quotations about worry & worrying
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
MARY HEMINGWAY
attributed, Words of Wellness: A Treasury of Quotations for Well-Being
When you worry, you go over the same ground endlessly and come out the same place you started.
HAROLD B. WALKER
attributed, Words of Wellness: A Treasury of Quotations for Well-Being
Never hurry and never worry!
E. B. WHITE
Charlotte's Web
Fret not thyself, it tends only to evil-doing.
BIBLE
Psalms 37:8
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
E. JOSEPH COSSMAN
attributed, Inspirational Quotes for All Occasions
If we didn't worry what would we do? How would you set the alarm for the morning? How would we finish the report we have to do? Worry is essential to our life. It just takes a life of its own and that's when people get into trouble.
REID WILSON
interview, KDKA Morning News, March 21, 2017
From its earliest days, worrying has been seen as a character weakness, a frailty, a self-indulgence; something that should be avoided, controlled or cured. That explains why worrying -- where the connotation with fear is never far away -- was originally seen as a female complaint, a shortcoming that the Victorian male, with his fabled stiff-upper lip, could certainly never admit to. But as a lifelong male worrier, with as many male friends who admit to similar bouts of insecurity as female, I'm convinced that men have been worrying for just as long as women. It just took them the best part of a century to admit it.
FRANCIS O'GORMAN
Daily Mail, July 24, 2015
When I was burdened with worries, you comforted me and made me feel secure.
BIBLE
Psalms 94:19
Worry is a conscious choice, but it certainly not a very constructive way to live.
BARBARA WALSH
"Living each day worry free", Deming Headlight, March 16, 2017
The Greeks said that worry is two opposing forces that tear a person apart. The Saxons say worry is like a wolf with a stranglehold on a man's throat. Worry chokes our physical strength, our creative powers, our spiritual growth and our joy.
TOM O'BRIEN
"Focus your thoughts on God", Ellwood City Ledger, March 24, 2017
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
Beyond Positive Thinking
The cause of worry is life: its cure is death.
CALEB WILLIAMS SALEEBY
Worry: The Disease of the Age
Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway.
MARY C. CROWLEY
attributed, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Getting In to College
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.
LEO AIKMAN
attributed, Worth Repeating
As for what has already happened, you can't do anything about it, so it is pointless to waste time thinking about it--to worry is an exercise in mindlessness. As for what might happen, we must remember that we don't know the future. Many things we worry about never happen, so many of our worries waste our energy. I know this is easier said than done, but realizing the pointlessness of worry is a start.
JOHN G. MESSERLY
"How To Cope With This Stressful Presidency", Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, March 6, 2017
Worry is wasting today's time to clutter up tomorrow's opportunities with yesterday's trouble.
ANONYMOUS
The Speaker's Quote Book
My worrying is misguided in that it only serves to frighten me, make me afraid of the unknown and cause me to take a very cynical view that nothing will ever change. When these feelings and emotions begin to arouse, I have learned to begin to channel and redirect them into the places where I can have significant impact.
ZACHARY ALMAGUER
"Can we work together to fix our country?", The Spectrum, March 17, 2017
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
Don't worry about people who don't worry about you.
ANONYMOUS
If I was a worrier I'd worry, but not being a worrier I'm just sort of confused and p*ssed off.
MYKLE HANSEN
Help! A Beat is Eating Me!