Quotes About Worry

three rules to break the worry habit: RULE 1. FIND OUT PRECISELY WHAT IS THE PROBLEM YOU ARE WORRYING ABOUT. RULE 2. FIND OUT THE CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM. RULE 3. DO SOMETHING CONSTRUCTIVE AT ONCE ABOUT SOLVING THE PROBLEM.

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery but the friction.—Henry Ward Beecher.

What am I worrying about? What can I do about it?

So I banish about ninety per cent of my worries by taking these four steps: Writing down precisely what I am worrying about. Writing down what I can do about it. Deciding what to do. Starting immediately to carry out that decision.

Aren't we all like that battling giant of the forest? Don't we manage somehow to survive the rare storms and avalanches and lightning blasts of life, only to let our hearts be eaten out by little beetles of worry—little beetles that could be crushed between a finger and a thumb?

The lesson to be learned? Just this: our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration, and resentment.

if you are a chronic worrier, you may be stricken some day with one of the most excruciating pains ever endured by man: angina pectoris.

You do not get stomach ulcers from what you eat. You get ulcers from what is eating you.

To break the worry habit before it breaks you—here is Rule 3: "Let's examine the record." Let's ask ourselves: "What are the chances, according to the law of averages, that this event I am worrying about will ever occur?

Now, I had lived in New York for many, many years; and no one had ever yet rung my doorbell to warn me against the emotional sickness of worry—an illness that, during the same time period, had caused ten thousand times more damage than smallpox.

Quando você, ou qualquer um de seus colaboradores, cair na tentação de se preocupar com um problema, escreva as seguintes perguntas e anote as respostas a elas: 1. Qual é o problema? 2. Qual é a causa do problema? 3. Quais são as soluções possíveis? 4. Qual é a melhor solução? PARTE TRÊS Como acabar com a preocupação antes que ela acabe com você

Portanto, não pensem no amanhã, pois o amanhã trará as suas próprias preocupações. Basta a cada dia o seu próprio mal.

My life," he said, "has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened." So has mine—so has yours.

Worry is like the constant drip, drip, drip of water; and the constant drip, drip, drip of worry often drives men to insanity and suicide.

El miedo causa preocupación. La preocupación pone a uno tenso y nervioso, afecta a los nervios del estomago, cambia los jugos gástricos de normales a anormales y frecuentemente provoca ulceras estomacales. Las ulceras del estomago no vienen de lo que se que come. Vienen de lo que está comiendo a uno.

What is the problem? What is the cause of the problem? What are all possible solutions to the problem? What solution do you suggest? "Nothing is permanent in this wicked world—not even our troubles." —Charlie Chaplin "Forget the past—the future will give you plenty to worry about." —George Allen, Sr.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment." —Dale Carnegie

Rule 2 is: If you have a worry problem, apply the magic formula of Willis H. Carrier by doing these three things: Ask yourself, "What is the worst that can possibly happen?" Prepare to accept it if you have to. Then calmly proceed to improve on the worst.

Here is question No. 1—What am I worrying about? (Please pencil the answer to that question in the space below.) Question No. 2—What can I do about it? (Please write your answer to that question in the space below.) Question No. 3—Here is what I am going to do about it. Question No. 4—When am I going to start doing it?

Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Since worry is one of the biggest problems facing mankind, you would think, wouldn't you, that every high school and college in the land would give a course on "How to Stop Worrying"?

Worries don't bother me any more. No more stomach pains. No more insomnia. I now crumple up yesterday's anxieties and toss them into the wastebasket, and I have ceased trying to wash tomorrow's dirty dishes today.

I did not want to share the worry and the pain.