Motivational Quotes

Worry

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

- Aikman, Leo

Best Quotes about Worry

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

Renard, Jules

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

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

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

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

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

James, William

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

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

10.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

Caesar, Julius

12.

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

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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

Edison, Thomas A.

14.

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

15.

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

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

18.

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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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

20.

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

Rice, Alice Caldwell

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

Pilgrim, Peace

22.

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

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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Washington, George

24.

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

25.

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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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

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

29.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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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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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

34.

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

James, Clive

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

43.

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

44.

Don't worry, be happy.

Baba, Meher

45.

Why worry when you can pray?

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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