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Quotes About Anxiety

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
~ George S. Patton Jr.
Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape
~ George Santayana
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
~ George Sewell
Humans are frail in our eyes today, and we secretly wonder whether those with poise and stiff upper lips are merely ticking time bombs. The freak-out allows us to feel we're not alone in our inner panic.
~ George Takei
My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.
~ George Washington
Worry is the intrest paid by those who borrow trouble.
~ George Washington
The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.
~ George Weinberg
There are times when you will fear your own shadow during night; never let your trust ruin you into the dark- shibin varghese
~ George Will
It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
~ Georges Bernanos
But I shall give less thought to the future, I shall work in the present. I feel such work is within my power. For I only succeed in small things, and when I am tried by anxiety, I am bound to say it is the small joys that release me.
~ Georges Bernanos
A tudatlanság minden baj legkiválóbb ellenszere (…), a legtökéletesebb bolondok gy?zik le a legkönnyebben a problémákat, ?ket ugyanis nem gyötrik gondok, nem kínozza félelem és szorongás, mint a felvilágosult embereket.
~ Georges Minois
I've always been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I've never let it stop me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
see worry as a waste of time because, in actuality, worrying doesn't work!
~ Gerald G. Jampolsky
Fear can be known as the most virulent and damaging virus known to humankind.
~ Gerald G. Jampolsky
We fear the beast because we fear the beast within...
~ Gerald Hausman
The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves forward to do the act he dreads.
~ Geraldine Brooks
A vague uneasiness; the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.
~ Ugo Betti
A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.
~ Lister Sinclair
Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
~ Eugene O'Neill
Tranquillizers do not change our environment, nor do they change our personalities. They merely reduce our responsiveness to stimuli. They dull the keen edge of the angers, fears, or anxiety with which we might otherwise react to the problems of living. Once the response has been dulled, the irritating surface noise of living muted or eliminated, the spark and brilliance are also gone.
~ Indra Devi
If a man can remember what he worried about last week, he has a very good memory.
~ Anonymous
Dad named his first ulcer after me.
~ Anonymous
Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that I shall work hard, but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile.
~ Arnold J. Toynbee
The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.
~ Eric Hoffer