Worry Quotes

Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.

If you worry more for others' beliefs, then you will be their slave.

Don't just sit there and worry. Be proactive. Do something - anything - about what's worrying you so you can gain information, focus and control over the situation. I've suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened.

I have no organisational skills. All my energy goes into worry - worrying takes a lot of energy.

When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune.

A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

Why worry? If you've done the very best you can, worrying won't make it any better

What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? Young son, it argues a distemper'd head So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed: Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie; But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.

The voice in your head also creates a huge amount of problems that aren't really problems. They're just things that haven't happened yet, things that could happen tomorrow or next week. Listening to unreal problems has another name: worrying. That's what the voice in your head does. It what-ifs. It frets. It agonizes, and you can no longer sense the joy of life.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me.

Being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Ninety per-cent of what we worry about never happens, yet we worry and worry. What a horrible way to go through life! What a horrible thing to do to your colon!

Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.- Robert Frost Now that all your worry has proved such an unattractive business - why not find a better job?

If we took Congress seriously, we would be worrying all the time.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

Today's worries may become tomorrow's priceless experiences.

He who worries about calamities suffers them twice over.

Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have

Black care rarely sits behind the rider whose pace is fast enough.

If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.

Basically, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

One of the problems with worry is that it keeps you from enjoying what you have.

Ask yourself what problem you have right now. Not next year, tomorrow or five minutes from now. You can always cope with the now, but you can never cope with the future. Nor do you have to. The answer, the strength and the right action will be there when you need it. Not before or after.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.

I always say the time to worry about flying is when you're on the ground. If you don't trust the captain, don't go.

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you. When the spinning stops - that'll be the time to worry. Not before.

Be cheerful -- the problems that worry us most are those that never arrive.

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

Worrying is wasted time. Use the same energy for doing something about whatever worries you.

The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over!

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

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what.

Don't worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright

Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.

Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound.

I know worrying works, because none of the stuff I worried about ever happened.

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

If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry.

Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it.

Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.

Worry is a complete waste of energy. It solves nothing.

For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

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

Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence.... Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.

Don't worry about this world; it is not broken. And don't worry about others. You worry more about them than they do. There are people waging war; there are people on the battlefield who are more alive than they've ever been before. Don't try to protect people from life; just let them have their experience while you focus upon your own experience.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.

The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.

I release all feelings of worry and guilt. Throughout life, the two most futile emotions are guilt for what has been done and worry about what might be done.

Now that all your worry has proved such an unlucrative business. Why not find a better job.