Vertical Roller Coaster Ride

Worry is a waste of the imagination. - Unknown

Adversity is the first path to truth. - Lord Byron

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow. - Swedish Proverb

Give your stress wings and let it fly away. - Gerri Guillemets

Prosperity makes friends; adversity tries them. - Publilius Syrus

Be willing to access joy in the face of adversity. - C.W. Metcalf

Worry is today's mice nibbling on tomorrow's cheese. - Unknown

Borrow money from pessimists - they don't expect it back. - Steven Wright

Don't use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe. - Unknown

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity. - Walt Schmidt

Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon. - John Madden

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity. - Charles C. Colton

A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures. - James E Faust

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist - except an old optimist. - Mark Twain

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous. - Elias Canetti

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. - Plutarch

Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf. - Gene Perret

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has. - Billy Graham

The visionary leader is an optimist, for no pessimist ever made a great leader. - William W Francis

Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you. - Winston Churchill

Boredom is a learned behavior and a form of anxiety that stems from our thinking. - Unknown

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity. - Seneca

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Stress depletes willpower, which diminishes your ability to control those emotions. - Roy F Baumeister

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. - George Bernard Shaw

An optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. - Winston Churchill

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond. - Mae West

You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. - Olin Miller

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little. - Mark Twain

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married. - Robert Frost

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. - Bill Vaughan

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - the main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. - John Steinbeck

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. - Matthew 6:34

Teach your daughter to worry less about fitting into the glass slippers and more about shattering the glass ceilings. - Unknown

Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress. - Gail Sheehy

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. - Josh Billings

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right. - Jack Nicholson

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. - John Wooden

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown. - Samuel Daniel

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. - Dale Carnegie