Worry Quotes
The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.Worry
Adams, James Truslow
American Statesman
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy to worry at night.
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Aikman, Leo
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.
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Anthony, Dr. Robert
American educator
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.
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Asaf, George
Song Writer and Musician
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
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Beecher, Henry Ward
1813-1887 American Preacher Orator Writer
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.
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Berne, Eric
1910-1970 Canadian Psychiatrist Writer
Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day s own trouble be sufficient for the day.
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
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]
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
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.
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Blair, Hugh
British Poet
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.
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Boom, Corrie Ten
Dutch Evangelist
Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
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Boom, Corrie Ten
Dutch Evangelist
There are two days in the week on which I never worry; One is yesterday and the other is tomorrow.
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Burdette, Robert
As a rule, men worry more about what they can t see than about what they can.
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Caesar, Julius
101-44 BC Roman Emperor
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?
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Carnegie, Dale
1888-1955 American Author Trainer
If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
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Carnegie, Dale
1888-1955 American Author Trainer
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.
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Chapman, John Jay
1862-1933 American Author
Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.
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Ch'Iao, Pien
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
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Churchill, Winston
1874-1965 British Statesman Prime Minister
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.
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Churchill, Winston
1874-1965 British Statesman Prime Minister
Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role.
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Confucius
BC 551-479 Chinese Ethical Teacher Philosopher
Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.
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Confucius
BC 551-479 Chinese Ethical Teacher Philosopher
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.
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Disraeli, Benjamin
1804-1881 British Statesman Prime Minister
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
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Edison, Thomas A.
1847-1931 American Inventor Entrepreneur Founder of GE
Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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Frost, Robert
1875-1963 American Poet
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.
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Gandhi, Mahatma
1869-1948 Indian Political Spiritual Leader
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.
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Hemingway, Mary
Wife of Ernest Hemingway
Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!
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Hoffman, Barbara
One of the commonest mistakes is thinking your worries are over when your children get married.
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Hubbard, Kin
1868-1930 American Humorist Journalist
Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive.
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James, Clive
1939 Australian-Born Writer Satirist Broadcaster and Critic
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.
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James, William
1842-1910 American Psychologist Professor Author
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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James, William
1842-1910 American Psychologist Professor Author
I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.
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Jefferson, Joseph
1829-1905 American Comic Actor
How much pain worries have cost us that have never happened?
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Jefferson, Thomas
1743-1826 Third President of the USA
The only way I d worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs.
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Lasorda, Tommy
1927 American Baseball Manager
The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
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Lichtenberg, Georg C.
1742-1799 German Physicist Satirist
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. -
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Lincoln, Abraham
1809-1865 Sixteenth President of the USA
Don t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Lincoln, Abraham
1809-1865 Sixteenth President of the USA
We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.
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Lubbock, Sir John
1834-1913 British Statesman Banker Naturalist
Rule #1: Don t sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: It s all small stuff.
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Mantell, Michael
American Doctor
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.
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Mayo, Charles Horace
1865-1939 American Surgeon
The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in the present.
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Miller, Harlan
We probably wouldn t worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
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Miller, Olin
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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Ovid
BC 43-18 AD Roman Poet
We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.
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Persius
34-62 AD Satirical Poet
Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.
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Pilgrim, Peace
1908-1981 American Peace Activist
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
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Plato
BC 427-347 Greek Philosopher
When we have nothing to worry about we are not doing much, and not doing much may supply us with plenty of future worries.
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Proverb, Chinese
Sayings of Chinese Origin
Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.
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Proverb, Swedish
Sayings of Swedish Origin
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
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Pythagoras
BC 582-507 Greek Philosopher Mathematician
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.
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Quarles, Francis
1592-1644 British Poet
Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
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Rache, Arthur Somers
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
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Renard, Jules
1864-1910 French Author Dramatist
It ain t no use putting up your umbrella till it rains.
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Rice, Alice Caldwell
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.
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Rosenwald, Julius
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.
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Russell, Bertrand
1872-1970 British Philosopher Mathematician Essayist
Don t worry about the world coming to an end today. It s already tomorrow in Australia.
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Schultz, Charles M.
1922 American Cartoonist Creator of Peanuts
Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.
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Shakespeare, William
1564-1616 British Poet Playwright Actor
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.
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Shaw, Henry Wheeler
1818-1885 American Humorist
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
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Spurgeon, Charles Haddon
1834-1892 British Baptist Preacher
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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Unknown, Source
Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time -- the cemetery.
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Unknown, Source
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 would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything.
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Unknown, Source
If you cannot help worrying, remember that worrying cannot help you either.
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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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Don t worry, be happy.
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Unknown, Source
Worry: a sustained form of fear caused by indecision.
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Why worry when you can pray?
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To worry is a sin. Only one sort of worry is permissible; to worry because one worries.
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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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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.
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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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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
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Washington, George
1732-1799 First President of the USA
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.
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Wu-Men
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.
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Zoroaster
BC 628-551 Persian Religious Leader-Founder of Zoroastrianism