Worry Quotes

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H.A. Ironside
“We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.”
Harry A. Ironside

“Worry is most often a prideful way of thinking that you have more control over life and its circumstances than you actually do.”
June Hunt

Richard  Adams
“You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?”
Richard Adams, Watership Down

“We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.”
John Ortberg, The Me I Want to Be: Becoming God's Best Version of You

Sam Harris
“Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I'm simply worried.”
Sam Harris

Elizabeth Wein
“Oh Julie, wouldn’t I know if you were dead? Wouldn’t I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my heart?”
Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

“If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.”
Roy Bennett

John Locke
“What worries you masters you.”
John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Volume I

Robin Hobb
“Stop your whining. If you are frightened, be silent. Whining is for prey. It attracts predators. And you are not prey.”
Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin

Trinity
“worrying gets you nowhere”
Trinity, The Naked Traveler 3
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Douglas Adams
“She tried to worry that something terrible had happened to him, but didn't believe it for a moment. Nothing terrible ever happened to him, though she was beginning to think that it was time it damn well did. If nothing terrible happened to him soon maybe she'd do it herself. Now there was an idea.”
Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Katie Dale
“Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.”
Katie Dale, Someone Else's Life

Jeff Bezos
“We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.”
Jeff Bezos

Vera Nazarian
“Worry is the secret weapon perpetrated upon us by the dark forces of the world that lurk in the shape of fear, uncertainty, confusion, and loss.

We, on the other hand, have our own secret weapon against these incorporeal fiends.

It is laughter.”
Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Mark Gorman
“Only 8% of our worry will come to pass. 92% of our worry is wasted. DON'T PANIC”
Mark Gorman

“No amount of guilt can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.”
Umar Ibn Al-Khattaab

Stevie Smith
“Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.”
Stevie Smith, Modern Classics Selected Poems Of Stevie Smith

David Gilmour
“It's about the quality of the worry," I said. "I have happier worries now than I used to.”
David Gilmour, The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son

Marilynne Robinson
“I have decided the two choices open to me are (1) to torment myself or (2) to trust the Lord. There is no earthly solution to the problems that confront me. But I can add to my problems, as I believe I have done, by dwelling on them. So, no more of that.”
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

Jennifer E. Smith
“There was a lump in her throat as she watched him fidget with the buttons on his vest, and it struck her as the truest form of kindness, the most basic sort of love: to be worried about the one who was worrying about you.”
Jennifer E. Smith, The Geography of You and Me

Mouloud Benzadi
“Don't grieve over the past,
It's all gone!
Don't worry about the future, It may never come!
Live in the present,
And enjoy every moment”
Mouloud Benzadi

Mouloud Benzadi
“FOR EVERY MINUTE YOU SPEND WORRYING ABOUT THINGS IN LIFE,
YOU LOSE A PRECIOUS MINUTE OF YOUR LIFE.”
Mouloud Benzadi

Israelmore Ayivor
“Be worried if you always flock in the company of people who peel off other people's skins with their teeth in their absence. A time will come when they'll try to pick a bite on you too!”
Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

Michel de Montaigne
“A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.”
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Thomas  Harris
“It would be so nice to be wanted by someone with the courage to get his hat or stay as he damn pleased, and who gave her credit for the same. Someone who didn't worry about her.”
Thomas Harris, Red Dragon

Robin Hobb
“...it's strange, isn't it, how you don't know how big a part of you someone is until they're threatened? And then you think you can't possibly go on if something happens to them, but the most frightening part is that, actually, you will go on, you'll have to go on, with them or without them. There's just no telling what you'll become”
Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

“Don't worry about not doing "it" perfectly right now. It's ok, just keep at it, you will soon settle in it and then you'll be glad you didn't give up.”
TemitOpe Ibrahim

Daphne du Maurier
“He looked down at me without recognition, and I realized with a little stab of anxiety that he must have forgotten all about me, perhaps for some considerable time, and that he himself was so lost in the labyrinth of his own unquiet thoughts that I did not exist.”
Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca