Top 100 Fret Quotes
#1. At odd moments she may fret over a blank in her memory, but soon a Pied Piper thought will come dancing along and her untrained mind will follow ...
David Mitchell
#2. When an answer I did not expect comes to a prayer which I believed I truly meant, I shrink back from it; if the burden my Lord asks me to bear be not the burden of my heart's choice, and I fret inwardly and do not welcome His will, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
Amy Carmichael
#3. We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that's better.
John Brunner
#4. The most futile thing a man can do is to ponder the alternatives, to stew and fret over the life that might have been lived if circumstances had not pointed his future in a certain direction.
William Styron
#5. Don't ever fret over married children; they will take care of themselves.
Nachman Of Breslov
#6. Be still in the presence of the Lord, and wait patiently for Him to act. Don't worry about evil people who prosper or fret about their wicked schemes.
Susan May Warren
#7. Don't fret none, darlin'. I got your back."
"You said that in Budapest. I still have the scars, too.
Shelly Laurenston
#8. It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was not part of her disposition.
Jane Austen
#9. While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their own throats; they keep reducing space for the one feature that attracts new young readers in the first place; the comic strips.
Elayne Boosler
#10. Call me what instrume you will,though you can fret me,yet you cannot play upon me.
William Shakespeare
#11. Do not fret because the world looks with suspicion at every new attempt, even though it be in the path of spirituality.
Swami Vivekananda
#12. Don't fret. We all experience it. We must. For despite our humanity love is the only way we can be like gods. It is in love that we glimpse heaven during our lifetime and have proof that there's something worth looking forward to in the end.
Felix Alexander
#13. He eyed her bed in the moonlight streaming in her window and gave serious thought to simply dozing off right there. He had the sense she wasn't going to be reasonable about what had just happened, and the longer he let her stew and fret, the more unreasonable she'd be. ***
Grace Burrowes
#14. I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#15. Dear Teenage Self,
That guy you're crazy about,
Will ask you out
On a date
In about ten years, so don't fret
You'll get there yet.
But fate is cruel
On that day,
That feeling will have gone away.
Joyce Rachelle
#16. We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment
Chanakya
#17. To me the gospel is not a great mass of theological jargon. It is a simple and beautiful and logical thing, with one quiet truth following another in orderly sequence. I do not fret over the mysteries. I do not worry whether the heavenly gates swing or slide. I am only concerned that they open.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#18. We are but older children, dear,
Who fret to find our bedtime near.
Lewis Carroll
#19. I am haunted by numberless islands, many a Danaan shore,
Where Time would surely forget us, and Sorrow come near us no more;Soon far from the rose and the lily and fret of the flames would we be,
Were we only white birds, my beloved, buoyed out on the foam of the sea!
William Butler Yeats
#20. My problem isn't death but old age. I fret about my lack of balance, my buckling knee, my difficulty standing up and sitting down.
Donald Hall
#21. 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 doesn't trouble me at all.
Steve Madden
#22. I have to paint fast on television because of the limited time, but I don't want people to see what I'm showing them as work, something to worry and fret over. This is supposed to be fun.
Bob Ross
#23. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#25. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our chilhood behind.
Patrick Rothfuss
#26. Let your cares drive you to God. I shall not mind if you have many of them if each one leads you to prayer. If every fret makes you lean more on the Beloved, it will be a benefit.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#27. Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.
Oswald Chambers
#28. You don't get no trophies for livin the life you born into. It just be your job, and you lucky if you can do the work set out in front of you and not fret if it seem puny.
Chaney, Little Altars Everywhere
Rebecca Wells
#29. 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 Perkins Gilman
#32. This ain't the heartbreak hotel even though I know it well.
Those no shows should you tell in the way you hold yourself.
Don't you fret should you get another cancellation, give me a chance and I'll make a permanent reservation.
In your heart in your,
I can tell you fit one more
The Wanted
#33. One of the few advantages of being disliked is that you don't need to fret over what others think about you.
