Motivational Quotes

Worry

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

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Worry

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

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

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

Confucius

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

James, William

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

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.

Mayo, Charles Horace

Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.

Ch'Iao, Pien

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

James, Clive

10.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

12.

Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't mostof them turn out all right after all?

Carnegie, Dale

13.

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

14.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

15.

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

16.

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

Aikman, Leo

17.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

Don't worry, be happy.

Baba, Meher

22.

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

Mantell, Michael

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Adams, James Truslow

26.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

Lubbock, Sir John

27.

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

28.

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

Rice, Alice Caldwell

29.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

30.

The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs.

Lasorda, Tommy

31.

Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.

Pilgrim, Peace

32.

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.

Proverb, Swedish

33.

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

34.

Set aside half an hour every day to do all your worrying; then take a nap during this period.

35.

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

Burdette, Robert

36.

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

Renard, Jules

37.

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

38.

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

Hubbard, Kin

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

43.

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

Pythagoras

44.

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

45.

Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.

Rosenwald, Julius

46.

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

47.

Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen.

48.

Why worry when you can pray?

49.

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

Miller, Olin

50.

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