Quotations and Poems

» “The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.”
– James Truslow Adams

»  ”Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy to worry at night.”
– Leo Aikman

»  ”Overcoming fear and worry can be accomplished by living a day at a time or even a moment at a time. Your worries will be cut down to nothing.”
– Dr. Robert Anthony

»  ”What’s the use of worrying? It never was worth while, so pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, and smile, smile, smile.”
– George Asaf

»  ”It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is the rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution which destroys the machinery but the friction. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices”
–Henry Ward Beecher

»  ”Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God which transcends all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. [Philippians 4:6, 7]“
–Bible

»  ”Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.”
–Bible

»  ”Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God’s providence.”
–Hugh Blair

»  ”Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.”
– Corrie Ten Boom

»  ” Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.”
–Corrie Ten Boom

»  ”There are two days in the week on which I never worry; One is yesterday and the other is tomorrow.”
– Robert Burdette

»  ”As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.”
– Julius Caesar

»  ”Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn’t you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn’t most of them turn out all right after all?”
– Dale Carnegie

»  ”If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.”
– Dale Carnegie

»  ”Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.”
– Pien Ch’Iao

»  ”People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.”
– John Jay Chapman

»  ”Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.”
– Winston Churchill

»  ”When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.”
– Winston Churchill

»  ”Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.”
– Confucius

»  ”Worry — a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

»  ”As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.”
– Thomas A. Edison

»  ”Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

»  ”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 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

»  ”Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!”
– Barbara Hoffman

»  ”One of the commonest mistakes is thinking your worries are over when your children get married.”
– Kin Hubbard

»  ”Stop worrying — nobody gets out of this world alive.”
– Clive James

»  ”If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.”
– William James

»  ”The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.”
– William James

»  ”I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.”
– Joseph Jefferson

»  ”How much pain worries have cost us that have never happened?”
– Thomas Jefferson

»  ”The only way I’d worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs.”
– Tommy Lasorda

»  ”The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.”
– Georg C. Lichtenberg

»  ”Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.”
– Abraham Lincoln

»  ”Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these I reckon will give you a good lift. -”
– Abraham Lincoln

»  ”We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.”
– Sir John Lubbock

»  ”Rule #1: Don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: It’s all small stuff.”
– Michael Mantell

»  ”Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt.”
– Charles Horace Mayo

»  ”The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in the present.”
– Harlan Miller

»  ”We probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.”
– Olin Miller

»  ”Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”
– Ovid

»  ”We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.”
– Persius

»  ”Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.”
– Peace Pilgrim

»  ”Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.”
– Plato

»  ”When we have nothing to worry about we are not doing much, and not doing much may supply us with plenty of future worries.”
– Chinese Proverb

»  ”Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.”
– Swedish Proverb

»  ”Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.”
– Pythagoras

»  ”Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.”
– Francis Quarles

»  ”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 Rache

»  ”I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.”
– Jules Renard

»  ”It ain’t no use putting up your umbrella till it rains.”
– Alice Caldwell Rice

»  ”Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.”
– Julius Rosenwald

»  ”Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.”
– Bertrand Russell

»  ”Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.”
– Charles M. Schultz

»  ”Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.”
– William Shakespeare

»  ”There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.”
– Henry Wheeler Shaw

»  ”Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.”
– Charles Haddon Spurgeon

»  ”It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything.”
– Source Unknown

»  ”Don’t tell me that worry doesn’t do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don’t happen.”
– Source Unknown

»  ”If you cannot help worrying, remember that worrying cannot help you either.”
– Source Unknown

»  ”Ninety percent of the things we tend to WORRY about we have no control over, so why worry about them?”
– Source Unknown

»  ”Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time — the cemetery.”
– Source Unknown

»  ”Set aside half an hour every day to do all your worrying; then take a nap during this period.”
– Source Unknown

»  ”There are only two things to worry about, either you are healthy or you are sick. If you are healthy, then there is nothing to worry about. But if you are sick there are only two things to worry about, either you will get well or you will die. If you get well, then there is nothing to worry about. But if you die there are only two things to worry about, either you will go to heaven or to hell. If you go to heaven, then there is nothing to worry about. And if you to go hell, you’ll be so darn busy shaking hands with your friends you won’t have time to worry!”
– Source Unknown

»  ”Why worry when you can pray?”
– Source Unknown

»  ”Worry: a sustained form of fear caused by indecision.”
– Source Unknown

»  ”Don’t worry, be happy.”
– Source Unknown

»  ”Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.”
– George Washington

»  ”Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don’t fill your thoughts, that’s your best season.”
– Wu-Men

»  ”Suffer no anxiety, for he who is a sufferer of anxiety becomes regardless of enjoyment of the world and the spirit, and contraction happens to his body and soul.”
– Zoroaster