Quotes About Worriers

#1. While the worriers are worrying, the planners are planning and the accountants are figuring out why we can't afford it, I'm busy getting started.

Walt Disney

#2. Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers.

James Wolcott

#3. Warriors achieve more than worriers.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#4. My parents are highly evolved worriers ... If worrying were an Olympic sport, my parents' faces would have graced the Wheaties box a long time ago.

Firoozeh Dumas

#5. The quest for a lost city erodes your body, damaging you beyond all reason. But it is your mind that bears the heaviest toll. Listen to the doubters, the worriers and the weak, and the vaguest hope of success evaporates.

Tahir Shah

#6. We're professional worriers. You're constantly imagining things that could go wrong and then writing about them.

John Green

#7. The fact that none of these civic worriers had ever heard of such a case was unimportant, because they all had heard of somebody who had heard of it!

Sinclair Lewis

#8. Meditation is not hard to understand. 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

#9. Worriers spend a lot of time shoveling smoke.

Claude Maxwell MacDonald

#10. Golfers are the greatest worriers in the world of sport.

Billy Casper

#11. used to believe that in this world there are two kinds of people: natural worriers and naturally joyful people. I couldn't really help it that I was the worrying kind.

Francis Chan

#12. Savers like spenders, worriers like avoiders and planners marry dreamers.

Olivia Mellan

#13. Some people, no matter how robust their stock portfolios or how healthy their children, are always mentally preparing for doom. They are just born worriers, their brains forever anticipating the dropping of some dreaded other shoe.

Robin Marantz Henig

#14. If you aren't born here, to be a real New Yorker, you have to bring your talent, be a successful mentor, and support the New Yorkers who made the city by giving back.

Daniel Boulud

#15. I was saying the right things, but not the really true things.

Katherine Hannigan

#16. When I entered Yale, I had to face two important facts about myself. First, though I could consider myself a smart enough person - I was not quite as smart as I thought I was. Second, I did not know how to do in-depth studying.

Ben Carson

#17. We can't spy on them if they aren't spying on us, now can we? Warped logic, but okay.

Gena Showalter

#18. For Jesus, identity and acceptance come before achievement and ministry. This is joy no one can take away. You cannot earn acceptance.

John Ortberg

#19. How can I shake and dispel the awful reputation of being an "erudite" writer? I'm about as erudite as a traffic cop. I like to know things; what's so two-headed peculiar about that?

Guy Davenport

#20. The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

Carlos Castaneda

#21. This lack of accurate, trustworthy information about the true cost of any given policy, product, service, or behavior is paralyzing all action.

Robert David Steele

#22. Worry is like a roller coaster ride that you think will take you somewhere, but it never does.

Shannon L. Alder

#23. Is there any good news?' Tesla said.
Who ever promised that? Who ever said there'd be good news?

Clive Barker

#24. That's the problem with temptation. It's so damn tempting.

Holly Black