201 quotes found
“If your eyes are blinded with your worries you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.”
“If you worry about what might be and wonder what might have been you will ignore what is.”
“Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.”
“When speculation has done its worst two and two still make four.”
“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?”
“Worry is a futile thing it's somewhat like a rocking chair Although is keeps you occupied it doesn't get you anywhere.”
“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 ...”
“When you worry you go over the same ground endlessly and come out the same place you started. Thinking on the other hand makes progress from one place to another. ... The problem of life is to chan...”
“You always get negative reactions. If you worry about that you would never do anything.”
“Cast away care he that loves sorrow lengthens not a day nor can he buy tomorrow.”
“Worry doesn't help tomorrow's troubles but it does ruin today's happiness.”
“We have to fight them daily like fleas those many small worries about the morrow for they sap our energies.”
“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow but only saps today of its strength.”
“Be therefore not anxious about tomorrow for tomorrow will be anxious for the things of itself.”
“If you are doing your best you will not have time to worry about failure.”
“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.”
“Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.”
“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...”
“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.”
“As a cure for worrying work is better than whiskey.”