quotations about worry & worrying
When it comes to Mom, worry is my constant companion, with me like those belt beepers husbands used to wear when the birth was imminent.
PHIL GIANFICARO
"The forecast: Worry, 100 miles away", Burlington County Times, March 16, 2017
Worry is different from fear. If fear is like a raging fever, worry is a low-grade temperature. It nags at us, simmers in our souls, hovers in the back of our minds like a faint memory. We may fear certain realities, like death; we worry about vague possibilities. Worry distracts us more than paralyzes us. It is like a leaky faucet we never get around to fixing.
GERALD LAWSON SITTSER
The Will of God As a Way of Life
Drink poison rather than worry.
IBN GABIROL
Mibhar HaPeninim
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
attributed, Bite-size Ben Franklin: Wit & Wisdom from a Founding Father
What worries you masters you.
HADDON W. ROBINSON
attributed, Drawing Closer, Growing Stronger: Making the Most of Your Walk with God
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
Worrying is only useful if it makes us aware of something that needs to be remedied, allows us to resolve the situation and move on. It is bad for us when it constantly fills our mind and we take no action or remain preoccupied. It wastes time and energy.
SARAH MCNAMARA
Helping Young People to Beat Stress
Each moment of worry, anxiety or stress represents lack of faith in miracles, for they never cease.
T. F. HODGE
From Within I Rise
Worry is like a stream of fear trickling through man's mind, which if not controlled will flood and drown all other thoughts in the mind and overtakes the mind entirely.
PANO GEORGE KARKANIS
Thoughts for Meaningful Life
Worrying is the magical thinking that worrying can prevent disaster. Worrying is anxiety in control. Worrying is belief in anxiety as some kind of god. Worrying is making stress and conflict now for imagined stress and conflict in the future. Worrying mistakes anxiety for action.
KEVIN EVERETT FITZMAURICE
Attitude Is All You Need!
How can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried so much that he decided to hire someone to do his worrying for him. He found a man who agreed to be his hired worrier for a salary of $200,000 per year. After the man accepted the job, his first question to his boss was, "Where are you going to get $200,000 per year?" To which the man responded, "That's your worry."
MAX LUCADO
Traveling Light
No amount of worrying is going to change the situation so it is not worth your time.
TANAAZ CHUBB
"7 Easy Ways To Make Your Life Less Stressful", Huffington Post, March 31, 2017
What does worry accomplish except to breed more worry?
DEAN KOONTZ
Odd Apocalypse
Worry depletes you of vitality, enthusiasm, joy and peace. Worriers don't have much enthusiasm for living, as they can think of too many perils that might occur.
MARTHA LEMASTERS
"Worry is ingratitude to God in advance", Vero Beach Newsweekly, February 8, 2016
Worry is the admission of incompetence silently to oneself.
WILLIAM ESTABROOK CHANCELLOR
The Health of the Teacher
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles -- by the ears, by the heels, or any other way, so you manage it.
MARK TWAIN
The American Claimant
People believe that since they have worried about a particular thing that didn't happen, their worrying alone was like the magical ounce of prevention.
CHRIS BENSON
"Dr. Maxie Maultsby Says: Stop Worrying and Get On With Your Life", Ebony, February 1981
Worry is an unproductive, useless form of fear, and that makes it, by definition, unhealthy.
MAXIE MAULTSBY JR.
Ebony, February 1981
Worry is forethought gone to seed.
WILLIAM GEORGE JORDAN
The Improvement Era, vol. 11, 1908
Worrying is a sort of security blanket for us. It keeps us moving and is a constant part of our conscious. This is also one of the biggest struggles of overthinking everything. We worry about problems that aren't relevant and that may or may not emerge in the future.
TANZEELA SAREEA
"The Daily Struggles People Who Overthink Everything Know All Too Well", Elite Daily, March 20, 2017