Motivational Quotes

Worry

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

- Jefferson, Joseph

Best Quotes about Worry

The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs.

Lasorda, Tommy

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

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

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

Mantell, Michael

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

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

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

10.

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

Caesar, Julius

11.

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

12.

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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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Washington, George

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

17.

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

Ch'Iao, Pien

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

29.

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 gives a small thing a big shadow.

Proverb, Swedish

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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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We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

Persius

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

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

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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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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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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

James, William

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

Confucius

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