Anxiety Quotes - Page 2

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.

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.

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

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Dr. Frank Crane

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.

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

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.

We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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.

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.

He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

When trapped in a constant state of negative over-stimulation, anxiety becomes the norm in our lives. From the book: Removing Your Shame Label

Eddie Capparucci

A desperate soul needs a good and inspiring music

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A clear vision calms hearts down! A good understanding soothes anxious hearts!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

Panic---a deep abiding, free-floating anxiety, often without any reason or logical basis.

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.

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.

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.

Do you remember what I forgot?

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

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.

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

I wiggled and squirmed in my seat as if I had ants in my pants, but in reality it was merely impatience.

Greater is Your care for me than all the care I am able to take from myself.

Thomas à Kempis

Petunia only ever went to the doctor reluctantly, and her motive in doing so was always the same: she did it in order to feel less anxious about things. The doctor was supposed to make the worry go away; she did quite enough worrying without actually having something to worry about. When she came out feeling no less anxious, as this time, something had gone wrong. The basic contract had been broken.

John Lanchester

We tend to have a limited concept of spiritual death as saying no only to things we want or covet -- our guilty pleasures and selfish ambitions. But in reality, it means dying inwardly to whatever has control over us. The thing that really controls us may not be what we want. It may be what we fear. Fear can dominate our lives just as strongly as desire.

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