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

—Robert Frost

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

 – John Lubbock

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

—Ovid

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.

—Swedish proverb

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.

—Seneca

Half the worry in the world is caused by people trying to make decisions before they have sufficient knowledge on which to base a decision.

—Dean Hawkes

Don’t take tomorrow to bed with you.

—Norman Vincent Peale

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

Anxiety leads to a narrowing of the field of attention, the so-called tunnel vision, and when people are anxious, they are unable to attend to the total situation as is necessary to enable them to act rationally, but impulsively do the first thing that comes into their heads which is usually determined by what others are doing at the same time.

—J.A.C. Brown

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

—Julius Caesar

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due.

—William Inge

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

—Winston Churchill

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

Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

—Arthur Somers Roche