Worrying is the core of all anxiety. But not all worrying is bad. When you are worried, the mind is enforced to focus on how to handle the problem. Productive worrying comes up with positive solutions to life’s challenges. There are many ways to overcome worrying. Self-awareness may be a solution. Accepting what may be happening is important to control thoughts. Monitor personal cues for worry, especially identifying situations or thoughts that trigger worry. With practice, people can identify worries at an earlier point. Worry quotes teach us how others tackle worrying. To stop worrying, it is advised to find relaxation techniques. Take a critical stance toward the worry assumptions that are causing the anxiety. These strategies establish a train of mental control that is incompatible with worry.
35 Worry Quotes
- “When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.” Winston Churchill
- “I must say here in France I had more serenity or security as I was working because I knew I was making the film the way I wished and that the film would be seen, ultimately, which is not always the case in Iran. In Iran, you always work having in mind this worry of will I be able to carry on my project as I wish and will the audience see the film.” Asghar Farhadi
- “You need to be comfortable with you. Stop worrying about the couple in the corner who may or may not be looking at you funny.” Willow Crossin
- “A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.” John Lubbock
- “Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. It’s not the hard work that kills; it’s the worrying that kills.” Thomas Edison
- “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.” Leo F. Buscaglia
- “Don’t use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe.” Joel Osteen
- “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” Elbert Hubbard
- “I never worry about the problem. I worry about the solution.” Shaquille O’Neal
- “As soon as I go to another area, another climate, I always have this kind of pressure in my sinuses. Honestly, I used to worry about a lot, I’d think something was wrong with me.” Amanda Nunes
- “If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it’s not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.” Dalai Lama
- “Worry is the stomach’s worst poison.” Alfred Nobel
- “If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.” Dale Carnegie
- “At Ajax, they don’t worry about your age. If you’re good enough, you play.” Toby Alderweireld
- “If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.” Joseph Cossman
- “Worry is the stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.” Arthur Somers Roche
- “Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.” Khalil Gibran
- “People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.” George Bernard Shaw
- “Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” Corrie Ten Boom
- “Rather than sitting and worrying, do something, anything. Worrying is a waste of time.” Catherine Pulsifer
- “I don’t have a worry about women because I keep reading that not only are they better at school, they are now better at parking, better at navigating… we know that women are good at everything.” James May
- “What worries you, masters you.” John Locke
- “Rule number one is don’t sweat the small stuff, rule number two is, it’s all small stuff.” Robert Elliot.
- “If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress, and tension. And if you didn’t ask me, I’d still have to say it.” George F. Burns
- “Worrying is a waste of time; it changes nothing. It will only create stress, which can have major effects on your health.” Robert Washington
- “Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.” Arthur Somers Roche
- “Start small, think big. Don’t worry about too many things at once. Take a handful of simple things, to begin with, and then progress to more complex ones. Think about not just tomorrow, but the future. Put a ding in the universe.” Steve Jobs
- “There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.” Harold Stephen
- “Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow” Swedish Proverb
- “If the basic structure of Grameen is changed, the worry is that the poor women who are the rightful owners of the bank will be disenfranchised.” Muhammad Yunus
- “Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due.” William R. Ing
- “You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.” Olin Miller
- “Worry pretends to be necessary, but serves no useful purpose.” Eckhart Tolle
- “You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.” Janis Joplin
- “Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere.” Erma Bombeck