Quotes for All
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 my time much better working on tomorrow’s problem than by fretting about yesterday’s. Besides, if I let those things get me, I wouldn’t last long. 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, life is too short…. Time is the best avenger if we wait, the years speed by, and on their wings bear healing, life is too short for aught but high … Read more
Fretting grief the enemy of life. Edmund Spenser
Full many mischiefs follow cruel wrath; Abhorred bloodshed and tumultuous strife Unmanly murder and unthrifty scath, Bitter despite, with rancor’s rusty knife; And fretting grief the enemy of life; All these and many evils more, haunt ire. Edmund Spenser
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 through his excessive pity. Friedrich Nietzsche
With a novel, no matter where I am in it, I’m fretting about it. Every time I write a book, it starts with great forward momentum. Then there seems to be a period where it slows down a bit, and other things intervene. Then I gain momentum. Douglas Kennedy
If God had wanted us to spend all our time fretting about the problems of home ownership, He would never have created beer. This is not to say that I am recommending that you totally ignore your responsibilities as a homeowner and just sit around all day with a can of beer in your hand. … Read more
John Wanamaker, founder of the stores that bear his name, once confessed: I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence. Dale Carnegie
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 forcefully, ‘I can do it,’ without boasting or fretting. Dalai Lama
The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting. Confucius