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Quotes about anxiety




Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

– Leo F. Buscaglia


Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

– Dale Carnegie


The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

– Elbert Hubbard


If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn’t ask me, I’d still have to say it.

– George F. Burns


When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.

– Winston Churchill


Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

– Arthur Somers Roche


Worrying works! 90% of the things I worry about never happen.

– Anonymous


When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.

– Joseph Joubert


That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.

– Chinese Proverb


Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere.

– Erma Bombeck


There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.

– Harold Stephen


People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching a cold.

– John Jay Chapman


The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

– Robert Frost


We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

– John Newton


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