Anxiety And Fear Quotes:

Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Inspirational, Fear, Simple, Self Pity, Anxiety And Fear

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Looks, Able, Next, Empowering Women, Inspirational Adversity

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Fear, Patriotic, History, Inaugural Address, Inaugural Speech

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

- William James

topic: Happiness, Fear, Stress, Inspirational Stress, Pragmatists

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Fear None, Afraid Of Life

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Fear, Secret Life, Worst Fear

He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.

- Michel de Montaigne

topic: Wisdom, Emotional, Suffering, Worry And Fear, Worry Fear

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

- Mark Twain

topic: Mastery, Absence, Peaceful Warrior, Afraid Of Life, Inspirational Adversity

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Fear, Preparation, Doubt, Waste Of Life, Doubt And Fear

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

- Leo Buscaglia

topic: Inspirational, Life, Strength, Sorrow And Happiness, Joy Happiness

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

- Marcus Aurelius

source: Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.144, Sheba Blake Publishing

topic: Life, Moving On, Wise, Not Afraid Of Death, One Life To Live

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Moving On, Depression, Letting Go, Forward In Life, Fear Of The Unknown

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man.

- Pat Paulsen

topic: Fear, Breast Cancer, Men, Inaugural Speech, Sound Bites

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

- Dale Carnegie

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Fear, Make Up Your Mind, Fear Of Love

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

- Les Brown

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Dream, Make People Feel Better, Fear None

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Fear, Stress, Anger, Inspirational Stress, Stress And Anxiety

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Inspirational, Strength, Success, Inspiring Leader, Leadership And Management

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

- John Dryden

topic: Fear, Life Lesson, Learning, Anxiety And Fear

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

- Mitch Albom

source: Mitch Albom (2011). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, p.148, Hachette UK

topic: Bible, Jesus, Future, Jesus Inspirational, Worry Less

Perfect love drives out fear

- Karen Kingsbury

topic: Perfect, Perfect Love, Have No Fear, Christ Love, Love And Fear

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

- Plato

topic: Men, Worry, Anxiety, Nothing Matters, Ancient Greek

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

- Samuel Butler

topic: Fear, Halloween, Inspiration, Worry Fear, Fear Me

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

- Bertrand Russell

source: Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters”, p.144

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Fear, Difficult Life, Knowledge And Wisdom

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that

- James Neil Hollingworth

topic: Courage, Judgement, Absence, Peaceful Warrior, Afraid Of Life

Courage is not the absence of fear

- Richard Stengel

topic: Absence, Peaceful Warrior, Afraid Of Life, Inspirational Courage, Inspirational Recovery

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inspirational Confidence, Inspirational Courage

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

- Mark Twain

topic: Death, Motivational Sports, Fear, Afraid Of Death, Certain Death

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

- Edmund Burke

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Fearlessness, Living In Fear

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

- Jim Butcher

source: Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.997, Penguin

topic: Bible, Shadow Of Death, Death Of A Loved One, Valley Of Death, Someone Dying

Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid

- Robert Liparulo

topic: Bravery, Absence, Forging Ahead, Living In Fear, Fears Of Life

The other side of every fear is a freedom.

- Marilyn Ferguson

topic: Sides, Phobia, Face Your Fears, Anxiety And Fear, Conquering Fear

I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties and fears and tears. It has a lot of grief in it, and it can be very grim. And I do not want to be the one who tries to tell somebody else what life is all about. To me it's a complete mystery.

- Charles M. Schulz

topic: Grief, Thinking, Anxiety, Why We Are Here, Anxiety And Fear

I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art. I followed the thread of art and somehow discovered a path that would allow me to live.

- Yayoi Kusama

source: Yayoi Kusama (2013). “Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama”, p.60, Tate Enterprises Ltd

topic: Art, Pain, Fighting, Creating Art, Anxiety And Fear

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

topic: Focus, Anxiety, Quality, Anxiety And Fear

Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear. Security without freedom means slavery. So, each on its own is awful; only together they make for a good life. But, a big "but": being both necessary, complementing each other, they are nevertheless virtually incompatible.

- Zygmunt Bauman

source: Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

topic: Good Life, Mean, Anxiety, Anxiety And Fear

You have nothing to lose. All that you can lose is your tension and your worry, your little-mindedness, fear, and anxiety. And fear and anxiety, tension and worry in the small, little mind will keep the mind from being free, will keep the mind from experiencing its infinite potential, will keep the mind from becoming more powerful on this planet.

- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

topic: Powerful, Worry, Anxiety, Infinite Potential, Anxiety And Fear

There are elements of Piglet that are me: the shyness and the anxieties and fears. Even after all these years. The more you know, the higher your standards are and the more you have to lose.

- John Fiedler

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Years, Anxiety, Piglet, Anxiety And Fear

To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear! To feel the cloud that hung over us lift and disperse - that cloud that dulled the heart and made happiness no more than a memory! This at least is one joy that must have been known by almost every living creature.

- Richard Adams

source: Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.59, Oneworld Publications

topic: Memories, Heart, Clouds, Anxiety And Fear

If you are not highly educated, you will need to abandon your anxiety and fear of reading and doing research.

- Andrew Saul

source: "Helping People Doctor Themselves". Interview with Richard A. Passwater, wholefoodsmagazine.com. January 18, 2013.

topic: Anxiety And Fear

Nighttime is different. Things are otherwise when the world is black. Insecurities and hurts, anxieties and fears grow teeth at night. p493

- Kate Morton

topic: Hurt, Night, Anxiety, Anxiety And Fear

Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point.

- Aldrich Ames

topic: Mean, Anxiety, Consistency, Interrogation, Coerce

Throughout evolutionary history, anxiety and fear have helped every species to be wary and to survive. Fear can signal us to act, or, alternatively, to resist the impulse to act. It can help us to make wise, self-protective choices in and out of relationships where we might otherwise sail mindlessly along, ignoring signs of trouble.

- Harriet Lerner

topic: Wise, Fear, Self, Anxiety And Fear

Beyond drama and chaos, beyond anxiety and fear, lies a zone of endless peace and love. Let's all take a very deep breath, slow down for just a moment and remember this. That alone will open the door.

- Marianne Williamson

source: FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Nov 02, 2012

topic: Love, Inspirational, Peace, Lecturer, Anxiety And Fear

To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what's right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you.

- Byron Katie

topic: Business, Thinking, Names, Anxiety And Fear