Quotes About Worry

Worry descends upon the worrier like a fever. Without appropriate treatment, that febrile anxiety burns away at the soul. With such treatment, the fever may break. Only then can the worried become well.

The Imagi-Nation is a little country in your head. When you're young, you go there to play. When you get older, you go there to worry.

But I feared more the death of others. I did not want to lose them, I worried about them while they were alive. Sometimes I think I concerned myself so much with the possibility of their loss that I never truly took pleasure in the fact of their existence.

He had always worried about her when he was in school, because if he was away from her then he had no control over her existence.

Why are you so worried about him, after all that he's done to you?

I was early taught to work as well as play, My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me every day.

The lifestyle of Christians matched their teachings, so that many early Christians were not afraid to say, 'Imitate us as we imitate Christ.' Unfortunately, in contemporary evangelicalism sometimes people say, 'Don't look at us, look at Christ,' because we are worried what people will find if our own lives are scrutinized.

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

There are two rules in life: Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: Everything is small stuff.

The problem of life is to change worry into thinking and anxiety into creative action.

If I were constantly worried about death, I couldn't function. After a while, if your life is more or less constantly in peril, you come to a point where you accept the possibility philosophically.

Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty; that all may live above the troubles of life; that worry is a poison and happiness a medicine.

Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it.

If what I do pleases God, it is always the right thing to do, and I can stop worrying about everyone else's reactions. This dramatically simplifies life.

As a cancer survivor, I am very aware of how many wasted minutes I don't have. The surest way to waste what is left of your life is to worry about what might happen or what might have been.

It's a chore for a fellow to fear for his life more than once in an evening.

Sometimes I tend to worry too much and at the end of all the preoccupation nothing goes wrong.

I believe that worrying about a bad thing prepares you for it when it comes. If you worry, the bad thing doesn't hit you as hard. You can roll with the punch if you see it coming.

There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

I've learned one important lesson in my life, and I'm going to share it with you. Don't worry about bad things that haven't happened yet. It will save you a lot of anxiety.

Call me an over anxious, middle-class mum, but my eight-and-a-half-year old son looks very much, to me, like he's headed for a life of crime.

I have a tremendous amount of respect for military families. To have to worry about your loved ones and still try and live a normal life is extremely hard.

The longer you spend your time worrying about all the negative things in your life, the further you push any chance of retrieving the positive.