Quotes About Worrying About The Future

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. What's the point in worrying about the future? Who says there will even be a future? What happens if you die tomorrow and all you ever did was sit in maths classes and play the clarinet and moan about your family? What good is the future to you then?

Dawn O'Porter

#4. Live life in the present. This moment is the only thing that's real. Worrying about the future and lamenting the past only crowds out the beauty of what is happening now.

Daniel Levin

#5. Each minute we spend worrying about the future and regretting the past is a minute we miss in our appointment with life- a missed opportunity to engage life and to see that each moment gives us the chance to change for the better, to experience peace and joy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#6. Life flows at ease whenever a person ceases complaining about the past, worrying about the future, lives in the now without resisting pain, and accepts the moral sublimity of living in a state of grace.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#7. Most of us are worrying about the future so much that we can't enjoy the present.

Harold Sherman

#8. Anxiety is stemmed from worrying about the past and worrying about the future!

John Di Lemme

#9. God is the God of 'right now.' He doesn't want you sitting around regretting yesterday. Nor does He want you wringing your hands and worrying about the future. He wants you focusing on what He is saying to you and putting in front of you ... right now.

Priscilla Shirer

#10. Stop thinking of the past, and stop worrying about the future. Just win the day. Achieve the goals you set for every single day, and you'll rebuild your life in a few short years.

Kevin J. Donaldson

#11. Start living right here, in each present moment. When we stop dwelling on the past or worrying about the future, we're open to rich sources of information we've been missing out on - information that can keep us out of the downward spiral and poised for a richer life.

Mark Williams

#12. People are always worried about what's happening next. They often find it difficult to stand still, to occupy the now without worrying about the future. People are generally not satisfied with what they have; they are very concerned with what they are going to have.

Garth Stein

#13. I've learned to appreciate what I've got. I'm not going to waste an ounce of energy on sorting through the past or with worrying about the future. Life's too short for that.

Chris Coppernoll

#14. How foolish is man! He ruins the present while worrying about the future, but weeps in the future by recalling his past!

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#15. So much time is currently spent in worrying about the future that the present is allowed to go to hell.

Russell L. Ackoff

#16. I really feel like that concept of enjoying the now and not worrying about the future is what my coach has been trying to teach me for 14 years - and that is what has made me such a different athlete 10 years later, and that is what has made me strong enough mentally to make this Olympic team.

Melanie Roach

#17. It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future.

Roy Bennett

#18. As his mother said, once you started worrying about the future, you started obsessing about the past.

Cassandra Clare

#19. Make a conscious effort to live in the present today. When you catch yourself obsessing over the past or worrying about the future just remember you are exactly where you need to be right now.

Demi Lovato

#20. Meditation refreshes our mind and helps us let go of old patterns. We spend less time dwelling on the past or worrying about the future; instead, we are focused on the present.

Deepak Chopra

#21. Most power is lost in one's own mind by thinking negative thoughts, by worrying about the future, by focusing on the past, as opposed to thinking positive, strong, and happy thoughts.

Frederick Lenz

#22. By worrying about the future, We will convolute our present lives.

Mohith Agadi

#23. Worrying about the future is a thing of the past. I don't think about it.

Pat Paulsen

#24. Any form of negative rumination - for example, worrying about your financial future or health - will stimulate the release of destructive neurochemicals.

Andrew B. Newberg

#25. But a lot of our thinking is caught up in dwelling on the past, trying to control the future, generating misperceptions, and worrying about what others are thinking.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#26. If we should be worrying about anything to do with the future of English, it should not be that the various strands will drift apart but that they will grow indistinguishable. And what a sad, sad loss that would be.

Bill Bryson

#27. Weed out worry, guilt, hate and fear from your life. Live in the present moment earnestly and wisely, without mourning about the past or anticipating troubles in the future.

Sanchita Pandey

#28. The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in the present.

Harland Miller

#29. That's the funny thing about life. We're rarely aware of the bullets we dodge. The just-misses. The almost-never-happeneds. We spend so much time worrying about how the future is going to play out and not nearly enough time admiring the precious perfection of the present.

Lauren Miller

#30. Worrying about the past or the future isn't productive. When you start chastising yourself for past mistakes, or seeing disaster around every corner, stop and take a breath and ask yourself what you can do right now to succeed.

Harvey MacKay

#31. YOU CANT CHANGE THE PAST,BUT YOU CAN RUIN YOUR PERFECTLY PRESENT LIFE BY WORRYING ABOUT YOUR FUTURE.

Lester Swan

#32. Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#33. What will happen in the future is mere guesswork - essentially, make-believe. If you are going to spend a lot of time and energy in a make-believe world, I suggest spending time considering the great possibilities rather than worrying about the bad ones.

Charles F. Glassman

#34. When I was a kid in the '50s, during the Eisenhower years, everything seemed to be working fine. I don't recall as a teenager ever worrying about the state of the future world.

Lois Lowry

#35. Somehow I had stopped worrying about how much we'd hurt each other in the past and started worrying about how much we would hurt without each other in the future.

Rachel Higginson

#36. There aren't enough people who care about the future. They are too busy worrying about today and what they can grab now

Berry Gordy

#37. Planning is worrying based on facts

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#38. I have met too many people who are looking for work, worrying about their mortgage, uncertain about their health insurance, and doubting that things will get any better anytime soon. Not just concerned about the present, many of us are doubting the future.

Brad Schneider

#39. Think of joy! Think of realities! Realities bring real joy and inner peace even in discomfort!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#40. Worry is stressing about a situation that may or may not occur and it's always in the negative sense.

Rob Liano

#41. The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.

Christopher Paolini

#42. Fearing the future & worrying about repeating the past will always rob one of the present moment.

Timothy Pina

#43. As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.

Chris Ware

#44. Worrying about outcomes over which I have no control is punishing myself before the universe has decided whether I ought to be punished.

Sherry Thomas

#45. Lets stop worrying about future and lets start enjoying the present.

Nadair Desmar

#46. Everyone goes through the ups and downs of living - fretting about the future, worrying about what happened. Music teaches us how to be in the moment.

David Sanborn

#47. Unless we can predict the future, we shouldn't be worrying about things that haven't happened yet. We can place these thoughts in God's hands then let them go.

Ron Baratono

#48. Nothing Can Change Your Past ... But Not Worrying About Things To Come, Will Help Change Future.

Timothy Pina

#49. Almost all sadness comes from thinking about the past, and all worry from thinking about the future - present-mindedness is your only safe haven.

Bryant McGill

#50. You can't change what happened. Just like you can't change the future by worrying about it. You just have to keep moving.

Bernie Mac

#51. A player's effectiveness is directly related to his ability to be right there, doing that thing, in the moment. He can't be worrying about the past or the future or the crowd or some other extraneous event. He must be able to respond in the here and now.

John Brodie

#52. You don't need to be too anxious about anything; you only need to get understanding!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#53. 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

#54. If you're worrying about the past, you've got a good chance of screwing up the future.

Howard A. Tullman