40 Inspirational Anxiety Quotes

40 Inspirational Anxiety Quotes

Anxiety can be exhausting, overwhelming, and always seem to bring out the worst in us. However, facing and embracing your anxiety can become an opportunity to look at yourself with kindness and understanding. Here are 40 motivational quotes on anxiety to help put things into perspective.

Motivational Quotes on Anxiety

• 1. “Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.” –Kahil Gibran
• 2. “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” –William James
• 3. “Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.” –Napoleon Bonaparte
• 4. “If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.” ―Lao Tzu
• 5. “Anxiety is today’s plague. Everybody has it.” –Leo Buscaglia
• 6. “Realize that if you have time to worry, you have time to meditate.” –Amit Ray
• 7. “Your anxiety is not a cloud, it’s a master planner.” –Victoria Erickson
• 8. “If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” −Amit Ray
• 9. “Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.” –Zig Ziglar
• 10. “Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.” –Astrid Alauda

More Inspirational Quotes on Anxiety:

• 11. “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” –William James
• 12. “You can’t possibly be afraid if you’re grateful.” –Charles F. Glassman
• 13. “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” –Corrie Ten Boom
• 14. “Anxiety is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere.” –Erma Bombeck
• 15. “Most of the time our anxiety is a reaction against our own assumptions, expectations, and beliefs.” –Charles F. Glassman
• 16. “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
• 17. “Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.” –Jodi Picoult
• 18. “Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.” –Robert Louis Stevenson
• 19. “Face the fears that you have and refuse to be controlled by them.” –Alaric Hutchinson
• 20. “Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.” –T.S. Eliot

More Motivating Anxiety Quotes:

• 21. “Anxiety is triggered not by events, but by our interpretations of events.” –Brian Grasso
• 22. “You can always control how you react to a situation. The choice is yours.” –Unknown
• 23. “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” –Vincent Van Gogh
• 24. “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” –Søren Kierkegaard
• 25. “Or accept it and deal with it as quickly and efficiently as possible. When I have something to do (no matter how unpleasant) I face it and try to get it over with. Then it’s out of the way and I don’t have to think about it anymore.” –Karen Salmansohn
• 26. “Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying “I will try again tomorrow”. –Mary Anne Radmacher
• 27. “The fear of being wrong is a powerful motivator.” — Tracy Chevalier
• 28. “The only way to get rid of the fear of doing something is to go out and do it.” –Amy Poehler
• 29. “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’” –Eleanor Roosevelt
• 30. “Anxiety is always naive. It is the prelude to a resolution, not the resolution itself.” –Karen Salmansohn

Motivational Quotes to Keep You Feeling Positive

• 31. “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” –John Green
• 32. “Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes one feel as you might when a drowning man holds unto you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.” –Anais Nin
• 33. “Simplicity is a great way to reduce stress and eliminate the overwhelming feeling anxious people often have.” –Charles F. Glassman
• 34. “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 35. “Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.” –Astrid Alauda
• 36. “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” –Buddha
• 37. “Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.” –Tony Robbins
• 38. “The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I’m not going to let myself pull me down anymore.” –C. JoyBell C.
• 39. “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 40. “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” –John Green

Facing anxiety is never easy, but you don’t have to do it alone. Remember these encouraging anxiety quotes to stay motivated and positive on your journey to conquering anxiety.

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