Fret Quotes

105 quotes by 90 authors

I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things. — Mumia Abu-Jamal
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, Some pure ideal of a noble life That once seemed possible? Did we not hear The flutter… — Adelaide Anne Procter
Let us be content to work To do the things we can, and not presume To fret because it's little. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
There has been a lot of talk lately about the burdens of the Presidency. Decisions that the President has to make often affect the lives… — Harry S. Truman
Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Let lovers be crazy, disgraceful and wild Those who fret about such things Arenâ€™t in love. — Unknown Author
Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells. — William Wordsworth
The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I don't fret much about the natural life spans of shoe companies. If stores don't do the right things, they cease to exist, and that… — Steve Madden
We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And the more portentous,… — Susan Sontag
Who are these human beings anyway? They walk around, strut, fret, as if they owned the planet, or the goddamned universe. I mean, who do… — Frederick Lenz
I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel. — Jerzy Kosinski
You must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you? — Willa Cather
He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and… — Geoffrey Chaucer
Do not fret under such assistance as is needful; therein lies one great grace of poverty. It were overambitious to aim at being poor without… — Saint Francis de Sales
Intelligent people, as some say, in their openness, are indeed slow to criticize, but conversely, in their openness to the concerns of others, the genuine… — Criss Jami
Although practice swings Can be helpful things, Twere better, indeed, not take any Than to fiddle and fret And before playing get Exhausted from taking… — Richard Armour
A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt… — George Crabbe
Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him. — George Bernard Shaw

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