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.
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.
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.
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
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.
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.
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
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.
The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.
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.
An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
I would like to remain an actress, but am very anxious to direct and produce.
Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
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