Don't Worry Quotes
Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend
yourself on the work before you, well assured that the
right performance of this hour's duties will be the best
preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No longer forward nor behind
I look in hope and fear;
But grateful take the good I find,
The best of now and here.
John G. Whittier
It is not work that kills men, it is
worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man
than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is
not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction.
Henry Ward Beecher
Be just, and fear not.
Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's,
Thy God's and truth's.
William Shakespeare
Never let life's hardships disturb you ... no one can avoid
problems, not even saints or sages.
Nichiren Daishonen
Ask yourself this question:
"Will this matter a year from now?"
Richard Carlson, writing in Don't Sweat the Small Stuff
Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature
that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of
the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to
impart a quiet to the mind.
Jonathan Edwards
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never
happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Benjamin Franklin
Imagine every day to be the last of a life surrounded with
hopes, cares, anger and fear. The hours that come
unexpectedly will be much the more grateful.
Horace
The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
Seneca
Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.
William Shakespeare
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes
hardest to bear are those that never happen.
James Russel Lowell
How much pain have cost us the evils that have never
happened.
Thomas Jefferson
It is the trouble that never comes that causes the loss of
sleep.
Chas. Austin Bates
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the
drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the
influences of each.
Henry David Thoreau
We also deem those happy, who from the experience of life,
have learned to bear its ills and without descanting on
their weight.
Junvenal
Thus each person by his fears gives wings
to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men
fear what they themselves have imagined.
Lucan
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
Publius Syrus
Enjoy the present day, as distrusting that which is to
follow.
Horace
He either fears his fate too much,
Or his deserts are small,
Who dares not put it to the touch
To gain or lose it all.
Marquis of Montrose
The rose is fairest when 't is budding new,
and hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
Walter Scott
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