Fretting Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last.

  Isaac Rosenberg

  Time, Growth, Decay

  Isaac Rosenberg (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetry, Plays, Letters and Prose of Isaac Rosenberg (Illustrated)”, p.203, Delphi Classics

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• Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.

  Oswald Chambers

  Inspirational, Life, Determination

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.381, Discovery House

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• How peacefully he sleep!
  Yet may his ever-questing spirit, freed at length
  from all the frettings of this little world,
  Wander at will among the uncharted stars.
  Fairfield his name. Perchance celestial fields
  disclosing long sought secrets of the past
  Spread 'neath his enraptured gaze
  And beasts and men that to his earthly sight
  were merely bits of stone shall live again to
  gladden those eager eyes.
  o let us picture him-enthusiast-scientist-friend-
  Seeker of truth and light through all eternity!

  Charles R. Knight

  Life, Stars, Sleep

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• A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Upbringing

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• One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day."

  Peter Brodie

  Education, Nice, Latin

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• Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go.

  Martha Beck

  Mean, Worry, Why Not

  "Stop Worrying! Anxiety-Busting Advice from Martha Beck" by Martha Beck, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2012.

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• I think there's something to be said for developing the disposition to own stocks without fretting.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Disposition, Said

  Charlie Munger's investment advice at the 2003 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 3, 2003.

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• Parents, do you wish to see your children happy? Take care, then, that you train them to obey when they are spoken to, -to do as they are bid.... Teach them to obey while young, or else they will be fretting against God all their lives long, and wear themselves out with the vain idea of being independent of His control.

  J. C. Ryle

  Children, Independent, Ideas

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• We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Life, Fear, Yesterday

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• Fretting grief the enemy of life.

  Edmund Spenser

  Grief, Enemy

  1590 The Faerie Queen, bk.1, canto 4, stanza 35.

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• I believe that when we overdo our military aggressiveness, what it does it actually weakens our national defense. I mean, we stood up to the Soviets. They had 40,000 nuclear weapons. Now we're fretting day in and day - night about third-world countries that have no army, navy or air force.

  Ron Paul

  Country, Military, Believe

  The Republicans' first Presidential candidates debate at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2007.

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• Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Life, Future

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• The sullen boy sitting before me is not my husband, and the girl he is fretting over isn't me, will never be me.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Girl, Husband, Boys

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from May 23, 2012

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• John Wanamaker, founder of the stores that bear his name, once confessed: "I learned thirty 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.

  Dale Carnegie

  Years, Names, Facts

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• I was already beginning to realize that the only way to conduct oneself in a situation where bombs rained down and bullets whizzed past, was to accept the dangers and all the consequences as calmly as possible. Fretting and sweating about it all was not going to help.

  Roald Dahl

  Past, Bombs, Down And

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Going Solo”, p.102, Penguin

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• I'm not fretting over control with you. You can have all of the command you desire as long as we're together. I'll just save my demands for the bedroom." I flushed. Bones just chuckled and brought my hand to his lips.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Hands, Long, Desire

  Jeaniene Frost (2010). “One Foot in the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.120, Hachette UK

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• With a novel, no matter where I am in it, I'm fretting about it. Every time I write a book, it starts with great forward momentum. Then there seems to be a period where it slows down a bit, and other things intervene. Then I gain momentum.

  Douglas Kennedy

  Book, Writing, Matter

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• If you're gonna fret, fret over something you can change. Then stop fretting and do something about it.

  Kimberly Willis Holt

  Ifs

  Kimberly Willis Holt (2011). “My Louisiana Sky”, p.34, Macmillan

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• Maybe tonight you're scared of falling, and maybe there's somebody here or somewhere else you're thinking about, worrying over, fretting over, trying to figure out if you want to fall, or how and when you're gonna land, and i gotta tell you, friends, to stop thinking about the landing, because it's all about falling.

  David Levithan

  Fall, Thinking, Land

  "Will Grayson, Will Grayson". Book by David Levithan, 2011.

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  The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.

  Confucius

  People, Forever, Littles

  Confucius (1998). “The Analects”, Counterpoint LLC

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• Theodor Geisel (otherwise known as Dr. Seuss) spent his workdays ensconced in his private studio, the walls lined with sketches and drawings, in a bell-tower outside his La Jolla, California, house. Geisel was a much more quiet man than his jocular rhymes suggest. He rarely ventured out in public to meet his young readership, fretting that kids would expect a merry, outspoken, Cat in the Hat–like figure, and would be disappointed with his reserved personality. “In mass, [children] terrify me,” he admitted.

  Susan Cain

  Children, Wall, Cat

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.86, Broadway Books

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• When Buddhists say, "A bodhisattva fears not the result, but only the cause," they mean that we must expend the bulk of our energy planting good roots today, rather than fretting about the plants that are already growing from the roots we planted in the past.

  Hsing Yun

  Buddhist, Mean, Past

  Hsing Yun (2016). “Describing the Indescribable: A Commentary on the Diamond Sutra”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it

  Michael Medved

  Worry, Littles, Too Much

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• It would much conduce to the settlement of your hearts, to consider, That by fretting and discontent, you do yourselves more injury thart till the afsltilions you lie under could do; your own discontent is that which arms your troubles with a sting; it is you that make your burden heavy, by struggling under it. Could you but lie quiet under the hand of God, your condition would be much easier and sweeter than it is.

  John Flavel

  Lying, Struggle, Heart

  "Whole Works of the Rev. Mr. John Flavel".

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