100 Best Sayings About Worrying, Worrying Quotes

Worrying about worrying is a dangerous cycle to fall into. People who get caught up in worry when they try to force themselves to stop worrying may want to try a different strategy - acceptance.

Amanda L. Chan

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Amanda L. Chan Quotes

Stop worrying. There is no point to worrying, unless you are actually coming up with a game plan to tackle something. If you are worrying for no reason, stop. Let go and let God. Don't try to control things that you really aren't able to control anyways.

Lisa Bedrick

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Lisa Bedrick Quotes

The best way to not die with vacation time on the books is to stop worrying about what you shoulda done. Stop worrying about what you woulda done. Stop worrying about what you coulda done.

Andrea Goeglein

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Andrea Goeglein Quotes

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.

Winston Churchill

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Winston Churchill Quotes

The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, it's too late. No point in worrying about it then. -Denzel Washington

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Denzel Washington Quotes

It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to-worrying that things aren't going to work out. -Khaled Hosseini

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Khaled Hosseini Quotes

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Unknown Author Quotes

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Tshepo Koos Maluleke Quotes

Why are you worrying about you-know-who? You should be worrying about u-no-poo! The constipation sensation that's gripping the nation! -J.K. Rowling

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J.K. Rowling Quotes

Why are you worrying about YOU-KNOW-WHO, when you should be worrying about YOU-NO-POO? The constipation sensation that's gripping the nation! -J.K. Rowling

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J.K. Rowling Quotes

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem Quotes

I spent so much of my time when I was growing up just worrying about what people thought of me, about my appearance, how I should act in school, how to... be popular and all that rubbish. Stop worrying about everything. Everything's going to be okay.

Jade Thirlwall

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Jade Thirlwall Quotes

Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying about what I look like, because it's out of my shaky hands. I don't control it. So why would I waste one second of my life worrying about it?

Michael J. Fox

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Michael J. Fox Quotes

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Lauren Bacall Quotes

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Unknown Author Quotes

The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can't reach them to pull them back out. So you can sit next to them and weep or you can get up and move forward. You have to stop worrying about who's not here and start worrying about who is.

Alex Witchel

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Alex Witchel Quotes

This president [Barack Obama] has had weak leadership, which has led to bad choices. We have got to stop worrying about being loved and start worrying about being respected. And that's exactly how I'll lead our country.

Chris Christie

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Chris Christie Quotes

Worrying about inflation now is like worrying about the measles when you might get the plague. -Kenneth Rogoff

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Kenneth Rogoff Quotes

Consider that worrying excessively about another person, especially a loved one, is a destructive act. It causes you emotional distress which prevents you from being at your best and contributing at the levels you're capable of. Instead of worrying, focus on accepting what is out of your control, and actively changing all that you can.

Hal Elrod

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Hal Elrod Quotes

I do think that procrastination evolved in humans for good reasons. If you're trying to stay alive as a human being on the savanna 20,000 years ago, worrying about what's right behind that bush is a lot more important than worrying about what might happen three weeks from now.

James Surowiecki

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James Surowiecki Quotes

There's very little that worrying can do to help our situations. Worrying is like running on a treadmill... it gives us an opportunity to sweat but gets us absolutely nowhere. Worrying skews our reality, suppresses the immune system, promotes coronary disease, and plagues us with digestive problems. It's clear... when the soul is heavy the body feels the weight. Do yourself a favor. Lighten up. Take a deep breath, clear your mind and focus your energy on the things you can change rather than on the things you can't. Worry is the enemy of optimism and personal progress. progress.

Jason Versey

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Jason Versey Quotes

I seriously consider television to be the people's medium. Like the idea of seeing your parents naked or having somebody go down on you and worrying about whether you smell, or worrying about whether your body is weird or what goes across the face of a person who's supposed to be experiencing pleasure but isn't - those are things I'd love to normalize on TV.

Lena Dunham

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Lena Dunham Quotes

Remember that worrying will not go away by thinking the same thought again and again. Thinking something fresh, loving and uplifting instead of worrying. Replace your worse anxiety with cheerful optimism.

Angelica Hopes

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Angelica Hopes Quotes

What this means in practice is that if you are not a born worrier you have nothing to worry about (though of course you wouldn't be worrying anyway), whereas if you are a worrier by nature there is absolutely nothing you can do about it, so you may as well stop worrying, except of course you can't.

Bill Bryson

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Bill Bryson Quotes

The only thing to worry about is the damage that can be done by worrying. Why are some scientists worried? Perhaps because they feel that to stop worrying may mean to stop being paid.

