Top 100 Quotes About Worrying
#1. 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
#2. Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.
Steve Jobs
#3. True, we might never have arrived, but the fact is we did. If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worth worrying about so much.
Mikhail Lermontov
#4. It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.
Wayne Dyer
#5. Mr. Sagunuma: We can never escape who we are. Instead of wasting time worrying about it, why don't you cut to he chase and love yourself?
Bisco Hatori
#6. You never get time at Working Title, sadly, to enjoy any film's success, because you're worrying about the next lot.
Eric Fellner
#7. Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.
Will Rogers
#8. Whenever an angel says "Be not afraid!" you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way.
Elie Wiesel
#9. Only a person with the true heart of a dictionary-writer would be lying in bed, three days after being stabbed in the gut, worrying about his P's.
Kristin Cashore
#10. If you're sitting around worrying about bills all day, it's hard to hear the guidance that's coming from the inside.
Echo Bodine
#11. That had been the trouble with him and Betsy: what with his brooding about the past and worrying about the future, there had never been any present at all.
Sloan Wilson
#12. If you want to believe in reincarnation, you have to believe that this life, what you're living through right now, is the afterlife. You're missing out on the afterlife you looked forward to in your last existence by worrying about your next life. This is what happens after you die. Take a look.
Brad Warner
#13. Roger nodded. He was too old to hug his dad for long, and returned to his chair. "I'm gay." Saying it out loud was a relief. It was over! The hiding, the worrying, at least here, at home. "Well, you're not the only one in the world." Roger
Brad Vance
#14. So: this is where we are going to become parents. You walk into the building as a couple, and leave a few minutes later as a family. You walk in recollecting long romantic dinners, nights at the theater, and care-free vacations. You leave worrying about where to get diapers, milk, and Cheerios.
Scott Simon
#15. What are you worrying about? You are born to die anyway.
Saurbh Katyal
#16. Encourage kids to be creative without worrying about being perfect.
Dav Pilkey
#17. I allowed social media to define what I thought of my body. And now I realize that no matter how thin you are, someone will call you fat. No matter how beautiful you are, someone will call you ugly. But you can't spend your time worrying about that. You're just not going to please the world.
Demi Lovato
#18. It is no good worrying about things that are out of your hands
Matt Thomas
#19. You need to learn to see and compose. The more time you waste worrying about your equipment the less time you'll have to put into creating great images. Worry about your images, not your equipment.
Ken Rockwell
#20. When you follow your heart instead of worrying about how to fatten your bank account, you can attract more ways to do both.
Daylle Deanna Schwartz
#21. When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you're so consumed with that, you really don't have time to know yourself. That's surviving and getting by.
Fred Durst
#22. We dedicate most of the time worrying about our deficiencies and self-criticism instead of concentrating on our goals and believing in our destination
Sunday Adelaja
#23. Money is another pressure. I'm not complaining, I'm just saying that there's a certain luxury in having no money. I spent ten years in New York not having it, not worrying about it. Suddenly you have it, then you worry, where is it going? Am I doing the right thing with it?
Dustin Hoffman
#24. Seen from the United States or Europe, Iran's nuclear program often causes most concern, but from the perspective of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the North Korean program is equally worrying.
Yukiya Amano
#25. Powerful new drug-free treatments have been developed for depression and for every conceivable type of anxiety, such as chronic worrying, shyness, public speaking anxiety, test anxiety, phobias, and panic attacks. The goal of the treatment is not just partial improvement but full recovery.
David D. Burns
#26. If the NRA keeps messing with the President's daughters, they're going to have to start worrying about Michelle Obama's guns.
Bill Maher
#28. Change is uncomfortable and awkward at first. It has a ripping effect on those who refuse to go along with it. It is not fixed by crying, or worrying, or wallowing in self-pity and mental anguish.
Kcat Yarza
#29. We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.
Joycelyn Elders
#30. We can defeat Satan much more quickly by praising God than by worrying.
Joyce Meyer
#31. I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will turn them on to the joy of reading and turn them into lifelong readers.
James Patterson
#32. The longer you spend your time worrying about all the negative things in your life, the further you push any chance of retrieving the positive.
Behdad Sami
#33. The more you overthink the less you will understand.
Habeeb Akande
#34. Hiking is like life...
You can spend the whole trip just watching the trail ahead, worrying that you'll twist an ankle or fall.
And then you miss all this.
Susannah Scott
#35. You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.
Lauren Bacall
#36. I go to bed at night worrying that I didn't do enough that day to make sure I protect the American people.
John O. Brennan
#37. I've always believed in the concept of retirement. I retired for the first time at age 18 ... from school. To me, retirement means doing what you want to do without worrying about getting paid for it.
Tommy Chong
#38. Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action - faithful action, for the world, and in God.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#39. Worrying is the greatest pride, which is why nature punishes one heavily. Nature punishes more the one who worries, than it does the one who curses God. The doer is some other entity and you are worrying? Are you mightier than even nature?
Dada Bhagwan
#40. When under attack, our heart can take a similarly sudden and unconscious turn. When faced with pressure and strong opinions, we often stop worrying about the goal of adding to the pool of meaning and start looking for ways to win, punish, or keep the peace.
Kerry Patterson
#41. There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
Epictetus
#42. One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is to come, which may or may not happen, then you will only be wasting precious days you will wish in the future you could have cherished a bit longer.
R.J. Gonzales
#43. It's hard to be happy in the now when you can't stop worrying about the future. What I want is to trust that everything will work out. To believe with all my heart that I'll end up where I belong.
Lisa Schroeder
#44. Puck shook her head ruefully. "We haven't even solved the first problem, and I'm worrying about the next one. I must be an idiot."
"No," Hush said, wiggling an impossible finger at her. "Only kindness. Very much kindness.
Annette Curtis Klause
#45. The best thing about money is not worrying about money.
Jason Ellis
#46. You can only die once, so do not die a thousand times worrying about it.
Huey Newton
#47. Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
Karen Blixen
#48. I've been worrying about God a little bit lately ... It seems like he's been in a bad mood. And I think it has to do with the quality of lovers he's been getting.
Salman Rushdie
#49. I'm not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it's almost like we're living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it's like a big reality show.
Clint Eastwood
#50. If a film is not a success, then that's just the way things are. Nothing I can do can make a difference. I have stopped worrying about it.
Sandra Bullock
#51. If you're worrying about the past, you've got a good chance of screwing up the future.
Howard A. Tullman
#52. Artists of all times are like the gamblers of Monte Carlo, and this blind lottery allows some to succeed and ruins others. In my opinion, neither the winners nor the losers are worth worrying about.
Marcel Duchamp
#53. Can you do it today? The notion of just trying to take each day as it came. The commitment to the present moment, and only the present moment, without worrying about the big and daunting picture of all the days that followed.
Andie Mitchell
#54. I mean, really, whatever you woke up worrying about this morning, get over it. How important in the greater scheme of things can it possibly be? Make your peace and move on.
Ken Robinson
#55. On being asked by someone how he could become famous, Diogenes responded: 'By worrying as little as possible about fame
Diogenes
#56. You've got to coach worrying about your entire team: whether that gets you a championship or whether that gets you fired. I think it allows you to coach free. You're coaching with freedom because you know you're doing what you think is right.
Doc Rivers
#57. My worrying, for instance, was a scene in which I looked at myself while I had the sensation of being boxed in. I call that worrying, It has happened to me a number of times after that first time.
Carlos Castaneda
#58. Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
Washington Irving
#59. I've never been this nervous before. Why aren't you here yet?
Scott Jackson
#60. Yes, what is it like? Certainly not like she dreamed. But maybe that's okay. We want what we want. At home, she works herself into a frenzy worrying about what she isn't
and perhaps loses track of just where she is.
Jess Walter
#61. One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing stories and worrying about my clothes.
Scarlett Thomas
#62. While you're worrying about becoming famous, there is someone out there putting in work and not wasting a second of their time. Which person will you be?
Torron-Lee Dewar
#63. Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry ... I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you.
Charles M. Schulz
#64. Hoping to Fall Out:
Leaning out as far as she can, hoping she'll fall soon, so she can stop worrying about whether it will happen or not.
Brian Andreas
#65. As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and communion, sincerity and simulation, ambition and acquiescence, I shuttle between worrying whether I matter at all and whether anything else matters but me.
Stephen Fry
#66. He had begun to have spells lately of worrying that he had died, and that everyone knew it but him.
Anne Tyler
#67. Remember that worrying will not go away by thinking the same thought again and again. Thinking something fresh, loving and uplifting instead of worrying. Replace your worse anxiety with cheerful optimism.
Angelica Hopes
#68. When you get tired of worrying and mourning your horse and trying not to be afraid, tell me and I'll do it for you a while so you can shut your eyes and sleep peaceful.
