Anxious
Full of anxiety or disquietude; greatly concerned or solicitous, esp. respecting something future or unknown; being in painful suspense; -- applied to persons; as, anxious for the issue of a battle.
Accompanied with, or causing, anxiety; worrying; -- applied to things; as, anxious labor.
Earnestly desirous; as, anxious to please.
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Anxious Quotations
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
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
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
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
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Edmund Burke
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
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
I get more anxious than nervous before a concert.
Miley Cyrus
Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
Benjamin Disraeli
It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.
Lester B. Pearson
Anxious Translations
anxious in Afrikaans is bekommerd
anxious in Dutch is bang, bezorgd, beducht, ongerust
anxious in Italian is pieno di timore
anxious in Latin is intentus, sollicitus, sollicitus
anxious in Portuguese is ansioso
anxious in Spanish is inquieto, receloso, ansioso
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