Worries - Quotes

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. - John Lubbock

A hundred load of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.  - George Herbert

Action is worry's worst enemy. - American Proverb

Always put worry in it proper place – out of your life. - Unknown

Anyone who knows how to worry knows how to meditate. Worriers are skilled in the meditation process but are meditating on the wrong kind of thoughts. - Jim Berg

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whisky. - Unknown

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can. - Julius Caesar

Better to be busy than to be busy worrying. - Angela Lansbury

Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night. - Leo Aikman

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. - Benjamin Franklin

Do not worry about what is ahead. Just go as far as you can go – from there you can see farther. - Unknown

Don't worry about people who don't worry about you. - Unknown

Don’t worry. Just breathe. If it is meant to be it will find it’s way. - Unknown

Every moment of worry weakens the soul for its daily combat. - Anna Robertson Brown

Excessive worrying is like walking through a foggy street at night; you have no idea what lies ahead and the darkness and dampness create a sense of dread that is difficult to ignore. The actual landscape is easy to navigate, but because you chose to walk into the foggy portion of the street, you won't be able to see anything clearly. - Anthony Joshua

For every worry under the sun There is a remedy or there is none. If there is a remedy, hurry and find it. If there is none, never mind it. - LeGrand Richards

Get the heat and emotion out of worry, and put cold, ruthless scrutiny onto the problem, and worry loses its power. When we are worried and filled with apprehension, we become panicky and are likely to see only gloom and failure. There isn’t any situation so bad that it won’t become a lot better when you think rationally – and spiritually – about it. - Norman Vincent Peale

Half the worry in the world is caused by people trying to make decisions before they have sufficient knowledge on which to base a decision. - Dean Hawkes

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

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which have never happened. - Mark Twain

If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything. - Mary Hemingway

If something worries you, check it out. Do what you can, take care of what you can, and then let it go. At this point, having done all you can, worrying about the issue doesn't do you any good. You could be using that energy in other ways to help you feel better. - Janice Corsano

If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying? - Shantideva

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. - Dale Carnegie

If you worry about what may happen tomorrow and it doesn’t happen, you have worried in vain. Even if it does happen, you have to worry twice. - Unknown

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade. - Henry Ward Beecher

It takes a big person to avoid small worries. - Robin Sharma

It's about the quality of the worry ... I have happier worries now than I used to. - David Gilmour

No matter how heavy your burden is now, the only way that you'll be able to manage it without subjecting yourself to excessive worrying is to accept what lies ahead. - Anthony Joshua

One of the worst features about worrying is that it destroys our ability to concentrate. When we worry, our minds jump here and there and everywhere, and we lose all power of decision. However, when we force ourselves to face the worst and accept it mentally, we then eliminate all these vague imaginings and put ourselves in a position in which we are able to concentrate on our problem. - Willis H. Carrier

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

Quit worrying about how everything is going to turn out. Live one day at a time; better yet, make the most of this moment. - Joel Osteen

People believe that worrying is a useful way of appraising and coping with threats in life. And so they look for and examine all possible signs of danger – that is, they worry constantly. - Ronald J. Comer

Remember to breathe as many of our worries today will probably not be so important a year from now. - Satsuki Shibuya

Since worrying is toxic let us concentrate on finding a solution to our problems. Let's focus our mind on everything that is good, healthy, productive, and that will help us to increase our ability to enjoy life more abundantly. - Melvin R. Hall

Stop worrying about what you have to loose and start focusing on what you have to gain. - Unknown

That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. - Chinese Proverb

The first essential component of worry is a future orientation. In other words, when you worry you invariably focus on something that might happen but hasn't happened yet. This notion might seem a bit controversial. In fact, you might even disagree with it. You might argue that you worry about things that are happening now, not in the future. A closer look, though, reveals the truth – worry is like a haunted crystal ball, tormenting you with a terrifying view of the future. - Kevin L. Gyoerkoe & Pamela S. Wiegartz

