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Quotes About Anxiety

Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .
~ Dan Miller
Most people's lives are nothing more than pointlessly frantic activity used as a psychological defense against their own impotence and fear.
~ Tucker Max
Anxiety and fear produce energy. Where we focus that energy noticeably affects the quality of our lives: focus on the solution, not the problem.
~ Walter Inglis Anderson
One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool
~ E. W. Howe
There are two reasons why people fail. One is irresponsibility. The second is fear.
~ Wally Amos
Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.
~ Philip K. Dick, Valis
Your fear of letting go prevents you from letting go of your fear of letting go.
~ John Burdett
The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.
~ William Lyon Mackenzie King
The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.
~ Horace
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
~ Thomas Jefferson
We lend power to the things we fear!
~ Orison Swett Marden
Fear is the mind-killer.
~ Frank Herbert, Dune
One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
The more comfort becomes your priority, the more contracted you become with fear.
~ T. Harv Eker
Fear makes you docile.
~ Neil Strauss
FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION.
~ Frank Herbert
I have a level of fear going into every project, and that's what keeps me going.
~ Gerard Butler
Humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
Overcoming fear doesn't have to be skydiving, if you're afraid of heights. Overcoming fear is an everyday thing. We do it all day long.
~ Geoff Johns
Those who live in fear die a thousand deaths.
~ George S. Patton
Fear is at the heart of most of our worst choices.
~ Chris Brogan
Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
~ Samuel Ullman
It's not the darkness that people fear; it's what they imagine into the darkness.
~ Byron Katie
I don't say that I never feel fear before a performance, but I have learned to channel it.
~ Claudio Arrau