Best Quotes and speeches on Anxiety, Fear and Worry
- An old man was asked what had robbed him of his joy in his life. His reply was “things that never happened “
– Dale Carnagie - Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
– Ernest Hamingway - Do one thing every day that scares you.
– Eleanor Roosevelt - Don’t be afraid of your fears. They are not there to scare you, they are there to let you know that something is worth it.
– JoyBell C - