Worry Quotes

When you're betting for tiles in an archery contest, you shoot with skill. When you're betting for fancy belt buckles, you worry about your aim. And when you're betting for real gold, you're a nervous wreck. Your skill is the same in all three cases - but because one prize means more to you than another, you let outside considerations weigh on your mind. He who looks too hard at the outside gets clumsy on the inside.

~ Zhuangzi

When you wake up to kingdom realities, you find that you are tracing the steps of both the Israelites and Jesus himself into the wilderness. . . . The wilderness is the place where God meets his people, Satan attacks, and kingdom allegiances are revealed. [Ed Welch, Running Scared, 118]

~ Edward T. Welch

I admit that at times my prayer for my children is nothing more than vocalized unbelief aimed at God.

~ Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

I struggled with insecurity because I was trying to find my security in things. But when I began serving God with all my heart, my security was in Him.

~ Jeremy Camp

The contrast between earthly and spiritual is not a contrast between the tangible and the intangible; it is between the transitory and the eternal. Earthly is temporary, spiritual is everlasting. [Ed Welch, Running Scared, 127]

~ Edward T. Welch

In cities where peace and the arts flourish, men are more consumed by jealousy, worry, and anxiety than they are in cities under the blight of a besieging army. Private sorrows are more bitter than public suffering.

~ Voltaire

We were made to be distracted by life, by story.

~ Donald Miller

Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in truth, they are what cause anxiety.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If a transaction in progress appeared threatened with failure, if a shipment of goods seemed to have gone astray, or if a debtor appeared unable to repay his debt, Kamaswami was never able to persuade Siddhartha that it was useful to speak words of worry or of anger, to have a wrinkled brow, or to sleep poorly.

~ Hermann Hesse

Out of the abundance of the imagination rises the beast called worry and it is soon joined by its partners, anxiety and stress. If you would care to do away with all three at once, simply change your imagination.

~ G.v. Richards

It's hard to not worry, because trying not to worry reminds me that I should be worried

~ Matthew Green

She had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly.

~ Thomas Hardy

Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due.

~ Ian Fleming

Belief and confusion are not mutually exclusive; I believe that belief gives you the direction in the confusion. But you don't see the full picture. That's the point. That's what faith is. You can't see it. It comes back to instinct. Faith is just up the street. Faith and instinct, you can't just rely on them. You have to beat them up. You have to pummel them to make sure they can withstand it, to make sure they can be trusted.

~ Bono

Worry is worthless. It can't change the past or control the future. It only spoils the moment.

~ Darrin Patrick

We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.

~ Jeff Bezos

Jesus paid a high price for your peace. Don't give it away.

~ David Mcgee

Greater is Your care for me than all the care I am able to take from myself.

~ Thomas À Kempis

Petunia only ever went to the doctor reluctantly, and her motive in doing so was always the same: she did it in order to feel less anxious about things. The doctor was supposed to make the worry go away; she did quite enough worrying without actually having something to worry about. When she came out feeling no less anxious, as this time, something had gone wrong. The basic contract had been broken.

~ John Lanchester

We imagine that a little anxiety and worry is an indication of how wise we really are, it may be an indication of how wicked we really are.

~ Oswald Chambers

Let your cares drive you to God. I shall not mind if you have many of them if each one leads you to prayer. If every fret makes you lean more on the Beloved, it will be a benefit.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The apprehension of this blessed truth (God's faithfulness) will check our murmurings. The Lord knows what is best for each of us, and one effect or resting on this truth will be the silencing of our petulant complainings. God is greatly honored when, under trial and chastening, we have good thoughts of Him, vindicate His wisdom and justice, and recognize His love in His very rebukes.

~ Arthur W. Pink

Do not worry about correcting your mistakes , time will bury them ; Worry about not repeating them.

~ Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela

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~ Charles F. Glassman

Worry and regret are both useless weights that provide no drag. They never did anything to slow down the planet for one goddamned second.

~ Andrew Smith

And do you not think less of me for making my fortune insuch a way?” After all, her own sister did.He gave her an odd look. “There is no shame in being themistress of a king. It’s a position of great power and influence. I think less of Louis for letting you go.

~ Jenna Maclaine

The only people I am aware of who don’t have troubles are gathered in peaceful, little neighborhoods. There is never a care, never a moment of stress and never an obstacle to ruin a day. All is calm. All is serene. Most towns have at least one such worry-free zone. We call them cemeteries.

~ Steve Goodier

To me, comedy is a great occupation because I don't really worry that much about what other people think of me.

~ Joe Rogan

If you know that you are born of Christ, you don’t need to worry, you are already guaranteed the victory

~ Sunday Adelaja

It is better to pray about everything than worry about nothing.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

She must love me, to worry about me. She must still be capable of love.

~ Veronica Roth

The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love, the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.

~ John Lanchester

On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last day of a college you will wonder what will you do outside the college?

~ Amit Kalantri

I can see where this is going, too. Of course, I can, because I am Alex as well. But I want to dress up in gorgeous clothes and strut up and down the runway like they do in the magazines, swishing my tail. I want to dress up with Amina and Julia and giggle and be girlfriends, arm in arm. I want to be beautiful. I want other people to think I am beautiful.

~ Alyssa Brugman

Sonia lives her life fully. If she dies tomorrow, she'll die happy. If she lives the way you want her to live, she'll die miserable. So leave her alone, okay?

~ Sonia Sotomayor

Stop worrying about missed opportunities and start looking for new ones.

~ I.m. Pei

And if it doesn't go like that?– Then all your problems will be over and you won't have a thing to worry.

~ Jack Higgins

There was a form of contentment in doing what she could and not worrying about the rest.

~ Lena Goldfinch

To solve your problems, stop worrying.

~ Debasish Mridha