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

 —Seneca

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.

—Swedish proverb

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 worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

 —Isak Dinesen

If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.

—J. Krishnamurti

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

 —Corrie Ten Boom

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 Rache

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

—John Milton

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due.

—William Inge

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

—John Lubbock

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

 —Calvin Coolidge

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.

—Ethel Barrett

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren’t.

—Barbara Sher

Overcoming fear and worry can be accomplished by living a day at a time or even a moment at a time. Your worries will be cut down to nothing.

–Robert Anthony

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

–Cullen Hightower

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

 —Robert Frost

What, me worry?

—Alfred E. Newman

What’s the use of worrying? It never was worthwhile. So pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and smile, smile, smile.

—George Asaf