Quotes About Worry

I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

You always get negative reactions. If you worry about that, you would never do anything.

Worry doesn't help tomorrow's troubles, but it does ruin today's happiness.

We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.

Worry is a complete cycle of inefficient thought revolving about a pivotal fear.

Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.

A problem not worth praying about is not worth worrying about.

Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.

You'll break the worry habit the day you decide you can meet and master the worse that can happen to you.

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen.

The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.

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 never happened.

Other Definitions of Worry Anxiety is the great modern plague. But faith can cure it.

Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life.

Worry is the cross which we make for ourselves by overanxiety.

Worry is a morbid anticipation of events which never happen.

Worry is the sin we're not afraid to commit.

A request not to worry ... is perhaps the least soothing message capable of human utterance.

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. "I reckon," he said, with a twinkle in his eye, "it's because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried."

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

Worry is most apt to ride you ragged not when you are in action, but when the day's work is done. Your imagination can run riot then ... your mind is like a motor operating without its load.