Quotes About Unnecessary Worry

#1. One ought to avoid all unnecessary worry and exciting thoughts, and to cultivate a firm tranquility of mind. Melancholy reflections will in no way influence fate, whereas one may weaken the constitution by the waste of energy while indulging in them.

George Hackenschmidt

#2. Happy people make people happy, but I can't make someone be happy, and no one else can make me happy.

Gretchen Rubin

#3. when she made the most unnecessary statement I had ever heard. "Well, you're still under twelve weeks gestation, so you could still have a miscarriage. Oh, but don't worry- it's just a little clump of cells right now." I wondered if she was thinking that I wanted to have a miscarriage.

E. McNew

#4. Financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What is recurrently so described and celebrated is, without exception, a small variation on an established design ... The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#5. To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. Look around you at the people you've been taught to hate, because hate is just a cloak that hides fear.

April White

#7. It makes it harder to write if I watch a lot of television, because television is not like a written story.

Avi

#8. Without delay I began work, without hesitation and all of a fever.

Paul Gauguin

#9. Athens' biggest worry was the sheer recklessness of its own democratic government. A simple majority of the citizenry, urged on and incensed by clever demagogues, might capriciously send out military forces in unnecessary and exhausting adventures.

Thucydides

#10. Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill. We traded away stability for growth. And growth requires change.

Geoffrey West

#11. It's an unnecessary burden to try to think of words and also worry at the same time whether they're the right words.

Peter Elbow

#12. The president of Goodwill Industries made $800,000 a year.

Larry Brooks

#13. Worry is unnecessary weight on the mind;
replace it with hope.
Fear is unneeded weight on the heart;
substitute it with love.
Hate is undesirable weight on the soul;
supplant it with God.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#14. We need to meet and flesh out the details of our ... you know ... whatever. I don't know what to call it. Our contract."
"I was thinking the same thing. But can we call it our epic summer romance? Contract sounds so stuffy." He smiles again.

Anne Eliot

#15. I am ready to be alone.

Chuck Klosterman

#16. I was still cursed with my duality of purpose.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#17. For every big American movie I've done where I was the supporting guy, I've gone back home to Canada to do supporting movies where I was the lead.

Jay Baruchel