Worry Quotes

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  Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Sorrow

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• The longer I live, the less future there is to worry about.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Birthday, 60th Birthday

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• Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Birthday, Age, Middle

  Carl Sagan, Jerald F. TerHorst, Allan J. Mayer, Sharon S. McKern, Laurence J. Peter (1980). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”

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• If I was a little bit younger I would worry more. I'd want to do one thing at a time but now I try to do a bunch of different things at a time if I can.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Trying, Different, Want

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• The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.

  Stephen King

  Dying, Good Things, Young

  Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not worry about the past or the future. This moment needs your attention, for this is where your life exists.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Baseball, Future

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

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Christian, Fear, Hiding Place

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

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  Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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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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  What worries you, masters you.

  John Locke

  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

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• Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body.

  Martin Luther

  Soul, Body, Heavy

  Table-Talk 'Of Temptation and Tribulation'

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• A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

  John Lubbock

  Motivational, Happiness, Letting Go

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• I never worry about action, but only inaction.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Action, Worried

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• It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Rain, Use, Umbrella

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• I don't worry about nothing. I have a lot of concerns. My life is full of concerns, but I try not to worry.

  Richard Childress

  Trying, Life Is, Concern

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  I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

  Albert Einstein

  Happiness, Time, Clever

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.24, St. Martin's Press

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• I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

  Attributed in Reader's Digest, Apr. 1934. A similar remark, attributed to an anonymous octogenarian, appears in the Washington Post, 11 Sept. 1910. See Jefferson 42

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• A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

  Dorothea Kent

  Funny, Eye, Men

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• Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God, and so there's no room left for worry thoughts.

  Howard Chandler Christy

  God, Morning, Mind

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• Anger and worry are the enemies of clear thought.

  Peter O'Donnell

  Enemy, Clear

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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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• Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Motivational, Faith, Future

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• No one can pray and worry at the same time.

  Max Lucado

  Prayer, Max, Praying

  Max Lucado (2012). “Great Day Every Day: Navigating Life's Challenges with Promise and Purpose”, p.125, Thomas Nelson Inc

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  Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

  Robert Fulghum

  Marriage, Mother, Children

  "Reflections for Tending the Sacred Garden". Book by Bonita Jean Zimmer (p. 182), April 2003.

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• With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end.

  Henry Ford

  Trust, God, Confidence

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