Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
The pressure began to mount as I kept winning every time and people were anxious to see if I could be beaten.
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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.
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
You are so anxious about the future that you do not enjoy the present. You therefore do not live in the present or the future. You live as if you are never going to die, and then die having never really lived.
True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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.
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.
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.
The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.
We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.
To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.
I have had the auditioning process go on for two weeks or three weeks. I am always incredibly anxious. The audition and the wait is definitely the hardest part for me.
I can't recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there.
I got so anxious sitting in the make-up chair for hours with my face covered. I had my doctor write a prescription for valium. I couldn't have done it without the pill.
I think writers are very anxious.
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