Motivational Quotes

Worry

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Worry

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

Ch'Iao, Pien

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

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

Rice, Alice Caldwell

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

James, Clive

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

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

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

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Churchill, Winston

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

Pythagoras

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Don't worry, be happy.

Baba, Meher

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

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Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.

Proverb, Swedish

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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 cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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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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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 -- 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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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!

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Why worry when you can pray?

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

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

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We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

Persius

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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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Worry: a sustained form of fear caused by indecision.

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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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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