The less you worry about what people think, the less complicated life becomes. - Unknown

The first thing you have to realize about worrying is that it is a choice, not an inevitability. Some people think that worry comes naturally when you have problems. That's not true. You worry because you choose to be worried. - Anthony Joshua

The problem with worry is that we attract the very thing we are trying to avoid. We live a self-fulfilling prophecy. Life keeps its agreement with us through our beliefs, because whatever we think about, we bring about. Life is like a mirror. It reflects back whatever image we present to it. - Robert Anthony

The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come. - J. R. R. Tolkien

There are very few things in the mind which eat up as much energy as worry. It is one of the most difficult things not to worry about anything. Worry is experienced when things go wrong, but in relation to past happenings it is idle merely to wish that they might have been otherwise. The frozen past is what it is, and no amount of worrying is going to make it other than what it has been. But the limited ego-mind identifies itself with its past, gets entangled with it and keeps alive the pangs of frustrated desires. - Meher Baba

There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem. - Harold Stephens

There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest. - Smauel Johnson

To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth’s creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still. - Lewis Thomas 

We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. - Etty Hillesum

What does worry accomplish except to breed more worry? - Dean Koontz

What worries you, masters you. - Haddon W. Robinson

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

When you worry, you go over the same ground endlessly and come out the same place you started. - Harold B. Walker

Why worry one's head over a thing that is inevitable? Why die before one's death? - Gandhi

Why worry? If you’ve done the very best you can, worrying won’t make it any better. - Walt Disney

Worms eat you when you're dead; worries eat you when you're alive. - Jewish Proverb

Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to disclose my worry to a friend.... The simple act of reassurance from another human being [becomes] a tool of the Spirit to cast out fear. - John Ortberg

Worry affects the circulation, the glands, the whole nervous system. - Charles H. Mayo

Worry amplifies a whisper into a shout. - Unknown

Worry comes from the belief you are powerless. - Robert Anthony

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength. - Corrie Ten Boom

Worry ducks when purpose flies overhead. - Terri Guillemets

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow. - Unknown

Worries go down better with soup than without. - Jewish Proverb

Worry has been described as a spasm of the emotions, a catalyst for creating a depressed condition within a human being. Banish worry and you will permit the positive emotions of joy and happiness to rise to the surface. Worry is a condition in which the mind spasmodically clutches an idea and won’t let it go. That is the reason you are never successful in telling people to quit worrying. They can’t quit worrying. Their minds are in an emotional spasm. They are holding onto some obsessive idea and can’t let it go. The only way to break the spasm is to insinuate another idea into this spasmodic grip, until the mind lets go of the bad idea and seizes the good idea. Since worry is an irrational thought, you must take worry apart, lay it out, dissect it, cut it up, and look at it piece by piece. There is so much illusionary vapour to worry that, when it is dispelled, the reality that is left will prove to be quite small and you can handle it. - Norman Vincent Peale

Worry in the dark can make it even darker. - Camron Wright

Worry is a misuse of imagination. - Dan Zadra

Worry is a peculiar thing. It is like a dust storm on a hot day. You can become confused and lose your way. Next time you find yourself bogged down in anxiety and worry, say to yourself, “I will not be disturbed by this thing. I will look at it coolly and logically. You will find that your worry has lost its power. - Norman Vincent Peale

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

Worry is an unproductive, useless form of fear, and that makes it, by definition, unhealthy. - Maxie Maultsby

Worry is common. Everybody worries once in a while when they're faced with a serious problem and aren't too sure of a solution. Worry itself becomes a problem if you worry constantly or if the worry causes more distress than resolution. - Holly Hazlett-Stevens

Worry is different from fear. If fear is like a raging fever, worry is a low-grade temperature. It nags at us, simmers in our souls, hovers in the back of our minds like a faint memory. We may fear certain realities, like death; we worry about vague possibilities. Worry distracts us more than paralyzes us. It is like a leaky faucet we never get around to fixing. - Gerald Lawson Sittser

