quotations about worry & worrying
When I was burdened with worries, you comforted me and made me feel secure.
BIBLE
Psalms 94:19
Worrying is an emotional drug that not only does not get you where you think you want to go but it almost always assures you'll never be happy.
DENNIS WYATT
"Worrying Half Your Life Away", The Ceres Courier, February 10, 2016
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
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
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
It's about the quality of the worry ... I have happier worries now than I used to.
DAVID GILMOUR
The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son
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 discounting possible future sorrows so that the individual may have present misery.
WILLIAM GEORGE JORDAN
The Improvement Era, vol. 11, 1908
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
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
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
Every moment of worry weakens the soul for its daily combat.
ANNA ROBERTSON BROWN
What is Worth While?
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
Don't be forecasting evil unless it is what you can guard against. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.
BRUCE LEE
Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
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
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
Worry is the enemy of work and the negation of faith.
WILLIAM ESTABROOK CHANCELLOR
The Health of the Teacher