Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
W. R. Inge
A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.
George Herbert
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
Thomas A. Edison
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
Swedish Proverb
Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He’s going to be up all night anyway.
Mary C. Crowley
If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I’d have fewer imaginary ones.
Don Herold
When I look back on all these worries, 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 had never happened
Winston Churchill
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
Mark Twain
Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.
Worry is like a rocking chair–it gives you something to do but it doesn’t get you anywhere.
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which will never happen.
James Russel Lowell
There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.
Harold Stephens
If things go wrong, don’t go with them.
Roger Babson
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever
Mahatma Gandhi
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
Leo Buscaglia
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
Proverb
Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Benjamin Franklin
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.”
Leo F. Buscaglia
If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
Dale Carnegie
Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
I’ve developed a new philosophy… I only dread one day at a time.
Charlie Brown
If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
Dale Carnegie
Troubles are a lot like people – they grow bigger if you nurse them.
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
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
E. Joseph Cossman
Worry is the darkroom in which negatives are developed
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Robert Frost
I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal – and soon they’ll forget my number.
Edith Armstrong
Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.
Paul Brunton
Nerves provide me with energy. They work for me. It’s when I don’t have them, when I feel at ease, that I get worried.
Mike Nichols
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Henry Ward Beecher
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Wendell Berry
Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball
Mitzi Chandler
People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross.
Worry a little 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.
You can’t wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.
Pat Schroeder
There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry… Yesterday and Tomorrow.
Robert Jones Burdette
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
Worry is a think stream of fear which, if encouraged, becomes a wide channel into which all other thoughts flow
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.
Glenn Turner
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
George Bernard Shaw
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
Christian Nevell Bovee
You can’t start worrying about what’s going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what’s happening now.
Lauren Bacall
Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.
Nelson DeMille
For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.
We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.
Cullen Hightower
If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.
Dean Smith
You can’t start worrying about what’s going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what’s happening now.
Lauren Bacall
It only seems as if you are doing something when you’re worrying.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three – all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.
Edward Everett Hale
That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.
Chinese Proverb
Worry bankrupts the spirit.
Berri Clove
Worry ducks when purpose flies overhead.
C. Astrid Weber
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
Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.
You can never worry your way to enlightenment.
Ed Northstrum
When you suffer an attack of nerves you’re being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?
Russell Hoban
Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is to small to be made into a burden.
Corrie ten Boom
I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. “Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.”
E.B. White
There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry… Yesterday and Tomorrow.
Robert Jones Burdette
A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.
John Lubbock
As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men’s minds more seriously than what they see.
Julius Caesar
If worrying were an Olympic sport, you’d get the gold for sure.
Stephenie Geist
Don’t chain your worries to your body. The burden soon becomes heavy and your health will give too much of itself to pick up the extra load.
Astrid Alauda
Worry is rust upon the blade.
Henry Ward Hughes
Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body.
Martin Luther
I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.
Dorothy Day
Worry is a complete cycle of inefficient thought revolving about a pivot of fear.
Rule number one is, don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it’s all small stuff.
Robert Eliot
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
Montaigne
Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weights you down.
Toni Morrison
No human thing is of serious importance.
Plato, The Republic
Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.
Philip Gulley
Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He’s going to be up all night anyway.
Mary C. Crowley
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.
Mignon McLaughlin
It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.
George MacDonald
Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
Charles Dickens
Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds.
Zacharty Bercovitz
Some of your hurts you have cured,
And the sharpest you still have survived,
But what torments of grief you endured
From the evil which never arrived.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Mark Twain
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
Michel de Montaigne
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
Calvin Coolidge
When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.
Joseph Joubert
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
Edgar Watson Howe
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
Thomas Jefferson
When I really worry about something, I don’t just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don’t go. I’m too worried to go. I don’t want to interrupt my worrying to go.
J.D. Salinger
Anxiety 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
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.
Josh Billings
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
John Dryden
Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.
Mignon McLaughlin
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
William Ralph Inge
There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.
Seneca
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
John Lancaster Spalding
We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth’s creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives.
Lewis Thomas
Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
Pliny the Younger
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.
Do not be afraid of tomorrow; for God is already there.
Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
Theodore N. Vail
No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow’s burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.
George MacDonald