Inspirations

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.

- Doctor 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

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

- Julius Caesar

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

- Dale Carnegie

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

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

Do not worry about holding high position, worry rather about playing your proper role.

- Confucius

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

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

- Robert Frost

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

Stop worrying, nobody gets out of this world alive.

- Clive James

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

- William 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

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

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

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

- 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

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

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

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

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

To worry is a sin. Only one sort of worry is permissible, to worry because one worries.

- Source Unknown

Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time -- the cemetery.

- Source Unknown

Worry, a sustained form of fear caused by indecision.

- Source Unknown

Why worry when you can pray?

- Source Unknown

Set aside half an hour every day to do all your worrying, then take a nap during this period.

- Source Unknown

Do not worry about whether or not the sun will rise. Be prepared to enjoy it.

- Source Unknown

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

- Source Unknown

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

If you cannot help worrying, remember that worrying cannot help you either.

- Source Unknown

Don't worry, be happy.

- Source Unknown

Don't worry about the intensity and direction of the putt -- until you get on the green!

- Source Unknown

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

We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.

- Winston Churchill

God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them.

- Theodore L Cuyler

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.

- John Dryden

Anxiety is the poison of human life, the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?

- Tryon Edwards

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

- Benjamin Franklin

Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.

- Ben Johnson

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

- James Russell Lowell

Anxiety 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 Roche

Anxiety about the future never profits, we feel no evil until it comes, and when we feel it, no counsel helps, wisdom is either too early or too late.

- Ruckett

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

- Seneca

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

- Seneca

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

- Frank Smith

It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.

- Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Cast your cares on God, that anchor holds.

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

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Get Inspired for Virtue 3: Humanity and Interpersonal Strengths

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy to worry at night.

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.

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.

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

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.

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

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.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

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?

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.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

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.

Do not worry about holding high position, worry rather about playing your proper role.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

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.

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.

Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!

Stop worrying, nobody gets out of this world alive.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

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.

How much pain worries have cost us that have never happened?

The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs.

The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.

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.

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

Rule #1. Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2. It's all small stuff.

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.

The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in the present.

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

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

Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.

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

Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains.

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.

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.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.

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

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

To worry is a sin. Only one sort of worry is permissible, to worry because one worries.

Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time -- the cemetery.

Worry, a sustained form of fear caused by indecision.

Why worry when you can pray?

Set aside half an hour every day to do all your worrying, then take a nap during this period.

Do not worry about whether or not the sun will rise. Be prepared to enjoy it.

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

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.

If you cannot help worrying, remember that worrying cannot help you either.

Don't worry, be happy.

Don't worry about the intensity and direction of the putt -- until you get on the green!

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.

We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.

God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them.

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Anxiety about the future never profits, we feel no evil until it comes, and when we feel it, no counsel helps, wisdom is either too early or too late.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.

Cast your cares on God, that anchor holds.

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