Anxiety Quotes

Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life--that's just one way you're pretending you can keep bad things from happening to you again.

~ Susan Vaught

Keep making noise, I prayed, laughing. Bang drums. Clamor and ring bells for I cannot stand to hear the tired beating of this almost heart.

~ Meg Howrey

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.

~ Arthur W. Pink

There's no work so tirin' as danglin' about an' starin' an' not rightly knowin' what you're goin' to do next, and keepin' your face i' smilin' order like a grocer o' market-day for fear people shouldna think you civil enough.

~ George Eliot

Do you remember what I forgot?

~ Erica Goros

My anxiety house a house and a fence and a deer in the yard. A zip code. A plague of starlings.

~ Kristy Bowen

One source of frustration in the workplace is the frequent mismatch between what people must do and whatpeople can do. When what they must do exceeds their capabilities, the result is anxiety. When what they must do falls short of their capabilities,the result is boredom. But when thematch is just right, the results can be glorious. This is the essence of flow.

~ Daniel H. Pink

But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Eradication of pain, deviant, or oppositional behaviors does not indicate healing; however, it can signify successful conditioning.

~ Kierra C.t. Banks

Expunction of pain, deviant, or oppositional behaviors does not indicate healing; however, it can signify successful conditioning.

~ Kierra C.t. Banks

The beautiful thing about meditation is that it allows you to access that cool guy or girl inside of you that's waiting to come out. You'll be able to access the part of you that people like to be around. The part of you that feels upbeat about things. That feels like you're moving toward your goals without frustration and anxiety. That feels ecstatic to be alive! The more I meditate, the more I have these moments.

~ Russell Simmons

He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.

~ Thomas Fuller

Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.

~ Mary Bokin Chesnut

To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.

~ Johann Von Goethe

He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.

~ Beilby Porteous

He who fears he shall suffer already suffers what he fears.

~ Michel De Montaigne

If you are afraid for your future you don't have a present.

~ James Petersen

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure and generally create ourselves.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Do not think of all your anxieties you will only make yourself ill.

~ The Shih King

Only man clogs his happiness with care destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

~ John Dryden

I care. I care a lot. I think of Cosmopolitan all day and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright caring and anxiety.

~ Helen Gurley Brown

Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once.

~ William Shakespeare

Every man through fear mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

~ Brendan Francis

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca

I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

~ William Allen White

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

~ John Lancaster Spalding

We need not be afraid of the future for the future will be in our own hands.

~ Thomas E. Dewey

It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.

~ E. H. Harriman

The future is called perhaps which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

~ Tennessee Williams

Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

~ Arthur Somers Roche

Most of the fear that spoils our life comes from attacking difficulties before we get to them.

~ Dr. Frank Crane

Fear is created not by the world around us but in the mind by what we think is going to happen.

~ Elizabeth Gawain

Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates it's own objects: is this not also true of fear?

~ Elizabeth Bowen

Fear breeds fear.

~ Byron Janis

Fear to let fall a drop and you spill a lot.

~ Malay Proverb

The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.

~ Margaret Atwood

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

~ William James

We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

That fear of missing out on things makes you miss out on everything.

~ Etty Hillesum