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Quotes About Anxiety

There is no illusion great than fear.
~ Laozi
A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready.
~ Faith Hill
There is nothing to fear other than my mind.
~ Shantideva
When perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun and fear is that annoying backseat driver!
~ Brene Brown
There's nothing to fear but fear itself. It's an illusion of fear. Fear is an illusion. If you gonna die, you gonna die anyway; it's not something to fear, fear is not gonna help.
~ Mike Tyson
The only thing we have to fear...is audiovisual glitches at our annual event.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.
~ Ayelet Waldman
Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That's why fear should be unknown to us.
~ Louis de Bernieres
Fear is the base of what everybody does wrong in their lives.
~ Elaine Stritch
I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.
~ Garry Shandling
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
~ Francis Bacon
In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The only thing to fear is fearlessness.
~ Michael Stipe
Fear focuses the mind.
~ Meryl Streep
Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear.
~ Dan Brown
Obedience isn't a lack of fear. It's just doing it scared.
~ Jen Hatmaker
Fear is an insidious virus. Given a breeding place in our minds ... it will eat away our spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors.
~ Unknown
What we fear we often rage against.
~ Annie Proulx
Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.
~ Tommy Franks
You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.
~ Gabrielle Union
Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.
~ Brom, The Child Thief
The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.
~ Publilius Syrus
If you turned the fabric of our lives over, I imagined the design on the backside would be woven in the bleak grays of doubt and fear.
~ Stephenie Meyer
It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.
~ Seneca the Younger