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
We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.
~John Newton
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
~Mark Twain
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
Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.
~Author Unknown
Worry is like a rocking chair–it gives you something to do but it doesn’t get you anywhere.
~Author Unknown
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
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which will never happen.
~James Russel Lowell
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
~Swedish Proverb
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
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
~Thomas A. Edison
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
~Leo Buscaglia
A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.
~George Herbert
It only seems as if you are doing something when you’re worrying.
~Lucy Maud Montgomery
We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.
~Cullen Hightower
Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
~Benjamin Franklin
People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross.
~Author Unknown
If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times. ~Dean Smith
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
For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.
~Author Unknown
I’ve developed a new philosophy… I only dread one day at a time.
~Charlie Brown (Charles Schulz)
Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face. ~Nelson DeMille
Troubles are a lot like people – they grow bigger if you nurse them.
~Author Unknown
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. ~Christian Nevell Bovee
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
~E. Joseph Cossman
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
~George Bernard Shaw
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.
~Glenn Turner
Nerves and butterflies are fine – they’re a physical sign that you’re mentally ready and eager. You have to get the butterflies to fly in formation, that’s the trick. ~Steve Bull
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
~Elbert Hubbard
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
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
You can’t wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.
~Pat Schroeder
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
