“ I will not fret over being unknown to others; I will fret that I do not know them. ”
- Confucius- Copy
- 1.9K
“ O fret not after knowledge — I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge — I have none, and yet the Evening listens. ”
- John Keats- Copy
- 1.7K
“ No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted. ”
- Olive Schreiner- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Ah, fill the cup: — what boots it to repeat How Time is slipping underneath our Feet: Unborn To-morrow, and dead Yesterday, Why fret about them if To-day be sweet! ”
- Omar Khayyam- Copy
- 1.9K
“ 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 nice day. ”
- Peter Brodie- Copy
- 396
“ 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 with the ball do the fretting. ”
- Hank Aaron- Copy
- 151
“ Let us be content to work, to do the thing we can, and not presume to fret because it is little. ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
- 1.4K
“ It is the little things that fret and worry us; you can dodge an elephant, but not a fly. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
- 776
“ If a ship has sunk, I can't bring it up. If it is going to be sunk, I can't stop it. I can use my time much better working on tomorrow's problem than fretting about yesterday's. ”
- Ernest J. King- Copy
- 2.7K
“ A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star. ”
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin- Copy
- 983
“ A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star. ”
- Edwin H. Chapin- Copy
- 3.4K
“ He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invated by worry, fret and anxiety. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 2.5K
“ When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own intersts. ”
- Mara Mitchell- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean, do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage. How are we to be patient in dealing with our neighbor's faults if we are impatient in dealing with our own? He who is fretted by his own failings will not correct them… ”
- St. Francis De Sales- Copy
- 730
“ Newborn ideas are fragile, like babies. They need nurturing, protecting, patience, loving, commitment. They require you to sit up with them at night, fret over their futures, watch them grow. And like babies, they can't be hurried. They unfurl and blossom in their own time. ”
- Doug Hall- Copy
- 2K
“ You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so. ”
- Sir John Vanbrugh- Copy
- 1.5K
“ When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practical. This lessons the evil, while fretting and fuming only serve to increase your own torments. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
- 2.4K
“ The successful Accelerated Reader is able to read larger than normal "blocks" or "bites" of the printed page with each eye stop. He has accepted, without reservation, the philosophy that the most important benefit of reading is the gaining of information, ideas, mental "picture" and entertainment-not the fretting over words… ”
- Wade E. Cutler- Copy
- 603
“ 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 it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now. ”
- Charlotte P. Gillman- Copy
- 4K
“ Life is but a walking Shadow, a poor Player That struts and frets his Hour upon the Stage, And then is heard no more; It is a tall Tale, Told by an Idiot, full of Sound and Fury, Signifying nothing.". ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 646
“ Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts… ”
- Og Mandino- Copy
- 814
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