Worry famous quotes
04-01-2025
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Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power.
-- A. B. Simpson -
Hugs are part of everybody life for me. Hug all sorts of people - I don't worry about it looking unmanly or whatever. I think physical human contact is one of the things that makes living worthwhile.
-- A. J. McLean -
To worry is to acknowledge that the world is unpredictable, and there is power in understanding one's own powerlessness at times. But too often worry takes on life of its own. Men are quite prone to this. They'll plague themselves with so many 'what if's and 'if only's that they soon forget to ponder the true possibilities before them. Which inevitably lead to poor decisions. Whatever happens will happen. Sometimes we have say over the future. Sometimes we don't. Either way, worrying alone never accomplishes anything.
-- A. Lee Martinez -
[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.
-- A.J. Cronin -
Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.
-- Aaron Levie -
Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
It's an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because I worry that it will go away.
-- Aasif Mandvi -
We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
-- Abu Bakar Bashir -
I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.
-- Adam Brody -
There is this weird thing that happens, when you stop worrying so much about what other people think of you...you suddenly start seeing what you think of you.
-- Adam Gidwitz -
Every time we interact with another person at work, we have a choice to make: do we try to claim as much value as we can, or contribute value without worrying about what we receive in return?
-- Adam Grant -
There comes a point in your life when you realize: Who matters, Who never did, Who won't anymore, And who always will. So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.
-- Adam Lindsay Gordon -
Don't worry about people from your past there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.
-- Adam Lindsay Gordon -
My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.
-- Adam Sandler -
I don’t have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like
-- Adele -
Mostly, I avoid worrying since the time spent doing it could be spent more constructively.
-- Adora Svitak -
But the Twins opened the fifth with their second and third hits, and Beltre helped Hernandez by taking his bullet throw for a force at third on a bunt try. I felt it, ... My only worry was that he didn't throw me a sinker. He threw hard, but a good fastball.
-- Adrian Beltre -
Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.
-- Adrian Cronauer -
Maybe a first love exists to reaffirm the best parts of yourself, the choices you made when you didn't worry about the consequences. Maybe a first love exists to remind you to be brave in the moment, to stand up for your feelings, instead of shrinking back in the face of potential loneliness.
-- Adriana Trigiani -
Isn't this the truth of any good mother? That in all of our lives. We worry only about those we brought into this world, regardless of whether they loved us back or treated us fairly or understood our shortcomings.
-- Adriana Trigiani -
I've learned one important lesson in my life, and I'm going to share it with you. Don't worry about bad things that haven't happened yet. It will save you a lot of anxiety.
-- Adriana Trigiani -
Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.
-- Agnes Martin -
Many things happened in my life, and I thought that they changed me. But in the end, nothing has changed since I was seventeen. If I could keep today’s happiness I wouldn’t worry about tomorrow.Â
-- Ai Yazawa -
I can't control how people are going to react. I try not to worry about what I can't control.
-- Aidan Quinn -
Don't worry about everything and really enjoy the moment.
-- Aimee Teegarden -
Life is what's happening while you're worrying.
-- Ajahn Brahm -
Most Americans don't think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.
-- Al Franken -
All humans are dead except those who have knowledge; and all those who have knowledge are asleep, except those who do good deeds; and those who do good deeds are deceived, except those who are sincere; and those who are sincere are always in a state of worry.
-- Al-Shafi‘i -
The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".
-- Alain de Botton -
The thing I'd really like to see is the old London Bridge, with all the old buildings around it like Shakespeare's Globe. I'd like to walk along that. Don't worry, I won't get drunk and fall in.
-- Alan Davies -
He's sharp, he can score and he doesn't worry about missing.
-- Alan Hansen -
Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
-- Alan Kay -
Let's face it: It's difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.
-- Alan King -
Please don't worry. It's a psychological complaint, common amongst ex-librarians. You see, she thinks she's a coffee table edition...
-- Alan Moore -
I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.
-- Alan Rickman -
Of course I was delighted the flight was over, but I still had to worry about cleaning up inside the cabin, I had to worry about the hatch, how to get in the sling, and so on.
-- Alan Shepard -
Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.
-- Alan Watts -
I don't worry about gaining weight. I'm fortunate in that I've never had to worry about that. Some people eat when they are stressed. I don't eat enough.
-- Alana Stewart -
It’s the people who don’t worry—those who never have any doubts that what they’re doing is good and right—they’re the ones that cause the problems.
-- Alastair Reynolds -
You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.
-- Alastair Reynolds -
Don't worry, and don't kick yourself forever. Just take the opportunities when they come.
-- Albert Brooks -
Show me a worrying person and I will show you a person who does not know how to relax.
-- Albert E Cliffe -
Women always worry about things that men forget; men always worry about things women remember.
-- Albert Einstein -
I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve.
-- Albert Einstein -
To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
-- Albert Einstein -
If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us
-- Albert Einstein -
The great majority of the things we now make ourselves panicked about are self-created 'dangers' that exist almost entirely in our own imaginations.
-- Albert Ellis -
In fact most of what we call anxiety is overconcern about what someone thinks of you.
-- Albert Ellis -
Worry itself is one of the most painful conditions.
-- Albert Ellis -
Convince yourself that worrying about many situations will make them worse rather than improve them.
-- Albert Ellis -
A lot of people worry about the ' wear and tear ' on furnishings. I feel it's more a matter of people treating the things that surround them with respect.
-- Albert Hadley -
If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.
-- Aleister Crowley -
The only thing I have to lose going into this fight is anxiety, fear, worry; all those kinds of negativity.
