Top 100 Anxiety Worry Quotes
#1. When you're gripped by anxiety, worry, insomnia, or panic, make yourself shiver, quiver, tremble, and shudder. It seems silly, but it really works.
Jude Bijou
#2. This is where we can find the greatest relief and joy everyday: falling under thought, anxiety, worry and all forms of me, into stillness; losing oneself in compelling engagements that transcend ambition, strategy, self-gain and self-consciousness.
Darrell Calkins
#3. Life ... as God intended it enables us to live above the drag of fear, superstition, shame, pessimism, guilt, anxiety, worry, and all the negativity that keeps people from seizing each day as a gift from Him.
Charles R. Swindoll
#4. I like to read and write because it is the ONLY thing that takes my mind off of the real world and my spinning worries. It is a time I can be free of anxiety, worry, and stress. When my life gets hectic I HAVE to read and write or I'll drown.
Shandy L. Kurth
#5. The contrast between earthly and spiritual is not a contrast between the tangible and the intangible; it is between the transitory and the eternal. Earthly is temporary, spiritual is everlasting. [Ed Welch, Running Scared, 127]
Edward T. Welch
#6. To him who is afraid, everything rustles.
Sophocles
#7. The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme
thinking too much.
Virginia Woolf
#8. All young people worry about things, it's a natural and inevitable part of growing up, and at the age of sixteen my greatest anxiety in life was that I'd never again achieve anything as good, or pure, or noble, or true, as my O-level results.
David Nicholls
#9. fear, worry, and anxiety have useful roles to play in our lives.
Daniel M. Gilbert
#10. The problem of life is to change worry into thinking and anxiety into creative action.
Harold Bridgwood Walker
#11. The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.
Milan Kundera
#12. When I don't have something to worry about, I worry. Nothing comes so naturally to a human being as anxiety and worry.
Brian Richardson
#13. When you wake up to kingdom realities, you find that you are tracing the steps of both the Israelites and Jesus himself into the wilderness ... The wilderness is the place where God meets his people, Satan attacks, and kingdom allegiances are revealed. [Ed Welch, Running Scared, 118]
Edward T. Welch
#14. Remember that worrying will not go away by thinking the same thought again and again. Thinking something fresh, loving and uplifting instead of worrying. Replace your worse anxiety with cheerful optimism.
Angelica Hopes
#17. Jesus paid a high price for your peace. Don't give it away.
David McGee
#18. Many things can cause us to worry, but a kind word or deed can do wonders. Sometimes that's all we need to feel better.
Kate Klise
#19. Why should he who is scared be careful?
Menander
#20. Temperamentally anxious people can have a hard time staying motivated, period, because their intense focus on their worries distracts them from their goals.
Winifred Gallagher
#21. Anxiety is secretive. He does not trust anyone, not even his friends, Worry, Terror, Doubt and Panic ... He likes to visit me late at night when I am alone and exhausted. I have never slept with him, but he kissed me on the forehead once, and I had a headache for two years ...
J. Ruth Gendler
#22. Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.
E. Stanley Jones
#23. The day you stop worrying will be the first day of your new life; anxiety takes you in circles, trust in yourself and become free.
Leon Brown
#24. People have worried about things for centuries, but it has never once had a positive effect on the outcome of a situation.
Lisa M. Schab
#25. Each moment of worry, anxiety or stress represents lack of faith in miracles, for they never cease.
T.F. Hodge
#26. Worry and anxiety give a small thing a big shadow, and this shadow creates problems, not just in the soul and spirit, but in the body.
Linda Dillow
#27. No amount of regret can change the past. No amount of anxiety can change the future.
Karen Salmansohn
#28. He looked down at me without recognition, and I realized with a little stab of anxiety that he must have forgotten all about me, perhaps for some considerable time, and that he himself was so lost in the labyrinth of his own unquiet thoughts that I did not exist.
Daphne Du Maurier
#29. You can't use stress, anxiety, frustration, and worry to deal with your stress, anxiety, frustration, and worry. It's like pulling up to a burning building with a flame thrower. The energy of the problem can't be the energy behind a successful solution.
Bill Crawford
#30. I criticise myself an awful lot. I do worry to the point that I don't think it's very healthy. I'm always picking my flaws. It's a terrible anxiety I have. I wish I could pretend nothing fazes me, but it does.
