Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries. — Yunus Emre
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. — Swedish Proverbs
Worry is nothing but practical infidelity. The person who worries reveals his lack of trust in God and that he is trusting too much in self. — Lee Roberson
Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead. — Corrie Ten Boom
Worry is a direct consequence of relying on your own efforts. — Yasmin Mogahed
Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear. — Corrie Ten Boom
Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown. — Rebecca Solnit
Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. — Bashar al-Assad
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due. — William Ralph Inge
Short Worry And Fear Quotes
Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil. — E. Stanley Jones
Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness. — Arnold Bennett
Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear. — Ovid
Worrying is praying for what you don't want. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. — George Washington
Worry and worship cannot exist in the same space. One always displaces the other. Choose worship. — Louie Giglio
Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Worrying is betting against yourself. — Terence McKenna
Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe. — Mark Twain
If you can believe, worry and anxiety will vanish — T. B. Joshua
Worry And Fear Image Quotes
No man is free who cannot control himself. — Pythagoras
Be not afraid of going slowly, Be afraid of standing still.
What Is Fear Quotes
you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right. — Rosa Parks
If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear the police, and he fears neither judge nor jury. Therefore what he must be taught to fear is his victim. — Jeff Cooper
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. — Pope John XXIII
Fear has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.
Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented - which is what fear and anxiety do to a person - into something whole. — Louise Bourgeois
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. — Tim Ferriss
The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there? — Jack Kornfield
The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.
The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. While lost in such cravings or aversions, we are unaware of what is happening now, what we are doing now. — S. N. Goenka
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. — Rosa Parks
What you believe is very powerful. If you have toxic emotions of fear, guilt and depression, it is because you have wrong thinking, and you have wrong thinking because of wrong believing. — Joseph Prince
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
If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good. — Shantideva
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire. — Dale Carnegie
I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.
God takes pleasure to see you take your little steps; and like a good father who holds his child by the hand, He will accommodate His steps to yours and will be content to go no faster than you. Why do you worry? — Saint Francis de Sales
Now that all your worry has proved such an unlucrative business. Why not find a better job. — Hafez
All life is temporary
Why worry about anything that's only temporary — Buddha
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. — Robert Frost
Why are you worrying about YOU-KNOW-WHO, when you should be worrying about YOU-NO-POO? The constipation sensation that's gripping the nation! — J. K. Rowling
If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn't rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead. — Timothy Keller
When I was 8 years old, I became depressed. I kept asking why I was born this way [without arms and legs]. I also worried about my future. At the age of 10, I tried to commit suicide because I felt like giving up. But when I imagined my loving parents crying at my grave, I decided to stay. — Nick Vujicic
Anxiety And Worry Quotes
Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself. — Usain Bolt
Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it. — Kahlil Gibran
If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories. — Scott Hahn
Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.
Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go. — Mooji
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
I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. — Dorothea Dix
Every minute spent worrying about "The way thing were" is a moment stolen from creating the way things can be.
By the anxieties and worries of this life Satan tries to dull man's heart and make a dwelling for himself there. — Francis of Assisi
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man. — Pat Paulsen
The day you stop worrying will be the first day of your new life; anxiety takes you in circles, trust in yourself and become free. — Leon Brown
Anxiety And Fear Quotes
I have never known more than fifteen minutes of anxiety or fear. Whenever I feel fearful emotions overtaking me, I just close my eyes and thank God that He is still on the throne reigning over everything and I take comfort in His control over the affairs of my life. — John Wesley
I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art. I followed the thread of art and somehow discovered a path that would allow me to live. — Yayoi Kusama
Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.
Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions. — Paul Ryan
There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way to these he can be called patient. — Ieyasu Tokugawa
Never fear, inevitably we shall have our years of failure, and when they arrive, we must reveal tolerance and sanity. No matter the days of anxiety that come our way, we shall emerge stronger because of the trials to be overcome. — Bill Struth
Fear is what stops you. Courage is what keeps you going.
Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are. — Alain de Botton
Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will. — Napoleon Hill
Suffering through your fears and anxieties is what allows you to build courage and perseverance. — Mark Manson
Our brains replay every painful memory from the past and every possible scary scenario from the future over and over, just like a complex computer simulation, in an attempt to scare us away from threats before they can happen and regardless of the probability of their happening at all. — Mo Gawdat
Stress And Worry Quotes
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds — Paul the Apostle
Stress and worry is a residual of relying on yourself and being your own god, in control of everything. Worship allows us to rely on God's power to steer us through life. — T. D. Jakes
Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.
