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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• 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.

  Dalai Lama

  Live In The Present, Enjoy, Dies

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• True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Aristotle

  Character, Anxiety, Political

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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  Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Life, Strength

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• 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.

  Chanakya

  Integrity, Past, Men

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Musical, Fifteen, Talent

  Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader’s Edition”, p.251, Univ of California Press

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• When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Men, Quality, Get Better

  Benjamin Robert Haydon (1876). “Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk”, p.413

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• The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Fear, Motivation

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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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• 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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• 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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• The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.

  Sally Ride

  Dramatic

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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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• 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.

  Felix Adler

  Taken, Desire, Unrest

  "Patricians, Professors, and Public Schools: The Origins of Modern Educational Thought in America". Book by Allan Stanley Horlick, 1994.

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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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• Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hope, Enough, Remove

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