A day of worry
is more exhausting
than a day of work.
John Lubbock,
1st Baron Avebury PC FRS,
known as Sir John Lubbock
philanthropist, scientist and polymath)
Drag your thoughts
away from your troubles…
by the ears, by the heels,
or any other way
you can manage it.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens,
better known by his pen name Mark Twain
entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer)
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
who was also trained as a physician)
There are two days
in the week
about which and upon which
I never worry…
Yesterday and Tomorrow.
Robert Jones Burdette
Real difficulties can be overcome,
it is only the imaginary ones
that are unconquerable.
Theodore N. Vail
As a cure for worrying,
work is better than whiskey.
Thomas A. Edison
Anger and worry
are caused by phantoms
that we create within ourselves
and whose only strength is
that with which we endow them.
Horace Fletcher, Menticulture
The greatest mistake
you can make in life
is to be continually fearing
you will make one.
Elbert Green Hubbard,
The Note Book
artist, and philosopher)
People become attached to their burdens
sometimes more
than the burdens are attached to them.
George Bernard Shaw
Worry is interest paid on trouble
before it comes due.
William Ralph Inge
professor of divinity at Cambridge,
and Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral)
