Quotes by American Authors - Page 26

You'll break the worry habit the day you decide you can meet and master the worse that can happen to you.
Arnold Glasow
If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess they would stop worrying. Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars ... or your two legs ... or your hands ... or your hearing? Add up what you do have and you'll find that you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours if you can appreciate yourself.
Dale Carnegie
Rule No. i is don't sweat the small stuff. Rule No. 2 is it's all small stuff.
Robert Eliot
Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.
Cullen Hightower
Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God and so there's no room left for worry thoughts.
Howard Chandler Christy
As a cure for worrying work is better than whiskey.
Thomas A. Edison
If we would keep filling our minds with the picture of happy things ahead many worries and anxieties and perhaps ill health would naturally melt away.... Always expect the best. Then if you have to hurdle a few tough problems you will have generated the strength and courage to do so.
George Matthew Adams
Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
Arthur Somers Roche
Worry is a state of mind based on fear.
Napoleon Hill
Accept that all of us can be hurt that all of us can-and surely will at times-fail. Other vulnerabilities like being embarrassed or risking love can be terrifying too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst take the risk.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.
John Mellencamp
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Robert Frost
It is not work that kills men it is worry. Work is healthy you can hardly put more upon a man that he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade.
Henry Ward Hughes
If you are doing your best you will not have time to worry about failure.
Robert Hillyer
The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!
Doris Day
T'ain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.
Sarah Orne Jewett
There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry. ... One of these days is Yesterday ... And the other day I do not worry about is Tomorrow.
Robert Jones Burdette
You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.
Lauren Bacall
You always get negative reactions. If you worry about that you would never do anything.
Tom Monaghan
I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart 'til it stops beating."
E B White
Anxiety is the poison of human life the parent of many sins and of more miseries.... Can it alter the cause or unravel the mystery of human events?
Paxton Blair
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
Mary Hemingway
It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains!
Alice Caldwell Rice
Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize he will still for months wake up in the night with a start worrying about food and rent.
Vicki Baum
Worry is a funky luxury when a lot has to be done.
Melvin Peebles
Bacteria and other microorganisms find it easier to infect people who worry and fret.
Leo Rangell
A worried man could borrow a lot of trouble with practically no collateral.
Helen Nielsen
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Gertrude Stein
Worry affects the circulation the heart the glands the whole nervous system and profoundly affects the health. You have never known a man who died from overwork but many who died from doubt.
Charles W. Mayo
If all the world must see the world As the world the world hath seen Then it were better for the world That the world had never been.
Charles C. Leland
Good-bye proud world! I'm going home Thou are not my friend I am not thine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin
Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.
Henry Van Dyke
Many hands make light work.
William Patten
No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him there is always work And tools to work withal for those who will And blessed are the horny hands of toil!
James Russell Lowell
A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
Benjamin Franklin
I never did anything worth doing by accident nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
Thomas Alva Edison
Handle your tools without mittens.
Benjamin Franklin
The workers are the saviors of society the redeemers of the race.
Eugene V. Debs
We seldom stop to think how many people's lives are entwined with our own. It is a form of selfishness to imagine that every individual can operate on his own or can pull out of the general stream and not be missed.
Ivy Baker Priest
I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone and then you get a great mosaic at the end.
Alice Paul
Alone we can do so little together we can do so much.
Helen Keller
I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.
Gloria Vanderbilt
We must stand together if we don't there will be no victory for any one of us.
Mother Jones
You've got to be willing to stay committed to someone over the long run and sometimes it doesn't work out. But often if you become real honest with yourself and honest with each other and put aside whatever personal hurt and disappointment you have to really understand yourself and your spouse it can be the most wonderful experience you've ever had.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Women's art though created in solitude wells up out of community. There is clearly both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused and an explosion of creative energy bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.
Adrienne Rich
Today whenever women gather together it is not necessarily nurturing. It is coalition building. And if you feel the strain you may be doing some good work.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories for all our differences turn out if we listen well to be our stories also.
Barbara Deming
For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes by virtue of their common womanhood the property of all women.
Elizabeth Blackwell
A person who believes ... that there is a whole of which one is a part and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever at any time to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.
Ursula K. LeGuin
Communication is a continual balancing act juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world we have to act in concert with others but to survive as ourselves rather than simply as cogs in a wheel we have to act alone.
Deborah Tannen
Most leaders are indispensable but to produce a major social change many ordinary people must also be involved.
Anne Firor Scott
Cooperation is an intelligent functioning of the concept of laissez faire-a thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.
Virginia Burden Tower
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Women and men have to fight together to change society-and both will benefit.
Muriel Fox
There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination compromise and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants by compromise neither side gets what it wants by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish.
Mary Parker Follett
Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both.
Jeannette Rankin
Now men and women are separate and unequal. We should be hand in hand in fact we should have our arms around one another.
Cloris Leachman
Whatever my individual desires were to be free I was not alone. There were others who felt the same way.
Rosa Parks
Exchange is creation.
Muriel Rukeyser