Amish Tripathi
#34. Don't fret, Grannie. We're going to a Bible retreat to scare the devil out of her
Jeaniene Frost
#35. If I look at the one thorn that is in my side, of all my life, it is my weight. I fret about it, I'm anxious about it, being an actor on television - it drives me insane. It just seems to be something that plays a central part in waking up in the morning and thinking, 'How am I with myself today?'
Deborah Mailman
#36. 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.
John Vanbrugh
#37. The human genome is a script, waiting for the amino actors, the protein players to strut and fret their hour.
Johnny Rich
#38. The moment when the battle ends is not always a happy one: to fret and strain against evil is an act itself dear to a hearty spirit with convictions.
Robert Nathan
#39. Never deter from your path of determination and commitment. There may be obstacle but never fret. These obstacles are to make you more strong and committed to spread your wings of determination so that you can fly higher and higher to touch the sky of achievement.
Anil Sinha
#40. I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.
Jerzy Kosinski
#41. You'd think we're never going to die, the way we cower and second-guess and fret over each little action.
Johnny B. Truant
#42. Human nature is so weak that the honest men who have no religion make me fret with their perilous virtue, as rope-dancers with their dangerous equilibrium.
Francis De Gaston, Chevalier De Levis
#43. 21 And they shall pass through it hardly bestead and hungry; and it shall come to pass that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#44. Those who believe they know it all should not fret when they ultimately realize they do not, for when there is nothing left to learn what challenges remain.
Matt Marlin
#45. A man's wife can hold him devilish uneasy, if she begins to scold and fret, and perplex him, at a time when he has a full load for a railroad car on his mind already.
David Crockett
#46. If you don't like your situation in life, don't fret or worry
do something about it. Worry less, and act more.
Zig Ziglar
#47. I rejoice in what I have, and don't fret for what I haven't,
Leo Tolstoy
#48. Where is delight? and what are pleasures now?-Moths that a garment fret.The world is turned memorial, crying, ThouShalt not forget!
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
#49. Not making a decision is the worst thing you can do. So long as you feel you made the right decision based on the information you had at that time, there's no need to fret about it. If it fails, you'll know what to do next time.
Bo Schembechler
#50. Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.
Michelangelo
#51. 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
#52. I certainly would absolutely never do what some of my American colleagues do and object to religious symbols being used, putting crosses up in the public square and things like that. I don't fret about that at all; I'm quite happy about that.
Richard Dawkins
#54. Don't fret. We'll just have to find something else you're good at besides killing people.
Clare B. Dunkle
#55. Be nice. Be good. Be happy.
If people everywhere were to keep to this simple creed, there'd be few problems left in the world to fret about.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#56. Fret not where the road will take you. Instead concentrate on the first step. That's the hardest part and that's what you are responsible for. Once you take that step let everything do what it naturally does and the rest will follow. Do not go with the flow. Be the flow.
Elif Shafak
#57. The angle from which the line and ball are seen makes a tremendous difference in the call, and the player who is inclined to fret inwardly about decisions should realize this.
Helen Wills Moody
#58. You eat the room service employees every time?" Denise asked, shocked. "Of course. But don't fret on their behalf. I always tip well.
Jeaniene Frost
#59. It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.
Josh Billings
#60. I don't think Kitty's been fixed yet. We can see about getting her a nice cat boyfriend and creating some cat grandchildren for her to fret over.
Bernie Su
#61. Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
Plagiarized from King David of Ysrael written sometime between 1040-970 BC Yah
Jordan Silver
#62. But I still don't have knowledge, interpreting the surprises that others don't know about, that will drive a new narrative. You have to work and think and stress and fret to surmise the surprises by first fathoming the pulse.
George Gilder
#63. Why was it always the woman's fate to pace and fret and wait?
Eowyn Ivey
#64. "And all the bars at which we fret, That seem to prison and control, Are but the doors of daring set Ajar before the soul.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#66. In the phusical sense, 'playing a fret less instrument in tune' is an impossibility. Hence what we call 'playing in tune' is no more than an extremely rapid skilfully carried out improvement of the originally inexactly located pitch.
Carl Flesch
#68. If we mammals don't get something to eat every day or two, our temperature drops, all our signs fall off, and we begin to starve. Living at biological red alert, it's not surprising how obsessed we are with food; I'm just amazed we don't pace and fret about it all the time.
