Anxiety Quotes

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

What we fear comes to pass more speedily than what we hope.

~ Publilius Syrus

The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.

~ Elbert Hubbard

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

~ Lucan

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

~ Elbert Hubbard

How often the fear of one evil leads into a worse.

~ Nicolas Bouleau-Despreaux

Fears are educated into us and can if we wish be educated out.

~ Dr. Karl Menninger

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn.

~ Marianne Williamson

Human beings are born with just two basic fears. One is the fear of loud noises. The other is the fear of falling. All other fears must be learned.

~ Ronald Rood

Needless fear and panic over disease or misfortune that seldom materialize are simply bad habits. By proper ventilation and illumination of the mind it is possible to cultivate tolerance poise and real courage.

~ Elie Metchnikoff

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

~ Marie Curie

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

~ William Faulkner

Victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.

~ Nicholas Berdyaev

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

~ Louisa May Alcott

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

~ Katherine Anne Porter

Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose. Everyone has bad stretches and real successes.

~ Nancy Kerrigan

Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

~ Joan C. Harvey

Most people are afraid of failing. I think there's nothing wrong in failing.

~ Mark N. Cohen

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

~ Paul Sweeney

I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously.

~ Barbara Hershey

The sheer rebelliousness in giving ourselves permission to fail frees a childlike awareness and clarity. ... When we give ourselves permission to fail we at the same time give ourselves permission to excel.

~ Eloise Ristad

He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty.

~ Publilius Syrus

I was nervous and confident at the same time nervous about going out there in front of all of those people with so much at stake and confident that I was going to go out there and win.

~ Althea Gibson

There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

~ Vauvenargues

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

~ Harper Lee

To be ambitious for wealth and yet always expecting to be poor to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for is like trying to reach east by traveling west. ... No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure it will kill your efforts neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

~ Charles Baudouin

Studies by Medical Corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases ... found that fear of killing rather than fear of being killed was the most common cause of battle failure and that fear of failure ran a strong second.

~ S. L. A. Marshall

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another step-pingstone to greatness.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

~ James Northcote

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

~ Billie Jean King

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

~ Abraham Maslow

We fear the thing we want the most.

~ Dr. Robert Anthony

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.

~ John F. Kennedy

The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs and never care how to come down the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall.

~ Thomas Adams

It is not death that a man should fear he should fear never beginning to live.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Don't be afraid your life will end be afraid it will never begin.

~ Grace Hansen

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

~ Henry Van Dyke

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be all right.

~ Alice Thomas Ellis

The worst of all fears is the fear of living.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Life is to life in such a way that we are not afraid to die.

~ Teresa Of Ávila