Motivational Quotes

Worry

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

Best Quotes about Worry

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Churchill, Winston

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

Lasorda, Tommy

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

Pythagoras

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

James, William

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Confucius

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Washington, George

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

Ch'Iao, Pien

18.

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

Rice, Alice Caldwell

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

Confucius

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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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Why worry when you can pray?

28.

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

30.

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Hubbard, Kin

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We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

Persius

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.

Proverb, Swedish

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Don't worry, be happy.

Baba, Meher

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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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Worry: a sustained form of fear caused by indecision.

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

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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