quotations about worry & worrying
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Born for Love: Reflections on Loving
Extreme worry is opposite of trust in the care of our loving God? This kind of worry keeps us from seeking God, and it makes us have only horizontal thoughts. It is our mortal foe because what we worry about becomes more significant to us than God.
NAOMI INGRIM
"Believe in God, and don't worry", Killeen Daily Herald, March 10, 2017
Worry is half impatience and half ignorance.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
My worrying is misguided in that it only serves to frighten me, make me afraid of the unknown and cause me to take a very cynical view that nothing will ever change. When these feelings and emotions begin to arouse, I have learned to begin to channel and redirect them into the places where I can have significant impact.
ZACHARY ALMAGUER
"Can we work together to fix our country?", The Spectrum, March 17, 2017
Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Little Women
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.
LEO AIKMAN
attributed, Worth Repeating
Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
BIBLE
Matthew 6:34
Fret not thyself, it tends only to evil-doing.
BIBLE
Psalms 37:8
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
MARY HEMINGWAY
attributed, Words of Wellness: A Treasury of Quotations for Well-Being
To live by worry is to live against reality.
E. STANLEY JONES
Abundant Living
Some people believe that worrying might help them solve some problem in the future. How do they know if they have solved the problem and achieved their goal in worrying? If the problem is in future, do they have to wait till it occurs to know if they have solved it? Do they believe that they know they have solved the problem when they feel less anxious and stressed? This is where the problem lies. If your signal to stop worrying is when you feel less anxious, but worrying just increases your stress and anxiety, you are never going to get the signal to stop worrying.
BRUCE FERNIE & GABRIELLE MURPHY
Coping Better with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/myalgic Encephalomyelitis
Worrying really is a waste of time, effort and energy. But try telling that to a worrier and you'll just worry them even more.
SHARON GRIFFITHS
"It's worrying to hear we regret our time worrying", Eastern Daily Press, February 22, 2016
Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway.
MARY C. CROWLEY
attributed, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Getting In to College
A man who has no control over worry is a man who has no control over his future.
PATRICK MABILOG
"5 ways you can stop being anxious about tomorrow", Christian Today, March 27, 2017
The Greeks said that worry is two opposing forces that tear a person apart. The Saxons say worry is like a wolf with a stranglehold on a man's throat. Worry chokes our physical strength, our creative powers, our spiritual growth and our joy.
TOM O'BRIEN
"Focus your thoughts on God", Ellwood City Ledger, March 24, 2017
If we didn't worry what would we do? How would you set the alarm for the morning? How would we finish the report we have to do? Worry is essential to our life. It just takes a life of its own and that's when people get into trouble.
REID WILSON
interview, KDKA Morning News, March 21, 2017
Better to be busy than to be busy worrying.
ANGELA LANSBURY
Quick Quotations
Worry is a tool that the devil uses to silently destroy lives and kill destinies. It comes in as if it can provide solution to the issues at hand but Jesus Christ has warned us that worry is helpless -- it is an enemy to kill, steal and destroy.
HENRY O. ADELEGAN
"Stop worrying, start worshipping!", The Nation Online, February 26, 2016
It's not time to worry yet.
HARPER LEE
To Kill a Mockingbird
When I was burdened with worries, you comforted me and made me feel secure.
BIBLE
Psalms 94:19