Roxanne McKee
#31. How do you fill the space between, "God says it," and, "I believe it,"?
Jen Pollock Michel
#32. I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.
Tom Wilson
#33. In cities where peace and the arts flourish, men are more consumed by jealousy, worry, and anxiety than they are in cities under the blight of a besieging army. Private sorrows are more bitter than public suffering.
Voltaire
#34. For the briefest moment, Jack's face formed the faintest smile as he considered fear and anxiety, the latter two of which often caused people to forget what truly mattered most.
Jermaine Watkins
#35. A positive attitude may not solve all our problems but that is the only option we have if we want to get out of problems.
-Subodh Gupta author "Stress Management a holistic approach -5 steps plan".
Subodh Gupta
#36. Worry is like a roller coaster ride that you think will take you somewhere, but it never does.
Shannon L. Alder
#37. Worry, hate, fear-together with their offshoots: anxiety, bitterness, impatience, avarice, unkindness, judgmentalness, and condemnation-all attack the body at the cellular level. It is impossible to have a healthy body under these conditions.
Neale Donald Walsch
#38. The speaker indicts our unbelieving responses to Jesus' COMMAND not to worry. We take it less seriously than His commands about overt actions and justify ourselves that we would not worry if He kept us from any circumstance we might worry about.
Jim Savastio
#39. Let your cares drive you to God. I shall not mind if you have many of them if each one leads you to prayer. If every fret makes you lean more on the Beloved, it will be a benefit.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#40. It's because the door hasn't been closed yet that the nightmares still find their way in.
Joyce Rachelle
#41. Worry doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. We know worry is destructive, and yet we continue to be choked by anxiety over what might happen.
Linda Dillow
#42. Worry causes stress and anxiety leading to an imbalance of the mind body and spirit and blockage to the root chakra.
Adele Malone
#43. Other Definitions of Worry Anxiety is the great modern plague. But faith can cure it.
Smiley Blanton
#44. Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.
Peter Carey
#45. What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?
Frank Herbert
#47. Whatever feelings you have within you are attracting your tomorrow. Worry attracts more worry. Anxiety attracts more anxiety. Unhappiness attracts more unhappiness. Dissatisfaction attracts more dissatisfaction.
Rhonda Byrne
#48. Refuse to worry. Cast your anxiety upon the Lord. He cares for you.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#49. If there was a day of the week I could skip it would be Monday. Clients had too much time to think and worry over a long weekend and by Monday they were often riddled with fear and anxiety.
Stan Turner
#50. God's self-revelation is a higher authority than our feelings.
Edward T. Welch
#51. I have always felt that fear possesses such great power, enough to paralyze and quake an individual. Pondering this, I realized that the source of fear's power comes from within me. So, I ask myself, does that not make me the powerful one?
Richelle E. Goodrich
#52. I would say off the cuff that I am an anxious person. I worry about everything. I need to know everything. I tend to live in a state of anxiety with the feeling that life is some kind of great catastrophe.
Antoni Tapies
#53. You belong in the most secret part of you. Don't worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world. If you fear, make it work for you - draw and paint your fear and anxiety.
Sol LeWitt
#54. No amount of anxiety or worry is going to make any difference to anything that's going to happen anyway, so why let yourself feel so heavy?
John Phillips
#55. A Christian's freedom from anxiety is not due to some guaranteed freedom from trouble, but to the folly of worry and especially to the confidence that God is our Father, that even permitted suffering is within the orbit of His care.
John Stott
#56. If you can believe, worry and anxiety will vanish
T. B. Joshua
#57. Catching something is merely a byproduct of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves all fear and anxiety.
Gladys Taber
#58. He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too familiar, that of walking in a giant sphere of worry, enclosed by it, watching his own terrors roll by, obscuring the outside world.
J.K. Rowling
#59. I like to describe worry or anxiety as spending today trying to figure out tomorrow. Let's learn to use the time God has given us for today!
Joyce Meyer
#60. God Is Great. If these three words together enshrine in our mind, heart and soul, then there is never worry, anxiety nor a fear of failure in our life.
Anuj
#61. But sometimes in the midst of worry, anxiety and hard work, it has been pretty hard to bear all these false reports going about the country - to see my friends alienated and being made to believe things that were absolutely false.
