WORRY QUOTES VII

quotations about worry & worrying

Worrying is holding on to problems without seeking help.

MELVIN R. HALL

The Sky's the Limit: Go for the Gold!


You're worried about what-ifs. Well, what if you stopped worrying?

SHANNON CELEBI

Driving Off Bridges


Worry is our happiness-eater.

NIKKI GEMMELL

"Is it worth the worry?", The Australian, March 4, 2017


Anyone who knows how to worry knows how to meditate. Worriers are skilled in the meditation process but are meditating on the wrong kind of thoughts.

JIM BERG

Changed Into His Image: God's Plan for Transforming Your Life


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


Worry is negative prayer, or prayer in reverse. It is a habit which is not to be taken lightly, for it is an evil one.

MARTHA LEMASTERS

"Worry is ingratitude to God in advance", Vero Beach Newsweekly, February 8, 2016


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


What worries you masters you.

HADDON W. ROBINSON

attributed, Drawing Closer, Growing Stronger: Making the Most of Your Walk with God


Drink poison rather than worry.

IBN GABIROL

Mibhar HaPeninim


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!


A little worrying, like a little fear, is natural and healthy. It is what keeps us following basic traffic laws, not putting our hand on a hot burner, or playing baseball with a glass jar. But just like being consumed with fear can paralyze you, so can worrying non-stop. The emotions are from different spectrums of the rainbow but they both end up doing the same things -- making you paranoid, tepid, and unable to savor life that is in front of you.

DENNIS WYATT

"Worrying Half Your Life Away", The Ceres Courier, February 10, 2016


There are very few things in the mind which eat up as much energy as worry. It is one of the most difficult things not to worry about anything. Worry is experienced when things go wrong, but in relation to past happenings it is idle merely to wish that they might have been otherwise. The frozen past is what it is, and no amount of worrying is going to make it other than what it has been. But the limited ego-mind identifies itself with its past, gets entangled with it and keeps alive the pangs of frustrated desires.

MEHER BABA

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Worry is an unproductive, useless form of fear, and that makes it, by definition, unhealthy.

MAXIE MAULTSBY JR.

Ebony, February 1981


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

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Worry over what has not occurred is a serious malady.

IBN GABIROL

Mibhar HaPeninim


It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.

GEORGE MACDONALD

The Vicar's Daughter

Tags: George MacDonald


The idea that worrying is a fruitful endeavour is predictive of excessive worrying.

ERIC RASSIN

Thought Suppression


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


Worrying is not looking for a solution, but just reviewing the "problem" over and over.

MELVIN R. HALL

The Sky's the Limit: Go for the Gold!


Worry is evidence of unbelief and proof that there is deep insecurity caused by a lack of oneness with God.

MARTHA LEMASTERS

"Worry is ingratitude to God in advance", Vero Beach Newsweekly, February 8, 2016