Fretting Quotes

44 quotes by 43 authors

Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with… — Martha Beck
The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow… — Hank Aaron
Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way. — Oswald Chambers
A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading, — Jhumpa Lahiri
Keep God's covenant in your trials; hold you by His blessed word, and sin not; flee anger, wrath, grudging, envying, fretting; forgive a hundred pence… — Samuel Rutherford
Worry means tormenting yourself with disturbing thoughts or fretting about things we have zero control over. If you live in the north there is no… — Jack White
I also generally play slide guitar in standard tuning, which enables me to switch back and forth between using the slide and fretting notes and… — Warren Haynes
We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it — Michael Medved
It would much conduce to the settlement of your heart, to consider that by fretting and discontent you do yourself more injury than all your… — John Flavel
The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to think strongly and… — Dalai Lama
I learned 30 years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that… — John Wanamaker
When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet… — Thomas Jefferson
If a ship has been sunk, I can't bring it up. If it is going to be sunk, I can't stop it. I can use… — Ernest King
Life is too short for any vain regretting... Between the swift sun's rising and its setting, we have no time for useless tears or fretting,… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a… — Peter Brodie
There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he suffocated… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press. — Samuel
You can never be free until you develop the mental strength to stop fretting over things you cannot control. — Robert Ringer
I'm not sitting somewhere dwelling on the past. I'm not fretting or obsessing about something in the future. — Jennifer Aniston

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