The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-Elbert Hubbard
"The Note Book"
Quotations
Worry
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
-John Lancaster Spalding
Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway.
-Mary C. Crowley
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
-Michel De Montaigne
"Essays"
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
-E. W. Howe
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
-George Bernard Shaw
Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.
-Robert Eliot
If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.
-Dean Smith
There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.
-Robert Brault
Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
-Theodore N. Vail
