Motivational Quotes

Worry

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

- Persius

Best Quotes about Worry

Don't worry, be happy.

Baba, Meher

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

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

Adams, James Truslow

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

Miller, Harlan

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; 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

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Churchill, Winston

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Pilgrim, Peace

10.

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

11.

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

Confucius

12.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

Persius

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

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

James, William

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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.

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

Rice, Alice Caldwell

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

James, Clive

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

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

Confucius

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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 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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Worry: a sustained form of fear caused by indecision.

40.

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

41.

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

Mantell, Michael

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Washington, George

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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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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 when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Why worry when you can pray?

48.

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

49.

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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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