Make the decision and say, "I'm not letting that worry in. I'm done being upset when my plans don't work out. I'm not letting that stress in." Negative thoughts will still come to your mind, but you don't have to let them into your spirit. — Joel Osteen
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 Burns
WORRYING does not take away tomorrow's TROUBLES, it takes away today's PEACE. — Zig Ziglar
I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about. — A.L. Williams
I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear - the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about. — Arthur L. Williams, Jr.
Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what. — Andy Warhol
I love a loose-fitting skirt with a cinched waist. A feminine silhouette is a no-stress zone - it's comfortable and I don't have to worry about wardrobe malfunctions! — Eva Mendes
Overcoming Worry Quotes
If you don't like your situation in life, don't fret or worry--do something about it. Worry less, and act more. — Zig Ziglar
Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. — Mitch Albom
All things happen in their proper time. Everything in life happens in the time allocated for it. Don't waste energy worrying about end results. Worrying only distracts you from living day to day and enjoying life! — James Van Praagh
No storm can last forever. It will never rain 365 days consecutively. Keep in mind that trouble comes to pass, not to stay. Don't worry! No storm, not even the one in your life, can last forever. — Iyanla Vanzant
There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem. — Harold Stephens
A Christian's freedom from anxiety is not due to some guaranteed freedom from trouble, but to the folly of worry and especially to the confidence that God is our Father, that even permitted suffering is within the orbit of His care. — John Stott
Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. — Theodore Newton Vail
You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time. — Patricia Schroeder
One of the biggest obstacles I've overcome in my life was thinking I didn't deserve to be successful. Artistically I'm not as much of a heavyweight as someone like Paul Simon or Joni Mitchell, because I'm not a creator of original music, and I worried about that for years. — Bonnie Raitt
Overcoming fear and worry can be accomplished by living a day at a time or even a moment at a time. Your worries will be cut down to. — Robert Anthony
Believer's should never deal with doubts and fears because they are the devil's narcotics. — Kenneth E. Hagin
Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped. — Charles Stanley
Everything which you can conceive and accept is yours! Entertain no doubt. Refuse to accept worry or hurry or fear. That which knows and does everything is inside you and harkens to the slightest whisper. — Uell Stanley Andersen
Fear shows up on its own. Doubt has to be invited. Fear heightens your awareness; it makes you alert. Doubt is the opposite; it slows you down and paralyzes your thinking. — Tim Grover
When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time. — Orison Swett Marden
Action can cure fear and hesitation and doubt. — Lewis Howes
Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly. — Kiran Desai
Fear And Panic Quotes
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. — Graham Greene
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation. — Vannevar Bush
In a climate of uncertainty and fear, without strong and visionary leadership, people panic. — Patrick Dodson
Fear is an aid to the warrior. It is a small fire burning. It heats the muscles, making us stronger. Panic comes when the fire is out of control, consuming all courage and pride. — David Gemmell
Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me. — Bryan White
Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me. — Ryan White
...the most serious thing, and the strangest, is that we are afraid to the point of panic, not so much of seeing ourselves as of being seen by ourselves. This is our root absurdity. What is behind this great fear? — Rene Daumal
People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance. — Otto Dix
Needless fear and panic over disease and misfortune that seldom materialize are simply bad habits. By proper ventilation and illumination of the mind it is possible to cultivate tolerance, poise and real courage. — Elie Metchnikoff
Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation—without the pestilence of panic or fear. — Ryan Holiday
Fear And Faith Quotes
Go forth in peace, for you have followed the good road. Go forth without fear, for he who created you has made you holy, has always protected you, and loves you as a mother. Blessed be you, my God, for having created me. — Clare of Assisi
Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God. — Charles Stanley
Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace. — Teresa of Avila
Peace comes from the absence of fear, from a consciousness of trust, from a deep, underlying faith in the absolute goodness and mercy, the final integrity of the universe in which we live, and of every cause to which we give our thought, our time and our attention. — Ernest Holmes
Faith doesn’t mean an absence of fear. It means facing fear and trusting that God’s goodness is greater. — Matt Chandler
Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind. — Charles Capps
Fear and faith have something in common. They both ask us to believe in something we cannot see. — Joel Osteen
In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place. — Susan L. Taylor
Fear is a negative thought in your mind. Supplant it with a constructive thought. Fear has killed millions. Confidence is greater than fear. Nothing is more powerful than faith in God and the good. — Joseph Murphy
There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith. — Emma Watson
I am not dealing with footballers, I am dealing with people. They have fears and worry about failing and making fools of themselves in front of 80,000 people. I have to make them see that without each other they are nothing. — Pep Guardiola
