Browsing Quotes With Tag: worry (21)
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Worry is like a rocking chair; it gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you anywhere
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Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks up.
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There is one phrase which should be erased from your thinking and from the words you speak aloud. It is the phrase ‘if only.’ It is counterproductive and is not conducive to the Spirit of healing and of peace.
Speaker: Thomas S. MonsonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Perilous times? Yes. These are perilous times. But the human race has lived imperil from the time before the earth was created. Somehow, through all of the darkness, there has been a faint but beautiful light. And now with added luster it shines upon the world.
Speaker: Gordon B. HinckleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:22 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness. Our enemies would dance for joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at all, but our hate is turning our own days into a hellish turmoil.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:10 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Much of what we call evil… can often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer’s inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:10 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! -
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! -
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! -
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! -
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.
Speaker: Michel de MontaignePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:56 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The load of tomorrow, added to that of yesterday, carried today, makes the strongest falter.
Speaker: Sir William OslerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:53 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Speaker: Thomas CarlylePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:52 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keeps faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself. He can, with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation, in whatever pursuit he may have singled out.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:23 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!