Motivational Quotes

Worry

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

- Rice, Alice Caldwell

Best Quotes about Worry

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

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

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

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

Pythagoras

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

James, Clive

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.

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

Persius

10.

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

11.

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

Mantell, Michael

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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

James, William

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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 useless mulling over of things we cannot change.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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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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Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Churchill, Winston

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Renard, Jules

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Confucius

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

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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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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

31.

Don't worry, be happy.

Baba, Meher

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Rice, Alice Caldwell

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

Confucius

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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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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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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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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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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 gives a small thing a big shadow.

Proverb, Swedish

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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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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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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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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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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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Worry: a sustained form of fear caused by indecision.

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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