Browsing Quotes With Tag: how-to-stop-worrying-and-start-living (48)
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A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.
Speaker: Michel de MontaignePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:09 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.Speaker: John MiltonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:08 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:08 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is only one way on God’s green footstool that the past can be constructive; and that is by calmly analyzing our past mistakes and profiting by them – and forgetting them.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:08 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
For every ailment under the sun,
There is a remedy, or there is none;
If there be one, try to find it;
If there be none, never mind it.Speaker: Mother GoosePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:07 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Oh, to confront night, storms, hunger,
Ridicule, accident, rebuffs as the trees and animals do.Speaker: Walt WhitmanPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:07 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is not miserable to be blind, it is only miserable not to be able to endure blindness.
Speaker: John MiltonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:06 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
Speaker: George Bernard ShawPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:06 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A certain comfortable security, a certain profound inner peace, a kind of happy numbness, soothes the nerves of the human animal when absorbed in his allotted task.
Speaker: John Cowper PowysPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:05 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
Speaker: Alfred TennysonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:05 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:04 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Experience has proved to me, time after time, the enormous value of arriving at a decision. It is the failure to arrive at a fixed purpose, the inability to stop going round and round in maddening circles, that drives men to nervous breakdowns and living hells. I find that fifty percent of my worries vanishes once I arrive at a clear, definite decision; and another forty percent usually vanishes once I start to carry out that decision.
Speaker: Galen LitchfieldPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:04 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A problem well-stated is a problem half-solved.
Speaker: Charles KetteringPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:03 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the labor of thinking.
Speaker: Thomas EdisonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:02 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Confusion is the chief cause of worry… I have found that if a man will devote his time to securing facts in an impartial, objective way, his worries will usually evaporate in the light of knowledge.
Speaker: Herbert G. HawkesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:02 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.Speaker: Rudyard KiplingPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:01 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor… if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Speaker: Henry David ThoreauPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:01 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind; yet the mind and body are one and should not be treated separately.
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:00 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Those who do not know how to worry die young.
Speaker: Alexis CarrelPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:59 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step in overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:59 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!