Motivational Quotes

Worry

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

Best Quotes about Worry

There are two days in the week on which I never worry; One is yesterday and the other is tomorrow.

Burdette, Robert

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

James, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Rice, Alice Caldwell

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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!

14.

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

James, Clive

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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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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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We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

Persius

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

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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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Washington, George

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

Confucius

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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

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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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Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.

Proverb, Swedish

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

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Caesar, Julius

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

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

Confucius

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

38.

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

39.

Don't worry, be happy.

Baba, Meher

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Worry: a sustained form of fear caused by indecision.

41.

Why worry when you can pray?

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Pythagoras

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

Mantell, Michael

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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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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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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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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