WORRY QUOTES III

quotations about worry & worrying

The Greeks said that worry is two opposing forces that tear a person apart. The Saxons say worry is like a wolf with a stranglehold on a man's throat. Worry chokes our physical strength, our creative powers, our spiritual growth and our joy.

TOM O'BRIEN

"Focus your thoughts on God", Ellwood City Ledger, March 24, 2017


Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

BIBLE

Matthew 6:34

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My worrying is misguided in that it only serves to frighten me, make me afraid of the unknown and cause me to take a very cynical view that nothing will ever change. When these feelings and emotions begin to arouse, I have learned to begin to channel and redirect them into the places where I can have significant impact.

ZACHARY ALMAGUER

"Can we work together to fix our country?", The Spectrum, March 17, 2017


The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come.

J. R. R. TOLKIEN

The Return of the King

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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


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


Worry is discounting possible future sorrows so that the individual may have present misery.

WILLIAM GEORGE JORDAN

The Improvement Era, vol. 11, 1908


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 first essential component of worry is a future orientation. In other words, when you worry you invariably focus on something that might happen but hasn't happened yet. This notion might seem a bit controversial. In fact, you might even disagree with it. You might argue that you worry about things that are happening now, not in the future. A closer look, though, reveals the truth--worry is like a haunted crystal ball, tormenting you with a terrifying view of the future.

KEVIN L. GYOERKOE & PAMELA S. WIEGARTZ

10 Simple Solutions to Worry


Worrying is good when it gets you to do things -- hold peace talks, build flood barriers, lock the back door, teach children road drill. But when you can't do anything then it's just destructive. The trick is to learn the difference between the two.

SHARON GRIFFITHS

"It's worrying to hear we regret our time worrying", Eastern Daily Press, February 22, 2016


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


Don't worry about people who don't worry about you.

ANONYMOUS


The first thing you have to realize about worrying is that it is a choice, not an inevitability. Some people think that worry comes naturally when you have problems. That's not true. You worry because you choose to be worried.

ANTHONY JOSHUA

Overcoming Anxiety: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living


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


Worry is the enemy of work and the negation of faith.

WILLIAM ESTABROOK CHANCELLOR

The Health of the Teacher


Never hurry and never worry!

E. B. WHITE

Charlotte's Web

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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


If the worry is reasonable, do something about it. If it's irrational or out of your control, recognize that.

ERIC BARKER

"Ancient wisdom: How the Buddhists and Stoics stay emotionally strong", The Week, March 30, 2017


I received a card the other day from Steve Early which said, "Don't Worry Me--I am an 8 Ulcer Man on 4 Ulcer Pay."

HARRY S. TRUMAN

attributed, Mr. President

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