Quotes About Worrying About Things You Can't Control

#1. Free yourself from fruitlessly worrying about things you can't control and put your energy towards the things you can. Seize the day and take effective action on things you can change.

Steve Maraboli

#2. My father always told me, 'Don't waste energy worrying about things you can't control. Spend your energy focusing on solutions'.

Jared Kushner

#3. I've just been writing a column about the way in which Fallujah and New Orleans are looking to be twin towns in effect. They're both been worked over by the Bush Administration.

Martin Walker

#4. Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.

Cam Newton

#5. I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Jane Austen

#6. I love you, Leah. I've loved you for twenty years and I'll love you for eternity. My beautiful Leah, listen closely. What I say is pure truth. And on this truth, you have my vow.

Kristen Ashley

#7. Energy spent on worrying about a future you can't control is energy wasted. It doesn't do anybody one bit of good. I

Julia Claiborne Johnson

#8. Ain't no sense worrying about the things you got control over 'cause if you got control over 'em, ain't no sense worrying. Ain't no sense worrying about the things you got no control over 'cause if you got no control over 'em, ain't no sense worrying.

Mickey Rivers

#9. 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

#10. She taught me the pointlessness of wishing for a different past and the futility of worrying about all of the frightening futures over which I had no control.

James R. Doty

#11. The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.

John Lanchester

#12. She was wearing a beautiful dress with straps designed to be eaten off her shoulders.

Elise Valmorbida

#13. When we know how to be at peace, we find that art is a wonderful way to share our peacefulness.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#14. You figure out those things that give your life meaning, and you hold onto them. You try to stop worrying about the stuff you can't control.

Cynthia Hand

#15. Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying about what I look like, because it's out of my shaky hands. I don't control it. So why would I waste one second of my life worrying about it?

Michael J. Fox

#16. Worrying about things beyond your control is a pretty good formula for illness.

Robin Sharma

#17. Worrying about something you can't control has less benefit than a mosquito's existence.

Mark Cortes

#18. 'What if?' statements throw fuel on the fire of stress and worry. Things can go in a million different directions, and the more time you spend worrying about the possibilities, the less time you'll spend focusing on taking action that will calm you down and keep your stress under control.

Travis Bradberry

#19. To be ignorant is to waste the talents you were born with. To be ignorant is to confine your life to a path no different than the generations before you

Linda Cardillo

#20. Just stop worrying about it," she said quietly. "Just let the stone be what it wants to be. You can't control everything, you know.

Danika Stone

#21. If you would stop worrying about things you don't control and release what God has put into you, you will change everything around you.

Steve Maraboli

#22. Cath couldn't control whether she saw Levi on campus. But she could worry about it, and as long as she was worrying about it, it probably wasn't going to happen. Like some sort of anxiety vaccine. Like watching a pot to make sure it never boiled.

Rainbow Rowell

#23. 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

#24. My mom was a single parent.

G-Eazy

#25. 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

#26. Worrying about things you cannot control is folly. Focus only on those few things you have any control over, and your life becomes much simpler.

Jeffrey Fry

#27. Life should be more about living in the moment than fearing what's happening outside it. It's about honoring what you want to do at any given time, regardless of what everyone else is doing. There's no use worrying about things that are out of your control.

Connor Franta

#28. Every time I think I have something under control, it changes and I don't have it under control. I think it takes several years to get there. Jade is 19 months old, so right now I'm on alert all the time. And as a mom I think you're constantly worrying about things.

Giada De Laurentiis

#29. With anything in life, I think that's when you start stressing yourself out - when you start worrying about the things that are out of your control. What I can control is being at my best every day and having no regrets at the end of each day. That's what I plan on doing.

Scott Tolzien

#30. I promise not to draw blood, if you promise not to weep.

Deborah Harkness

#31. Many people allow their need for other people's approval to control their lives. They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.

Rick Warren

#32. Stop worrying about what tomorrow may bring. Focus on what you can control. Stay positive. Enjoy today. Expect good things to come.

Karen Salmansohn

#33. Worrying about life's circumstances of those I love, but over which I have no control is a dangerous, never-ending and pointless game to play.

Iben Dissing Sandahl

#34. A lion walks alone. He does not need a pack of wolves to follow him.

Amit Abraham

#35. 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

#36. Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.

Tertullian

#37. Have you ever traveled, beyond all mere metaphors, to the Mountain of Shame and stayed for a thousand years? I do not recommend it.

Sam Harris

#38. This year will take from me
the hardened person
who I longed to be.
I am healing by mistake.
Rome is also built on ruins.

Eliza Griswold

#39. Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds.

Rebecca Stead

#40. The next time you are worrying about something, try to remember that you aren't always in control. Instead, do practical things like make a budget or create a schedule. Be proactive and let go of the stress. After all, it won't change a thing.

Demi Lovato

#41. I seem finally to have stopped worrying about Elinor, and age. She seems now to be perfectly normal
about twenty-five, a witty control freak. I like her but I can see how she would drive you mad. She's just the sort of person you'd want to get drunk, just to make her giggling and silly.

Emma Thompson