Worry Quotes

By worrying as little as possible about fame.

Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry

One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is ephemeral, and transitory. It comes when it pleases,and goes away without warning. Accept and enjoy it while it remains, but spend no time worrying about its departure. Worry will never bring it back.

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

If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.

I have spent most of my time worrying about things that have never happened. Worrying is not an action! In fact, it is action that alleviates concern and dissipates worries. Take more actions when you feel that worry is creeping in to steal your time. It need not be a huge action, any action in the direction you want to go will do.

Worry is a state of mind based upon fear. It works slowly, but persistently. It is insidious and subtle. Step by step it “digs itself in” until it paralyzes ones reasoning faculty, destroys self-confidence and initiative. Worry is a form of sustained fear caused by indecision therefore it is a state of mind which can be controlled.

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

Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.

Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.

On being asked by someone how he could become famous, Diogenes responded: 'By worrying as little as possible about fame

Do not worry, and worry.

I'm always worried about everything. Like spiders.

Evils come not, then our fears are vain; And if they do fear but augments the pain.

If this is neither my own badness, nor an effect of my own badness, and the common weal is not injured, why am I troubled about it? And what is the harm to the common weal?

If a problem can be solved it will be. If it can not be solved there is no use worrying about it.

What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.

One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.

Some of the worst things in my life never even happened.

I never worry that all hell will break loose. My concern is that only part of hell will break loose and be much harder to detect.

Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others.

fretting at trouble only doubles it.

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present

Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.

A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may come upon him hereafter.

They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pitying, all of which are indications of weakness, which lead, just as surely as deliberately planned sins (though by a different route), to failure, unhappiness, and loss, for weakness cannot persist in a power evolving universe.

O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night.

Worry means the mind is controlling you. Worry is always pointless. A solution never comes out of worry.

Don't be forecasting evil unless it is what you can guard against. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.

Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.

The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination.

I worry so much. Like, 'Damn, how can I be excellent?' But it's a journey.

[Do you worry unnecessarily about the future? Remember most fears are just False Evidence Appearing Real. Don't let unfounded fears rob you of the joys of life or you too will say...] There has been much tragedy in my life; [and] at least half of it actually happened.

Whatever you're thinking about is literally like planning a future event. When you're worrying, you are planning. When you are appreciating, you are planning...What are you planning?

Worry is interest paid before it's due.

Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose

Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

In our concern for others, we worry less about ourselves.

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened

Worry destroys the ability to write.

I believe confidence is all about being positive concerning what you can do -- and not worrying over what you can't do. A confident person is open to learning, because she knows that her confidence allows her to walk through life's doorways, eager to discover what waits on the other side. She knows that every new unknown is a chance to learn more about herself and unleash her abilities.

We’ve all got to worry some-but we can’t let it conquer us. Instead, let it alarm us.

Money-or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas-may worry me, but it does not excite me.

Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.

Why worry about things you can't control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you?

To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.

What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived

If you are worried or afraid of anything, there is something in your mental attitude that needs correction.