hard man can take a kicking and not whine about it.
John Fenton
#47. Act not just react. Take 'HE' out of 'WHINE,' you get 'WIN.' Spare yourself from the trap of the destructive habit called 'complaining.
Jay Mark Mateo Balmes
#48. Men. And they think that we're the weaker sex. At least we don't whine about every little thing, now, do we?
Jennifer Estep
#49. In the end, the effectiveness of our creative process comes down to whether we're going to whine or do the work.
Blaine Hogan
#50. Our trials are supposed to turn us toward God, but we whine and complain and wish someone would turn down the fire so we could have our old life back the way it was.
Lynn Austin
