Quotes by Authors - Page 36

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.
Mark Rutherford
Worry less about what other people think about you and more about what you think about them.
Fay Weldon
A request not to worry ... is perhaps the least soothing message capable of human utterance.
Mignon G. Eberhart
If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.
Gertrude Stein
That man is blest Who does his best And leaves the rest Then-do not worry.
Charles F. Deems
Worry is the sin we're not afraid to commit.
Anonymous
Worry is a morbid anticipation of events which never happen.
Russell Green
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
William Ralph Inge
Other Definitions of Worry Anxiety is the great modern plague. But faith can cure it.
Smiley Blanton
The crisis you have to worry about most is the one you don't see coming.
Mike Mansfield
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
Michel de Montaigne
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles but most of them never happened.
Mark Twain
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life most of which never happened.
Winston Churchill
This was a great year for preventive worrying. Seldom in recent history have so many people worried about so many things that didn't happen in the end.
James Reston
How much pain they have cost us the evils which have never happened.
Thomas Jefferson
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
Edgar Watson Howe
The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself.
Marie Bashkirtseff
A wise man fights to win but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
Louis L'Amour
When you first learn to love hell you will be in heaven.
Thaddeus Golas
Of course I realized there was a measure of danger. Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when I first considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it again.
Amelia Earhart
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
A problem not worth praying about is not worth worrying about.
Anonymous
Turn resolutely to work to recreation or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep and when you wake up you won't want to worry.
B.C. Forbes
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 state of mind based on fear.
Napoleon Hill
Worry is a complete cycle of inefficient thought revolving about a pivotal fear.
Anonymous
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
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
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow but only saps today of its strength.
A.J. Cronin
T'ain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.
Sarah Orne Jewett
We have to fight them daily like fleas those many small worries about the morrow for they sap our energies.
Etty Hillesum
Worry doesn't help tomorrow's troubles but it does ruin today's happiness.
Anonymous
I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
Isak Dinesen
Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball.
Mitzi Chandler
I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart 'til it stops beating."
E B White
Worry never climbed a hill worry never paid a bill Worry never dried a tear worry never calmed a fear Worry never darned a heel worry never cooked a meal It never led a horse to water nor ever did a thing it "oughter."
Anonymous
Worry is a futile thing it's somewhat like a rocking chair Although is keeps you occupied it doesn't get you anywhere.
Anonymous
It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.
L.M. Montgomery
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 is like a rocking chair-it keeps you moving but doesn't get you anywhere.
Corrie ten Boom
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
Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.
Corrie ten Boom
Worry is a funky luxury when a lot has to be done.
Melvin Peebles
If you worry about what might be and wonder what might have been you will ignore what is.
Anonymous
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
This world is a comedy to those who think a tragedy to those who feel.
Horace Walpole
There was all the world and his wife.
Jonathan Swift
The world is full of beauty as other worlds above And if we did our duty it might be as full of love.
Gerald Massey
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
It takes all sorts of people to make a world.
Douglas Jerrold
This world's a bubble.
Sir Francis Bacon
This is the best world that we live in To lend and to spend and to give in: But to borrow or beg or to get a man's own It is the worst world that ever was known.
Anonymous
Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.
Henry Van Dyke
Many hands make light work.
William Patten
And only the Master shall praise us and only the Master shall blame And no one shall work for money and no one shall work for fame But each for the joy of the working and each in his separate star Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of things as They Are!
Rudyard Kipling
I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.
Jerome K. Jerome