Motivational Quotes

Worry

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Worry

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Washington, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rice, Alice Caldwell

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

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 tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

Persius

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

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Worry: a sustained form of fear caused by indecision.

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Don't worry, be happy.

Baba, Meher

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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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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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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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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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Why worry when you can pray?

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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 gives a small thing a big shadow.

Proverb, Swedish

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Confucius

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

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

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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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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 is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

James, Clive

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Confucius

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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