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When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

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

I get anxious about a lot of things, that's the trouble. I get anxious about everything. I just can't stop thinking about things all the time. And here's the really destructive part - it's always retrospective. I waste time thinking of what I should have said or done.

I worry about the things I can affect, and the things I have no control over I move by.

I tend not to worry about things I can't do anything about. It's not in my nature to spend too much time thinking.

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.

Worrying about the past or the future isn't productive. When you start chastising yourself for past mistakes, or seeing disaster around every corner, stop and take a breath and ask yourself what you can do right now to succeed.

Whenever things are good, I always worry about what could go wrong.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.