Quotes About Not Whining

#1. Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.

Larry Flynt

#2. You never cease to amaze me, Anastasia. After a day like today - or yesterday, rather - you're not whining or running off into the hills screaming. I am in awe of you. You're very strong."
"You're a very good reason to stay," I murmur.

E.L. James

#3. I like doing a challenging class because it makes me more brave in life. My perception of hardships is now completely different. I'm not whining and moaning inside as much.

Ione Skye

#4. But that's the wrong question. Ask why everyone else is so pathetically stupid and why they're always whining about detention, I should get a medal for not slapping people in the face every day.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#5. I didn't take well to pitying yourself. It weren't worth the effort or time and it pissed people off.

Beth Lewis

#6. Stop whining about getting old. It's a privilege.

Amy Poehler

#7. But feeling down can make you feel up if you're the creative type. The emotional damage may have already been done to you, but stop whining. Use your insanity to get ahead.

John Waters

#8. It's just whether you're going to do a decent thing or keep doing shitty things. So choose. Just stop whining about it.

Huntley Fitzpatrick

#9. In heaven's name be a man, sir! Your pitiful whining sickens me!

Alan Moore

#10. Whining is anger through a small opening.

Al Franken

#11. They are the living dead and we have many of those among us, spending their days whining and complaining and never making any attempt to change their lives for the better.

Og Mandino

#12. Stop whining. You're not a victim. You're a victor.

Eric Thomas

#13. Life, is easy. And if yours isn't, quit whining. Oh, wait. unless you're just a head amd then, you do have it pretty rough. I don't know how you roll out of bed every morning.

Christopher Titus

#14. Everyone knows marriage is hard work. So if you've chosen the shackles, quit whining and get on with it.

Karina Bliss

#15. Give me needy emotional whining bullshit.
Flash.
Give me self-absorbed egocentric twaddle.
Christ.

Chuck Palahniuk

#16. If we realize we're undeserving, suddenly the world comes alive. Instead of whining about everything that goes wrong, we're surprised at God's many kindnesses, and our hearts overflow with thanks.

Randy Alcorn

#17. It is not by whining that one carries out the job of king.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#18. I don't tolerate whining, I look at people & say 'you're a victim, it's not your fault' figure our how to survive!

Allan Sloan

#19. It's kind of ironic that my character is a doctor who acts very gay with his best friend. I don't see how gays could ever be doctors, they spend too much time whining about everything. Just get off your soapbox and go back to designing floral arrangements

Zach Braff

#20. Abdul rose with minimal whining, since the only whining his mother tolerated was her own.

Katherine Boo

#21. Somewhere around chapter seven she had started wondering if Lucinda, the annoyingly incompetent heroine of The Black Duke, truly deserved to live. The chit was forever whining about her life, while refusing to do anything about it.

Karen Hawkins

#22. I know; I don't care to die either. But when whining mendeth nothing, wherefore whine?

Robert Louis Stevenson

#23. Faria Alam whined about the invasion of her privacy in yet another lucrative interview earlier this week. There is very good money to be made out of whining about the invasion of your privacy.

Rod Liddle

#24. Stealing a car was easy. The hard part was putting up with the whining.

Lili St. Crow

#25. Never take yourself too seriously.

Ariana Grande

#26. You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I tire of your whining.

N.K. Jemisin

#27. Madonna is the true feminist. She exposes the puritanism and suffocating ideology of American feminism, which is stuck in an adolescent whining mode. Madonna has taught young women to be fully female and sexual while still exercising control over their lives.

Camille Paglia

#28. Work harder than everybody. You're not going to get it by whining, and you're not going to get it by shouting, and you're not going to get it by quitting. You're going to get it by being there.

Barbara Walters

#29. Whether it's putting on a bunny costume and running with friends, or simply appreciating the whining coming out of the guy next to you, races offer moments when you can simply enjoy the people around you and feel happy.

Dana L. Ayers

#30. For many families, gift-giving is a major source of stress - the relentless commercialism, the whining demands, the financial pressure.

Adam Mansbach

#31. What makes the earth feel like hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like heaven. Earth is earth. Hell is hell. Now, stop with the whining and caterwauling.

Chuck Palahniuk

#32. I know it's important to do more than just complain when there's something you don't like. You need to try to do something about it, or you're nothing but a whiner.

Jean Ferris

#33. And I am not one of these long-living fictional characters who prays for death as a release from the captivity of eternal life; not for me the endless whining and wailing of the undead.

