Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due.    —William Inge

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.   —Swedish proverb

Worry a little every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.                      —Mary Hemingway

True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.  —Seneca

Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up.

—Anonymous

I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.         —Isak Dinesen

One cannot change the past, but one can ruin the present by worrying over the future.    —Anonymous

How often are you worrying about the present moment? The present moment is usually all right. If you’re worrying, you’re either agonizing over the past which you should have forgotten long ago, or else you’re apprehensive over the future which hasn’t even come yet. We tend to skip over the present moment which is the only moment God gives any of us to live.           —Peace Pilgrim

Happy the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.           —Ovid

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.              —Julius Caesar

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

—John Lubbock

Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn’t you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn’t most of them turn out all right after all?           —Dale Carnegie

Don’t take tomorrow to bed with you.       —Norman Vincent Peale

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

—James Russell Lowell

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.               —Robert Frost

There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.

—Harold Stephens