Anxious Quotes

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Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion — Guy Finley
People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that must accompany such… — Stonewall Jackson
Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit… — Bertrand Russell
I hate flying. I don't planes. I get really anxious. — Lucy Hale
As we are concerned with what others think of us, so we are anxious to know all about them; and from this arise the crude… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Keep in mind that the tendency to be judgmental - toward yourself or another person - is a good barometer of how anxious or stressed… — Harriet Lerner
Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him. — Confucius
As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a… — Anna Brownell Jameson
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… — Rainer Maria Rilke
We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a… — Charles Caleb Colton
If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the germs of the… — W. S. Gilbert
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security. — Edmund Burke
The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it. — William Hazlitt
The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no particular application of it is… — George Polya
Our lives are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and aggression, in competing, grasping, possessing and achieving, forever burdening ourselves… — Sogyal Rinpoche
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we… — Mark Twain
By tuning in to your minute-to-minute stream of consciousness, you discover the addictions that make you worried, anxious, resentful, uptight, afraid, angry, bored, etc. You… — Ken Keyes Jr.
Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest… — Thomas Jefferson
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest… — Seneca the Elder

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