George Kukla

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George Kukla Quotes

I don't think about what other people expect or anything. I mean, I sit and worrying so much about what I'M thinking, I'd go NUTS if I sat around worrying about other people.

Allan Holdsworth

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Allan Holdsworth Quotes

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 XIV

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Dalai Lama XIV Quotes

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

Joyce Meyer

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Joyce Meyer Quotes

Worrying about the dunya is a darkness in the heart, while worrying about akhirah is a light in the heart. -Uthman ibn Affan

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Uthman ibn Affan Quotes

One-night stands were invented to free men from worrying about the size of their penis. And to free women from worrying about the size of their stretch marks.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes

The best piece of advice I ever got from anyone was when Spike Jonze said, 'Take money out of the equation.' And that's actually when Vice started making lots of money. That's when I stopped worrying about money and started worrying about what I wanted to do.

Shane Smith

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Shane Smith Quotes

If your Soviet neighbor is trying to set fire to your house, you can't be worrying about the Arab down the block. If suddenly it's the Arab in your backyard , you can't be worrying about the People's Republic of China and if one day the ChiComs show up at your front door with an eviction notice in one hand and a Molotov cocktail in the other, then the last thing you're going do is look over his shoulder for a walking corpse.

Max Brooks

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Max Brooks Quotes

Dreaming was easier than screaming, and screaming was easier than worrying, and worrying was easier than crying, which was what she knew she would be reduced to if she didn't keep a hard eye on herself.

Kevin Brockmeier

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Kevin Brockmeier Quotes

I have spent most of my time worrying about things that have never happened. Worrying is not an action! In fact, it is action that alleviates concern and dissipates worries. Take more actions when you feel that worry is creeping in to steal your time. It need not be a huge action, any action in the direction you want to go will do.

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain Quotes

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LeCrae Quotes

How often are you worrying about the present moment? The present moment is usually all right. If you're worrying, you're either agonizing over the past which you should have forgotten long ago, or else you're apprehensive over the future which hasn't even come yet. We tend to skip over the present moment which is the only moment God gives any of us to live.

Peace Pilgrim

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Peace Pilgrim Quotes

When dreaded outcomes are actually imminent we don't worry about themwe take action. Seeing lava from the local volcano make its way down the street toward our house does not cause worry it causes running. Also we don't usually choose imminent events as subjects for our worrying and thus emerges an ironic truth: Often the very fact that you are worrying about something means that it isn't likely to happen.

Gavin de Becker

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Gavin de Becker Quotes

It is high time for society to stop worrying about the criminal, and to let the criminal start worrying about society. And by

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Jeff Cooper Quotes

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

Corrie ten Boom

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Corrie ten Boom Quotes

I feel we need to stop worrying about pro-gay movements and start worrying about fundamentalist movements. It's not just about how gay people are treated - it's about how people are treated in general.

Jason Sellards

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Jason Sellards Quotes

All you ought to be worrying about now is order (not about how to impose it on chaos, wish is the opposite of art, but about how to bring it out of chaos, which is art itself). And your worrying about this ought not to be a tortured thing - God knows there's enough torture growing wild in everybody's life so that nobody in his right mind needs to cultivate it - but a serene thing. Don't, in other words, jazz yourself up into a nervous wreck. Be quiet, be as sane as you can, and let the work come out of you. If it's to come, it will; if it's not, no amount of self-induced frenzy is going to hep it along. One final piece of solemn, teacherly advice, and I do mean this: Try to like yourself a little better.

Blake Bailey

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Blake Bailey Quotes

Frankly, I even worried about the fact that I was so worried. Worrying about the strength of my faith-how it stood up to others'-didn't seem to be a healthy sign. I mean, didn't worrying about faith defeat the whole point of faith? Weren't we supposed to just "let go and let God"? I didn't "let go and let God" very well. I worried about that.

Michelle DeRusha

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Michelle DeRusha Quotes

anxiety becomes high energy when taken to the light. For me, it worked like this: I used to live in a constant state of anxiety, worrying about the past and the future. Now I do my best to focus my attention on the present moment. So the mental energy I used to waste on worrying is channeled into the present, making me better able to focus intently and enthusiastically on a task (whether work or play). In a similar way, perfection becomes tenacity, and compulsivity becomes drive. Traits that once brought us down can lift us up when taken to the light.

