Quotes

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 Rache

Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it.
-Anonymous Author

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.
-Charles Horace Mayo

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-Dale Carnegie

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.
-James Truslow Adams

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.
-Julius Rosenwald

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.
-Persius

There are two days in the week on which I never worry; One is yesterday and the other is tomorrow.
-Robert Burdette

The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs.
-Tommy Lasorda

Keep cool, it will be all one a hundred years hence.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!
-Barbara Hoffman

Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen.
-Anonymous Author

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-Charles Schultz

Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprive
-Francis Quarlesd.

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.
-John Jay Chapman

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
-Lily Tomlin

Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.
-Pien Ch Iao

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-Robert Frost

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
-William James

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

It aint no use putting up your umbrella till it rains
-Alice Caldwell Rice

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.
-Benjamin Disraeli

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.
-Captain J A Hadfield

Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive.
-Clive James

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
-George Washington Lyon

I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.
-Joseph Jefferson

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

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
-Plato

Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.
-Robert Orben

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

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.
-Arnold Bennett

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
-Benjamin Franklin

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
-Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.
-Corrie Ten Boom

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.
-Hugh Blair

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.
-Julius Caesar

You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
-Olin Miller

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
-Pythagoras

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.
-Swedish Proverb

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.
-Mahatma Gandhi