Motivational Quotes

Worry

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

Best Quotes about Worry

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Why worry when you can pray?

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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

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

Mantell, Michael

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

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

Ch'Iao, Pien

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Confucius

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

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

Pythagoras

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

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Bible

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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Washington, George

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Caesar, Julius

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We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

Persius

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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

James, William

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

Renard, Jules

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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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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Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.

Proverb, Swedish

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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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Worry: a sustained form of fear caused by indecision.

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

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

Rice, Alice Caldwell

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Jefferson, Thomas