Anxious Quotes

• Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

  James Allen

  Change, Ignorance, Men

  James Allen (2016). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.7, Xist Publishing

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• It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

  Edmund Burke

  Errors, Liberty, Grumbling

  'Observations on...the Present State of the Nation' (1769)

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• The pressure began to mount as I kept winning every time and people were anxious to see if I could be beaten.

  Jahangir Khan

  Winning, People, Pressure

  "England happy to wait until they can step out from All Blacks' shadow" by Andy Bull, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2017.

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  No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Arrogance, Arrogant

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everthing in me that is bewildered and confused.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Beach, Confused, Ocean

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.94, W. W. Norton & Company

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  Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Patience, Beach, Nature

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

  Winston Churchill

  Memories, Book, Men

  My Early Life ch. 9 (1930)

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• I would like to remain an actress, but am very anxious to direct and produce.

  Megan Gallagher

  Actresses, Produce, Direct

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• It took me a long time, but I don't feel as anxious about stupid things anymore - or perhaps they've just been replaced by more complicated stupid things.

  Neil Finn

  Stupid, Long, Complicated

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• I'm not anxious to be anywhere other than where I am right now.

  Amy Grant

  Right Now

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• As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

  Boris Pasternak

  Men, Myth, Infallibility

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• My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played.

  James Nasmyth

  Children, Father, Giving

  James Nasmyth (2010). “James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography”, p.57, BoD – Books on Demand

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• I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band.

  Lawrence Welk

  Order, Practice, Band

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1971). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn.

  Norman Rockwell

  Art, Character, Students

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• The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.

  Janet Street-Porter

  Wedding, Black, Comedy

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• When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.

  Dabney Coleman

  Taken, May, Succeed

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• Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere!

  Guy Finley

  Running, Sadness, Hands

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from May 07, 2014

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• Today's gasoline prices are taking a severe toll on Americans' pocketbooks. Consumers are anxious.

  Pete Domenici

  Gasoline Prices, Tolls, Today

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• Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.

  A. E. van Vogt

  Night, Stories, Awakening

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• Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.

  Karl Philipp Moritz

  Views, Imagination, Lasting Impressions

  Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.52, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.

  Jacqueline Cochran

  Opportunity, Use, Capacity

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• It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.

  Douglas Hurd

  Country, Teaching, Lessons

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• If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

  Marty Allen

  Marriage, Girl, Horse

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