81 Quotes About Overcoming Worry

In a world filled with uncertainties, worries can often overshadow our happiness and hinder our progress. Yet, overcoming these anxieties is an essential step toward personal growth and emotional resilience. There is wisdom and comfort in the words of those who have faced worry head-on and emerged stronger. Our carefully curated collection of 81 quotes offers profound insights and inspiration from thinkers, leaders, and everyday people who have transcended their fears. Dive into this treasure trove of reflections to find solace, motivation, and courage to confront and conquer your own worries. Let these powerful words guide you on a journey toward inner peace and empowerment, reminding you that while worry is natural, it doesn't have to be a permanent state of being.

1. “Life is in Fate's hands now. You made your choice to stay... it's too late to change that, so stop agonizing over it.... You're making my scales itch.Saphira, from "Eragon” - Christopher Paolini

2. “Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.” - Benjamin Franklin

3. “If there is no solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it. If there is a solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it.” - Dalai Lama XIV

4. “You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.” - Olin Miller

5. “Worry is a misuse of the imagination.” - Dan Zadra

6. “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” - Corrie Ten Boom

7. “Drag your thoughts awayfrom your troubles...by the ears, by the heels,or any other way you can manage it.” - Mark Twain

8. “According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don't bother you anymore. You become light-hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous. (quoted by Carol Lynn Pearson in Consider the Butterfly)” - Deepak Chopra

9. “I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.” - Mark Twain

10. “Times will change for the better when you change.” - Maxwell Maltz

11. “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

12. “..when someone says "please pray for me," they are not just saying "let's have lunch sometime." They are issuing an invitation into the depths of their lives and their humanity- and often with some urgency. And worry is not a substitute for prayer. Worry is a starting place, but not a staying place. Worry invites me into prayer. As a staying place, worry can be self-indulgent, paralyzing, draining, and controlling. When I take worry into prayer, it doesn't disappear, but it becomes smaller.” - Sybil MacBeth

13. “And do you not think less of me for making my fortune insuch a way?” After all, her own sister did.He gave her an odd look. “There is no shame in being themistress of a king. It’s a position of great power and influence. I think less of Louis for letting you go.” - Jenna Maclaine

14. “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.” - Leo Buscaglia

15. “The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more patient and less pressured.” - Rick Warren

16. “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.” - Marcus Aurelius

17. “We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.” - John Ortberg

18. “When 1:45 came, half the class left, and Danny Hupfer whispered, "If she gives you a cream puff after we leave, I'm going to kill you" - which was not something that someone headed off to prepare for his bar mitzvah should be thinking.When 1:55 came and the other half of the class left, Meryl Lee whispered, "If she gives you one after we leave, I'm going to do Number 408 to you." I didn't remember what Number 408 was, but it was probably pretty close to what Danny Hupfer had promised.Even Mai Thi looked at me with narrowed eyes and said, "I know your home." Which sounded pretty ominous.” - Gary D. Schmidt

19. “Worrying was painful .... but compared to the alternative, a privilege” - Laura Moriarty

20. “She tried to worry that something terrible had happened to him, but didn't believe it for a moment. Nothing terrible ever happened to him, though she was beginning to think that it was time it damn well did. If nothing terrible happened to him soon maybe she'd do it herself. Now there was an idea.” - Douglas Adams

21. “I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart till it stops beating. ” - E.B. White

22. “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

23. “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

24. “Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I'm simply worried.” - Sam Harris

25. “If I'd thought she was uninterested, I never would have worried so much - the prospect of screwing something up is much more daunting than that of screwing nothing up. I definitely thought there was something there, and so there was something to lose, you see.” - Adam Levin

26. “It makes me . . . anxious . . . to be away from you.” - Stephenie Meyer

27. “Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.” - Ana Monnar

28. “Sometimes I tend to worry too much and at the end of all the preoccupation nothing goes wrong.” - Ana Monnar

29. “We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.” - Harry A. Ironside

30. “Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divine Mercy.” - Said Nursi

31. “Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labour or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?So do not worry, saying, ``What shall we eat?'' or ``What shall we drink?'' or ``What shall we wear?'' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.- Matthew 6:25-34” - Anonymous

