These worried quotes will inspire you. Worried is mentally troubled or concerned or anxious or troubled about actual or potential problems.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging worried quotes, worried sayings, and worried proverbs.
Best Worried Quotes
- “There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.” ~ Harold Stephens
- “It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.” ~ Robert Frost
- “How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” ~ Epictetus
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“Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.” ~ Ann Brashares
- “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.” ~ Leo Buscaglia
- “Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.” ~ Charles M. Schulz
- “It seems everyone’s so worried about getting hurt that they forget about letting love happen.” ~ Carlos Salinas
- “Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
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“Bottom line: the ‘no upward trend’ has to continue for a total of 15 years before we get worried.” ~ Phil Jones
- “Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.” ~ Glenn Turner
- “As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “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
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“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
- “If you’re worried about giving your secrets away, you can share your dots without connecting them.” ~ Austin Kleon
- “When I’m worried and I can’t sleep,
I count my blessings instead of sheep.
And I fall asleep …
counting my blessings.” ~ Bing Crosby - “I’ve never worried about anything in my life a fraction of the way I worry about my daughter. It’s much more than hoping people like the play you’re in, or that your outfit doesn’t look bad. It’s the real deal.” ~ Michael Shannon
- “Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” ~ Dale Carnegie
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“When I’m worried and I can’t sleep I count my blessings instead of sheep.” ~ Irving Berlin
- “If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.” ~ Dale Carnegie
- “If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.” ~ William James , Worried quotes about future
- “Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.” ~ Ovid
- “How can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried so much that he decided to hire someone to do his worrying for him. He found a man who agreed to be his hired worrier for a salary of $200,000 per year. After the man accepted the job, his first question to his boss was, “Where are you going to get $200,000 per year?” To which the man responded, “That’s your worry.” ~ Max Lucado
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“Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.” ~ Noam Chomsky
- “Of course, I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.” ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- “I never worry about action, but only inaction.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I’m the only person who can’t understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they’re not that great. These are questions everyone has.” ~ Chris Martin
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“I am worried that the next generation will not be able to have a real conversation.” ~ Ruth Westheimer
- “Surely it is time for Jews, worried over the huge growth of Arabs in Israel, to consider finishing the exchange of populations that began 35 years ago.” ~ Meir Kahane
- “If Edison was worried about his candle customers, he would have never invented the light bulb.” ~ Nathan Fielder
- “I was too worried about the grades and I should have been more worried about learning.” ~ Michelle Obama
- “Peace means no one is worried about anyone else’s cookie…in this moment we are all quietly content with the cookies we have.” ~ Amy Krouse Rosenthal
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“Uhh Gosh, I.. don’t think I ever said I’m not worried about Osama bin Laden. It’s kind of one of those, uhh, exaggerations.” ~ George W. Bush
- “I was worried on a personal level because I wanted to be slightly taller than I am, ideally. But I’ve now accepted it. Basically, I came to the conclusion a while ago that you can either be really bitter about it or you can make loads of funny jokes.” ~ Daniel Radcliffe
- “I don’t go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.” ~ Pete Rose
- “I’ve never worried about age.” ~ Jeanne Moreau
- “If you’re worried about caribou, take a look at the arguments that were used about the pipeline. They’d say the caribou would be extinct. You’ve got to shake them away with a stick. They’re all making love lying up against the pipeline and you got thousands of caribou up there.” ~ George H. W. Bush
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“I am leading a war against the British Empire. I’m not worried about what Democratic Party hacks say or do.” ~ Kesha
- “I was worried in the ’80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.” ~ Frank Stella
- “I went to visit my father to tell him that I was going to go to college and become an architect – that was my dream. I was like, yeah I graduated from school, but it’s not like you showed up for that. But all he was worried about is whether or not I wanted money from him.” ~ Jake Roberts
- “We’re in a little funk. I don’t think anybody’s worried about our lead.” ~ Mark Buehrle
- “I’m not worried. I’m in control.” ~ Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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“But I’m not worried about seeking out the approval of others – that high school thing of joining the club.” ~ Stephan Jenkins
- “But people that are worried about unborn babies are the same ones that vote against kindergarten programs in Indiana or school lunch funds out of the federal government.” ~ Birch Bayh
- “I was stuck in traffic one day and just kinda thought it would be funny to masturbate. It was sunny and clear out, so I was worried one of the other drivers would see me, but my jeep is pretty high off the ground, so I think no one noticed. I busted a nut and aimed it down, ruining my tweety bird floor mat. I felt kinda stupid after and my mom kept silent the rest of the drive home. It was awkward and I regret it.” ~ Zach Braff
- “I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.” ~ Bobby Knight
- “If you’re studying for an exam you’re not thinking about the results. If you’re always worried about the results, you can’t study a lot. So to be engaged and detached from the outcome is excellent. Excellence is behavior. I mean, isn’t that what martial arts is about? And that’s what meditation is about, that’s what, in many ways, sports are about.” ~ Deepak Chopra
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“I’m a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I’d just get worried.” ~ Tom T. Hall
- “My wife actually got worried about my drinking so much regular milk, you know, so she got me into rice milk and now soy milk, which I greatly enjoy. A soy mocha’s a fine thing.” ~ Willie Nelson
- “The first game was different but tonight we were just worried about getting ourselves back on track. It’s another loss. We’ve got to keep going, keep trying to get out of this and win on Saturday.” ~ Dany Heatley
- “Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.” ~ Tacitus
- “You cannot drop the ego. Once you start trying to drop the ego you will get in a very deep mess; you will become more and more worried and puzzled. And this is not the way to get rid of the ego. The only way to get rid of the ego is to look at it.” ~ Rajneesh
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“I’m not worried about the weekend, I’m worried about Saturday.” ~ Pete Sampras
- “He decided then that he would love her forever no matter what came to pass. It was not so much a matter of deciding as accepting the inevitability of it. It made him feel better, though he felt perturbed, too, worried that this kiss was wrong. But from his point of view, at fourteen years old, their love was entirely unavoidable. It had started on the day they’d clung to his glass box and kissed in the sea, and now it must go on forever. He felt certain of this.” ~ David Guterson , Worried quotes for love
- “When I’m reading material, if I’m a little bit afraid of a part and I’m willing to admit that to myself, then I’ll do it, definitely. If I’m worried about being able to do it, to get it -I absolutely just love it.” ~ Jack Lemmon
- “If you take most men aside when their wives are pregnant, most men are pretty frightened and worried and faintly disgusted by the whole experience.” ~ Steven Moffat
- “Don’t worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.” ~ Mary Schmich
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“I’m not afraid of total failure. In the end, we’re all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?” ~ Marisha Pessl
- “Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just clueless. Now that I’m a mom, I see what the fuss was all about!” ~ Martha Quinn
- “Nothing changed in my life since I work all the time,” Pamuk said then. “I’ve spent 30 years writing fiction. For the first 10 years I worried about money and no one asked me how much money I made. The second decade I spent money and no one was asking me about that. And I’ve spent the last 10 years with everyone expecting to hear how I spend the money, which I will not do.” ~ Orhan Pamuk
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“We should be worried about online silos. They make us stupid and hostile toward each other.” ~ Larry Sanger
- “Everything I ever worried about turned out exactly as it was going to, despite my anxious moments to the contrary.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “It’s been really slow obviously, but I’m not worried about that. I feel like from where I was a couple months ago, things are a lot better. Just being able to skate and stuff was encouraging. Hopefully, the next step doesn’t have any hurdles.” ~ Sidney Crosby
