Top 40 Worry Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.”

— Janis Joplin

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2. “Don’t use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe.”

— Joel Osteen

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3. “Things take the time they take. Don’t worry.”

— Mary Oliver

4. “Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.”

— Khalil Gibran

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5. “Start small, think big. Don’t worry about too many things at once. Take a handful of simple things to begin with, and then progress to more complex ones. Think about not just tomorrow, but the future. Put a ding in the universe.”

— Steve Jobs

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6. “Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”

— Corrie ten Boom

7. “Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have.”

— Joyce Meyer

8. “Pray, Hope, and Don’t Worry.”

— Pio of Pietrelcina

9. “Some people worry. Others prepare.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

10. “Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?”

— Rumi

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11. “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.”

— Anaïs Nin

12. “No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future.”

— Umar

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13. “Don’t worry, don’t be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride.”

— Bill Hicks

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14. “Worry is a waste of imagination.”

— Walt Disney

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15. “Stop worrying and start living.”

— Dale Carnegie

16. “The heart will rest and feel relief if it is settled with Allah. And it will worry and feel anxious if it is settled with the people.”

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

17. “Once a decision is made, you should stop worrying and start working. It’s not always what we know that makes it a good decision. It is what we do to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision.”

— John C. Maxwell

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18. “Do a good job. You don’t have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just do your best work then try to trump it.”

— Walt Disney

19. “Worry and reasoning are two of Satan’s most successful tools. He’ll get us started with one negative thought and then sit back and watch us finish ourselves off.”

— Joyce Meyer

20. “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”

— Drew Houston

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21. “Whatever life may send your way – make the best of it. Don’t waste your time and energy worrying about it. Instead, find a way to do something about it. Learn from it, adjust to it, be strong, be flexible and be your best in every situation.”

— Les Brown

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22. “Faith is having a positive attitude about what you can do and not worrying at all about what you can’t do.”

— Joyce Meyer

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23. “I have lost my smile, but don’t worry. The dandelion has it.”

— Nhat Hanh

24. “No one knows enough to worry.”

— Terence McKenna

25. “Quit worrying about people that are trying to hold you back. God knows how to move the wrong people out of your life and bring the right people in. He knows how to prepare you to Break Out.”

— Joel Osteen

26. “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

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27. “Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.”

— Corrie ten Boom

28. “Be bold and don’t worry about what people think. They don’t do it that often anyway.”

— Tim Ferriss

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29. “Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.”

— Plato

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30. “A warrior never worries about his fear.”

— Carlos Castaneda

31. “Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.”

— Ernest Hemingway

32. “Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.”

— Johnny Cash

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33. “God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget. Why should I worry?”

— Oswald Chambers

34. “I don’t worry about my opponent or their game, I worry about my game.”

— Conor McGregor

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35. “Please, don’t worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.”

— Robin Williams

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36. “I try to keep it real. I don’t have time to worry about what I’m projecting to the world. I’m just busy being myself.”

— Demi Lovato

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37. “And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.”

— Roald Dahl

38. “The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.”

— Stephen King

39. “You never worry about the last laugh if you’ve been laughing the whole time.”

— Drake

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40. “Riches and honor are what everyone desires, but if they can be gained only by doing evil, they must not be held. Don’t worry about not being in office, worry about qualifying yourself for office. Don’t worry that no one knows you, but seek to be worthy of being known.”

— Confucius

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