Worry Fear Quotes

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

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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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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• Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

  Laozi

  Success, Weed, Dream

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Christian, Fear, Worry

  Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Pain

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (2013). “Kindness, Clarity, and Insight”, p.95, Shambhala Publications

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• The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

  H. L. Mencken

  Courage, Fear, Men

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• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Leadership, Bullying

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1933 See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Thoreau 16; Wellington 3

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• There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Happiness, Worry, Waste

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

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• People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

  John Jay Chapman

  Happiness, Worry, People

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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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• Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Loneliness, Insomnia, Reality

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.109, BookBaby

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• No man is free who cannot control himself.

  Pythagoras

  Depression, Men, Worry

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• He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Powerful, Emotional

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.840, Stanford University Press

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• Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

  Aristotle

  Pain, Fear, Philosophical

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• Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

  Mitch Albom

  Bible, Jesus, Future

  Mitch Albom (2011). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, p.148, Hachette UK

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• If you believe that feeling bad will change a past event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

  Wayne Dyer

  Letting Go, Believe, Reality

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• Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream.

  Laozi

  Weed, Dream, Opportunity For Success

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that

  James Neil Hollingworth

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

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• Courage is not the absence of fear...

  Richard Stengel

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

  "Mandela: His 8 Lessons of Leadership" by Richard Stengel, content.time.com. July 9, 2008.

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• Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

  Laozi

  Dream, Opportunity, Worry

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• Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

  Laozi

  Dream, Opportunity For Success, Worry

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• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man.

  Pat Paulsen

  Fear, Breast Cancer, Men

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

  Mark Twain

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

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• If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

  Confucius

  Love, Fear, Integrity

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