Fretting Quotes

• Pick the day. Enjoy it– to the hilt.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Past, Enjoy, Spoil

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• It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Play

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Futility Of Life, Lady Macbeth

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• Let your cares drive you to God. I shall not mind if you have many of them if each one leads you to prayer. If every fret makes you lean more on the Beloved, it will be a benefit.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Christian, Prayer

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• fretting at trouble only doubles it.

  George Sand

  Trouble

  Gustave Flaubert, George Sand, Alphonse Jacobs (1993). “Flaubert - Sand: the correspondence”, Vintage

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• The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.

  Christopher Paolini

  Fear

  Christopher Paolini (2012). “Inheritance Deluxe Edition (The Inheritance Cycle, Book 4)”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• If you don't like your situation in life, don't fret or worry--do something about it. Worry less, and act more.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Adversity, Worry Less

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• Do any deserve liberty who are not ready to give it to others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary fretting and fuming.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving, Liberty, Energy

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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• We are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it. We are to live in a moment-by-moment dependence upon God.

  James Montgomery Boice

  God, Religious, Future

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  When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.73, Hachette UK

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• Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.

  Oswald Chambers

  Solitude, Done, World

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.406, Discovery House

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• I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It's true that fretting never did any good.

  Claude Monet

  People, Suffering, Dying

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• In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy brook, Thy bubblings ne'er remember Apollo's summer look; But with a sweet forgetting, They stay their crystal fretting, Never, never petting About the frozen time.

  John Keats

  Summer, Sweet, Crystals

  John Keats (1818). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.241

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• Life is too short for any vain regretting... Between the swift sun's rising and its setting, we have no time for useless tears or fretting, life is too short.... Time is the best avenger if we wait, the years speed by, and on their wings bear healing, life is too short for aught but high endeavor-too short for spite, but long enough for love. And love lives on forever and forever.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Regret, Life Is Too Short, Healing

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Life Is Too Short”

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• You can never be free until you develop the mental strength to stop fretting over things you cannot control.

  Robert Ringer

  Mental Strength

  FaceBook post by Robert Ringer from Oct 30, 2013

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• There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.

  Samuel

  Tyrants, Tools, Terrible

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• When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil; while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Perseverance, Evil, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson (1964). “To the Girls and Boys: Being the Delightful, Little-known Letters of Thomas Jefferson to and from His Children and Grandchildren”

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• Let us calmly and in a manly fashion go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary frettings and fumings. I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything he really deserves. The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Fashion, Believe, Past

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.202, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• If a ship has been sunk, I can't bring it up. If it is going to be sunk, I can't stop it. I can use my time much better working on tomorrow's problem than by fretting about yesterday's. Besides, if I let those things get me, I wouldn't last long.

  Ernest King

  Yesterday, Long, Navy

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• The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to think strongly and forcefully, 'I can do it,' without boasting or fretting.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Roots, Essentials

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• I learned 30 years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.

  John Wanamaker

  Motivational, Years, Overcoming

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• The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

  Hank Aaron

  Motivational, Sports, Baseball

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• I'm not sitting somewhere dwelling on the past. I'm not fretting or obsessing about something in the future.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Past, Dwelling, Sitting

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