Woke Up Early

Adversity is the first path to truth. - Lord Byron

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

Worry is the stomach's worst poison. - Alfred Nobel

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

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

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due. - William R Inge

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis. - Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. - Clarence Thomas

Smile. It will bring serenity to the most stressful situations. - Garnet Hill

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

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie. - David Mamet

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. - Aesop

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

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

A diamond is just a piece of coal that handles stress exceptionally well. - Unknown

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. - Fred Astaire

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

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one. - Hans Selye

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

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

The dead won't bother you. It's the living you've got to worry about. - John Wayne Gacy

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

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

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. - Jean Rostand

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. - J.M. Power

An Irishman can be worried by the consciousness that there is nothing to worry about. - Austin O'Malley

Yoga has a sly, clever way of short circuiting the mental patterns that cause anxiety. - Baxter Bell

In times of prosperity friends will be plenty;
In time of adversity not one in twenty. - English Proverb

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. - Charles M. Schulz

If you believe you have a foolproof system you have failed to take into consideration the creativity of fools. - Frank W. Abagnale

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

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

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

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

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. - Elvis Presley

Worrying is less work than doing something to fix the worry. Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom with the dishes. - P.J. O'Rourke

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

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. The truly wise person is colorblind. - Albert Schweitzer