Overcoming Anxiety:
- “You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.” – Dan Millman
- “Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.” – Walter Anderson
- “Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.” – Charles Spurgeon
- “You can’t always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.” – Wayne Dyer
- “The only way out is through.” – Robert Frost
- “Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.” – Natalie Goldberg
- “Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.” – Swedish Proverb
- “Act the way that you want to feel.” – Gretchen Rubin
- “Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.” – Kahlil Gibran
Understanding Anxiety:
11. “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” – Søren Kierkegaard
12. “People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.” – George Bernard Shaw
13. “The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.” – Alain de Botton
14. “Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you.” – Anaïs Nin
15. “The thing about anxiety is that you have to move at the pace you can handle.” – Anne Hathaway
16. “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
17. “Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.” – T.S. Eliot
18. “Anxiety is not being able to sleep because you said something wrong two years ago and can’t stop thinking about it.” – Unknown
19. “He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
20. “Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.” – Thomas Merton
Coping with Anxiety:
21. “The way you tell your story to yourself matters.” – Amy Cuddy
22. “Smile, breathe, and go slowly.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
23. “Physical exercise can be an excellent initial treatment for mild to moderate depression and is an excellent supportive treatment for severe depression.” – John J. Ratey
24. “Each moment of worry, anxiety or stress represents lack of faith in miracles, for they never cease.” – T.F. Hodge
25. “Breathe in the future, breathe out the past.” – Unknown
26. “It’s OK to feel unstable. It’s OK to disassociate. It’s OK to hide from the world. It’s OK to need help. It’s OK not to be OK. Your mental illness is not a personal failure.” – Unknown
27. “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
28. “Don’t believe every worried thought you have. Worried thoughts are notoriously inaccurate.” – Renee Jain
29. “Limit your ‘always’ and your ‘nevers’.” – Amy Poehler
30. “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Philosophical Insights on Anxiety:
31. “Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.” – Epictetus
32. “Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation.” – Charles Frankel
33. “He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.” – Michel de Montaigne
34. “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” – Elbert Hubbard
35. “The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.” – Seneca
36. “If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” – Amit Ray
37. “Anxiety is a lot like a toddler. It never stops talking, tells you you’re wrong about everything, and wakes you up at 3am.” – Unknown
38. “I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.” – Mark Twain
39. “Worry is a misuse of imagination.” – Dan Zadra
40. “If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.” – Dean Smith
Quotes from Literature:
41. “My anxiety doesn’t come from thinking about the future but from wanting to control it.” – Hugh Prather
42. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
43. “There is no illusion greater than fear.” – Lao Tzu
44. “To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one’s self.” – Søren Kierkegaard
45. “Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.” – Aristotle
46. “Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.” – Jesus Christ
47. “It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.” – Hans Selye
48. “A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does.” – Dan Millman
49. “Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.” – Jodi Picoult
50. “I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.” – Steve Maraboli
Modern Views on Anxiety:
51. “The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.” – Anna Quindlen
52. “Stress is caused by being ‘here’ but wanting to be ‘there’.” – Eckhart Tolle
53. “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
54. “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
55. “It’s not time to worry yet.” – Harper Lee, “To Kill a Mockingbird”
56. “Anxiety is the gap between the now and the later.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
57. “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.” – Leo Buscaglia
58. “The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is optional.” – Max Lucado
59. “I’ve developed a new philosophy. I only dread one day at a time.” – Charlie Brown (Charles Schulz)
60. “Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.” – Etty Hillesum
Inspirational Quotes on Anxiety:
61. “You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.” – Steve Maraboli
62. “Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.” – Dorothy M. Neddermeyer
63. “Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it.” – Henry S. Haskins
64. “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” – William James
65. “Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
66. “Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
67. “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” – Søren Kierkegaard
68. “There is no need to be perfect to inspire others. Let people get inspired by how you deal with your imperfections.” – Ziad K. Abdelnour
69. “The only journey is the journey within.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
70. “It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” – Sir Edmund Hillary
Empowering Quotes on Anxiety:
71. “Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety; after all, it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.” – Ali Ibn Abi Talib
72. “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” – Ambrose Redmoon
73. “To be anxious is to be human.” – Paul Tillich
74. “Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power.” – Horace Bushnell
75. “Worrying is like sitting in a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but it doesn’t get you anywhere.” – English Proverb
76. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
77. “Anxiety is a sign that you are moving outside of your comfort zone; it’s growth disguised as discomfort.” – Beau Taplin
78. “The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.” – Frank Herbert, “Dune”
79. “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
80. “Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.” – Japanese Proverb
Quotes on Anxiety and Mindfulness: 81. “Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.” – Sharon Salzberg
82. “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” – Elbert Hubbard