Worried Quotes

• There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.

  Harold Stephens

  Crazy, Differences, Worry

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• It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

  Robert Frost

  Marriage, Funny Love, Wedding

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  There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

  Epictetus

  Happiness, Happy, Success

  Epictetus (2016). “The Philosophy of Epictetus: Golden Sayings and Fragments”, p.87, Courier Dover Publications

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• How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pain, Fear, Self Esteem

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• When I'm worried and I can't sleep,
  I count my blessings instead of sheep.
  And I fall asleep ...
  counting my blessings.

  Bing Crosby

  Fall, Sleep, Blessing

  Song: Count Your Blessings

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• Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Beginnings: A New Perspective: Life Is Not about the Beginning Or the Ending. It is about the Present Moment" by Catherine Zeeb, Xlibris Corporation, (p. 94), May 12, 2010.

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• Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.

  Ann Brashares

  Birthday, Depression, Time

  Twitter post from Jan 26, 2010

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• Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Work, Greatness

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• There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Wise, Bad Ass

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.277, Vintage

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• Bottom line: the ‘no upward trend’ has to continue for a total of 15 years before we get worried.

  Phil Jones

  Years, Lines, Trends

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• Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.

  Glenn Turner

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

  Dale Carnegie

  Happiness, Lying, Sleep

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• 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

  Worry, Form, Persons

  John Lanchester (2012). “Capital”, p.225, Faber & Faber

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• Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.

  Hanna Rosin

  Home, Brain, Arousal

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• If you’re worried about giving your secrets away, you can share your dots without connecting them.

  Austin Kleon

  Giving, Secret, Dots

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.85, Workman Publishing

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• It seems everyone's so worried about getting hurt that they forget about letting love happen.

  Carlos Salinas

  Love, Hurt, Forget

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• 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

  Change, Believe, Reality

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• Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

  Ovid

  Happiness, Happy, Hurt

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• Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Motivational, Strong Women, Empowering

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• I never worry about action, but only inaction.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Worry, Action

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• Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Positive, Thinking

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• Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

  Dale Carnegie

  Funny, Faith, Time

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”, p.372, Simon and Schuster

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• When I'm worried and I can't sleep I count my blessings instead of sheep.

  Irving Berlin

  Gratitude, Blessed, Sleep

  Song: Count Your Blessings Instead Of Sheep

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