Whining Quotes
105 quotes by 96 authors
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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…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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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
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What's the difference between a three-week-old puppy and a sportswriter? In six weeks, the puppy stops whining.
— Mike Ditka
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Stop whining, start hustling.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
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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…
— Kurt Cobain
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How can you possibly be sympathetic to every fool on the planet? Just the other day, I heard a man whining about his hopeless love…
— Deacon Jones
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I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear annihilation... I believe…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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
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They say when opportunity knocks you should let it in and invite it to sit at your table. F*** that -- when opportunity knocks, you…
— Tracy Morgan
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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…
— Barbara Walters
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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…
— John Donne
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I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What…
— Edith Wharton
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The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and…
— Renata Adler
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Your heart like a hawk-mouth in the sun, your heart like a ship on an atoll, your heart like a compass needle driven mad by…
— Louis Aragon
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You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline
— Phil Gramm
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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…
— Kevin Harvick
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You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: 'Where are the readers?'
— Gore Vidal
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First, recognize that you are not a sheep who will be satisfied with only a few nibbles of dry grass or with following the herd…
— Og Mandino
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Startups Are Hard. So Work More, Cry Less, And Quit All The Whining
— Michael Arrington
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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…
— Ione Skye
Who Wrote These Whining Quotes
96 authors contributed a total of 105 Whining Quotes, led by these top contributors: