Explore Quotes on Worry

The task of worrying is to come up with positive solutions for life's perils by anticipating dangers before they arise. If we are preoccupied by worries, we have that must less attention to expend on figuring out the answers. Our worries become self-fulfilling prophecies, propelling us toward the very disaster they predict.

One of the commonest mistakes is thinking your worries are over when your children get married.

The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you also must endure its pains.

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or to beset life with supernumerary distresses.

I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.

Anxiety checks learning. A feeling of well being and respect stimulates an alert mind.

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?.

It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two of them nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying; and two perhaps can be settled.

Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.

I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.

Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will still for months wake up in the night with a start, worrying about food and rent.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.

I'm just coming out and I'm going to clearly be myself - I write what I feel, I never worry what others think.

If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.

Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt.

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

I looked at the ceiling and wished this life was over. This unhappy life that had started out so confidently. I thought I would sleep no more that night but eventually I did. In the end we always wear out our worries. That's what Wire man says.