Anxious Quotes · Page 3

The way to be anxious about nothing is to be prayerful about everything.

— D. A. Carson

I would like to remain an actress, but am very anxious to direct and produce.

— Megan Gallagher

The more precious His gift, the more anxious God for its return.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

— Benjamin Haydon

My generation has a lot of very anxious young people.

— Declan McKenna

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

Keeping my fingers crossed and being nervous as can be!

— Anonymous

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

— Luc de Clapiers

The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence.

— Edwin H Friedman

Do not be anxious about anything, or tell me if by being anxious you can add a single hour to his span…

— Senoraroy

I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.

— Ed Weeks

On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.

— Joseph Addison

Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.

— Sylvia Plath

I've had it all my life and when it can time for me to start a family, I was quite anxious to…

— Sidney Poitier

Most beginners are too anxious for results. Real progress takes place over a long period of time.

— Mary Beth McKenzie

I know mortality exists, but I cannot do anything about it. So it does not make me anxious.

— Renato Dulbecco

My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to…

— James Nasmyth

[My mother] speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By…

— Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

The experience of every-day life fully proves that the armed individual is invariably anxious to try his strength. The same is historically…

— Emma Goldman

Oil remains fundamentally a government business. While many regions of the world offer great oil opportunities, the Middle East with two-thirds of…

— Dick Cheney

Throughout your day, when you notice that your thoughts have drifted away, come back to where you are. You'll instantly see why…

— Deepak Chopra

When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I'd always struggled with being a very depressed and anxious person in high school. If I had let that kind of dark…

— Michelle Zauner

In the theatre, if you say 'Macbeth', all the actors will start looking very anxious. I'm so well-trained not to say it…

— Anna Chancellor

When I am feeling depressed and anxious sullen all you have to do is take your clothes off and all is wiped…

— Frank O'Hara

I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers…

— Henry David Thoreau

He that has no present Christ has a future, dark, chaotic, heaving with its destructive ocean; and over it there goes forever--black-pinioned…

— Alexander MacLaren

There's very much a domino effect when I'm playing. In fact, that's a good way of putting it. I'm trying to topple…

— Jamie Lidell

I was in my house, alone in the living room, anxious about you, watching the flashes of lightning. And a flash of…

— Haruki Murakami

I cannot emphasize enough how wrongheaded this is. Withholding criticism and ignoring differences are racism in its purest form. Yet these cultural…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“I wasn't in any danger," Henry said quickly. "Dunford likes to exaggerate." "He does?" Alex asked, raising his brows. "He was very…

— Julia Quinn

In practice, you realise that most attempts to feed your baby in a public space will be met with subtle but palpable…

— Rowan Pelling

Tenterhooks are the upholstery of the anxious seat.

— Robert E. Sherwood

We all feel anxious at times and acknowledging that only helps.

— Karen Kilgariff

“I am truly anxious to get on with my life.”

— E.L. Konigsburg

I am anxious to see what life is going to bring next.

— Sherilyn Fenn

“You won't stress over it unless you care.”

— Joyce Rachelle

I do feel like I get anxiety, and anxious to do something new.

— Tim Robinson

“Her life was a series of zigzags. At nineteen, she was anxious.”

— Patricia Highsmith

Great women and men are always more anxious to serve than to have dominion.

— Spencer W. Kimball