John Boyne

#34. Whining is a form of manipulation. People will give anything to make you shut up.

Jessica Zafra

#35. The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot separate friends, but whining words can. A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.

Sydney J. Harris

#36. Could an android listen to the whining, requests for advancement, and entreaties for guidance and affection that pour from subordinates? Sure it could. Frankly, all that would be easier on the robot than it is on me.

Stanley Bing

#37. Continuing to play the victim is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Blaming others for your station in life will indeed make you a victim but the perpetrator will be your own self, not life or those around you.

Bobby Darnell

#38. Getting stuck in the past and whining about who had hurt us hampers our personal growth and submerges us in the sea of self-compassion.

Balroop Singh

#39. You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline

Phil Gramm

#40. 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

#41. How am I supposed to know? She just wants to do it. You wait. You'll see. She'll get you over there bawling and whining about what a bastard I am. One of these days.

Alice Munro

#42. There are dark times just around the corner. There are dark clouds travelling through the sky. And it's no good whining about a silver lining. For we know from experience they won't roll by.

Noel Coward

#43. Thinking of what Jesus did NOT say from the cross: not a bitter, angry, unkind, whining, profane, unnecessary word. There is none like Him!

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#44. We looked after her. But she wanted something else, something more, I don't know what. She didn't even want the kitten, although I would have fed it too. That was the limit. Why did she never stop whining? If someone can't be helped, then they don't want help.

Magda Szabo

#45. Exasperated, Dee began, "Molly-" "I'm not hearing you. I can't hear you. Can you hear anything, Del?" "Only some whining. I thought it was a mozzie. If it keeps going, I'm getting the fly swat and smack it a good one.

Angela Verdenius

#46. That's the big challenge of life - to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you don't annoy your friends with your whining.

Marc Maron

#47. The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.

Francis Jeffrey

#48. Feeble is the character, that bows to inflated ego, arrogance, and whines of affluent, whilst raising itself mercilessly on the humble and underprivileged.

Aniruddha Sastikar

#49. ENOUGH!" bellows Zeus and not only stops Ares diatribe , but freezes every god and robot in place. "I'll hear no more whining prattle from you, Ares, you lying, two-faced, treacherous sparrowfart, you miserable excuse for a man, much less for a god.

Dan Simmons

#50. But complaining that you have a bad memory for names or numbers is a bit like whining about your smartphone functioning poorly underwater.

Dean Buonomano

#51. Cages, spanking benches, sawhorses, bondage tables. Scene after scene. Throaty moans, high screams, whining, whimpering, and groaning. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. All his cop instincts shouted for him to get his cuffs out and start arresting people.

Cherise Sinclair

#52. My most insightful comments have been forgotten while letting a whining dog out the door.

Jael Turner

#53. Still whining, Louis!

Anne Rice

#54. Catholic sex is twenty minutes of pleading and whining (Vatican-approved foreplay), thirty seconds of involuntary shuddering and an hour of apologizing to God.

Lionel Fisher

#55. No one ever changed the world by whining a whole lot.

Roy Richardson

#56. I'm a comedian and there are a lot of things I'm still learning. I love one liners because I love smart jokes. I also don't like complaining about society or whining about my life on stage.

Anthony Jeselnik

#57. I scared a little porcupine
and caught a quill in my behind.
It hurt so badly in my tail,
but tugging on it made me yell.
The porcupine was still around,
so I complained. He simply frowned
and said, Stop whining! Look and see
how many quills are stuck on me!

Richelle E. Goodrich

#58. The sooner we realize that the world has changed, the sooner we can accept it and make something of what we've got. Whining isn't a scalable solution.

Seth Godin

#59. You'll win her with ya Irish charm and green eyes, so ya will. Now drink up ya coffee and stop whining like a baby. This girl's gonna have a fantastic night tomorrow. She's gonna worship da ground ya c**k drags on.

JoAnne Kenrick

#60. No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won't make it worse. (Apr 2007 Gen Conf)

Jeffrey R. Holland

#61. [D]avid began to argue, with the whining intonations of German astonishment, [ ... ] that everyone did it.

Vladimir Nabokov

#62. The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going to make absolute slaves of them.

Nicholas Cresswell

#63. He hasn't yet taken to crapping on the carpet and destroying the furniture and whining for meals, but close.

Margaret Atwood

#64. Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one!

Edmund Stoiber

#65. I have people who buy my books just so they can sit them around and show them off because of the titles, especially the Shut Up, Stop Whining and the Grow a Pair. So the title is very, very important.

