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

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

Blair, Hugh

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

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

James, William

Don't worry, be happy.

Baba, Meher

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Edison, Thomas A.

10.

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

11.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Washington, George

12.

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

Confucius

13.

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

14.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

15.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

18.

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

Persius

19.

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

Pythagoras

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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

21.

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.

Proverb, Swedish

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

24.

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

27.

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

Renard, Jules

30.

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

32.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Worry: a sustained form of fear caused by indecision.

37.

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!

38.

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

Rice, Alice Caldwell

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

Ch'Iao, Pien

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

Jefferson, Joseph

45.

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

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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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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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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 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