We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
-John Lancaster Spalding
Quotations
Worry
Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
-Theodore N. Vail
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
-E. W. Howe
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
-Michel De Montaigne
"Essays"
There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.
-Robert Brault
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
We all worry about the population explosion, but we don’t worry about it at the right time.
-Arthur Hoppe
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
-William Inge
If things go wrong, don't go with them.
-Roger Babson
I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting.
-William Powell