Larry Winget

#66. I no longer hated the whining, menacing dragonfly we rode in, but admired its grace as we surged towards the clouds, the lights of Edinburgh twinkling below us like the starry constellations of a world upside down.

Rosie Pugh

#67. Why were they whining then? ... whining, damn them, whining ...
Because they'd have to give up their hope of living like an animal and return to an honest, conscious, human life. The prospect was hard.

William H Gass

#68. 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

#69. Live with hope and courage and lived instead a long season of whining, self-indulgence, and fear.

Shauna Niequist

#70. When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.

Marge Piercy

#71. Kyle Busch is going to get his ass whipped shortly I hope. He better sit his ass in his motor home or I'm going to come find him and he's going to have to hold my watch because I'm going to whip his ass. He's the biggest whining little piece of [expletive] I've ever seen in my whole life.

Kevin Harvick

#72. There's no point whining about missed opportunities.

Martin Schulz

#73. Whining writers are a hideous sight; we should really shut up, because we are lucky if we can cobble together a living from all of this.

Deborah Moggach

#74. No 'Glory shall be your reward' for me. Oh, no, for me, it is, 'Stop whining' and 'Go to bed'.

Megan Whalen Turner

#75. You will not stop. The pain is necessary, especially the pain of hunger. It reassures you that you are strong, can withstand anything, that you are not a slave to your body, you don't have to give in to its whining.

Marya Hornbacher

#76. Because I cursed him to it. (Acheron) Be glad I'm not physically there or I'd slap you upside the head. You know how free will works, so stop the whining and get off the cross. Someone needs the wood. (Savitar)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#77. One should not confuse creativity with whining.

Silvia Hartmann

#78. Merlin, if you don't stop whining, I'm going to take Gwen's sword and beat you to death with it," said Arthur, evenly.
"It's plastic."
"So it will take me a long time. I'm still game.

FayJay

#79. My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years.

Kurt Cobain

#80. I am not afraid of the priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries, of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering, without being able to give me one moment of pain.

Thomas Jefferson

#81. Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.

Randy Pausch

#82. I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

John Donne

#83. So it's time for you to stand up, stop whining, and either help or get out of my way." I

Brandon Sanderson

#84. Stop whining; start enjoying. And when you look back at the past, make sure you're smiling.

Alex Smith

#85. Sentence structure is innate, but whining is acquired.

Woody Allen

#86. You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining.

Og Mandino

#87. We take too much credit for our effect on the world, whining about our misery and guilt, what others have done or not done to us.

Bill Holm

#88. Your complaints, your drama, your victim mentality, your whining, your blaming, and all of your excuses have NEVER gotten you even a single step closer to your goals or dreams. Let go of your nonsense. Let go of the delusion that you DESERVE better and go EARN it! Today is a new day!

Steve Maraboli

#89. I'm a quirky, intelligent, dark haired chick! Me, me, me, pick me! And who the hell keeps whining and ruining my perfect moment? I will cut a bitch.

Tara Sivec

#90. I didn't want 'BSG' to have to rewrite Anders as a sniveling, whining ball of despair who's hiding out in the corner.

Michael Trucco

#91. Most people will actually tell you, traveling to those exotic places is enjoying life, but really they are spending away and whining away their lives.

Sunday Adelaja

#92. Whining is a virus, a lethal, infectious, epidemic disease.

Peter Hoeg

#93. Behold yon rough and flinty road
Where youth, now youth no more,
Gropes whining, seeking crumbs of loaves
He cast away of yore.

Emma Ghent Curtis

#94. Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.

Criss Jami

#95. I watched Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Good grief. What whining weenies.

Andrew Sullivan

#96. Boldly! That was the great and powerful key. Preach boldly! Love boldly! Jog boldly! And most crucial of all, do not approach God whining or begging, but boldly - as a child of the King. "I

Jan Karon

#97. I'm trying to think about stuff like that: How can a show not be just a whining guy with a guitar.

Justin Vernon

#98. Marsh'k cut the circuit on the rest of the helmsman's whining and rose to his feet, stretching to his full height of just under six standard Terran feet.

Christina Engela

#99. Magnetism is one of the Six Fundamental Forces of the Universe, with the other five being Gravity, Duct Tape, Whining, Remote Control, and The Force That Pulls Dogs Toward The Groins Of Strangers.

Dave Barry

#100. A child doesn't understand a hammer until he's mashed his finger at a nail.
Get up and stop whining, maggot! You have forgotten the face of your father!

Stephen King