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Quotes About Worrying

Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
You are worrying because day after tomorrow the tribe will be able to buy liquor?" the Bishop asked Mark as he climbed on the plane. " A little, my lord; I'm afraid some of my best parishioners will end up in the gutter. " The church belongs in the gutter. It is where it does some of its best work.
~ Margaret Craven
Low-leverage people tend to waste a lot of energy on complaining, worrying, blaming, gossiping, scheming, and whining. High-leverage people focus their energy on producing results and building relationships. They concentrate on positive goals and things they can control.
~ Unknown
You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.
~ Isak Dinesen
There aren't enough people who care about the future. They are too busy worrying about today and what they can grab now
~ Berry Gordy
It might be a strange irony that the cure for worrying about ageing is sometimes, well, ageing .
~ Matt Haig
You will regret the fear. In The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, Bronnie Ware—a nurse who worked in palliative care—shared her experience of talking to those near the end of their lives. Far and away the biggest regret they had was fear. Many of Bronnie's patients were in deep anguish that they had spent their whole lives worrying. Lives consumed by fear. Worrying what other people thought of them. A worry that had stopped them being true to themselves.
~ Matt Haig
constantly worrying about money is boring. Use your brain to think about your clients and their problems. Use it to be creative.
~ Meg Wolitzer
I don't want to screw up today's work and tomorrow's worrying about yesterday's and I don't want to focus on what it looks like on the outside when the performance has to come from within me. I want to be in the moment now, getting it right from the inside.
~ Michael Caine
While the wider global environment is worrying, we are seeing some positive results in our economic affairs.
~ Michael D. Higgins
And so the Hopi came to accept that the price of living was that they must always be in the presence of death, and thus wasted none of their precious time in the sun worrying about something that was every bit as much a part of their lives as the air they breathed." "I
~ Unknown
India, where a surging rate of obesity is now worrying health care officials as much as malnutrition
~ Michael Moss
Many of the more worrying impacts of climate change are really symptoms of mismanagement and underdevelopment.
~ Michael Shellenberger
Ain't no sense worryin' about the things you got control over, 'cause if you got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'. And ain't no sense worryin' about the things you don't got control over, 'cause if you don't got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'.
~ Mickey Rivers
you need the tiniest bit of bravery. People get scared when you try to do something, especially when it looks like you're succeeding. People do not get scared when you are failing. It calms them. That's why the show Intervention is a hit and everyone loves "worrying about" Amanda Bynes.
~ Mindy Kaling
The present generation has gazed with justified revulsion upon the whole late modern culture of violence and death; and it has noticed worrying signs of the same culture in some expressions of Christianity.
~ Unknown
It seems to me that any time there are men making a war, somewhere there are women and children at home waiting and worrying.
~ Nancy E. Turner
Worry is a state of mind based on fear.
~ Napoleon Hill
The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared to the pure randomness of existence.
~ Nick Bantock
When the knock comes, it will knock a certain reticence. It will leave your door covered in white-knuckles. And the windows will no longer breathe, they will die like paintings. And you will no longer be worrying the stars into meaning, they will already mean something
~ Unknown
There must be some sort of drugs. I'd like that. To stop me from feeling anything, or worrying, to let me sleep. Is that possible
~ Olga Tokarczuk
And now we understand why our Lord so emphasized the sin of worrying. How can we dare to be so absolutely unbelieving when God totally surrounds us? To be obsessed by God is to have an effective barricade against all the assaults of the enemy.
~ Oswald Chambers
Worrying is less work than doing something to fix the worry. Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom with the dishes.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
There can be many opinions on a thing, but there is only one truth." Vashet smiled lazily. "And if the pursuit of truth was my goal, that would concern me." She gave a long yawn, stretching like a happy cat. "Instead I will focus on the joy in my heart, the prosperity of the school, and understanding the Lethani. If I have time left after that, I will put it toward worrying on the truth.
~ Patrick Rothfuss