Polite Protest

The lady doth protest too much. - Queen Gertrude

Polite conversation is rarely either. - Fran Lebowitz

Be polite to all, but intimate with few. - Thomas Jefferson

Pessimism is the triumph of worry over matter. - Unknown

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. - Unknown

Of all the things to worry about; the Wookie has no pants. - Mark Hamill

Stress should be a powerful driving force, not an obstacle. - Bob Phillips

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. - Lily Tomlin

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

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. - Abraham Lincoln

Love is something sent from heaven to worry the hell out of you. - Dolly Parton

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

A pessimist is someone who makes difficulties of his opportunities. - Unknown

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. - Ken S. Keyes Jr.

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. - Leo Buscaglia

Most of the stuff people worry about ain't never gonna happen anyway. - Unknown

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness. - Richard Carlson

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. - Natalie Goldberg

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

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, it empties today of its strength. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful. - Sean O'Faolain

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. - William James

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

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. - Stacia Tauscher

Concentrate on what you're doing - then you won't have time to tense up and worry. - Unknown

Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try. - Jack Canfield

Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. - Albert Einstein

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In the long run, the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. - Unknown

Worry is like a rocking chair. It will give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere. - Unknown

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

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. - James Branch Cabell

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

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

I'm not just retiring from the company, I'm also retiring from my stress, my commute, my alarm clock, and my iron. - Hartman Jule

I'm not a car guy. The subway gets me where I need to go efficiently and cheaply, and I don't worry about traffic. - Joe Scarborough

My Dad once said, "you wouldn't worry so much about what people thought of you if you knew how seldom they did." - Dr. Phil McGraw

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