John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.

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

want won't kill you half as quick as worry will.

Anxiety is the illness of our age. We worry about ourselves, our family, our friends, our work, and our state of the world. If we allow worry to fill our hearts, sooner or later we will get sick.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Worry upsets our whole system; work keeps it in health and order.

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

One thing I've very quickly learned is that if you wake up every morning worrying about what's in the press, you would go completely and utterly potty.

To worry is to add another hazard.

This is, i think, very much the Age of Anxiety, the age of the neurosis, because along with so much that weighs on our minds there is perhaps even more that grates on our nerves.

More people worry themselves to death than bleed to death.

It is not work that kills, but "worry."

Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.

Ninety per-cent of what we worry about never happens, yet we worry and worry. What a horrible way to go through life! What a horrible thing to do to your colon!

Both worry and stress reek of arrogance.

And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?

Unfortunately, on one or both of my shoulders sits lots of anxiety and that is a controlling factor in my life.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. it does not enable us to escape evil. It makes us unfit to face evil when it comes. it is the interest you pay on trouble before it comes.

Sunday is the day people go quietly mad, one way or another.

Most men have worried about things which never happened, and more men have been killed by worry than by hard work.

Fear and stress - one creates the other.

You didn't have to work to keep your fear up, your energy up, or your anxiety. It is all kind of built into the process.

WORRYING does not take away tomorrow's TROUBLES, it takes away today's PEACE.

I would say off the cuff that I am an anxious person. I worry about everything. I need to know everything. I tend to live in a state of anxiety with the feeling that life is some kind of great catastrophe.

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

When you're an orthodox worrier, some days are worse than others.