Time Spent Worrying Quotes

#1. Time spent worrying - about anything - provides no emotional or physical benefit to us; such things only weaken us for the fights we must endure in our lives.

A.J. Darkholme

#2. My goal was to make first lieutenant. I never spent a lot of time worrying about what came after that.

Hugh Shelton

#3. In the lonely hours, I have spent a great deal of time thinking about eternal things. I have contemplated the comforting doctrines of eternal life.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#4. In what you have called your nonbarbarian societies, children (and wives, and husbands, for that matter) are thought of as property, as personal possessions, and child-bearers must therefore become child-raisers, because they must take care of what they "own.

Neale Donald Walsch

#5. If everybody spent enough time worrying about their own goddamn selves, no one would have to worry about anyone else.

Don De Grazia

#6. Mostly, I avoid worrying since the time spent doing it could be spent more constructively.

Adora Svitak

#7. I'm not so funny. Gilda was funny. I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while. But she was funny. She spent more time worrying about being liked than anything else.

Gene Wilder

#8. Perhaps we could push beyond these legalistic gender roles if we spent less time worrying about "acting like men" and "acting like women," and more time acting like Jesus.

Rachel Held Evans

#9. All through my twenties, I spent more time worrying what I didn't have than thinking about what I did have. I wished that I was taller, had longer legs, slimmer hips, a smaller bottom, even straighter hair.

Shakira

#10. A great many people, he had noticed, spent large parts of their time worrying about things they were powerless to alter. Had they concentrated all this energy on things they could influence, think how different their lives would be.

Diane Setterfield

#11. I don't judge the men and women who chat with me and reveal their secrets and perversions. How can I? My secret, my obsession, is worse than any of theirs.

Alessandra Torre

#12. The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.

Charley Pride

#13. Becoming like the heavenly Father is not just one important aspect of Jesus' teaching, it is the very heart of his message.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#14. To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

Benjamin Disraeli

#15. I wish my parents had spent more time worrying about my education than me being a star.

Shania Twain

#16. Maybe we need to re-engage our smart, energetic youth around the world to be farmers and find fresh, green technologies that will feed the world more fresh greens.

Ellen Gustafson

#17. If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.

Christopher Paolini

#18. I can't tell you how much time is spent worrying about decisions that don't matter. To just be able to make a decision and see what happens is tremendously empowering, but that means you have to set up the situation such that when something does go wrong, you can fix it.

Ward Cunningham

#19. So here's my theory, and this is such crap science, I don't have to tell you. It's science without microscopes, blood tests, or reality.

Maggie Stiefvater

#20. During my first pregnancy, I spent a lot of time worrying about how big I was getting and how I would lose it afterwards.

Tori Spelling

#21. When the child is twelve, your wife buys her a splendidly silly article of clothing called a training bra. To train what? I never had a training jock. And believe me, when I played football, I could have used a training jock more than any twelve-year-old needs a training bra.

Bill Cosby

#22. She should've interviewed Snape," said Harry grimly. "He'd give her the goods on me any day. "Potter has been crossing lines ever since he first arrived at this school ...

J.K. Rowling

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

Russell L. Ackoff

#24. 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