Jenni Schaefer

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Jenni Schaefer Quotes

You get one chance. You get to do this thing one time and you don't even know when it goes from swirling forward and around and around in circles to just a plain cold stop and nothing more. Can you believe it? All this time I've spent weighing this and weighing that, worrying about this and worrying about that, living back then and living forward, caring about what so-and-so thinks and about so-and-so, too, but never living here, here, this moment here. Never even acknowledging that this moment even exists, and it hits me, like a live volt through the chest. This moment here. This is all you get. Before you are part of the sky

Andrea Portes

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Andrea Portes Quotes

The best antidote to worry is action. If there is an action that will lessen the likelihood of a dreaded outcome occurring, and if that action doesn't cost too much in terms of effort or freedom, then take it. The worry about whether we remembered to close the baby gate at the top of the stairs can be stopped in an instant by checking. Then it isn't a worry anymore; it's just a brief impulse. Almost all of the worry parents feel about keeping their children safe evolves from the conflict between intuition and inaction. Your choices when worrying are clear: take action, have faith, pray, seek comfort, or keep worrying.

Gavin de Becker

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Gavin de Becker Quotes

Stop crying to the ocean, stop crying over me. Stop worrying over nothing, stop worrying over me. So it's been so long since you said, well I know what I want and what I want's right here with you.

Tegan Quin

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Tegan Quin Quotes

Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government.

John Perry Barlow

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John Perry Barlow Quotes

Ain't no sense worrying about the things you got control over 'cause if you got control over 'em, ain't no sense worrying. Ain't no sense worrying about the things you got no control over 'cause if you got no control over 'em, ain't no sense worrying.

Mickey Rivers

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Mickey Rivers Quotes

Brooding is more something I do when I'm working. I know so much more about sitting around worrying about a work project than I do about worrying about kids. This could just be a fact of life for older moms. We've worked and worked and worked and if we are lucky enough to finally have a child or two, we find ourselves suddenly catapulted into a most alien kind of chaos. Work is so much easier. Anyone will tell you that. To have a desk, where you have everything all lined up, and a schedule you more or less get to agree to. Work. I am a worker. This is so funny because I never really think of my work as work. I certainly never though of myself as having a career. Writing, work, this is just who I am. I am a person who sits at a desk and makes phone calls and taps at a computer keyboard and sips coffee and calls her mom at five. That I am anything better or smaller than that has come as sudden news to me. Brand new. News.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

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Jeanne Marie Laskas Quotes

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Trinity Quotes

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Proverb Quotes

If you're praying, you're not worrying, and if you're worrying, you're not praying! -Ruffin McNeill

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Ruffin McNeill Quotes

We're better off not worrying about ourselves, and to do that, we have to worry about others. -V.C. Andrews

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V.C. Andrews Quotes

What's the use of worrying? It never was worthwhile. -George Henry Powell

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George Henry Powell Quotes

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Unknown Author Quotes

Worrying puts the cant's in. Alcohol gets the cant's out. -Michael Boag

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Michael Boag Quotes

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Unknown Author Quotes

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Unknown Author Quotes

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Susan Glaspell Quotes

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Ajahn Brahm Quotes

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Saurbh Katyal Quotes

You are the calmness my worrying heart needs. -Jesse Neo

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Jesse Neo Quotes

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Unknown Author Quotes

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Unknown Author Quotes

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Noma Dumezweni Quotes

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Erin Fall Haskell Quotes

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Barbara Cameron Quotes

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Joe R. Lansdale Quotes

Worrying about what other people say is the least of your problems. -Jesse Neo

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Jesse Neo Quotes

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Robert Orben Quotes

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Unknown Author Quotes

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere. -Glenn Turner

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Glenn Turner Quotes

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Bobby Jones Quotes

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Janis Joplin Quotes

If you keep on worrying, the outcome will never change. Do something. -Jesse Neo

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Jesse Neo Quotes

Be a FRIEND and stop worrying about having any -John Paul Warren

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John Paul Warren Quotes

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Chris Adler Quotes

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John Dewey Quotes

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But I cannot be worrying-worrying all the time about the truth. I have to worry about the truth that can be lived with. And that is the difference between losing your marbles drinking the salty sea, or swallowing the stuff that comes from the streams. My Niece-of-Shame believes in the talking cure, eh?" says Alsana, with something of a grin. "Talk, talk, talk and it will be better. Be honest, slice open your heart and spread the red stuff around. But the past is made of more than words, dearie. We married old men, you see? These bumps" - Alasana pats them both - "they will always have daddy-long-legs for fathers. One leg in the present, one in the past. No talking will change this. Their roots will always be tangled. And roots get dug up. Just look in my garden - birds at the coriander every bloody day...

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