Motivational Quotes

Worry

Worry: a sustained form of fear caused by indecision.

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Ninety percent of the things we tend to WORRY about we have no control over, so why worry about them?

Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.

Blair, Hugh

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive.

James, Clive

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God which transcends all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. [Philippians 4:6, 7]

Bible

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.

Boom, Corrie Ten

The moment the little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

Berne, Eric

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

Boom, Corrie Ten

The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in the present.

Miller, Harlan

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If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

James, William

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Worry -- a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Don't worry, be happy.

Baba, Meher

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Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Rache, Arthur Somers

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When we have nothing to worry about we are not doing much, and not doing much may supply us with plenty of future worries.

Proverb, Chinese

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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.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time -- the cemetery.

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Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.

Proverb, Swedish

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Overcoming fear and worry can be accomplished by living a day at a time or even a moment at a time. Your worries will be cut down to nothing.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

Churchill, Winston

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy to worry at night.

Aikman, Leo

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How much pain worries have cost us that have never happened?

Jefferson, Thomas

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Do not worry about whether or not the sun will rise. Be prepared to enjoy it.

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One of the commonest mistakes is thinking your worries are over when your children get married.

Hubbard, Kin

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Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.

Russell, Bertrand

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There are two days in the week on which I never worry; One is yesterday and the other is tomorrow.

Burdette, Robert

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What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while, so pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, and smile, smile, smile.

Asaf, George

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There are only two things to worry about, either you are healthy or you are sick. If you are healthy, then there is nothing to worry about. But if you are sick there are only two things to worry about, either you will get well or you will die. If you get well, then there is nothing to worry about. But if you die there are only two things to worry about, either you will go to heaven or to hell. If you go to heaven, then there is nothing to worry about. And if you to go hell, you'll be so darn busy shaking hands with your friends you won't have time to worry!

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Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill your thoughts, that's your best season.

Wu-Men

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Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.

Quarles, Francis

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We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

Persius

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Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: It's all small stuff.

Mantell, Michael

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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Washington, George

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Suffer no anxiety, for he who is a sufferer of anxiety becomes regardless of enjoyment of the world and the spirit, and contraction happens to his body and soul.

Zoroaster

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Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role.

Confucius

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Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Churchill, Winston

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As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

Caesar, Julius

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If you cannot help worrying, remember that worrying cannot help you either.

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Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

Pythagoras

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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

James, William

43.

Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these I reckon will give you a good lift. -

Lincoln, Abraham

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I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

Renard, Jules

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Don't worry about the intensity and direction of the putt -- until you get on the green!

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Worry: a sustained form of fear caused by indecision.

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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is the rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution which destroys the machinery but the friction. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Adams, James Truslow

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We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

Miller, Olin

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It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains.

Rice, Alice Caldwell