32. “Only 8% of our worry will come to pass. 92% of our worry is wasted. DON'T PANIC” - Mark Gorman

33. “Basically, if the mind stays in the present, it’s impossible to worry. Upon careful consideration, it becomes clear that human beings are capable of worrying only about an event that has already transpired or one that may take place in the future (although the occurrence might have just happened or may be about to happen in the next instant). The present moment contains no time or space for worry.” - H.E. Davey

34. “To live by worry is to live against reality” - E. Stanley Jones

35. “worrying gets you nowhere” - Trinity

36. “It would be so nice to be wanted by someone with the courage to get his hat or stay as he damn pleased, and who gave her credit for the same. Someone who didn't worry about her.” - Thomas Harris

37. “Remember to delight yourself first, then others can be truly delighted."This was my mantra when I published my first book in 1990, and still holds true. When we focus on the song of our soul and heart, then others will be touched similarly. Sometimes people wonder or worry whether people will like or approve of their creative expression. It's none of your business. It's your business to stay present and focused for the work of your deepest dreams. It might look crooked or strange, or be very odd-but if it delights you, then it is yours, and will find it's way into other hearts.” - SARK

38. “Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

39. “I wanted to get away,' said she; 'everybody wants to plague and worry me about nothing. They'll be all right tomorrow. What's worrying them?''They are sacrificing to our Canadian God,' said Solly. 'We all believe that if we fret and abuse ourselves sufficiently, Providence will take pity and smile upon anything we attempt. A light heart, or a consciousness of desert, attracts ill luck. You have been away from your native land too long. You have forgotten our folkways. Listen to that gang over there; they are scanning the heavens and hoping aloud that it won't rain tomorrow. That is to placate the Mean Old Man in the Sky, and persuade him to be kind to us.” - Robertson Davies

40. “The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.” - Virginia Woolf

41. “You worry too much. Eat some bacon...what? No, I got no idea if it'll make you feel better, I just made too much bacon.” - Justin Halpern

42. “Each moment of worry, anxiety or stress represents lack of faith in miracles, for they never cease.” - T.F. Hodge

43. “Am I worried about the future? I don't know. When I think of the word it's like seeing a cavity, a space where a tooth used to be.” - Kirsty Eagar

44. “Don't worry much about the after-life, Just like you don't worry about your before-Life. Worry (and be grateful) about THIS life. This one DOES count” - Pablo

45. “Don't worry. Worry is useless. I worried anyway” - John Green

46. “When dreaded outcomes are actually imminent we don't worry about themwe take action. Seeing lava from the local volcano make its way down the street toward our house does not cause worry it causes running. Also we don't usually choose imminent events as subjects for our worrying and thus emerges an ironic truth: Often the very fact that you are worrying about something means that it isn't likely to happen.” - Gavin De Becker

47. “Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.” - Keith Caserta

48. “Pray, hope, and don't worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer.” - Padre Pio

49. “All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent” - Steinbeck

50. “It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains!” - Alice Caldwell Rice

51. “I watch worry and anxiety being pandered to through technology which is neutral.” - Brian Richardson

52. “Life...as God intended it enables us to live above the drag of fear, superstition, shame, pessimism, guilt, anxiety, worry, and all the negativity that keeps people from seizing each day as a gift from Him.” - Swindoll Charles R.

53. “God has called His creation to find satisfaction in a personal relationship with Him, and stop trying to manage the world by conforming it to our expectations, and to allow Him to govern His creation. He continues to say through an ancient Hebrew worship song, "Be still and know that I am God!” - Swindoll Charles R.

