I'm So Busy

People worry, and God smiles. - Hebrew Proverb

A person has to be busy to stay alive. - Maxwell Anderson

Adversity introduces a man to himself. - Unknown

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

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. - Francis Bacon

When the problem is worry, the prescription is prayer. - David Jeremiah

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. - Thomas Carlyle

Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place. - Roy Acuff

Reality: The leading cause of stress among those in touch with it. - Lily Tomlin

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. - Mark Twain

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. - Don Marquis

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. - Henry David Thoreau

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. - Oscar Wilde

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

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money. - Johnny Cash

If you need something done ask a busy man, no one else will have time to do it. - Unknown

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

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. - Alice Walker

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure. - H Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

Stress is your body's way of saying you haven't worked enough unpaid overtime. - Scott Adams

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. - Benjamin Franklin

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

Stress exacerbates any problem, whether it's diabetes, heart trouble, MS, or whatever. - Mary Ann Mobley

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

Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair. - George Burns

I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. - Bernard Berenson

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act. - Howard Zinn

We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges. - T D Jakes

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. - Horace

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. - Unknown

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine. - Jim Carrey

Most people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy trying to place the blame on someone else. - Unknown

Competition can damage self-esteem, create anxiety, and lead to cheating and hurt feelings. But so can romantic love. - Mariah Burton Nelson

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

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

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. - Dale Carnegie

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 we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. - Anne Bradstreet