Quotes About Worry

Don't borrow trouble. You never know what's going to happen. So if you worry too much about what's coming, you're wasting precious time. You could walk out your door and get hit by a bus in five minutes, so take each moment as a blessing and don't waste your life fretting.

My father built over me a worry big as a shipyard and I left it once, before I was finished, and he remained there with his big, empty worry.

I ain't the ulcer type, but I'm always worrying about something

Peasants were worried about the future not just because they had more cause for worry, but also because they could do something about it.

Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow? Let's think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.

Worry is the most significant factor that relates to the root of negative thinking.

I'm not worried about the future as much as I'm worried about the past. About keeping my memories real and not sacrificing them to match the present.

I'm not hugely experienced with relationships, but I am hugely experienced with myself - and more than anything I value my piece of mind. I don't like going to sleep with knots in my stomach, or ruining the present by worrying about the future. In a life that is pretty complicated, I like to keep my own head space as simple as possible.

Then if you don't mind a suggestion—plan what you will do, and then set it aside until tomorrow," Cole said. "You tend to worry things in circles. Try to worry in a straight line.

The left in its worrying routinely forgets this most important secular event since the invention of agriculture—the Great Enrichment of the last two centuries—and goes on worrying and worrying, like the little dog worrying about his bone in the Travelers Insurance advertisement on TV, in a new version every half generation or so.

Raising children is an uncertain thing success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

Worry is an addiction that interferes with compassion.

Half the worry in the world is caused by people trying to make decisions before they have sufficient knowledge on which to base a decision.

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

In egotism, one is assailed by fear, he passes his life totally troubled by fear.

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

You can either waste time worrying about a death that might not come or concentrate on what's left to you. When

Worrying is praying for stuff you don't want.

have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened.

All worrying will do is make you live through the misery twice.

Doubt is resistance, faith is surrender. Worry is resistance, joy is surrender. Control is resistance, allowing is surrender. Ridicule is resistance, believing is surrender.

Doubt is resistance, faith is surrender. Worry is resistance, joy is surrender.