I do hope you find my selection of Quotes for Anxiety helpful. Some are funny, some are serious, but all are inspirational! If you would like to find out more about anxiety in general and overcoming anxiety please click here which will take you to another one of my sites.
Quotes for Anxiety
“We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.” Abraham Lincoln. More…
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“No one can pray and worry at the same time.” Max Lucado. More…
“The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.” Rose F. Kennedy. More…
“Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It creates the failures. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.” Anais Nin. More…
“Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.” Robert Albert Bloch. More…
“Anxiety results from believing that you have no right to express your feelings or needs.” Karin Stewart. More…
“Character isn’t inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.” Helen Gahagan Douglas. More…
“You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.” Ray Bradbury. More…
“Fears are educated into us and can, if we wish, be educated out.” Karl A. Menninger
“He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.” Michel de Montaigne
“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.” John Lubbock
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.” Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. More…
“The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” William Jennings Bryan. More …
“He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear”. Gaius Julius Caesar (100-44 B.C.)
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.” Mark Twain
“Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.” David Ben-Gurion
“I’m not afraid of storms for I’m learning how to sail my ship.” Louisa May Alcott. More…
“The real universe. That’s the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real – the here-and-now. Seize the day.” Saul Bellow
“I have no regrets. I wouldn’t have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.” Ingrid Bergman
“If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer. More…
“Hypochondria torments us not only with causeless irritation with the things of the present; not only with groundless anxiety on the score of future misfortunes entirely of our own manufacture; but also with unmerited self-reproach for our own past actions.” Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher.
“Anxiety can be described as unresolved fear.” Lewis Wolpert
“I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says turn back, turn back, you’ll die if you venture too far.” Erica Jong
“I’ll give you some symptoms of a sign that your faith is deteriorating. Whenever you face all of your problems and you trust only your plans to get you out, this is a sign that your faith is deteriorating.” T.D. Jakes
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved”. Helen Keller
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Chinese Proverb
“To fight fear, act. To increase fear – wait, put off, postpone.” David Joseph Schwartz
“Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear but around you in awareness.” Ross Hersey
“I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.” Pearl S. Buck
“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.” Helen Keller
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.” Ursula K. Le Guin
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Mark Twain
“History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbraking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats”. Bertie C. Forbes
“If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.” Robert H. Schuller
“Whether you think that you can or you can’t, you are usually right.” Henry Ford
“Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.” Mark Twain
“Drag your thoughts away from your troubles – by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.” Mark Twain
“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.” Mark Twain
“Don’t start your day by supposing that trouble is just ahead. It’s better to stop supposing and start with a prayer instead.” Helen Steiner Rice.
“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” Bertrand Russell
“The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.” Wayne Dyer
“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”. Wayne Dyer
“We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the finer strength of the nerves.” Edward G Bulwer-Lytton
“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.” Wayne Dyer
“Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion.” Guy Finley
“Nerves and butterflies are fine – they’re a physical sign that you’re mentally ready and eager. You have to get the butterflies to fly in formation, that’s the trick.” Steve Bull More…
“People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.” George Bernard Shaw
“Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.” W.E.Gladstone
“When you’re lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is taboo’d by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in, without impropriety.” Sir William S. Gilbert. More…
“If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I’d have fewer imaginary ones.” Don Herold
“Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds.” Zacharty Bercovitz
“If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.” Dean Smith
“What’s the use of worrying? It never was worthwhile, so, pack up your troubles in you old kit-bag and smile, smile, smile.” George Asaf
“A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.” John Lubbock
“To each of man’s ages the Lord gives its own anxieties.” Paulo Coelho
“The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety.” Erich Fromm
“But man has other needs as well: emotional needs. These, too, are few, but every bit as important as his physical requirements, yet not so simple. If they aren’t met, they can be as devastating as physical hunger, as uncomfortable as a lack of shelter, as incapacitating as thirst. The frustration, isolation and anxiety brought about by unmet emotional needs can, like physical privation, produce death or a degree of living death – neurosis and psychosis.” Leo F. Buscaglia
“The word secure comes from two small Latin words: se meaning ‘without’ and cure meaning ‘care’ – being without care, freedom from anxiety.” Eric Butterworth
“The physical symptoms of fight or flight are what the human body has learned over thousands of years to operate efficiently and at the highest level … anxiety is a cognitive interpretation of that physical response.” John Eliot
“The awakened sages call a person wise when all his undertakings are free from anxiety about results.” Krishna (The Bhagavad Gita)
“Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.” Francis of Assisi
“We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.” Susan Jeffers. More…
“We probably wouldn’t worry about what people think about us if we knew how seldom they do.” Olin Miller
“We must travel in the direction of our fear.” John Berryman. More…
“If fate hands you a lemon, try to make lemonade.” Author Unknown
I hope that these Quotes for Anxiety have been helpful to you. Maybe write out the ones that have inspired you the most and put them in a place where they can remind you of their wisdom. If you have any you would like to add, please add them in ‘the comments’.