Diane Ackerman
#69. My parents treated me like a breakable heirloom, afraid to fight or fret in front of me least I shatter.
Ransom Riggs
#70. What wealth have you, if you have not got Christ? If Christ is the object before you, will all the things that fret you take Christ from you? All the things you long for, will they give you more of Christ?
George Wigram
#71. If you constantly fret about timing things perfectly, they'll never happen.
Jason Fried
#72. Living, we fret. Dying, we live. I'll keep that in mind. I'll be of good cheer.
Robert Silverberg
#74. If it comes at all, Emerson has cautioned that one's call might not come for years. If it doesn't, he remarks it as only a reflection of the universe's faith in one's abstinence, nothing to move the heart to fret
Frederick Exley
#75. She reached up, held his face between her palms. "How can I help but fret? You live wi' death on your heels."
"For your sake, lass, I promise to stay one step ahead.
Pamela Clare
#76. Don't fret, boy. I'm not so foolish as to ridicule the myths and legends of other people. For countless generations, people, no matter where they're from, have been trying to understand this world of ours.
Nahoko Uehashi
#77. The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley is as reposeful as a dreamland, nothing worldly about it ... nothing to hang a fret or a worry upon.
Mark Twain
#78. 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 suffering any inconvenience, in other words, to have the credit of poverty and the convenience of riches.
Saint Francis De Sales
#79. We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.
Christopher Hitchens
#80. 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 they really think they are?
Frederick Lenz
#81. Don't fret, we'll sort this out: the true and the not true and the might as well be true.
Gillian Flynn
#82. Let the novelists fret about consistency - story writers should feel free to jam; to get things right in new, surprising ways by allowing themselves, now and then, to get things wrong.
Walter Kirn
#83. Let me not fuss and fret at my incompetence but be still and know that Thou art God.
Emily Carr
#84. We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.
Paul Eldridge
#85. Do not fret over the ignorant person; surely they have not had the opportunities which illuminated your path.
Chico Xavier
#86. When in prayer, there is no need to implore, beg or repeat. You have been heard, and your wishes will be granted perfectly at the right time. Relax, be patient and do not fret.
Pooja Ruprell
#87. 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 you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.
George Crabbe
#88. Other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of their divine mission; but we, - we strut and fret our hour upon the stage, and then the curtain falls and all is darkness and silence.
Charlotte Saunders Cushman
#89. The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.
Diogenes Of Sinope
#90. I will tell you privately it's not going to get better, it's going to get worse all the time, but don't fret. Remember, we play the ball where it lies, and now let's not talk about this, ever again.
Bobby Jones
#91. Love me, Kat.
The words repeated in his brain like a song he was unable to find the end of.
I've loved ye since I dipped your braid in that wax. Dinna fret about making a child. Let me be enough for ye. Ye're enough for me.
Mia Marlowe
#92. So I did that for a long time in my career, and I waited for parts to play myself just physically down a little bit. But I do feel like I'm at a place in my career now where I don't necessarily fret about that too much anymore.
Charlize Theron
#93. Love God more than you fear hell. Make major decisions in a cemetery. When no one is watching, live as if someone is. Succeed at home first. Don't spend tomorrow's money today. Pray twice as much as you fret. God has forgiven you; you'd be wise to do the same.
Max Lucado
#94. Never fret, my love, the universe always balances the scales. Her ways may be mysterious, but they are always just." Isabelle Dallaire, "Gram
Mia Sheridan
#95. 87. That I might drink and leave the world unseen, and with thee fade away into the forest dim: Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget what thou among leaves hast never known, the weariness, the fever and the fret.
John Keats
#96. The best way to survive life is - never fret over what you don't get. There's a bigger plan for you.
Shilpa Shetty
#97. When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.
Patrick Rothfuss
#98. Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
George Bernard Shaw
#100. Ah, monarchs! could ye taste the mirth ye mar, Not in the toils of Glory would ye fret; The hoarse dull drum would sleep, and Man be happy yet.
George Gordon Byron
