Worry Quotes

Most popular worry quotes

Worry is preposterous; we don't know enough to worry. - Terence McKenna quote.
Worry is preposterous; we don't know enough to worry.
Sometimes we need to remind ourselves to relax a little more, to worry a little less, to remember the big picture and not let the details overwhelm us. - Thomas Kinkade quote.
Sometimes we need to remind ourselves to relax a little more, to worry a little less, to remember the big picture and not let the details overwhelm us.

parenting

I don't think it's terribly constructive to spend your time worrying about things you can't fix. As long as when you are managing your money you recognize that a terrible thing is going to happen, in the rest of your life you can be a foolish optimist. - Charlie Munger quote.
I don't think it's terribly constructive to spend your time worrying about things you can't fix. As long as when you are managing your money you recognize that a terrible thing is going to happen, in the rest of your life you can be a foolish optimist.
Worry is like a rocking chair. It will give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.
— The United Church Observer
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles—by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. It's the healthiest thing a body can do. - Mark Twain quote.
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles—by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. It's the healthiest thing a body can do.

problems

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
— Swedish proverb

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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. - Edward Everett Hale quote.
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.

future present moment the past

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. - Ernest Hemingway quote.
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.
I've experienced many terrible things in my life, a few of which actually happened. - Mark Twain quote.
I've experienced many terrible things in my life, a few of which actually happened.
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges. - Sir Walter Scott quote.
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. - Robert Frost quote.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

work

When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health. If everything is simply jake, then you're frightened of death.
Worry never paid a bill.
It ought to be plain
how little you gain
by getting excited
and vexed.
You'll always be late
for the previous train,
and always in time
for the next.

funny wise

Anxieties yield
at a negative rate,
increasing in smallness
the longer they wait.
Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. - Bertrand Russell quote.
Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue.

fatigue fear

We are, perhaps uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. - Lewis Thomas quote.
We are, perhaps uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal.
Lewis Thomas The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher

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Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due. - William Ralph Inge quote.
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.

trouble

Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world.  Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will still for months wake up in the night with a start, worrying about food and rent.
A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being. - Robert Frost quote.
A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.
Fine worries, like fine wines, are at their best, only after they have been properly mellowed.
How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened. - Thomas Jefferson quote.
How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. - Etty Hillesum quote.
We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.
Worrying is like praying for something you don't want to happen.
Don't meet troubles half-way.

proverbs

Worries go down better with soup than without.
— Jewish proverb

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Worry is like a rocking chair—it keeps you moving but doesn't get you anywhere. - Corrie ten Boom quote.
Worry is like a rocking chair—it keeps you moving but doesn't get you anywhere.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

faith future

Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.

faith

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear? - Confucius quote.
If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

fear

Don't get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny.

funny

If you only worry about things others worry about, one must worry about you.