Motivational Quotes

Worry

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

Best Quotes about Worry

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

James, William

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

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

Don't worry, be happy.

Baba, Meher

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

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

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

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

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

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

Renard, Jules

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Why worry when you can pray?

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

Confucius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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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Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Churchill, Winston

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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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One of the commonest mistakes is thinking your worries are over when your children get married.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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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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We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

Persius

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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.

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

Rice, Alice Caldwell

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

Pythagoras

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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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Worry: a sustained form of fear caused by indecision.

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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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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