Motivational Quotes

Worry

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

Best Quotes about Worry

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

Pythagoras

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

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

Caesar, Julius

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

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

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.

Proverb, Swedish

Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.

Confucius

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

Confucius

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Why worry when you can pray?

14.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

James, William

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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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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

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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

20.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Churchill, Winston

21.

Worry: a sustained form of fear caused by indecision.

22.

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

24.

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

Rice, Alice Caldwell

25.

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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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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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

28.

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

Adams, James Truslow

29.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

30.

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

Mantell, Michael

31.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

33.

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

Burdette, Robert

34.

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

35.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

36.

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

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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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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

39.

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

Lasorda, Tommy

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

44.

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

45.

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

Persius

46.

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

47.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Ch'Iao, Pien