Anxious Quote by James Allen

“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves.”

— James Allen

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

— Benjamin Haydon

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

— Dan Brown

Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they would have no difficulty exterminating one…

— Sigmund Freud

There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life.

— Jean de la Bruyere

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by…

— Samuel Smiles

Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not…

— Epictetus

When men are easy in themselves, they let others remain so.

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their…

— John Calvin

Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

— Orison Swett Marden

Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.

— William Mathews