#Worry Quotes

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

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

“Care is no cure, but rather corrosive, For things that are not to be remedied.”

“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.”

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

“I am sure care's an enemy to life.”

“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.”

“Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?”

“Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.”

“The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.”

“Let Go of Your Worries Let go of your worries and be completely clear-hearted, like the face of a mirror that contains no images. If you want a clear mirror, behold yourself and see the shameless truth, which the mirror reflects. If metal can be polished to a mirror-like finish, what polishing might the mirror of the heart require? Between the mirror and the heart is this single difference: the heart conceals secrets, while the mirror does not.”

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

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

“Worry is interest paid before it's due.”

“If you don't like your situation in life, don't fret or worry--do something about it. Worry less, and act more.”

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

“The moment you begin to worry about the things you want and the things you don’t have in life is the moment you will lose your gratitude... The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times.”

“...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never!”

“One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is right who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day, and be done with it. You have done what you could.”

“I never worry about action, but only inaction.”

“Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving olden dances, Mingling hands and mingling glances Till the moon has taken flight; To and fro we leap And chase the frothy bubbles, While the world is full of troubles And is anxious in its sleep. . . .”

“Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.”

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

“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.”

“I am too busy. I have not time for worry.”

“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”

“If any of us had a child that we thought was as bad as we know we are, we would have cause to start to worry.”

“Once a decision is reached, stop worrying and start working.”

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

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

“Guilt lies in the past, worry lies in the future.”

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

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

“Worry is a waste of imagination.”

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

“I'm always worried about everything. Like spiders.”

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

“Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.”

“Don't worry about your heart, it will last you as long as you live.”

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

“As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.”

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

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

“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.”

“Most of the things I worried about in life never happened.”