WORRY QUOTES VI

quotations about worry & worrying

If something worries you, check it out. Do what you can, take care of what you can, and then let it go. At this point, having done all you can, worrying about the issue doesn't do you any good. You could be using that energy in other ways to help you feel better.

JANICE CORSANO

This Is Only a Dream!: When You Die You Wake Up


Worrying is holding on to problems without seeking help.

MELVIN R. HALL

The Sky's the Limit: Go for the Gold!


Worrying is about living in a "what if" state of mind and visualizing what you DON'T want to experience, instead of what you DO! When your mind gets stuck on a negative thought, it automatically shifts into high gear and tries to fix the situation.

JAFREE OZWALD

The Manifesting Manual


One of the worst features about worrying is that it destroys our ability to concentrate. When we worry, our minds jump here and there and everywhere, and we lose all power of decision. However, when we force ourselves to face the worst and accept it mentally, we then eliminate all these vague imaginings and put ourselves in a position in which we are able to concentrate on our problem.

WILLIS H. CARRIER

attributed, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living


Anyone who knows how to worry knows how to meditate. Worriers are skilled in the meditation process but are meditating on the wrong kind of thoughts.

JIM BERG

Changed Into His Image: God's Plan for Transforming Your Life


A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

JOHN LUBBOCK

The Use of Life

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Worry is negative prayer, or prayer in reverse. It is a habit which is not to be taken lightly, for it is an evil one.

MARTHA LEMASTERS

"Worry is ingratitude to God in advance", Vero Beach Newsweekly, February 8, 2016


You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.

PAT SCHROEDER

attributed, Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior


One can make one's life a complete misery, worrying about burglaries and shipwrecks, but ask anyone, anyone you know ... earth-shattering disasters and fabulous inheritances all seems to take place exclusively in the newspapers.

JEAN ANOUILH

The Rehearsal

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Worry is different from fear. If fear is like a raging fever, worry is a low-grade temperature. It nags at us, simmers in our souls, hovers in the back of our minds like a faint memory. We may fear certain realities, like death; we worry about vague possibilities. Worry distracts us more than paralyzes us. It is like a leaky faucet we never get around to fixing.

GERALD LAWSON SITTSER

The Will of God As a Way of Life

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The idea that worrying is a fruitful endeavour is predictive of excessive worrying.

ERIC RASSIN

Thought Suppression


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 ROCHE

attributed, Treasury of Spiritual Wisdom


Don't worry, be happy.

BOBBY MCFERRIN

"Don't Worry, Be Happy"


Drag your thoughts away from your troubles -- by the ears, by the heels, or any other way, so you manage it.

MARK TWAIN

The American Claimant

Tags: Mark Twain


When it comes to Mom, worry is my constant companion, with me like those belt beepers husbands used to wear when the birth was imminent.

PHIL GIANFICARO

"The forecast: Worry, 100 miles away", Burlington County Times, March 16, 2017


Worry is evidence of unbelief and proof that there is deep insecurity caused by a lack of oneness with God.

MARTHA LEMASTERS

"Worry is ingratitude to God in advance", Vero Beach Newsweekly, February 8, 2016


Worrying is an attempt to exert control over the future by thinking about it. In this way, worry is something that occurs on the inside, and its effects on the outside world are only imaginary.

CHAD LEJEUNE

The Worry Trap


You're worried about what-ifs. Well, what if you stopped worrying?

SHANNON CELEBI

Driving Off Bridges


What? Me worry?

ALFRED E. NEUMAN

MAD Magazine, July 1955


Worry is the secret weapon perpetrated upon us by the dark forces of the world that lurk in the shape of fear, uncertainty, confusion, and loss. We, on the other hand, have our own secret weapon against these incorporeal fiends. It is laughter.

VERA NAZARIAN

The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration