Top 100 Quotes About Worrying
#1. We've got to start worrying about America. And if we don't start dealing with the debt we have and the deficit spending we have in Washington, politics doesn't matter, because the American people do realize that they have to balance their budgets.
Marlin Stutzman
#2. Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own.
Isaac Mizrahi
#3. And our size: The company this year is going to be close to $50 billion, so if that's the case and you can continue to grow that fast, I would rather put my energies to solving customer problems and growing our business than worrying about integrating and laying people off.
Kevin Rollins
#4. 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
#5. Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence ... Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
Thomas A. Edison
#6. Worrying is a waste of time. It doesn't change anything. It messes with your mind and steals your happiness.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#7. You know, if I started worrying about what the critics think, I'd never make another comedy. You couldn't pick a less funny group than critics - you couldn't find a more bitter group of people!
Todd Phillips
#8. Something very worrying has been going on at Scotland Yard. We now know that in dealing with the phone-hacking affair at the 'News of the World,' they cut short their original inquiry; suppressed evidence; misled the public and the press; concealed information and broke the law. Why?
Nick Davies
#9. The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas.
Fredric Jameson
#11. The '18-40-60 Rule': at 18 you care what everyone thinks, at 40 you don't care what anyone thinks and at 60 you realize no one ever cared about what you thought, they were busy worrying about themselves.
Daniel Amen
#12. I used to worry about my Fears, but I realized that most of the time nothing bad happened. So, I have stopped worrying.-RVM
R.v.m.
#13. Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. Especially tonight.
Robert Harris
#14. Unpleasant things are like the rain: sometimes they visit us, but there is no point in worrying about them while the sun shines.
Andrus Kivirahk
#15. All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - constantly doubting ourselves, worrying, wondering if we've made a mistake. Could we have done better? Are we good people? Are we bad people?
Patrick DeWitt
#16. Something was jigging and worrying in his brain; it felt like a hive of bees, stirred up by a stick.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#17. I think I developed a culture of healthy skepticism of claims of certainty on any side of the aisle. A sort of boldness in using economics no matter where it leads you in political circles, you know, rather than worrying about being left-wing or right-wing or biased or this or that.
David Plotz
#18. Knotty theological questions are the least worrying of problems to me. Why? Because they will be resolved in the hereafter, and meanwhile they can be safely shelved.
Ken Follett
#19. A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses
A. J. Jacobs
#20. If everybody spent enough time worrying about their own goddamn selves, no one would have to worry about anyone else.
Don De Grazia
#21. The ego is constantly comparing itself to others. It has us measuring our self-worth against the looks, wealth, and social status of everyone else. Did this not explain some of my worrying at work?
Dan Harris
#22. Impatience is a sign of hurrying; hurrying is a sign of worrying; worrying is a sign someone forgot time is on their side.
Mike Dooley
#23. The whole consideration of - ... am I being compared as such and such's grandson and son - that was minuscule compared to the problems I was having just working ... I didn't have time to start worrying about who I was in the eyes of the public.
Jamie Wyeth
#24. A friendship where you're always trying to be considerate of the other person, always worrying about what they think, always responding to every single text, always seeking their approval and then finally connecting with them, isn't friendship at all.
Wataru Watari
#25. 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
#26. If cynicism and criticism is the way to worry about the country..
The country better start worrying about itself & it's social police...
Change is about Vision & Mission and not about social NEGATIVITY..
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#27. We try to have things both ways. We've always refused to live by the book and the rule; but then why start worrying because the world doesn't treat us by rule?
Doris Lessing
#28. The kiss blew Zoe's socks off. It was so easy to get lost in the promise of what he offered; no wondering, wishing, worrying ... Wrapped up tight in him as she was, she felt tempted.
Jill Shalvis
#29. I did not lie awake at night worrying about the problems of Negroes.
Robert F. Kennedy
#30. Life's too short to constantly be worrying about everything that could go wrong.
Jessica Sorensen
#31. You can't start a fire
Worrying 'bout your little world falling apart
This gun's for hire
Even if we're just dancing in the dark
Bruce Springsteen
#32. All things happen in their proper time. Everything in life happens in the time allocated for it. Don't waste energy worrying about end results. Worrying only distracts you from living day to day and enjoying life!
James Van Praagh
#33. I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.
Doris Lessing
#34. Can you two keep from tearing each other's throats out during however long it takes to find Nash?" Lucas's dry tone did nothing to hide the feline amusement in his eyes as he broke into her line of sight. "Or maybe I should be worrying about clothes instead?
Nalini Singh
#35. You don't know what is going to come to you in this world; you have to go on living and worrying. Those who die are pitying us; they are blessing us. Why should you grieve for them?
Paramahansa Yogananda
#36. The best cure for one's own grief and pain was worrying about the well-being of someone else.
Drew Karpyshyn
#38. 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
#39. Worrying isn't rational. No one makes a conscious decision to freak out about something.
Sara Novic
#40. I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents.
Marian Wright Edelman
#41. Friends, there are many areas in which I need encouragement, but worrying is not one of them. I worry the way Renee Fleming sings high Cs: Effortlessly. Loudly. At length.
Martha Beck
#42. As usual, my mind is spinning in circles ... is it me? Am I making mountains out of molehills? Being too analytical? Worrying about nothing? Being emotional?
Kellie Pickler
#43. 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
#44. I focused more on sharing my gift and performing than worrying about it being a competition.
Rayvon Owen
#45. I would like to stop worrying so much, because I worry all the time. And to learn how to be happier, just in general. I have to learn to take things not so seriously. And to stop biting my nails! ... Recording music has helped take my mind off certain things. For me, my music is therapy.
Britney Spears
#46. The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about.
Diane Cilento
#47. it's like you're drowning and all they're worrying about is the color of your bathing suit
Anonymous
#48. The problem, as far as I can tell, is that women spend infinitely more time than men paying attention to, competing with, worrying about, everyone other than themselves.
Clinton Kelly
#49. As a coach, you've got to do what's best for the team. If guys don't like it, they're going to leave. If they stay and don't like it, well, your team's going to suck anyway. Even if this happens, you still have to do it. You can't coach worrying about any individual.
Doc Rivers
#50. Instead of worrying about what others think of you, you should be worried about why you're worried about what others think of you.
Anonymous
#51. Quit worrying about people that are trying to hold you back. God knows how to move the wrong people out of your life and bring the right people in. He knows how to prepare you to Break Out.
Joel Osteen
#52. I try not to live my life worrying about what others think. A core spiritual quality is nonjudgment, which is not just about not judging others, but also not living your life worried about others judging you.
Deepak Chopra
#53. People are already worrying about the ball moving around and all that jazz.
Mahela Jayawardene
#54. I tend to sort of dive into things without worrying about risk or anything. Like, when I get an idea, I tend to just go for it and see what happens.
Kiesza
#55. I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting.
William Powell
#56. 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
#57. Or he could go back to the ease of solitude. It's really not so bad, being alone, never worrying about what has to be done for, or with, or in the interest of another. it's like you let your mind stay in its pajamas all day.
Elizabeth Berg
#58. No amount of worrying can change the future. Go easy on yourself, for the outcome of all affairs is determined by God's decree. If something is meant to go elsewhere, it will never come your way, but if it is yours by destiny, from you it cannot flee.
Umar Ibn Al-Khattaab
#59. You can fall into a trap, worrying too much about what the audience might think, rather than going from the inside out.
Vik Sahay
#60. I think the first trick to writing a feminist work is to write plenty of women. That way you get to write characters, instead of worrying about paradigms.
Leigh Bardugo
#61. if someone had noticed the signs in you, would you have sought help?" "No, I guess you're right." "Of course I am." He smiled. "And you need to stop worrying about pleasing everyone. If your family wants to shut you out, so be it.
Anne Patrick
#62. Opinions aren't facts. Stop worrying about what people think of you.
Anonymous
#63. This is my sixth series, and I'm burned out wondering if a show is going to change my life. Don't get me wrong, I love when people recognize my work. But I've given up worrying about whether it'll be seen by two people or two million or 22 million.
Charlotte Ross
#64. So you take her to the pictures,
trying to become a fixture.
Inch by inch trying to reach her,
all the way through the second feature.
Worrying about your physical fitness,
tell me how you got this sickness?
Elvis Costello
#65. We're America, and we have to stop worrying about what happens overseas, and to be optimistic, even though nobody should think we're not going to have some difficult times.
Michael Bloomberg
#66. Worrying is like praying for something you don't want to happen.
Robert Downey Jr.
#67. As any parent knows, part of your mind is always engaged - wondering and worrying that everything is okay and calculating all the stuff that has to get done in the course of a day. When the children are asleep in their beds, I can go where I really need to go in my head.
Anne Michaels
#68. There's no point worrying until we know what we're worrying about.
Giovanna Fletcher
#69. Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will still for months wake up in the night with a start, worrying about food and rent.
Vicki Baum
#70. Worrying about a problem is not a strategy for change.
Jody Williams
#71. I'd much rather be worrying about playing that note in tune, and picking out the best way to arrange the song, rather than thinking about pricing for the download. It's not art.
Trent Reznor
#72. In college, the guys aren't worrying about whether they'll be able to pursue their career dreams and still have kids.
Gail Collins
#73. When you look good, you feel good. Confidence with what you're wearing is very important. If you feel good, you will always perform your best without worrying about anything.
Maria Sharapova
#74. I feels sorrier for him than anybody I knows. I expect he done read more books than any white man in this town. He done read more books and he done worried about more things. He full of books and worrying. He done lost God and turned his back on religion. His troubles come down just to that.
Carson McCullers
#75. To test if you are worrying too much about looking good, observe how you feel when you find out you've made a mistake or don't know something.
Ray Dalio
#76. Remember? Ohh, I wouldn't do that! Remembering's dangerous. I find the past such a worrying, anxious place.
"The past tense", I supposed you'd call it. Ha ha ha.
Alan Moore
#77. I think we should all start worrying about being downloaded and put in robots.
Jane Espenson
#78. Please stop worrying about how much you can do! STOP judging yourself and others on physical abilities and prowess, stop believing MORE is better, stop the madness!
Bryan Kest
#79. One night I'm going to have a big night scoring; some nights I'm going to have a big night doing other things. Just doing whatever it takes to win the ballgame, not necessarily sitting up here worrying about scoring 30 points.
Dwyane Wade
#80. This is a bad idea."
"If you ever stop saying that, I'll know it's time to start worrying.
Mark Lawrence
#81. I learned to share work with people even when it was in its rough stages without worrying that they'd be filled with scorn and hatred. After all, I can read their rough work without turning on them like a wildebeest.
Cassandra Clare
#82. 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
#83. My mom used to ask me when I was gonna write a happy song. I still tell her that it's when I start to write really happy-sounding songs that everyone needs to start worrying.
Sharon Van Etten
#84. The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
#85. Instead of worrying about who's American and who's not, here's a better idea: Create incentives for any global company to do what we'd like it to do in the United States.
Robert Reich
#86. In each of us there is internal knowledge, a gentle voice, beckoning us
toward well-being. It tells us to let go, to stay in the river of present experience, not to dam up our lives by worrying about potential futures or bemoaning past mistakes.
Marcey Shapiro
#87. No I'm worrying about people taking pictures and putting them on Facebook. That crap never dies. Kind of like you Mikey.
Rachel Caine
#88. I try not to agonize over my lyrics, though, because that can come across in them. Some lyrics come more easily than others and some you have to spend a lot of time on, but I think you have to watch that you don't take the life out of them by worrying too much.
Jane Siberry
#89. So many of our problems begin when we start worrying what others think of us.
Bryant McGill
#90. As a senator, I worried every day about the size of the federal deficit. I did not spend a single minute worrying about the effect of gays on the institution of marriage. Today it seems to be the other way around.
John C. Danforth
#91. I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.
Peter Singer
#92. Tomorrow is busy worrying about itself; don't get tangled up in its worry-webs. Trust Me one day at a time.
Sarah Young
#93. Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government.
John Perry Barlow
#94. Convince yourself that worrying about many situations will make them worse rather than improve them.
Albert Ellis
#95. No sense in worrying about the past. It's not going to worry about you.
Chelsea M. Cameron
#96. A few years ago I switched to an entirely different kind of New Year's resolution. Instead of vowing to improve, I pledge to do a better job of accepting my bad habits - to stop worrying about failing to be the person I used to imagine I could be.
Mel White
#97. Worrying is worthless. When you stop focusing on what has already happened and what may never happen, then you'll be in the present moment. Then you'll begin to experience joy in life.
Brian Weiss
#98. Worrying paralyzes progress; prayer, preparation and persistence ensures it.
T.F. Hodge
#99. Well we'd just seen Gerry. I think he wanted somebody who had that authority and was handsome. The thing is, he's a big hunk isn't he? All I can say, if you look at his chat line, or the Phantom website, it's quite worrying. Because the girls really seem to love him.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
#100. 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.
William James
