Looking for the best and inspirational Anxiety quotes?
Anxiety is the feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease. We can never know the future for sure, but we can plan for it. When you have a plan, you won’t be anxious about what might happen next. You don’t have to feel anxiety if you have something to do. It is a common feeling that many people experience. It can be an overwhelming sense of fear, nervousness, and worry about what may come. You may feel like you are not in control and that something terrible is going to happen.
Anxiety is not meant to last forever – it is just a feeling. The goal should be to make anxiety less strong and easier to manage. You should always remember that this feeling will pass, and something else will come along soon enough!
Sometimes you just need to take a break and think about everything from a different perspective. Here are some inspirational and stress-relieving quotes that will help you deal with any challenges on the way to success.
101 Anxiety Quotes To Calm Your Soul
“Don’t assume I’m weak because I have panic attacks. You’ll never know the amount of strength it takes to face the world every day.” ― Unknown
“People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.” ― George Bernard Shaw
“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” – William James
“Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries. — Astrid Alauda
“You can’t always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.” ― Wayne Dyer
“Never let life’s hardships disturb you … no one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.” ― Nichiren Daishonen
“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.” – Buddha
“Once you choose hope, anything is possible.” ― Christopher Reeve
“Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety; after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.” ― Ali Ibn Abi Talib
“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.” ― Deepak Chopra
“We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” ― Joseph Campbell
“Our stresses, anxieties, pains and problems arise because we do not see the world, others or even ourselves as worthy of love.” ― Prem Prakash
“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.” ― William S. Burroughs
“Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.” ― Charles Spurgeon
“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside of you that is greater than any obstacle..” – Christian D Larson
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot
“Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.” ― Ana Monnar
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.” ― Marcus Aurelius
“Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.” ― Anais Nin
“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.” ― Aesop
“Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.” ― Mary Hemingway
“There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.” ― Henry David Thoreau
“Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming.” ― Robert Tew
“In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived. How well we have loved. How well we have learned to let go.” ― Jack Kornfield
“Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the most wonderful things that will ever happen to us.” – Nicole Reed
“Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges.” ― Bryant McGill
“Today’s a perfect day for a whole new start. Let go of fear and free your mind. It’s time to open your heart.” ― Chris Butler
“My anxiety doesn’t come from thinking about the future but from wanting to control it.” ― Hugh Prather
“Calmness is the cradle of power.” ― Josiah Gilbert Holland
“Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.” ― Roy T. Bennett
“Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
“You cannot always control what goes on outside, but you can always control what goes on inside.” ― Wayne Dyer
“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.” ― Benjamin Franklin
“Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.” ― Grenville Kleiser
“Worry in the dark can make it even darker.” ― Camron Wright
“I just give myself permission to suck. I find this hugely liberating.” ― John Green
“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” ― Maya Angelou
“A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.” ― Joyce Meyer
“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world — not even our troubles.” ― Charlie Chaplin
“There are far, far better things ahead than anything we leave behind.” ― C. S. Lewis
“You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.” ― Natalie Goldberg
“Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The universe doesn’t allow perfection.” ― Stephen Hawking
“Just because I can’t explain the feelings causing my anxiety doesn’t make them less valid.” ― Lauren Elizabeth
“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh
“I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.” ― Steve Maraboli
“You don’t have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.” ― Dan Millman
“You have a treasure within you that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.” ― Eckhart Tolle
“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” ― Mother Teresa
“You have dug your soul out of the dark, you have fought to be here; do not go back to what buried you.” ― Bianca Sparacino
“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.” ― Shannon L. Alder
“Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.” ― William Shakespeare
“We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.” ― David Mamet
“In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.” ― Mitch Albom
“Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.” ― Jodi Picoult
“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” — Jamie Paolinetti
“Not everything that weighs you down is yours to carry.” — Charlie Chaplin
“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” ― Maya Angelou
“If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.” ― Dean Smith
“Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.” ― J. Donald Walters
“Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.” ― Dorothy M. Neddermeyer
“The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.” ― Sydney J. Harris
“For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.” ― Lily Tomlin
“Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.” ― Pema Chodron
“It’s OKAY to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave.” ― Mandy Hale
“There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.” ― Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” ― Anonymous
“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh
“Everything you have ever wanted, is sitting on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
“Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you because it will.” ― Cheryl Strayed
“Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.” ― Henry Ward Beecher
“Rule number one is, don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it’s all small stuff.” ― Robert Eliot
“By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.” – Edwin Elliot
“We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.” ― Christopher Hitchens
“No amount of anxiety can change the future. No amount of regret can change the past.” ― Karen Salmansohn
“Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.” ― Arthur Somers Roche
“What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?” — Thomas á Kempis
“Smile, breathe, and go slowly.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh
“Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.” ― Walter Anderson
“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.” – Kahlil Gibran
“I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, not just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.” – Carl Sandburg
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”―Soren Kierkegaard
“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world—not even our troubles.”
“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” ― Amit Ray
“Who’s not sat tense before his own heart’s curtain.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke
“You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.” ― Dan Millman
“Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.” ― Dalai Lama
“No longer forward nor behind I look in hope and fear; But grateful take the good I find, The best of now and here.” ― John G. Whittier
“Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.” ― Jennifer Elisabeth
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” ― Epictetus
“Anxiety happens when you think you have to figure out everything all at once. Breathe. You’re strong. You got this. Take it day by day.” ― Karen Salmansohn
Being diagnosed with an anxiety disorder can be extremely challenging. Most of the time, the condition occurs with other mood disorders.
“Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.” ― Madeleine L’Engle
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”– William James
“How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.” ― Thomas Jefferson
“Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.” ― Chinese proverb
“Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.” ― Plato
“You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.” – Steve Maraboli
