Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. Ovid Roman poet (43 BC - 17 AD) The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799) To worry is a sin. Only one sort of worry is permissible; to worry because one worries. Hasidic Saying People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold. John Jay Chapman Behind every successful man there are usually a lot of unsuccessful years. Author Unknown Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now. Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life. Charles M. Schwab Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools. Napoleon Folks who never do any more than they are paid for, never get paid more than they do. Elbert Hubbard US author (1856 - 1915) It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) |