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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• 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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  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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• I'm excited, happy, nervous, anxious, all those feelings about playing for the Jets again. If I didn't have high expectations, I wouldn't come back here.

  Vinny Testaverde

  Sports, Expectations, Feelings

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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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• 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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• I get very anxious and am scared in crowds and things like that.

  Daniel Johns

  Crowds, Scared

  "Growing Pains". Metal Hammer Magazine Interview, March 1999.

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• I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and follow in his footsteps.

  Sigrid Undset

  Education, Father, School

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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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• 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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• If we are really anxious not to have nuclear weapons in Iran, the first thing is to call an international conference on abolishing all nuclear weapons, including Israeli nuclear weapons.

  Bruce Kent

  Iran, Nuclear, Weapons

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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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• Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.

  Joseph Hume

  People, Giving, Unemployed

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hope, Enough, Remove

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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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• According to Shakyamuni Buddha, it's normal for human beings to be anxious, because it's normal for human beings not to understand themselves. When you don't understand yourself, you're uncomfortable and scared. When you realize that you're anxious, Buddha's teaching is to practice being patient with it.

  Reb Anderson

  Teaching, Practice, Normal

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• For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?

  Thomas Gray

  Anxiety, Dumb, Cheerful

  'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' (1751) l. 85

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• I get anxious about a lot of things, that's the trouble. I get anxious about everything. I just can't stop thinking about things all the time. And here's the really destructive part - it's always retrospective. I waste time thinking of what I should have said or done.

  Hugh Laurie

  Thinking, Should Have, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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