54. “Worrying doesn't make any difference, but working does and spirituality gives one the strength to work” - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

55. “Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.” - Leo Aikman

56. “You worry about hurting me, but you never seem to worry about me hurting you. And I’m the one with the killer touch.” - Jennifer L. Armentrout

57. “Sometimes, even when I'm trying to keep the load light it just feels so heavy. Like the sky is a ton of bricks waiting to fall and anything I might do, think or feel could cause it to come crashing down.” - Jane Devin

58. “Instinctively I started to panic when Dr. Martinez strapped my arm down, andthen the panic just melted away, la la la.Someone took my other hand. Fang. I felt his calluses, his bones, hisstrength.“I’m so glad you’re here,” I slurred, smiling dopily up at him. I took inhis startled, worried expression but dismissed it. “I know everything’s fineif you’re here.”I thought I saw his cheeks flush, but I wasn’t too sure of anything anymore.” - James Patterson

59. “He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too familiar, that of walking in a giant sphere of worry, enclosed by it, watching his own terrors roll by, obscuring the outside world.” - J.K. Rowling

60. “Let's worry like mad. Shall we start on a worldwide basis and work down to ourselves, or start with ourselves and spread?""I'm going to do me-and-Peter and that dead man.""All right. I'm just going to do a wee one about Bunny and then I'll join you. Always creeping around telling tales and stealing people's tights! How can anyone be that scrofulous and live? Now if somebody bumped him off, that would make sense.” - Pamela Branch

61. “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

62. “Ain't you thinkin' what's it gonna be like when we get there? Ain't you scared it won't be nice like we thought?No, she said quickly. No, I ain't. You can't do that. I can't do that. It's too much - livin' too many lives. Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes, it'll on'y be one.” - John Steinbeck

63. “Don't go looking for worry. It finds you on its own.” - Autumn Jordon

64. “Life is too precious to worry about what could or will happen. Life is..what you make it” - E'yen A. Gardner

65. “Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.” - Honoré de Balzac

66. “Stop crying to the ocean, stop crying over me. Stop worrying over nothing, stop worrying over me. So it's been so long since you said, well I know what I want and what I want's right here with you.” - Tegan Quin

67. “Worry is absence of faith.” - Paul Palnik

68. “Why are we worried!" Rolf said suddenly. "This is God's work. He'll make a way for us.” - Brother Andrew

69. “Worry is down payment on a problem that hasn't happened. Trust Jesus!” - Jarrid Wilson

70. “The apprehension of this blessed truth (God's faithfulness) will check our murmurings. The Lord knows what is best for each of us, and one effect or resting on this truth will be the silencing of our petulant complainings. God is greatly honored when, under trial and chastening, we have good thoughts of Him, vindicate His wisdom and justice, and recognize His love in His very rebukes.” - A. W. Pink

71. “I was terrified of death by the time I was three or four, actively if not lucidly. I had frequent nightmares about snakes and scary neighbors. By the age of four or five, I was terrified by my thoughts. By the time I was five, the migraines began. I was so sensitive about myself and the world that I cried or shriveled up at the slightest hurt. People always told me, "You've got to get a thicker skin," like now they might say, jovially, "Let go and let God." Believe me, if I could, I would, and in the meantime I feel like stabbing you in the forehead. Teachers wrote on my report cards that I was too sensitive, excessively worried, as if this were an easily correctable condition, as if I were wearing too much of the violet toilet water little girls wore then.” - Anne Lamott

72. “When I was young I wanted so much to be like her. What a blessing are those moments when there is nothing to worry about, no thought of trouble or grief in the world.” - Belinda Jeffrey

73. “Let your cares drive you to God. I shall not mind if you have many of them if each one leads you to prayer. If every fret makes you lean more on the Beloved, it will be a benefit.” - Charles H. Spurgeon

74. “We imagine that a little anxiety and worry is an indication of how wise we really are; it may be an indication of how wicked we really are.” - Oswald Chambers

75. “It is no good worrying about things that are out of your hands” - Matt Thomas

76. “One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else.” - Stephen King

77. “If you would stop worrying about things you don’t control and release what God has put into you, you will change everything around you.” - Steve Maraboli

78. “Memphis found his smile. 'You know me, sir. I don't wear worry.” - Libba Bray

79. “Paranoia is at most annoying!” - Anthony Liccione

80. “Worry acts like a squatter, sneaks in and tries to stay without paying rent!" EL.” - Evlinda Lepins

81. “Don't panic. Say, Hey, no problem. Run a hand through your hair like the whiteboys do even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.” - Junot Diaz