best quotations about
Anxiety |
and Worry, Stress
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Quotations
 | Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 13 likes |
 | Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 8 likes |
 | Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 7 likes |
| I never worry about action, but only about inaction. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 7 likes |
 | A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 7 likes |
 | Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry. — George Orwell, 1903-1950, British writer 5 likes |
 | You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 5 likes |
 | Solitude is the mother of anxieties. — Publilius Syrus, 1st cent. AD, Roman author of maxims 5 likes |
 | Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. — Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955, American self-help writer 5 likes |
 | The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have. — Søren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855, Danish philosopher 5 likes |
 | The sovereign cure for worry is prayer. — William James, 1842-1910, American philosopher 4 likes |
 | Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 4 likes |
 | Worry is the most significant factor that relates to the root of negative thinking. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 4 likes |
 | Why worry? If you’ve done the very best you can, worrying won’t make it any better. — Walt Disney, 1901-1966, American businessman & cartoonist 4 likes |
 | Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future. — Antoine Rivarol, 1753-1801, French author of maxims 4 likes |
| Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. — Søren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855, Danish philosopher 4 likes |
 | So shaken as we are, so wan with care. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Henry IV 4 likes |
 | Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 3 likes |
 | Worry is a waste of emotional reserve. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 3 likes |
 | The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. — Robert Frost, 1874-1963, American poet 3 likes |
 | Worry is a word that I don't allow myself to use. — Dwight Eisenhower, 1890-1969, American general & President 3 likes |
 | All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 3 likes |
 | Dogs...do not ruin their sleep worrying about how to keep the objects they have, and to obtain the objects they have not. There is nothing of value they have to bequeath except their love and their faith. — Eugene O’Neill, 1888-1953, American playwright, Nobel 1936 3 likes |
 | The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress. — Confucius, 551-479 BC, Chinese teacher & philosopher 2 likes |
| As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 2 likes |
| That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness? — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Much Ado About Nothing 2 likes |
 | Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. — George Washington, 1732-1799, the first American President 2 likes |
| Worry is interest paid before it's due. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 2 likes |
 | This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 2 likes |
 | A light Purse makes a heavy Heart. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 2 likes |
 | The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned, generally has a soul that isn’t worth a damn. |
 | There's no greater absurdity than taking everything seriously. |
 | Next to worry probably one of the most potent causes of unhappiness is envy. |
 | Without economic concerns the fool dies from boredom. |
| The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it. |
 | When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused. |
 | We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment. |
 | Love is always being worried about the other. |
 | Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools! — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
 | All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. — John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006, American-Canadian economist |
 | You are what you eat, but eventually you become what eats you. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
| Please don't tell me there's no need to worry, it's the only thing I'm any good at. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
| Please don't tell me to relax, it's only my tension that's holding me together. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
| An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, “Things that never happened.” |
 | Don't worry! Something always goes wrong. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist |
 | The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries. |
Ancient Greek
 | Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things. Ταράττει τους ανθρώπους ου τα πράγματα, αλλά τα περί των πραγμάτων δόγματα. — Epictetus, 50-120 AD, Ancient Greek Stoic philosopher 8 likes |
 | Don’t be sorry about every little thing. Μη επί παντί λυπού. — Periander of Corinth, 668-584 BC, tyrant of Corinth 8 likes |
 | The night likes to cause pain to the wise ruler. Φιλεί ωδίνας τίκτειν νυξ κυβερνήτη σοφώ. — Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Libation bearers 5 likes |
Proverbs
 | No news is good news. 5 likes |
 | Small children don’t let you sleep; big children don’t let you rest. 3 likes |
