Motivational Quotes

Worry

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

Best Quotes about Worry

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

Mantell, Michael

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

Ch'Iao, Pien

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

Renard, Jules

Don't worry, be happy.

Baba, Meher

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

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!

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

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Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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Why worry when you can pray?

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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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We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

Persius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

James, Clive

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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 sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

James, William

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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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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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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 gives a small thing a big shadow.

Proverb, Swedish

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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

Caesar, Julius

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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Worry: a sustained form of fear caused by indecision.

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

Confucius

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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 is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Washington, George

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Blair, Hugh

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

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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