Quotes About Anxiety

Worry is nothing less than the misuse of your imagination

Worry is a misuse of your imagination.

The root of all fear is imagination.

It is the starved imagination, not the well-nourished, that is afraid.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear

Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

I've never been afraid of big moments. I get butterflies.. I get nervous and anxious, but I think those are all good signs that I'm ready for the moment.

When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Pressure is what you feel when you don't know what's going on.

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

If you are anxious, you can't learn. It's like dropping seeds on concrete. With a quiet mind, people take things in.

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear.

Success is a lot like a bright, white tuxedo. You feel terrific when you get it, but then you're desperately afraid of getting it dirty, of spoiling it in any way.

The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.

To worry is to add another hazard.

most people are perfectly afraid of silence

I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system.

That's the thing about fear. Death will kill you once, but fear kills you over and over and over, if you let it.

There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.

The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

How do I dance with the fear? Fear is not the enemy. Paralysis is the enemy.