Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.
—Mignon McLaughlin (1913–83) American Journalist, Author
We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse. Harmful are these, and evil.
—Baruch Spinoza (1632–77) Dutch Philosopher, Theologian
Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety.
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–81) British Head of State
Worry doesn’t help tomorrow’s troubles, but it does ruin today’s happiness.
—Unknown
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
—Muriel Strode (1875–1964) American Author, Businesswoman
You’re neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you. You’re right because your facts are right and your reasoning is right—and that’s the only thing that makes you right. And if your facts and reasoning are right, you don’t have to worry about anybody else.
—Warren Buffett (b.1930) American Investor
When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.
—Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French Writer, Moralist
The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.
—James Truslow Adams (1878–1949) American Historian, Writer
The man of wisdom is never in two minds about right and wrong; the man of benevolence never worries about the future; the man of courage is never afraid.
—Confucius (551–479 BCE) Chinese Philosopher
God gave burdens, also shoulders.
—Yiddish Proverb
Worry is the darkroom in which negatives are developed
—Indian Proverb
They need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won’t be at peace unless they can latch on to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end.
—Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American Novelist, Poet
Worry: a sustained form of fear caused by indecision.
—Unknown
A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.
—Suze Orman (b.1951) American Financial Advisor, Speaker
Stop worrying—nobody gets out of this world alive.
—Clive James (1939–2019) Australian Writer, Broadcaster, TV Critic
The work of worrying—when it succeeds—is to rehearse what those dangers are, and reflect on ways to deal with them. But worry doesn’t work all that well. New solutions and fresh ways of seeing a problem do not typically come from worrying, especially chronic worry. Instead of coming up with solutions to these potential problems, worriers typically ruminate on the danger itself, immersing themselves in a low-key way in the dread associated with it while staying in the same rut of thought. Chronic worriers worry about a wide range of things, most of which have almost no chance of happening; they read dangers into life’s journey that others never notice.
—Daniel Goleman (b.1946) American Psychologist, Author, Science Journalist
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
—Paul Valery (1871–1945) French Critic, Poet
If you worry you die, if you don’t worry you die, so why worry?
—Indian Proverb
I ain’t the ulcer type, but I’m always worrying about something.
—Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American Sportsperson
A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.
—George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh Anglican Poet, Orator, Clergyman
Don’t worry about the intensity and direction of the putt—until you get on the green!
—Unknown
What were you worried about this time last year? Can’t remember
—Indian Proverb
It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when to-morrow’s burden is added to the burden of to-day that the weight is more than a man can bear.
—George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish Novelist, Lecturer, Poet
Worry never climbed a hill, worry never paid a bill,
Worry never dried a tear, worry never calmed a fear,
Worry never darned a heal, worry never cooked a meal,
It never led a horse to water, nor ever did a thing it “oughter.”
—Unknown
Some people bear three kinds of trouble—all they ever had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.
—Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909) American Unitarian Clergyman, Writer
Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsman to grim and comfortless despair; and at their heels, a huge infectious troop of pale distemperatures and foes to life.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
—Robert A. Heinlein (1907–88) American Science Fiction Writer
None knows the weight of another’s burden.
—George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh Anglican Poet, Orator, Clergyman
By saying not to worry he says something worrisome.
—Unknown
That’s the secret to life … replace one worry with another.
—Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000) American Cartoonist, Writer, Artist
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