WORRY QUOTES IV

quotations about worry & worrying

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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

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Worry is fear in search of a cause.

JEFF PEPPER

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Every moment of worry weakens the soul for its daily combat.

ANNA ROBERTSON BROWN

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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

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It helps to know what the things are that tend to trigger your worries and write that down. But actually writing out your worries or talking out your worries is pretty much the same as worrying.

MICHELLE NEWMAN

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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

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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

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The idea that worrying is a fruitful endeavour is predictive of excessive worrying.

ERIC RASSIN

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Action is worry's worst enemy.

AMERICAN PROVERB

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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.

MARCUS AURELIUS

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

ANONYMOUS

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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. We deserve a better press, in my view.

LEWIS THOMAS

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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

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You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.

PAT SCHROEDER

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Worry is a starting place, but not a staying place.

SYBIL MACBETH

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The reason worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

RALPH LOUIS WOODS

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The cause of worry is life: its cure is death.

CALEB WILLIAMS SALEEBY

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Worrying is similar to purchasing ulcers on credit.

GREG REYNOLDS

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

JANICE CORSANO

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Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.

ROBERT S. ELIOT

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