John Harvey Kellogg
#62. Be you, be true to your word, don't sell yourself short and don't waste your life worrying.
Sam Owen
#63. Cath couldn't control whether she saw Levi on campus. But she could worry about it, and as long as she was worrying about it, it probably wasn't going to happen. Like some sort of anxiety vaccine. Like watching a pot to make sure it never boiled.
Rainbow Rowell
#64. I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.
B.F. Skinner
#65. Don't worry about bad things that haven't happened yet. It will save you a lot of anxiety.
Adriana Trigiani
#66. It's hard to not worry, because trying not to worry reminds me that I should be worried
Matthew Green
#67. A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity. We're all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
Mel Brooks
#69. Worry is worthless. It can't change the past or control the future. It only spoils the moment.
Darrin Patrick
#70. In the past, I would try to control so much, but that's just too stressful, and gives me too much anxiety and worry.
Cam Gigandet
#71. She had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly.
Thomas Hardy
#72. I hold onto the Scripture that says, 'Be anxious for nothing, but in all things give thanks.' I'm not saying I don't have problems or that I don't worry, but I try not to be stressed. I manage my anxiety through prayer. Worry shows up on your face, and I don't want that!
Kim Fields
#73. Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in truth, they are what cause anxiety.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#74. It's a waste of time worrying about something that worry won't fix. It's about as useful as trying to feed your pet rock.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#75. Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.
Rollo May
#76. The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#77. Anxiety is the illness of our age. We worry about ourselves, our family, our friends, our work, and our state of the world. If we allow worry to fill our hearts, sooner or later we will get sick.
Nhat Hanh
#78. The only thing I have to lose going into this fight is anxiety, fear, worry; all those kinds of negativity.
Alex Caceres
#79. A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.
Bertrand Russell
#80. I don't know what I would do without you. I don't know what I will do without you. I learned about the future tense, how anxiety is encoded into our sentences, our conditionals, our thoughts, how worry is encoded into language itself, into grammar.
Charles Yu
#81. We should be worrying about if you live in the city you're more likely to have anxiety or mood disorders and to be schizophrenic. More than the problems people have from social media.
Nick Harkaway
#82. Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK.
Tana French
#83. Become a worry-slapper. Treat frets like mosquitoes. Do you procrastinate when a bloodsucking bug lights on your skin? 'I'll take care of it in a moment.' Of course you don't! You give the critter the slap it deserves. Be equally decisive with anxiety.
Max Lucado
#85. My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
Michel De Montaigne
#86. Mix a little time with some space, and suddenly good things fall right into place. No worries, don't doubt it - just build!
T.F. Hodge
#87. If I can trust the word of a friend, why do I question the word of the God of the universe? Go figure. Sin is truly bizarre. [Running Scared, p. 111]
Edward T. Welch
#88. Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety; the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat-such as the worry about an examination, a speech, travel-but rather by the symbolic and often unconscious representations.
Willard Gaylin
#89. Suffer no anxiety, for he who is a sufferer of anxiety becomes regardless of enjoyment of the world and the spirit, and contraction happens to his body and soul.
Zoroaster
#90. Because we have only one (life) we go about blundering along him nervous haste.
John Taliaferro
#91. The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things.
Victor Hugo
#92. It is obviously no secret that I earn a lot of money. But it is also no secret that I give most of it away. I don't live a luxurious life. I drive a small second-hand Fiat. I don't have to worry about money, which is itself a privilege. But I never had any anxiety that I would lose my identity.
Henning Mankell
#93. When you spend time worrying, you're simply using your imagination to create things you don't want.
Shannon L. Alder
#94. Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn't make you better.
Seth Godin
#95. Nothing conquers the chaos around me like the calm assurance that I am at peace with God.
Ron Brackin
#97. If you don't do what you love, you will never love what you do. And if you don't love whatever you do, you are likely to be worried anytime a duty is assigned to you concerning that.
Israelmore Ayivor
#98. Anxiety is a state of apprehension, uncertainty, and fear resulting from the anticipation of a realistic or fantasized threatening event or situation. Often, men will appear confident and self-assured to others but actually be living with a great deal of worry and fear.
Jed Diamond
#99. I watch worry and anxiety being pandered to through technology which is neutral.
Brian Richardson
#100. Adoration drives obedience, but throughout history people are prone to forget the faithfulness of God yesterday.
Matt Chandler
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