-- Alex Caceres -
Time and happenings and the grace of God are the best solvers of puzzles. One must leave much to these, if he is not to worry himself into premature senility.
-- Alex Dow -
Worry is essentially a misuse of imagination.
-- Alex Faickney Osborn -
Michael Moore didn't have to worry that anyone would misinterpret the title of his film, 'Capitalism: A Love Story,' because in Hollywood, no one loves capitalism. That's too bad, because Hollywood is one of capitalism's greatest successes.
-- Alex Tabarrok -
The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can't reach them to pull them back out. So you can sit next to them and weep or you can get up and move forward. You have to stop worrying about who's not here and start worrying about who is.
-- Alex Witchel -
I never wanted money worries to slow me down or make me take a job I didn't want.
-- Alexander Payne -
If you're worried about safety, you might like to follow my example and put on that seat belt." "The what?" Xavier shook his head in disbelief. "You worry me," he muttered.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
Don't worry, Beth; there's nothing I love more than a challenge.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
If the worst is going to happen, it'll happen. Worrying can't protect you from that. And if it doesn't happen then you've missed out on all the time that when you could have been having fun
-- Alexandra Potter -
Life is to be entered upon with courage.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
How strange and foolish is man. He looses his health in gaining wealth. Then to regain health he wastes his wealth. He ruins is present while worrying about his future - but weeps in the future by recalling his past. He lives as though death shall never come to him - but dies in a way as if he were never born.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
When I'm in the grocery store, I'll do lunges up and down the aisles. In the checkout line, you could do squats. I used to worry about what people thought of me, but I don't care anymore. I know I'm going to get the last laugh.
-- Ali Vincent -
It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains.
-- Alice Hegan Rice -
I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you. So, the best way to get them to read, is to read. The best way to get them to do anything is to do it yourself, and they will absolutely copy you. That way, you don't have to worry about what's supposedly age appropriate, a child will pick something up when the child is ready.
-- Alice Walker -
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
-- Alice Walker -
Everything is already perfect. And if you can accept that everything is already perfect, the imperfection is a part of the perfection. What's to worry about?
-- Alice Walker -
I mean, God, I'm so lucky right now with the opportunities that I've had. There's nothing to worry about
-- Alison Lohman -
Liberals worry that what's best for the individual might not be better for the public at large. But that philosophy assumes something vicious about each and every one of us. It assumes we only care about ourselves.
-- Allen West -
Men worry about childcare with their wallets, women feel it in their wombs.
-- Allison Pearson -
Um…†Simon started slowly “at the risk of stating the obvious I feel I have to point out that Interpol has the worldʼs best database of international criminals.†“Thatʼs the idea †Gabrielle said with a nod. “And I feel compelled to remind you that weʼre international criminals †he finished but Kat was already smiling. “Donʼt worry Simon. Itʼs not like anyone in there knows it was a bunch of teenagers who robbed the Henley.
-- Ally Carter -
Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.
-- Ally Condie -
I did Google him, you know." "Oh, so you GOOGLED him Oh, well, that changes everything then, doesn't it? What could I possibly worry about now that I know you've conducted such a thorough Internet search?
-- Alyson Noel -
I don't clean, I don't make the bed. I spend my salary. I worry a lot. I just don't worry about socks on the floor.
-- Amanda Peet -
I usually cast myself in things because acting is how I best relate to artistic impulses. It's what I've wanted to do since I was a child, so a scene usually plays itself out in my head with me performing it. And if I cast myself that's one less person I have to pay, one less person I have to explain my vision to, one less person I have to worry about.
-- Amber Sealey -
Sometimes I worry more about losing weight than gaining weight, because this is how people know and accept me.
-- America Ferrera -
If I look upon my whole life, I cannot think of another time when I felt more comfortable: when I had no worries, fears, or desires, when my life seemed as soft and lovely as lying inside a cocoon of rose silk.
-- Amy Tan -
Marrying Cal, the scion of a family whose wealth dated to the Industrial Revolution and had multiplied through every turn of the American economy since, ought to have eased her worries about failing to climb as high as she believed she deserved. But the money was his, not theirs. The unspoken power this gave him kept her from asking: Why don't you stay home?
-- Amy Waldman -
My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
-- Anais Nin -
You keep worrying you’re taking up too much space. I wish you’d let yourself be the milky way.
-- Andrea Gibson -
If you've got a gun law that criminals will obey, why not just turn it into a murder law that criminals will obey-then we won't have to worry about the gun part.
-- Andrew Ford -
A great leader cannot worry about being well liked.
-- Andrew Hill -
There is no cause to worry. The high tide of prosperity will continue.
-- Andrew Mellon -
I have so much to grapple with, I don't think too much about me. People call it the "dance of a thousand egos" when you make a movie. If only I had time to worry when I was making a movie about what the hell I was doing. It's sort of a marathon every day. And then at the end of it, you beg the producers for five more marathons.
-- Andrew Niccol -
If you worry about what other people think of you, then you will have more confidence in their opinion than you have in your own.
-- Andy Andrews -
Worry is just imagination used in an unproductive way.
-- Andy Andrews -
Cars will soon have the Internet on the dashboard. I worry that this will distract me from my texting.
-- Andy Borowitz -
Often I'll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there's no work to do on it. When I am filled with worries, I do that and I can feel the energy of the mountains and of the trees.
-- Andy Couturier -
Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.
-- Andy Stanley -
Better to be busy than to be busy worrying.
-- Angela Lansbury -
Don't worry about calling for me. Just pop a cork loudly enough and I'll come running.
-- Anistatia R. Miller -
If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president.
-- Ann Coulter -
At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.
-- Ann Landers