Whatever you desire for yourself, affirm it for others, and it will help you both. We reap what we sow. If we send out thoughts of love and health, they return to us like bread cast upon the waters; but if we send out thoughts of fear, worry, jealousy, anger, hate, etc., we will reap the results in our own lives. — Charles F. Haanel
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
You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear. It is impossible for an anxious person, a worried one, or a fearful one to perceive truth; all things are distorted and thrown out of their proper relations by such mental states, and those who are in them cannot read the thoughts of God. — Wallace D. Wattles
Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream. — Lao Tzu
To give so much time to the improvement of yourself
That you have no time to criticise others,
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,
And too happy to permit the presence of trouble. — Christian D. Larson
When we are fearful and worried all the time, we are living as if we don't believe that we have a strong and able Shepherd who is tenderhearted toward us, who only leads us to good places, who protects us and lovingly watches over us. — Joseph Prince
No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. — George Macdonald
Although we all have at least the potential to make more money in the future, we can never go back and recapture time that is now gone. So it makes no sense to let opportunities pass us by for fear of squandering our money. Squandering our lives should be a much greater worry. — Bill Perkins
Call upon Angels to polish the jewels inside your thoughts and feelings, for within every fear or worry is a shining energy of love. Today be aware of your amazing power of manifestation. Know that in everything you think and feel, the entire universe is fully supporting you. — Doreen Virtue
Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same. — Haruki Murakami
They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pitying, all of which are indications of weakness, which lead, just as surely as deliberately planned sins (though by a different route), to failure, unhappiness, and loss, for weakness cannot persist in a power evolving universe. — James Allen
I know that stocks represent fractional ownership in businesses and that, over time, the stock market will reflect their true intrinsic values. And crises bring worries and fears that make many investors forget that simple fact. — Francois Rochon
Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon. — Malcolm Lowry
You belong in the most secret part of you. Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world. If you fear, make it work for you—draw and paint your fear and anxiety. — Sol LeWitt
Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don't let these feelings stop them. — T. Harv Eker
We all have at least the potential to make more money in the future, we can never go back and recapture time that is now gone. So it makes no sense to let opportunities pass us by for fear of squandering our money. Squandering our lives should be a much greater worry. — Bill Perkins
Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Difficulties must be studied and dealt with, but they must not be magnfiied by fear — Norman Vincent Peale
Release from fear, worry, and doubt leaves us free to function normally, healthfully, and confidently. — Joel S. Goldsmith
If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear? — Confucius
We need to practice acting in spite of fear, in spite of doubt, in spite of worry, in spite of uncertainty, in spite of inconvenience, in spite of discomfort, and even to practice acting when we're not in the mood to act. — T. Harv Eker
Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream. — Lao Tzu
This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself.
When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself.
The practice is always to go back to oneself. — Nhat Hanh
My biggest fear is that we [Unilever company] at one point in time will not be able to attract the best and brightest [workers]. I don't worry so much about the business, the strategy. If we can continue to attract the best, I know they will ultimately figure out how to run the company in a very tough environment. — Paul Polman
To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.
Always do what you are afraid to do. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone. — Eckhart Tolle
Another fresh new year is here. Another year to live! To Banish worry, doubt and fear, to love and give — William Arthur Ward
When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. — Dalai Lama
Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work. — Thich Nhat Hanh
Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones. — Thich Nhat Hanh
Never worry for fear you have broken a man's heart; at the worst it is only sprained and a week's rest will put it in perfect working condition again. — Helen Rowland
If you believe that feeling bad will change a past event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. — Wayne Dyer
[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers. — Judy Blume
A kung fu man who was really good was not proud at all. Pride emphasizes the superiority of one's status. There has to be fear and insecurity in pride, because when you aim at being highly esteemed and achieve such status, you automatically start to worry about losing status. — Bruce Lee
Do you live in a mine field or a garden? When we live in a minefield mentality, we explode with the weeds of worry, doubt, fear, lack and limitation. Choose to cultivate your inner garden! — Michael Beckwith
If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry. — Dalai Lama
You start to worry about what happens if you don't win. You start to fear man because you want praise from man. You start thinking about how winning will lead to more money. There are a lot of sin issues inside of that. So now when I go into competition, I have to take my thoughts captive and use God's Word to fight that battle. — David Boudia
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