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
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
-James Russell Lowell
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
-Michel De Montaigne
"Essays"
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
-William Inge
I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting.
-William Powell
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-Elbert Hubbard
"The Note Book"
We all worry about the population explosion, but we don’t worry about it at the right time.
-Arthur Hoppe
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
