The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
—William James (1842–1910) American Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician
If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.
—Dean Smith (1931–2015) American Basketball Coach
You’ll break the worry habit the day you decide you can meet and master the worse that can happen to you.
—Arnold Glasow (1905–98) American Businessman
That’s the secret to life … replace one worry with another.
—Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000) American Cartoonist, Writer, Artist
It’s easier traveling the road of life when I don’t have so much to carry on my back.
—Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914) American Neurologist, Writer
Don’t worry, be happy.
—Unknown
There’s many a pessimist who got that way by financing an optimist.
—Anonymous
You’re neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you. You’re right because your facts are right and your reasoning is right—and that’s the only thing that makes you right. And if your facts and reasoning are right, you don’t have to worry about anybody else.
—Warren Buffett (b.1930) American Investor
A panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
—Christian Nestell Bovee (1820–1904) American Writer, Aphorist
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
—Jack London (1876–1916) American Novelist
The crisis you have to worry about most is the one you don’t see coming.
—Mike Mansfield (1903–2001) American Diplomat, Politician
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
—Soren Kierkegaard (1813–55) Danish Philosopher, Theologian
To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.
—Epicurus (c.341–270 BCE) Greek Philosopher
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they’re yours.
—Richard Bach (b.1936) American Writer, Aviator
Don’t worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test… Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap – but it was a revolutionary piece of crap.
—Guy Kawasaki (1954–84) American Investor
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
—Muriel Strode (1875–1964) American Author, Businesswoman
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
—F. H. Bradley (1846–1924 ) British Idealist Philosopher
The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–99) German Philosopher, Physicist
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
—Lily Tomlin (b.1939) American Comedy Actress
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.
—Mary Welsh Hemingway (1908–1986) American Journalist, Author
The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one’s sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
—Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) British Novelist, Playwright, Critic
I know I’ll handle it. I have nothing to worry about.
—Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author
We have a problem. “Congratulations.” But it’s a tough problem. “Then double congratulations.”
—W. Clement Stone (1902–2002) American Self-help Guru, Entrepreneur
Worry is the activity of a mind which does not understand its connection with Me.
—Unknown
Blessed is the man who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.
—Anonymous
When late morning rolls around and you’re feeling a bit out of sorts, don’t worry; you’re probably just a little eleven o’clockish.
—A. A. Milne (1882–1956) British Humorist, Playwright, Children’s Writer
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
—Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American Inventor, Scientist, Entrepreneur
Worry is the darkroom in which negatives are developed.
—Indian Proverb
Some people bear three kinds of trouble—all they ever had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.
—Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909) American Unitarian Clergyman, Writer
Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.
—Mignon McLaughlin (1913–83) American Journalist, Author
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