Worry Quotes

Real difficulties can be overcome it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.

Theodore N. Vail

Other Definitions of Worry Anxiety is the great modern plague. But faith can cure it.

Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life.

Henry Saint John

Worry is the cross which we make for ourselves by overanxiety.

Francois de Fenelon

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

William Ralph Inge

Worry is a morbid anticipation of events which never happen.

Worry is the sin we're not afraid to commit.

Anonymous

That man is blest Who does his best And leaves the rest Then-do not worry.

Charles F. Deems

Happy the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind and has given up worrying once and for all.

Ovid

If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.

Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!

Barbara Hoffman

A request not to worry ... is perhaps the least soothing message capable of human utterance.

Mignon G. Eberhart

It is the little things that fret and worry us you can dodge an elephant but not a fly.

To be rich is not the end but only a change of worries.

Epicurus

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. "I reckon " he said with a twinkle in his eye "it's because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried."

Worry less about what other people think about you and more about what you think about them.

Don't hurry don't worry. You're only here for a short visit. So be sure to stop and smell the flowers.

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

Mark Rutherford

What worries you masters you.

Haddon W. Robinson

Worry is most apt to ride you ragged not when you are in action but when the day's work is done. Your imagination can run riot then ... your mind is like a motor operating without its load.

James L. Muresell

Worry is a word that I don't allow myself to use.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Needless fear and panic over disease or misfortune that seldom materialize are simply bad habits. By proper ventilation and illumination of the mind it is possible to cultivate tolerance poise and real courage.

Elie Metchnikoff

A wise man fights to win but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

There are people who are always anticipating trouble and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen.

The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself.

Marie Bashkirtseff

Our worst misfortunes never happen and most miseries lie in anticipation.

Honoré de Balzac

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

Edgar Watson Howe

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience.

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

Thomas Jefferson

The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.

James Russell Lowell

What torments of grief you endured from evils that never arrived.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck and the house is never burgled and the ship never goes down.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?

Maurice Maeterlinck

This was a great year for preventive worrying. Seldom in recent history have so many people worried about so many things that didn't happen in the end.

I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life most of which never happened.

Winston Churchill

Some of your hurts you have cured And the sharpest you still have survived But what torments of grief you endured From the evil which never arrived.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles but most of them never happened.

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

Michel de Montaigne

Though life is made up of mere bubbles 'Tis better than many have For while we've a whole lot of troubles The most of them never occur.

If you see ten troubles coming down the road you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

Calvin Coolidge

The crisis you have to worry about most is the one you don't see coming.

What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.

John Mellencamp

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

Accept that all of us can be hurt that all of us can-and surely will at times-fail. Other vulnerabilities like being embarrassed or risking love can be terrifying too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst take the risk.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

Worry is a complete cycle of inefficient thought revolving about a pivotal fear.

Anonymous

Worry is a state of mind based on fear.

Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Arthur Somers Roche

If we would keep filling our minds with the picture of happy things ahead many worries and anxieties and perhaps ill health would naturally melt away.... Always expect the best. Then if you have to hurdle a few tough problems you will have generated the strength and courage to do so.

George Matthew Adams

Turn resolutely to work to recreation or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep and when you wake up you won't want to worry.

A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.

Bertrand Russell

A problem not worth praying about is not worth worrying about.

Anonymous

We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse. Harmful are these and evil.

As a cure for worrying work is better than whiskey.

Thomas A. Edison

Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God and so there's no room left for worry thoughts.

Howard Chandler Christy

Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.

Cullen Hightower

Rule No. i is don't sweat the small stuff. Rule No. 2 is it's all small stuff.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess they would stop worrying. Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars ... or your two legs ... or your hands ... or your hearing? Add up what you do have and you'll find that you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours if you can appreciate yourself.

You'll break the worry habit the day you decide you can meet and master the worse that can happen to you.

Of course I realized there was a measure of danger. Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when I first considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it again.

The worst is not so long as we can say "This is the worst."

William Shakespeare

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