quotations about worry & worrying
Fret not thyself, it tends only to evil-doing.
BIBLE
Psalms 37:8
Never hurry and never worry!
E. B. WHITE
Charlotte's Web
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.
MARY HEMINGWAY
attributed, Words of Wellness: A Treasury of Quotations for Well-Being
Don't worry about people who don't worry about you.
ANONYMOUS
Worry is a conscious choice, but it certainly not a very constructive way to live.
BARBARA WALSH
"Living each day worry free", Deming Headlight, March 16, 2017
The cause of worry is life: its cure is death.
CALEB WILLIAMS SALEEBY
Worry: The Disease of the Age
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
E. JOSEPH COSSMAN
attributed, Inspirational Quotes for All Occasions
People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching a cold.
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN
attributed, Words from the Wise
Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway.
MARY C. CROWLEY
attributed, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Getting In to College
Worry is nothing but the bad habit of thinking about what you DON'T want to happen. It's a misuse of your most precious power -- the imagination.
DAN ZADRA
How to Beat the Jitters
Worry is discounting possible future sorrows so that the individual may have present misery.
WILLIAM GEORGE JORDAN
The Improvement Era, vol. 11, 1908
When I was burdened with worries, you comforted me and made me feel secure.
BIBLE
Psalms 94:19
Since worrying is toxic let us concentrate on finding a solution to our problems. Let's focus our mind on everything that is good, healthy, productive, and that will help us to increase our ability to enjoy life more abundantly.
MELVIN R. HALL
The Sky's the Limit: Go for the Gold!
If we didn't worry what would we do? How would you set the alarm for the morning? How would we finish the report we have to do? Worry is essential to our life. It just takes a life of its own and that's when people get into trouble.
REID WILSON
interview, KDKA Morning News, March 21, 2017
As for what has already happened, you can't do anything about it, so it is pointless to waste time thinking about it--to worry is an exercise in mindlessness. As for what might happen, we must remember that we don't know the future. Many things we worry about never happen, so many of our worries waste our energy. I know this is easier said than done, but realizing the pointlessness of worry is a start.
JOHN G. MESSERLY
"How To Cope With This Stressful Presidency", Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, March 6, 2017
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.
LEO AIKMAN
attributed, Worth Repeating
The problem with worry is that we attract the very thing we are trying to avoid. We live a self-fulfilling prophecy. Life keeps its agreement with us through our beliefs, because whatever we think about, we bring about. Life is like a mirror. It reflects back whatever image we present to it.
ROBERT ANTHONY
Beyond Positive Thinking
Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
BIBLE
Matthew 6:34
The idea that worrying is a fruitful endeavour is predictive of excessive worrying.
ERIC RASSIN
Thought Suppression
From its earliest days, worrying has been seen as a character weakness, a frailty, a self-indulgence; something that should be avoided, controlled or cured. That explains why worrying -- where the connotation with fear is never far away -- was originally seen as a female complaint, a shortcoming that the Victorian male, with his fabled stiff-upper lip, could certainly never admit to. But as a lifelong male worrier, with as many male friends who admit to similar bouts of insecurity as female, I'm convinced that men have been worrying for just as long as women. It just took them the best part of a century to admit it.
FRANCIS O'GORMAN
Daily Mail, July 24, 2015