Worry Quotes
Best selected worry quotes
by some famous people of their times for you. These worry quotes
will motivate and inspire you and will make you much wiser about
the subject.
Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries. Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry... Yesterday and Tomorrow. ~Robert Jones Burdette
Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing. Confucius
I refuse to be burdened by vague worries. If something wants to worry me, it will have to make itself clear. ~Robert Brault
Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change. Peace Pilgrim
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. ~Michel de Montaigne
If you cannot help worrying, remember that worrying cannot help you either. Anonymous
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. Plato
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself. Pythagoras
If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones. ~Don Herold
Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head. ~Mignon McLaughlin
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. Winston Churchill
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer. William James
The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry. James Truslow Adams
Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear. Corrie Ten Boom
Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies. Pien Ch'Iao
Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen. Anonymous
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength. Corrie Ten Boom
One of the commonest mistakes is thinking your worries are over when your children get married. Kin Hubbard
Nerves provide me with energy. They work for me. It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that I get worried. ~Mike Nichols
Present fears are less than horrible imaginings. William Shakespeare
When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system? ~Russell Hoban
How much pain worries have cost us that have never happened? Thomas Jefferson
When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come. ~Joseph Joubert
Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway. ~Mary C. Crowley
Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: It's all small stuff. Michael Mantell
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. Julius Rosenwald
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy to worry at night. Leo Aikman
As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can. Julius Caesar
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. - Abraham Lincoln
I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me. Joseph Jefferson
Don't worry about the intensity and direction of the putt -- until you get on the green! Anonymous
Ninety percent of the things we tend to WORRY about we have no control over, so why worry about them? Anonymous
Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. Arthur Somers Roche
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. Bertrand Russell
As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see. ~Julius Caesar
Worry gives a small thing a big shadow. Swedish Proverb
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. ~Christian Nevell Bovee
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
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. Dr. Robert Anthony
Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die. ~Attributed to Douglas MacArthur
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. Benjamin Disraeli
Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time -- the cemetery. Anonymous
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. ~Mark Twain
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! Anonymous
Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. ~Theodore N. Vail
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you. ~Calvin Coolidge
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
The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in the present. Harlan Miller
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything. Mary Hemingway
Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen. ~Pliny the Younger
I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us. ~Dorothy Day
We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives. ~Lewis Thomas
There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality. ~Seneca
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. Henry Ward Beecher
Set aside half an hour every day to do all your worrying; then take a nap during this period. Anonymous
We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do. Olin Miller
To worry is a sin. Only one sort of worry is permissible; to worry because one worries. Anonymous
Why worry when you can pray? Anonymous
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality. ~Mignon McLaughlin
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. George Washington
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. Winston Churchill
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. ~Edward Everett Hale
Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey! Barbara Hoffman
Do not worry about whether or not the sun will rise. Be prepared to enjoy it. Anonymous
It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything. Anonymous
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist. ~Edgar Watson Howe
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them. ~Josh Billings
Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition. Abraham Lincoln
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 most of them turn out all right after all? Dale Carnegie
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries. Jules Renard
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere. ~Glenn Turner
The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve. Anonymous
Worry: a sustained form of fear caused by indecision. Anonymous
It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down. ~George MacDonald
People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold. John Jay Chapman
We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. ~Etty Hillesum
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. Charles Horace Mayo
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. William James
Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role. Confucius
The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done. Georg C. Lichtenberg
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. Hugh Blair
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. Eric Berne
It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains. Alice Caldwell Rice
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. Francis Quarles
We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays. Persius
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. ~Arthur Somers Roche
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. Robert Frost
Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive. Clive James
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. Ovid
When we have nothing to worry about we are not doing much, and not doing much may supply us with plenty of future worries. Chinese Proverb
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
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. George Asaf
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. Charles M. Schultz
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
We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety. Sir John Lubbock
If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. Dale Carnegie
The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs. Tommy Lasorda
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. Thomas A. Edison
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