People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

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

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

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed read more

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever

I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.

I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

In this country we encourage "creativity" among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as read more

In this country we encourage "creativity" among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow "too much.".

Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died read more

Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt.

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters