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
Worry is discounting possible future sorrows so that the individual may have present misery.
WILLIAM GEORGE JORDAN
The Improvement Era, vol. 11, 1908
It's not time to worry yet.
HARPER LEE
To Kill a Mockingbird
Never hurry and never worry!
E. B. WHITE
Charlotte's Web
When I was burdened with worries, you comforted me and made me feel secure.
BIBLE
Psalms 94:19
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
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
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
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
Don't worry about people who don't worry about you.
ANONYMOUS
The cause of worry is life: its cure is death.
CALEB WILLIAMS SALEEBY
Worry: The Disease of the Age
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
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
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
Worry is nothing but the bad habit of thinking about what you DON'T want to happen. It's a misuse of your most precious power -- the imagination.
DAN ZADRA
How to Beat the Jitters
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
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
Worry is wasting today's time to clutter up tomorrow's opportunities with yesterday's trouble.
ANONYMOUS
The Speaker's Quote Book
Worry is a fidgety girl who can't do things right. In the morning she dresses herself but the clothes don't fit. Worry is slim. Worry is fat. Worry is never what she wants to be.
EILEEN CURTEIS
Reiki: A Spiritual Doorway to Natural Healing
Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
BIBLE
Matthew 6:34