Whining Quotes

“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, Killosophy

“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, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“If you took one-tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out... 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, The Last Lecture

“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, Twice Upon a Marigold

“I much prefer whining to counting my blessings.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer

“That was the message. For me, alone among mortals, the gods send their messenger to tell me to stop whining. That’ll teach me to go hide in a temple.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia

“I think you have a right to whine. Honestly, Lucy. We all have the right to whine when life gets tough.”
― Nancy Werlin, Impossible

“That was as rough a thing as I ever heard tell of happening to a boy. And I'm mighty proud to learn how my boy stood up to it. You couldn't ask any more of a grown man... It's not a thing you can forget. I don't guess it's a thing you ought to forget. What I mean is, things like that happen. They may seem mighty cruel and unfair, but that's how life is part of the time. But that isn't the only way life is. A part of the time, it's mighty good. And a man can't afford to waste all the good part, worrying about the bad parts. That makes it all bad.”
― Fred Gipson, Old Yeller

“Are you telling me in your own gentle way to stop whining?"
"Yes."
"I don't feel like a hero. I feel like an idiot."
"I think heroes generally do, but those men believe in you."
"I did wait until I was outside before I threw up.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia

“Still whining, Louis!”
― Anne Rice

“People who complain about something that they cannot do anything about are as irritating as those who complain about something that they can do something about.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

“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, Time For Dervin - Living Large In Geiggityville

“Pressure will squeeze whining out of losers and winning out of achievers.”
― Orrin Woodward

“Most people mostly use freedom of speech as freedom to bitch.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Is life happening to you, or are you happening to life?”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“You know you're winning when You are not whining. You're simply shining!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job

“All deaf people would kill for an opportunity to spend the entire day listening to sober adults whine.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I adore complaining— it calms the nerves”
― Franny Billingsley, Chime

“Not even once has life or the weather complained about a human being.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It is silly to complain about the hardships caused by your endeavour to achieve a goal for which you are willing to die.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Some prayers have contributed so much in teaching men how to complain and whine to God instead of doing things themselves. Thus, they have become idle and expecting more than their abilities can ever achieve.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Complaining about a person is way less annoying when we complain to that person.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“...And the sun is too bright, the clouds are too dark, the bugs are too buggy, the hills are too hilly.”
“You exaggerate.”
“Possibly. A bit.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds

“Great! Now, that the crybaby whining bullshit is settled, let’s load up on one of these buses and head for the sewers!”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“When we say that someone is not a good listener, we usually mean that they never or rarely listen, or chose not to listen, to us complain.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“One of the main goals and effects of stoicism is to stop an adult from being a crybaby.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“He hated whining. Especially if it issued from his own lips.”
― Michael Reaves, The Last Jedi

“Over time, the loudest people become the easiest to ignore.”
― Criss Jami

“God hates me,” I groaned to Sandy at lunch later that day. [...] “It’s like he got bored and thought, ‘Hmmmm. I don’t want to mess with Africa today, and I don’t want to send Hurricane Ebonica to wipe out Florida, so I’ll just fuck with Paul.”
― T.J. Klune, Tell Me It's Real

“Instead of whining, try lamenting.”
― Harold L. Senkbeil, Christ and Calamity: Grace and Gratitude in the Darkest Valley