Shannon Hale
#69. Mel rolled her eyes. "You can't live your life based on 'what-ifs,' Liv. And change is inevitable. It's the one thing you can always count on. Stop worrying about what might or not happen and follow your heart. How can you expect to ever be happy if you don't?
Alicia Kobishop
#70. Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
Will Rogers
#71. Fixing a hole is far more effective than trying to hide it. That approach is also less stressful than constantly worrying that attackers may find the vulnerabilities.
Gordon Fyodor Lyon
#72. I have no organisational skills. All my energy goes into worry - worrying takes a lot of energy.
Rita Rudner
#73. I can't live my life worrying about something that might never happen.
Bill Parcells
#74. I have always believed that the key to a happy marriage was the ability to say with a straight face, 'Why, I don't know what you're worrying about. I thought you were very funny last night and I'm sure everybody else did, too.
Judith Martin
#75. I'm not fighting restraints or worrying about pleasing everyone. I've been able to carve my own niche in the marketplace, which is pretty cool. Obviously, I'm just blessed to be able to tour the country and make a living to support my family at the same time.
Bill Kirchen
#76. If the worst is going to happen, it'll happen. Worrying can't protect you from that. And if it doesn't happen then you've missed out on all the time that when you could have been having fun
Alexandra Potter
#77. How can I give you nothing? Do you seriously expect me to buy nothing, wrap up nothing, stick a gift tag on nothing, send a card saying I really hope you like your nothing and lie awake worrying that the nothing I got you was the right color nothing you always anted? Have a heart!
Hilary McKay
#78. Imagining the worst doesn't keep it from happening
Lemony Snicket
#79. Worrying cannot change a thing, but faith can change everything.
Tracie Miles
#80. Nothing good ever comes from worrying or sitting there feeling sorry for yourself ... Keep positive and keep pushing on and things will turn good.
Conor McGregor
#81. Are you worrying about tomorrow when you should be focusing on today? Trust God to equip you for whatever comes today, tomorrow, and in the future, so that you can receive the fullness of His gifts today.
Joyce Meyer
#82. People in this country, always worrying about how to eat, they pay someone good money to tell them: Eat this, don't eat that. If you don't know how to eat, what else can you know how to do in this world?
Imbolo Mbue
#83. It is by worrying about adversity that people survive; complacency brings catastrophe.
Amitav Ghosh
#84. I try to keep myself in what I'm doing and focused on character stuff, as opposed to getting wrapped up in worrying or being nervous. It won't benefit me, in any way, to focus on that.
Katie Cassidy
#85. Francis taught me that if we spent less time worrying about how to share our faith with someone on an airplane and more time thinking about how to live radically generous lives, more people would start taking our message seriously.
Ian Morgan Cron
#86. Don't just sit there and worry. Be proactive. Do something - anything - about what's worrying you so you can gain information, focus and control over the situation. I've suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened.
Mark Twain
#87. Global warming - at least the modern nightmare vision - is a myth. I am sure of it and so are a growing number of scientists. But what is really worrying is that the world's politicians and policy makers are not.
David Bellamy
#88. People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
Moliere
#89. conscious mind had enough to deal with right now without worrying about what mischief my subconscious was up to.
C. Greenwood
#90. Pray when you feel like worrying. Give thanks when you feel like complaining. Keep going when you feel like quitting.
Dave Willis
#91. I've stopped worrying about whether people think what I do is any good. I've taken stick in the past, and I've genuinely worried and got incredibly upset.
Keeley Hawes
#92. It's amazing what you can do when you stop worrying about failing.
Anne Sweeney
#93. I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
Rumi
#94. A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.
Michael Morpurgo
#95. We're all free agents in this noncoercive class system, and Brooks eventually concludes that worrying about the problems faced by workers is yet another deluded affectation of the blue-state rich.
Thomas Frank
#96. In his books, Tolle repeatedly denigrated the habit of worrying, which he characterized as a useless process of projecting fearfully into an imaginary future. "There is no way that you can cope with such a situation, because it doesn't exist.
Dan Harris
#97. I've had plenty to worry about one time or other. I'm through worrying.
Ernest Hemingway,
#98. I pretty much just focus on making the records - unless I'm self-releasing them; then I do my own thing. But at some point, you have to stop worrying about chains of distribution, or it takes out of your time to write.
John Darnielle
#99. So much time is currently spent in worrying about the future that the present is allowed to go to hell.
Russell L. Ackoff
#100. I don't believe in worrying. It's a waste of energy.
Malinda Lo
