Quotes About Anxiety

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

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given. For the morrow we are told to trust. It is not ours yet.

It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

He who strikes terror into others is himself in continual fear.

I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather.

At their wits' end.

Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system, and profoundly affects the health. You have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt.

Worry is a god, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

A worried man could borrow a lot of trouble with practically no collateral.

Bacteria and other microorganisms find it easier to infect people who worry and fret.

Worry is a funky luxury when a lot has to be done.

Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.

Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you moving but doesn't get you anywhere.

Anxiety is the poison of human life, the parent of many sins and of more miseries.... Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?

It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.

A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.

Worry is a futile thing, it's somewhat like a rocking chair, Although is keeps you occupied, it doesn't get you anywhere.

Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball.

When you worry, you go over the same ground endlessly and come out the same place you started. Thinking, on the other hand, makes progress from one place to another. ... The problem of life is to change worry into thinking, and anxiety into creative action.

Which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto his stature?

Anxiety never yet successfully bridged any chasm.

Worry doesn't help tomorrow's troubles, but it does ruin today's happiness.

You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.

We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.