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Worry is practical atheism. - Unknown

Worry is rust upon the blade. - Henry Ward Hughes

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. - Soren Kierkegaard

Adversity introduces a man to himself. - Unknown

Worry is the stomach's worst poison. - Alfred Nobel

The pessimist is half-licked before he starts. - Thomas A. Buckner

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. - Steven Wright

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. - William Hazlitt

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist. - Paul Harvey

When the problem is worry, the prescription is prayer. - David Jeremiah

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist. - Robert G. Allen

Stress should be a powerful driving force, not an obstacle. - Bob Phillips

All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God. - Oswald Chambers

Borrow money from pessimists - they don't expect it back. - Steven Wright

I try not to worry about things I can't do anything about. - Christopher Walken

Don't use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe. - Unknown

Don't worry about your heart. It will last as long as you live. - WC Fields

When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about. - Edward Abbey

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. - Aesop

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. - Oscar Wilde

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. - Leo Buscaglia

A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures. - James E Faust

Most of the stuff people worry about ain't never gonna happen anyway. - Unknown

Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity. - Jean-Jacques Rosseau

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money. - Johnny Cash

Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf. - Gene Perret

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has. - Billy Graham

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, it empties today of its strength. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you. - Winston Churchill

There is not enough time in life to worry about there being enough time in life. - Atticus

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity. - Seneca

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure. - H Jackson Brown, Jr.

In hotel rooms I worry. I can't be the only guy who sits on the furniture naked. - Jonathan Katz

Worry doesn't empty tomorrow of its troubles... it empties today of its strength. - Mary Englelbreit

Stress is your body's way of saying you haven't worked enough unpaid overtime. - Scott Adams

Yoga has a sly, clever way of short circuiting the mental patterns that cause anxiety. - Baxter Bell

Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love, or exercise. - Hans Selye

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. - George Bernard Shaw

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. - Stacia Tauscher

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age. - Aristotle

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. - Wayne Dyer

In times of prosperity friends will be plenty;
In time of adversity not one in twenty. - English Proverb

Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. - Robert G. Ingersoll

Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. - Albert Einstein

Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor. - Chiang Kai-shek

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond. - Mae West

We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction. - Harry Ironside

Take thought for the tomorrow, yes, careful thought and planning and preparation. But have no anxiety. - Dale Carnegie

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act. - Howard Zinn

Lord, if it's not your will, let it slip through my grasp. And give me the peace not to worry about it. - Tony A. Gaskins Jr.

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools. - Marshall McLuhan

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. - James Branch Cabell

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. - Bill Vaughan

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - the main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. - John Steinbeck

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. - Matthew 6:34

Competition can damage self-esteem, create anxiety, and lead to cheating and hurt feelings. But so can romantic love. - Mariah Burton Nelson

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. - Josh Billings

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right. - Jack Nicholson

I'm not just retiring from the company, I'm also retiring from my stress, my commute, my alarm clock, and my iron. - Hartman Jule

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. - C S Lewis

Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy. - Amy Alcott

Worrying is less work than doing something to fix the worry. Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom with the dishes. - P.J. O'Rourke

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. - Anne Bradstreet

To the optimist, the glass is half-full. To the pessimist, the glass is half-empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. - Unknown