Anxiety Courage Quotes

#1. We are the carriers of health and disease - either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety

Joshua L. Liebman

#2. Behind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety - sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out the fear isn't what's important - facing it is.

Julien Smith

#3. Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of love.

Paulo Coelho

#4. It is as if I were made of stone, as if I were my own tombstone, there is no loophole for doubt or for faith, for love or repugnance, for courage or anxiety, in particular or in general, only a vague hope lives on, but no better than the inscriptions on tombstones.

Franz Kafka

#5. Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.

Rollo May

#6. Instead of antiquated notions of physical daring, courage is much more about making small choices to take initiative even when we are experiencing anxiety and facing risk.

Robert Biswas-Diener

#7. Each day befriend a single fear, and the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form such a morass of vague anxiety that it rules your life from the shadows of the unconscious. We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.

Sam Keen

#8. It is the expression of the anxiety of meaninglessness and of the attempt to take this anxiety into the courage to be as oneself. (139)

Paul Tillich

#9. Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.

Ralph Keyes

#10. When things don't add up, either you don't have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.

Shannon L. Alder

#11. Really. Is there anything nice to be said about other people's vacations?

Amor Towles

#12. I always claimed I became the Batman to fight crime. That was a lie. I did it to overcome the fear.

Jim Starlin

#13. How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Joseph Conrad

#14. I don't have an iPod.

Mary Timony

#15. Problem is that my athletic abilities in my mind are greater than what my body can accomplish. And my level of fear and anxiety of getting injured is greater than my courage.

Jake M. Johnson

#16. Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.

Tommy Franks

#17. Free your hearts of anxiety, pain and anger, to have peace within your heart and soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. Courage means feeling all those hard human emotions - all that uncertainty and anxiety - and getting the job done anyway.

Douglas Conant

#19. I think this is what we all want to hear: that we are not alone in hitting the bottom, and that it is possible to come out of that place courageous, beautiful, and strong.

Anna White

#20. The man of courage is not the man who did not face adversity. The man of courage is the man who faced adversity and spoke to it. The man of courage tells adversity, "You're trespassing and I give you no authority to steal my joy, my faith or my hope.

Kiese Laymon

#21. Comfortless was my religion, anxiety of the anxieties, for I believed God was not love, but courage. Love came only as a reward.

Norman Mailer

#22. If men had not this delusion as to the ultra-importance of their own particular employments, I suppose that they would sit down and kill themselves. But their weakness is wearisome, particularly when the listener knows that he himself commits exactly the same sin.

Rudyard Kipling

#23. I don't paint so that people will understand me, I paint to show what a particular scene looks like.

J. M. W. Turner

#24. The pride taken by the Italians in their gifted women is among the most important facts in the history of their Renaissance.

Walter Shaw Sparrow

#25. Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power ... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.

Octavio Paz

#26. Vulnerability + Action + Positive Thinking = Courage

Shannon L. Alder

#27. When you notice yourself desperately trying to think of an excuse to avoid a new experience out of FEAR, ANXIETY or INSECURITY, make the decision to say: "sure, I'll do it" , and see how your life improves.

Miya Yamanouchi

#28. The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

Paul Tillich

#29. Courage is not the absence of fear; true courage is manifest in bravely doing what has to be done in spite of fears or foes or the foolishness of the crowd or the taunts of the group. True courage is doing the right thing in spite of the odds or opposition or apprehension.

Emerson Roy West

#30. I have read every book in the 'Dune' series and every Anne Rice book.

Lorraine Toussaint