Worry Quotes

A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.

Worry never climbed a hill, worry never paid a bill, Worry never dried a tear, worry never calmed a fear, Worry never darned a heel, worry never cooked a meal, It never led a horse to water, nor ever did a thing it "oughter."

You always get negative reactions. If you worry about that, you would never do anything.
Tom Monaghan

Anxiety never yet successfully bridged any chasm.
Giovanni Ruffini

Worry doesn't help tomorrow's troubles, but it does ruin today's happiness.

You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.

There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry. ... One of these days is Yesterday ... And the other day I do not worry about is Tomorrow.
Robert Jones Burdette

We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.
Etty Hillesum

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength
A. J. Cronin

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!
Doris Day

If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure.
Robert Hillyer

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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







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