Quotes on Worry

Worry is a misuse of imagination.  ~Dan Zadra


If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.  ~Don Herold


Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.  ~Mark Twain


Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.  ~Author Unknown


Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which will never happen.  ~James Russel Lowell


If things go wrong, don't go with them.  ~Roger Babson


Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.  ~Leo Buscaglia


Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen.  Keep in the sunlight.  ~Benjamin Franklin


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


I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time.  ~Charlie Brown (Charles Schulz)


Troubles are a lot like people - they grow bigger if you nurse them.  ~Author Unknown


If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.  ~E. Joseph Cossman


Nerves and butterflies are fine - they're a physical sign that you're mentally ready and eager.  You have to get the butterflies to fly in formation, that's the trick.  ~Steve Bull


I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance.  Then, whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal - and soon they'll forget my number.  ~Edith Armstrong


Nerves provide me with energy.  They work for me.  It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that I get worried.  ~Mike Nichols


I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.  ~Wendell Berry, "The Peace of Wild Things"


People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross.  ~Author Unknown


You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.  ~Pat Schroeder


The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.  ~Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book, 1927


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


People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.  ~George Bernard Shaw, "Family Affection," Parents and Children, 1914


Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.  ~Christian Nevell Bovee


Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.  ~Nelson DeMille


For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.  ~Author Unknown


We experience moments absolutely free from worry.  These brief respites are called panic.  ~Cullen Hightower


If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.  ~Dean Smith


It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.  ~Lucy Maud Montgomery


A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.  ~George Herbert


As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.  ~Thomas A. Edison


Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.  ~Swedish Proverb


Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time.  Some people bear three - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.  ~Edward Everett Hale