“Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy to worry at night.”
“I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.”
“There are two days in the week on which I never worry; One is yesterday and the other is tomorrow.”
“Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.”
“Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.”
“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”
“The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in the present.”
“When we have nothing to worry about we are not doing much, and not doing much may supply us with plenty of future worries.”
“We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.”
“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.”
“If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.”
“The moment the little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.”
“Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.”
“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.”
“There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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?”
“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.”
“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.”
“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”