201 quotes found
“Turn resolutely to work to recreation or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep and when you wake up you won't want to worry.”
“Worry is most apt to ride you ragged not when you are in action but when the day's work is done. Your imagination can run riot then ... your mind is like a motor operating without its load.”
“"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.”
“A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.”
“A problem not worth praying about is not worth worrying about.”
“We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse. Harmful are these and evil.”
“If there were rankings for press conferences, I wouldn't have to worry about dropping out of the top five, I hope.”
“There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.”
“Don't settle; don't compromise. Freeze your eggs, get your sociology doctorate, worry more about war and pestilence and the incredible inequality of geographical birth than finding your soulmate.”
“Life is in Fate's hands now. You made your choice to stay... it's too late to change that, so stop agonizing over it.... You're making my scales itch.Saphira, from "Eragon”
“If I was a worrier I'd worry, but not being a worrier I'm just sort of confused and pissed off.”
“Worry’s magnetic attraction can only be broken by a stronger attraction, and David is saying [in Psalm 27] we can only find that attraction in God Himself.”
“What if she told him how she felt, and he didn’t feel the same? She could lose him forever.”
“This is the story of my life: standing on the edges of things and worrying, when I'm supposed to just walk through them.”
“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 reali...”
“Well, maybe I just want to know the future so I can prepare myself for what's coming. If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise, said the seer. If bad things are, and you know in ...”
“Chances are that whatever that you are worried about—be it a person or a thing—isn’t worried about you.”
“I felt the worry start to snatch at my breath when I finished talking.”
“Worry affects the circulation the heart the glands the whole nervous system and profoundly affects the health. You have never known a man who died from overwork but many who died from doubt.”
“Worry is a god invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse it takes away the appetite and turns the hair gray.”
