We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
-John Lancaster Spalding
Quotations
Worry
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
-E. W. Howe
No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.
-George MacDonald
There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.
-Robert Brault
If worrying were an Olympic sport, you'd get the gold for sure.
-Anonymous
It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.
-George MacDonald
Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
-E. B. White
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
-James Russell Lowell
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
Little minds have little worries; big minds have no time for worries.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
