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Quotes About Anxiety

Of all the passions fear weakens judgment most.
~ Cardinal De Retz
If you wish to fear nothing consider that everything is to be feared.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.
~ Nick Saban
I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did a couple of things as a child as an actor as well, and he... he failed, basically.
~ Ben Affleck
I don't know which is stronger: the thrill of winning or the fear of failure. I don't know which one affects me most. I don't know where the middle is.
~ Tony McCoy
Working with food was fraught with anxiety when I was a girl. Like all farmers, we were at the mercy of the weather, and we lived in fear of crop failure.
~ Bobbie Ann Mason
Fear leads to more fear, and trust leads to more trust.
~ Dean Ornish
FOOD is the most widely abused anti-anxiety drug in America, and EXERCISE is the most potent yet underutilized antidepressant.
~ Bill Phillips
Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.
~ M. F. K. Fisher
Zombies let us explore notions of the apocalypse - no water, food, medical care, the government imploding - while letting us sleep at night.
~ Max Brooks
I mean, I can cook, but I'd get very nervous having my food being judged by dinner guests.
~ Prabal Gurung
Theres nothing to fear but fears themselves, such as monsters, rejection, food poisoning, redundancy, monsters, and oxford commas.
~ Craig Benzine
The sexual freedom of today for most people is really only a convention, an obligation, a social duty, a social anxiety, a necessary feature of the consumer's way of life.
~ Pier Paolo Pasolini
The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.
~ Tara Brach
If people base their identity on identifying with authority, freedom causes anxiety. They must then conceal the victim in themselves by resorting to violence against others.
~ Unknown
Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.
~ Emile M. Cioran
Financial freedom is freedom from fear.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear.
~ George Meany
... true financial freedom doesn't depend on how much money you have. Financial freedom is when you have power over your fears and anxieties instead of the other way around.
~ Suze Orman
A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.
~ William Falconer
Anxiety is the price tag on human freedom
~ Louis Menand