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

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

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

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

James, Clive

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

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

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

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

Rice, Alice Caldwell

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.

Proverb, Swedish

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

Persius

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Why worry when you can pray?

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

Pythagoras

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Mantell, Michael

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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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Lasorda, Tommy

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

Ch'Iao, Pien

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

35.

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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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

James, William

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Confucius

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

Renard, Jules

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Washington, George

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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

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

Confucius

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Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Churchill, Winston

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Worry: a sustained form of fear caused by indecision.

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

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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