Quotes About Anxiety

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.

Be, therefore, not anxious about tomorrow; for tomorrow will be anxious for the things of itself.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.

Worry is a form of fear.

Worry is a complete cycle of inefficient thought revolving about a pivotal fear.

Worry is a state of mind based on fear.

Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

If we would keep filling our minds with the picture of happy things ahead, many worries and anxieties, and perhaps ill health, would naturally melt away.... Always expect the best. Then if you have to hurdle a few tough problems, you will have generated the strength and courage to do so.

A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.

A problem not worth praying about is not worth worrying about.

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen.

The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself.

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.

What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?

This was a great year for preventive worrying. Seldom in recent history have so many people worried about so many things that didn't happen in the end.

I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Other Definitions of Worry Anxiety is the great modern plague. But faith can cure it.

Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life.

Worry is the cross which we make for ourselves by overanxiety.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

Worry is a morbid anticipation of events which never happen.