The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy to worry at night.
Overcoming fear and worry can be accomplished by living a day at a time or even a moment at a time. Your worries will be cut down to nothing.
What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while, so pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, and smile, smile, smile.
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is the rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution which destroys the machinery but the friction. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices
The moment the little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.
— Bible
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God which transcends all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. [Philippians 4:6, 7]
— Bible
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.
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.
Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
There are two days in the week on which I never worry; One is yesterday and the other is tomorrow.
As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.
Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?
If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
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.
Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.
Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role.
Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.
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.
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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.
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.
Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!
One of the commonest mistakes is thinking your worries are over when your children get married.
Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive.
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.
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.
How much pain worries have cost us that have never happened?
The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs.
The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these I reckon will give you a good lift. -
Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.
Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: It's all small stuff.
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.
The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in the present.
We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
— Ovid
We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.
— Persius
Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
— Plato
When we have nothing to worry about we are not doing much, and not doing much may supply us with plenty of future worries.
Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
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 deprived.
Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains.
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.
Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen.
Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time -- the cemetery.
Ninety percent of the things we tend to WORRY about we have no control over, so why worry about them?
It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything.
If you cannot help worrying, remember that worrying cannot help you either.
Don't worry about the intensity and direction of the putt -- until you get on the green!
Do not worry about whether or not the sun will rise. Be prepared to enjoy it.
Don't worry, be happy.
Worry: a sustained form of fear caused by indecision.
Why worry when you can pray?
To worry is a sin. Only one sort of worry is permissible; to worry because one worries.
There are only two things to worry about, either you are healthy or you are sick. If you are healthy, then there is nothing to worry about. But if you are sick there are only two things to worry about, either you will get well or you will die. If you get well, then there is nothing to worry about. But if you die there are only two things to worry about, either you will go to heaven or to hell. If you go to heaven, then there is nothing to worry about. And if you to go hell, you'll be so darn busy shaking hands with your friends you won't have time to worry!
The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.
Set aside half an hour every day to do all your worrying; then take a nap during this period.
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill your thoughts, that's your best season.
— Wu-Men
Suffer no anxiety, for he who is a sufferer of anxiety becomes regardless of enjoyment of the world and the spirit, and contraction happens to his body and soul.