Quotes about worry

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

Adams, James Truslow on worry
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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 on worry
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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 on worry
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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 on worry   

"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 on worry   

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

Boom, Corrie Ten on worry
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"Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear."

Boom, Corrie Ten on worry
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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 on worry   

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

Caesar, Julius on worry
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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 most of them turn out all right after all?"

Carnegie, Dale on worry
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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 on worry   

"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."

Chapman, John Jay on worry   

"Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies."

Ch'Iao, Pien on worry   

"Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning."

Churchill, Winston on worry
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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 on worry
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"Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role."

Confucius on worry
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"Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing."

Confucius on worry
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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 on worry   

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

Edison, Thomas A. on worry   

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on worry
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"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."

Frost, Robert on worry
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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 on worry
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"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."

Hemingway, Mary on worry   

"Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!"

Hoffman, Barbara on worry   

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

Hubbard, Kin on worry   

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

James, Clive on worry
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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 on worry
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"The sovereign cure for worry is prayer."

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

Jefferson, Joseph on worry   

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

Jefferson, Thomas on worry
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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 on worry   

"The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on 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 on worry
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"Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition."

Lincoln, Abraham on worry
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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 on worry   

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

Mantell, Michael on worry
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