Quotes About Worry

And even childhood was no good any more—not the way it was. No worry then but how to find a good stone, not round exactly but flattened and water-shaped, to use in a sling pouch cut from a discarded shoe. Where did all the good stones go, and all simplicity?

Tom laughed. "You jus' a-treadin' him on?'' "Sure,'' said Ma. "Take a man, he can get worried an' worried, an' it eats out his liver, an' purty soon he'll jus' lay down and die with his heart et out. But if you can take an' make 'im mad, why, he'll be awright. Pa, he didn' say nothin', but he's mad now. He'll show me now. He's awright.

No more in life would that face be free of care.

Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost--good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies any more, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word. There was a time when people kept their fly buttons fastened. And man's freedom was boiling off. Where did all the good stones go, and all simplicity?

Does worrying about it, complaining about it, change it? Nope, it just wastes your time. And if you complain about it to other people, you're also wasting their time. Nothing is gained by wasting all of that time.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

Faith or Worry. Pick one, because you can't have both.

I constantly worry about my family and my kids. 'Are they O.K., what are they doing right now?'

When the dead are afraid, you know there's a big problem.

My father always told me, 'Don't waste energy worrying about things you can't control. Spend your energy focusing on solutions'.

So let us not worry, and look instead as it has been taught us to do, as the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, keeping complete faith in Our Father's goodness.

Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.

There's not a single fear, thought, feeling or need that's too big or too small for Jesus. He wants you to tell Him what's on your heart.

Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

Worry is the child of Fear -- if you kill out Fear, Worry will die for want of nourishment.

Fear is a greater evil than evil itself.

All forms of fear produce fatigue.

The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

From the passions arise worry, and from worry arises fear. Away with the passions, and no fear, no worry.