Top 242 Worrying Quotes

I love working and I love doing lots of things and a variety of things. It keeps your mind active… and you don’t end up worrying about just the one thing. When I chew things over or analyze too much, that is when I can trip myself up.

I grew out of the habit of thinking or worrying about being seen as the typical Asian. I don’t even know what that means anymore. I’m not really concerned with it.

Every animal would rather die themselves than lose their offspring. But it’s just genes, isn’t it? All of our existence is spent worrying about the next generation, but we don’t actually seem to get anywhere.

I often find myself worrying about celebrities. It’s an entirely caring thing; it’s not like the people who commission those photographs with cruel arrows to go on the covers of the celebrity magazines. The photographs show botched plastic surgery, raging eczema, weight gain and horrible clothes for maximum schadenfreude.

Record companies worrying more about market share than developing artists – I hear there was a time when if your first record didn’t sell 8m copies, you were still given a chance to grow as a songwriter.

I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments.

When it comes to the economy, my highest priority as President will be worrying about your job, not saving my own.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

My dirty little secret is I don’t drive at all, though I have my license and I renew it every five years. I’m phobic. I keep worrying if I drive, I’ll end up killing someone. I hoped that by writing about a car crash, I might understand and heal this phobia, but I didn’t! I’m still phobic.

I don’t live my life and go out there really worrying about what people say.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

Tennis is failing to renew its fanbase. And that’s very worrying, because the future doesn’t look bright.

With anything in life, I think that’s when you start stressing yourself out – when you start worrying about the things that are out of your control. What I can control is being at my best every day and having no regrets at the end of each day. That’s what I plan on doing.

I’m not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it’s almost like we’re living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it’s like a big reality show.

My dog doesn’t worry about the meaning of life. She may worry if she doesn’t get her breakfast, but she doesn’t sit around worrying about whether she will get fulfilled or liberated or enlightened. As long as she gets some food and a little affection, her life is fine.

I’m not going to waste my time worrying about these Confederate statues. That’s wasted energy.

I think I built my reputation by not worrying about it.

A lot of folks I mentor ask me, ‘How did you get there?’ I tell them, you never plan on it. Do a good job and treat customers well, do the right things for the right reasons. Prepare yourself, but don’t spend all your time worrying about it. Just do your job, and you’ll be recognized for it.

I want to live to be 120. That’s when I will start worrying about my age.

I was worrying about how Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Johnson or Josh Hazlewood would get me out and how I would counter it, but in doing that forgot how I was going to score runs and put pressure on them, which is what I’m good at. I have to be more focussed on myself.

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

I stopped worrying about competition in contemporary art. It feels a little bit more pure. That’s where I am, one step back.

I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting.

Women are used to worrying over trifles.

If you have a strong sense of who you are and what you’re doing, then it’s actually easier to work with other people, because you don’t have to worry about them or yourself. You’re just worrying about getting the best product, and all that other stuff is out of the way.

As parents, can we counter the effect of television violence? One worrying feature in Britain is that so many TV sets are in a child’s bedroom; this means that the mediating effect of watching with a parent, the ability to discuss and interpret what has been seen, is lost.

Spending way too long worrying about what people think about me is a bad habit.

I have children, so I’m constantly worrying about the world they are going to inherit.

I watch MSNBC while I simultaneously read the news. After dinner, I’m in my room for the night worrying about everything I saw on MSNBC.

And our size: The company this year is going to be close to $50 billion, so if that’s the case and you can continue to grow that fast, I would rather put my energies to solving customer problems and growing our business than worrying about integrating and laying people off.

While the wider global environment is worrying, we are seeing some positive results in our economic affairs.

The most important thing is to explain day by day that life is very short, and we need to spend the day thinking and enjoying life. We can’t been thinking too much and worrying about what is happening tomorrow.

If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.

I know when there’s lots of stuff racing around in my head it can be hard to sleep and stay asleep. And one of the biggest things that used to keep me awake at night was worrying about my gender and sexuality.

I spent the first 33 years of my life with secrets, and lots of them. I spent a great deal of energy worrying over what people thought and obscuring the things I was ashamed of… trying to appear what I thought was normal.

We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.

It takes a real storm in the average person’s life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

The voice over is a hat you put on right now as opposed to worrying about going through wardrobe, and having to look a certain way. You just got to let your voice do the talking for you.

I worry about my children worrying about me, feeling like they need to be the strong ones. It’s not the right order of things.

If I’m lucky enough to see the day when my sons are living independently, maybe with families of their own, I’ll still be wondering how I can be a better mother and worrying about the things I overlooked back when they lived under my roof.

I am looking forward to going to Dubai because it gives us an opportunity to interact with each other. We can sit and enjoy each other’s company. We can go out for a walk without worrying about shooting schedules.

The happiest moment was when I just played with a ball as a boy, carefree, without worrying about anything.

I know a few CEOs who delegate the understanding of their financials and their business metrics to the CFO, and then stop worrying about all that ‘numbers stuff.’ Don’t do that. You have to know your numbers inside and out – they are your life blood.

It’s my parents’ attitudes to situations that gives me a sense of reality about what’s worth worrying about, and what’s not.

I work hard. I focus on myself and putting food on my dinner table before anything else. I don’t worry about other artists. Worrying about the next person in a negative way is the wrong way to be.

If we destroy the biosphere, then mankind will die. We all waste our time worrying about stupid wars and petty jealousy and greed, and all the time, we’re sitting on a time bomb.

One thing I’ve very quickly learned is that if you wake up every morning worrying about what’s in the press, you would go completely and utterly potty.

Sometimes I wake at 2 A.M. worrying that my great-granddaughter will have to march through her distant, broiling future gathering all the plastic I ever disposed of.

I used to be really scared to voice my opinion, whether it was with the other girls or just about an outfit I didn’t like. I kept worrying what other people would think of me if they didn’t agree. But I learned that I was just hurting myself.

I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.

Rather than worrying about entities, we should worry about the trends in technology that may cause disruptions… if we get so paranoid that banking is no longer going to exist and banks are going to get disrupted, I think that is a different worry.

Well we’d just seen Gerry. I think he wanted somebody who had that authority and was handsome. The thing is, he’s a big hunk isn’t he? All I can say, if you look at his chat line, or the Phantom website, it’s quite worrying. Because the girls really seem to love him.