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 on worry   

"The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in the present."

Miller, Harlan on worry   

"We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do."

Miller, Olin on worry   

"Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all."

Ovid on worry   

"We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays."

Persius on worry   

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

Pilgrim, Peace on worry
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"Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety."

Plato on worry
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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 on worry   

"Worry gives a small thing a big shadow."

Proverb, Swedish on worry
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"Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself."

Pythagoras on worry
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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 on worry   

"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 on worry   

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

Renard, Jules on worry   

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

Rice, Alice Caldwell on worry   

"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 on worry   

"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 on worry   

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."

Schulz, Charles M. on worry
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"Present fears are less than horrible imaginings."

Shakespeare, William on worry   

"There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them."

Shaw, Henry Wheeler on worry   

"Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on worry   

"Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen."

Unknown, Source on worry   

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

Unknown, Source on worry   

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

Unknown, Source on worry   

"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."

Unknown, Source on worry   

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

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

Unknown, Source on worry   

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

Unknown, Source on worry
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"Don't worry, be happy."

Baba, Meher on worry   

"Worry: a sustained form of fear caused by indecision."

Unknown, Source on worry   

"Why worry when you can pray?"

Unknown, Source on worry   

"To worry is a sin. Only one sort of worry is permissible; to worry because one worries."

Unknown, Source on worry   

"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!"

Unknown, Source on worry   

"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."

Unknown, Source on worry   

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

Unknown, Source on worry   

"Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble."

Washington, George on 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 on worry
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"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 on worry   

"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."

Frost, Robert on worry   

"Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. "

Van Wilder on worry   

"“I am not concerned that you have fallen, I am concerned that you arise.”"

Lincoln, Abraham on worry
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