Michelle Obama
Lawyer, Author, First Lady
"I was too worried about the grades and I should have been more worried about learning."
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Worried
247 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Alicia Keys
Singer, Songwriter, Actress
"It's when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential."
Jack Johnson
Musician
"People don't know anything about themselves because they're all worried about everybody else."
Confucius
Philosopher
"The superior person is calm and composed; the lesser person is continuously worried and distressed."
Donald Miller
Author
"All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried."
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"You have to pick what you're going to be worried about. Markets are volatile, but retirement is certain."
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"Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens."
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"Take my hand when you are worried Take my hand when you're alone Take my hand and let me guide you Take my hand to lead you home."
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"Some people tell me that the worried blues ain't bad. Worst old feelin' I most ever had."
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"Nothing made sense to me anymore. I knew I was young, I knew I was small. But I was worried that I might already be ruined."
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"You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were."
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"...whatever you're worried about, you're bigger than the worries."
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"The investor who permits himself to be stampeded or unduly worried by unjustified market declines in his holdings is perversely transforming his basic advantage into a basic disadvantage."
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"Warrington’s aim’s so pathetic I’d be more worried if he was aiming for the person next to me."
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"When I started reciting my own poems in public, I worried that it would seem too theatrical, but now I find recitation very natural, because it allows me to address audiences directly."
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"It's this kind of wild unpredictability, megalomania, thin-skinned craziness that really has me worried, more than [Donald Trump] statements. Now, on the climate change there's just nothing to say, he's perfectly straightforward."
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"I'm not worried about tomorrow, because God is there already, waiting for me."
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"I'm one of those religious people who are afraid of everything. I'm instantly worried about everything that could go wrong."
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"If I were worried about my reputation, I wouldn't do anything with start-ups"
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"I'm a Luddite with computers, and I'm slightly worried about being hacked as well."
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"Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions."
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"I'm not worried about walking the streets and looking over my shoulder because of something I might have said."
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"I don't want to please everybody. I'd get a little worried if I did something and everybody was pleased with it."
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"There are known knowns and known unknowns, but what we should be worried about most is the unknown unknowns."
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"If I were constantly worried about death, I couldn't function. After a while, if your life is more or less constantly in peril, you come to a point where you accept the possibility philosophically."
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