Motivational Quotes

Worry

The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in the present.

- Miller, Harlan

Best Quotes about Worry

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

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

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

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

Miller, Olin

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

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

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

Ch'Iao, Pien

Worry: a sustained form of fear caused by indecision.

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

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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

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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

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

James, Clive

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

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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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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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Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.

Proverb, Swedish

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Don't worry, be happy.

Baba, Meher

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

Persius

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

Confucius

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

Renard, Jules

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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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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

James, William

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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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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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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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Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Churchill, Winston

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

Confucius

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

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

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

Mantell, Michael

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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