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Quotes About Worry

Adults aren't generally struck with the urge to skip because their worries and burdens weigh them down and they forget that they can take themselves lightly.
~ Terri Guillemets
Don't worry: there's nothing you can do to rob me of my healthy respect for the possibility that your incompetence will kill me.
~ Greg Egan
Fear needs a future," Evan said. "Let's focus on the present.
~ Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
Have you been worried since he broke out?" Jade asked. "Well, I suppose worried isn't quite the word for it. Concerned. Concerned is a better word.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
That's the point of it, to have those connections, as painful as they are, as much worry as they might cause; they give back in strength and comfort and joy, believe it or not, and the more connections you make, the happier you are, the more point there is to getting up and getting through the day.
~ Gregory Galloway
You know, I would buy you a parachute if I thought it wouldn't open.
~ Groucho Marx
The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over!
~ Guy Finley
I found that the fear is worse than the reality and horse work has never worried me as much since then.
~ James Herriot
The wrong people always worry. The people who are the real problem never worry about anything.
~ James Lee Burke
Don't borrow trouble.
~ James Lee Burke
youth is its own narcotic, its impermanence our greatest worry and greatest loss. So why put on sackcloth and ashes over the memories we should guard like blue diamonds the rest of our lives?
~ James Lee Burke
So let's not ruin this by thinking too much about tomorrow. Don't make a wonderful weekend into a bad Monday.
~ James Patterson
Better paranoid then sorry.
~ James Patterson
Flip kept telling me not to worry so much about Miller, but Flip was Flip, and I was me. And Miller definitely had it in for ME.
~ James Patterson
Of course I knew him. You think I'm going to let my kid ride around in a car without meeting the guy behind the wheel?" "And?" "He passed the test. I trusted him with my grandson. But now I'm nervous. I haven't seen Lonnie since yesterday. Should I be worried?" "We have no reason to think anything is
~ James Patterson
Unfortunately these days, there is a hell of a lot that keeps me awake.
~ Leon Panetta
Unfortunately, the American policy towards Pakistan is just to worry and express concern, and that is not a clear policy at all.
~ Richard Engel
Happiness is best defined by its antonym, which is less 'unhappiness' than 'anxiety.' Anyone who is not oppressed by intolerable worry or grievous pain is almost certainly happy, whether rich or poor, well or ill, successful or frustrated.
~ Ann Widdecombe
What makes women happy? Nothing, for more than ten minutes at a time, so stop worrying.
~ Fay Weldon
Worry makes you weaker, regret makes you sadder, hate makes you angrier, but hope makes you stronger, and love makes you happier.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Courage lightens distress, hope alleviates grief, doubt aggravates affliction, fear worsens anguish, worry magnifies misery, and faith overthrows despair.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The passion to be reckoned upon, is fear.
~ Thomas Hobbes
How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I had always been afraid.
~ Thomas Ligotti