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Worry Quotes
Learn from these quotes practical ways to cope with worry and recognize the futility of worry. May you have the peace that passes all understanding and the wisdom and courage to take the necessary steps to resolve the situation causing worry. Worry Quotes IndexAbout Worry"Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere." "Worry is an addiction that interferes with compassion." "Worry is rust upon the blade." "Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due." Return to Index of Worry Quotes Consequences of Worry"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy." "If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times." "Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die." "We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies." "Worry -- a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray." "Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength." Return to Index of Worry Quotes Futility of Worry"Worry is a misuse of imagination." "The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one." "It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying." "A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt." "Worry is a complete cycle of inefficient thought revolving about a pivot of fear." "Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be." "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." Return to Index of Worry Quotes Humorous"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 cold." "Troubles are a lot like people - they grow bigger if you nurse them." "I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting." "Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway." "I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time." "Nerves and butterflies are fine - they're a physical sign that you're mentally ready and eager. You have to get the butterflies to fly in formation, that's the trick." "Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen." "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." Return to Index of Worry Quotes Imagined Worries"Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist." "Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable." "If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones." "Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which will never happen." "Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen." Return to Index of Worry Quotes Insightful"People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them." "It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly." "You can never worry your way to enlightenment." "Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is to small to be made into a burden." "A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work." "As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see." "Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality." "Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained." "Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head. "There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality." "Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night. "As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can." "You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do." "The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work." "It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized." "It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls." Return to Index of Worry Quotes Inspirational"I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal - and soon they'll forget my number." "If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you." "Do not be afraid of tomorrow; for God is already there." "Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!" "Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever." "If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying." "Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire." Return to Index of Worry Quotes Live in the Now"Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday." "I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time." "It aint no use putting up your umbrella till it rains." "We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays." Return to Index of Worry Quotes Most Worries Never Happen"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." "How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened." Return to Index of Worry Quotes Mountain Out of Mole Hill"Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face." "Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow." Return to Index of Worry Quotes One Day at a Time"We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it." "I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us." "It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down." "No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear." Return to Index of Worry Quotes Practical Advice on Worry
"Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff." "If things go wrong, don't go with them." "Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight." "If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep." "You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time." "For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe." "As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey." "Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have." "Worry ducks when purpose flies overhead." "I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. 'Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.'" Return to Index of Worry Quotes "I refuse to be burdened by vague worries. If something wants to worry me, it will have to make itself clear." "The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else." "Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head "This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men." "Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence". "Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind." "Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself." "Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." "What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have." "You can't do your work worrying about what people will think of it - you kind of just have to do your work." Return to Index of Worry Quotes Profound"The antidotes for worry are gratitude, action, and service." "There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry... Yesterday and Tomorrow." "He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears." Return to Index of Worry Quotes Proverbs"Worry gives a small thing a big shadow." "That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent." Return to Index of Worry Quotes Worry and Faith"Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow." "There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever." "To me faith means not worrying." Return to Index of Worry Quotes Worry and Health"Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body." "Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds." "Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt." "Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies." Return to Index of Worry Quotes Return to Life Quotes - from Worry Quotes
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