6/15/2016
25 Empowering Worry Quotes
25 Empowering Worry Quotes by Henrik Edberg
One of the most common and destructive daily habits that people get caught up in certainly must be the habit of worrying. It has been one of my biggest issues. And I know from my inbox that so many struggle with this. But instead of doing what I usually do and collecting the best habits and tips that have helped me I’d like to do something different today. I’d like to share 25 of the best, most empowering and inspiring quotes from the past few thousands of years about worrying and what to do about it. 1. “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.” – Leo F. Buscaglia 2. “Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.” – Swedish Proverb 3. “If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.” – E. Joseph Cossman 4. ”People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.” http://www.positivityblog.com/index.php/2014/07/16/worryquotes/
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25 Empowering Worry Quotes
– George Bernard Shaw 5. “Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.” – Dale Carnegie 6. “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” – Elbert Hubbard 7. “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 8. “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 9. “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 10. “If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.” – Dean Smith 11. “When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.” – Joseph Joubert 12. “That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.” – Chinese Proverb 13. “Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a deadend street. Thinking opens new avenues.” – Cullen Hightower 14. “Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere” – Erma Bombeck 15. “There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.” – Harold Stephen 16. “People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching a cold.” – John Jay Chapman 17. “Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.” – Nelson DeMille 18. “The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.” http://www.positivityblog.com/index.php/2014/07/16/worryquotes/
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25 Empowering Worry Quotes
– Robert Frost 19. “Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.” – Henry Ward Beecher 20. “We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.” – John Newton 21. “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 22. “I never worry about action, but only about inaction.” – Winston Churchill 23. “Rule number one is, don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it’s all small stuff.” – Robert Eliot 24. “A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.” – John Lubbock 25. “Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.” – Mary Hemingway What is your favorite quote on worrying and how to overcome it? Feel free to share the best one(s) you have found in this article or in your life in the comments section below. Image by TheeErin (license).
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