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness. If men and women practiced mental calisthenics as they do physical calisthenics, they would purge their brains of this foolishness. - Arnold Bennett

Worry is half impatience and half ignorance. - Austin O’Malley

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due. - William Inge

Worry is like a rocking chair – it gives you something to do but it doesn’t get you anywhere. - Dorothy Galyean

Worry is like a squatter: it sneaks in and tries to stay without paying rent! Serve it eviction papers! - Evinda Lepins

Worry is like a stream of fear trickling through man's mind, which if not controlled will flood and drown all other thoughts in the mind and overtakes the mind entirely. - Pano George Karkanis

Worry is nothing but the bad habit of thinking about what you DON'T want to happen. It's a misuse of your most precious power – the imagination. - Dan Zadra

Worry is one of the most destructive scourges of mankind. - Maxwell Maltz

Worry is rust upon the blade. - Henry Ward Beecher

Worry is spiritual near-sightedness, a fumbling way of looking at little things, and of magnifying their value. - Anna Robertson Brown

Worry is the child of Fear – if you kill out Fear, worry will die for want of nourishment. - William Walker Atkinson

Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe. - Keith Caserta

Worry is the most popular form of suicide. Worry impairs appetite, disturbs sleep, makes respiration irregular, spoils digestion, irritates disposition, warps character, weakens mind, stimulates disease, and saps bodily health. It is the real cause of death in thousands of instances where some other disease is named on the death certificate. - William George Jordan

Worry is the secret weapon perpetrated upon us by the dark forces of the world that lurk in the shape of fear, uncertainty, confusion, and loss. We, on the other hand, have our own secret weapon against these incorporeal fiends. It is laughter. - Vera Nazarian

Worry is wasting today's time to clutter up tomorrow's opportunities with yesterday's trouble. - Unknown

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. - Swedish Proverb

Worrying is a vicious circle, as it just makes us feel more wound up and anxious. It puts us in a bad mood and drains us of energy. Most of the things we worry about never happen, or are not as bad as we thought they would be. Even when things turn out for the worst, worrying has rarely helped to achieve anything, and may even leave us feeling less able to cope when it happens. - Sarah McNamara

Worrying is a waste of our time. Period. If we are worrying, then we are not doing anything about anything. - Janice Corsano

Worrying is exactly how you manifest what you don't want. - Jafree Ozwald

Worrying is holding on to problems without seeking help. - Melvin R. Hall

Worrying is like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain. - Unknown

Worrying is not fun; worrying is very draining. Ever notice how during and after you've worried over something, how very drained you feel both mentally and physically? Worrying is very detrimental to the human body. This is called stress, and stress will either mutate or kill the very cells of your physical body. - Nathan Whiting

Worrying is not looking for a solution, but just reviewing the "problem" over and over. - Melvin R. Hall

Worrying is only useful if it makes us aware of something that needs to be remedied, allows us to resolve the situation and move on. It is bad for us when it constantly fills our mind and we take no action or remain preoccupied. It wastes time and energy. - Sarah McNamara

Worrying is stupid, it’s like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain. - Unknown

Worrying is the one game in which, if you guess right, you don’t get any satisfaction out of your smartness. - George Horace Lorimer

WORRYING does not take away tomorrow's TROUBLES, it takes away today's PEACE.

Worrying does not take away tomorrow's troubles, it takes away today's Peace. - Unknown

Worrying is a waste of time. Good and bad things happen in life, you just have to keep living and not stress over what  you can’t control. - Unknown

Worrying won’t stop bad things from happening, but it does stop you from enjoying the good. - Unknown

You can always be master of the situation – it is only worry and anxiety that make it seem beyond your control.  - Unknown

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow. - Janis Joplin

You're worried about what-ifs. Well, what if you stopped worrying? - Shannon Celebi