Motivational Quotes

Worry

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

- Boom, Corrie Ten

Best Quotes about Worry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Ch'Iao, Pien

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

Rice, Alice Caldwell

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!

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

Adams, James Truslow

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

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

Confucius

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

10.

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

Confucius

11.

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

12.

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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Worry: a sustained form of fear caused by indecision.

14.

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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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 is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.

Pilgrim, Peace

17.

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

James, Clive

18.

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

19.

Don't worry, be happy.

Baba, Meher

20.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Churchill, Winston

21.

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 sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

James, William

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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

25.

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

Renard, Jules

28.

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

29.

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.

Proverb, Swedish

30.

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

Miller, Olin

31.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

33.

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

34.

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

Hubbard, Kin

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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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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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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 thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Rache, Arthur Somers

42.

Why worry when you can pray?

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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

44.

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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We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

Persius

46.

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

47.

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Pythagoras