George MacDonald Quotes

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.

It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is, when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today, that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God's. He begs you to leave the future to Him, and mind the present.

The thought of having the expectations of the whole country on my shoulders worried and unnerved me.

At times, I feel like I got the world on my shoulders.

The weight of the world on my shoulders was something that I had to let go.

Every new promise was like something heavy I had to carry, with no place to put anything down.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

I was a serious kid to an absurd degree. I was overwhelmed with responsibility. You know, trying to play grown up. I overdid it.

There is an awful lot of pressure on me.

Responsibilities have weighed on me my whole life.

I have to say that you don't really know stress until you know that the path of the free world is resting a little bit on your shoulders.

Sometimes it can feel like there are a billion people on my shoulders.

Things are gradually falling into place on top of me.

Worrying about tomorrow is the best way to screw up today.

Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.

The whole damned country was depending on me.

Greatness is its own torment.

Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.

With success came an ever-growing burden of responsibility. I lived with a near-constant low-level anxiety that I would make a mistake that would not only threaten my career, but also my brothers' - not to mention the livelihoods of many people who work with us or for us.

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

I wake up every morning and have a pile of problems.

I don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.

To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.