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Quotes About Worry

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.
~ Alain de Botton
I couldn't worry about anyone else but myself and my health.
~ Derrick Rose
You're entitled to Medicaid regardless of your income. Don't worry about your health care.
~ Max Baucus
Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people.
~ Graham Chapman
Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your reserves.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Travelling, I worry about luggage, prices, and strange food. At home, I am free to broaden my mind by thinking about the higher things.
~ Mason Cooley
Worrying about worrying is a dangerous cycle to fall into. People who get caught up in worry when they try to force themselves to stop worrying may want to try a different strategy – acceptance.
~ Amanda L. Chan
Sorrow, anger and resentment look back, worry looks around, while faith, hope, and optimism look to the future.
~ Dan Miller
If you worry, you are a worrier because your mind is saturated with worry thoughts. To counteract these, mark every passage in your Bible that speaks of faith, hope, and courage.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
What you hope for, you also fear.
~ Alice Walker
I hope people just enjoy the music. I'm not worried about any sort of legacy.
~ Glenn Kotche
A crust in comfort is better than a feast in fear.
~ Aesop
The wise never doubt. The Humane never worry. The brave never fear.
~ Confucius, The Analects
He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.
~ Martin Amis, The Information
It was a sign of how worried and confused I was that I wasn't completely distracted by the sight of his powerful thighs flexed in front of me.
~ Kathy Bryson, Fighting Mad
Marcus and Ellie exchanged a worried look and examined the bag again. Sure enough, the gold was gone.
~ Justin Swapp, The Magic Shop
The great majority of the things we now make ourselves panicked about are self-created 'dangers' that exist almost entirely in our own imaginations.
~ Albert Ellis
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
~ Seneca the Elder
Worry is a waste of imagination.
~ Walt Disney
The things I fear may all be imaginary, so what I fear most is my imagination.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
Worry is just imagination used in an unproductive way.
~ Andy Andrews
Worry is essentially a misuse of imagination.
~ Alex Faickney Osborn
Worry is nothing less than the misuse of your imagination
~ Ed Foreman