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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.

  Francesca Annis

  Inspiration, Health, Sleep

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• The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too.

  Bill Veeck

  Two, People, Waiting

  Bill Veeck, Ed Linn (2012). “Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck”, p.12, University of Chicago Press

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  Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Break Up

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Dec 16, 2011

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  The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

  William James

  Happiness, Fear, Stress

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• The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Desire, Annoying, Disposition

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• Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.

  Roy H. Williams

  Truth, Lying, People

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• We are very anxious to bring the Jews of Morocco over and we are doing all we can to achieve this. But we cannot count on the Jews of Morocco alone to build the country, because they have not been educated for this.

  Moshe Sharett

  Country, Morocco, Achieve

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• When I used to do tours, I'd be anxious and nervous on the plane returning to New York. I now realize the reaction was because I was coming back unemployed. Actors are constantly being put to the test.

  Scott Bakula

  New York, Actors, Tests

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

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• So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.

  Sally Ride

  Firsts, Excited, Worried

  Scholastic Corporation Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 20, 1998.

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• The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

  Queen Victoria

  Queens, Women, Rights

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• No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

  Olive Schreiner

  Inspirational, Fear, Heart

  Olive Schreiner (1924). “The letters of Olive Schreiner, 1876-1920”, Hyperion Pr

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