Anxious Quotes

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Edmund Burke

Public, General, Popular

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, Moral, Actions

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, Sign, Annoy

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Happiness, Future, True

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

Men, Future, Past

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

Waiting, Lie, Sea

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.
Bill Gates

Success, Musician, Author

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
Simone de Beauvoir

Women, Toward, Arrogant

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Future, Mind, Miserable

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
James Allen

Men, Themselves, Remain

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
Benjamin Disraeli

Men, Truth, Tell

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.
Mignon McLaughlin

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.
Samuel Butler

Tomorrow, Trouble, Sufficient

Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
Lord Byron

Living, Why, Here

Even cats grow lonely and anxious.
Mason Cooley

Lonely, Grow, Cats

A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Love, Family, God

We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.
Robert Hall

Benefit, Removed, Speedily

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
Josh Billings

Everyone, Whether, Bear

Love is full of anxious fears.
Ovid

Love, Full, Fears

I'm anxious to make another film.
William Shatner

My wife, whenever I'd go off to work and I'd be kind of anxious, she'll say, 'Remember, have fun.' Oh, I forgot, thanks for the reminder. Because sometimes we do forget. We take it all too seriously and there's a lot of joy to be had wherever you are.
Jeff Bridges

Work, Fun, Wife

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Evil, Empty, Month

You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night.
Damian Lewis

Sleep, Feeling, Night

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

Time, Stupid, Long

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
Luc de Clapiers

The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious.
Giles Gilbert Scott

Good, Everything, Church

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

Life, Sleep, Two

There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.
Elizabeth I

Nothing, Country, Die

I get more anxious than nervous before a concert.
Miley Cyrus

Before, Nervous, Concert

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

Made, Succeed, Order

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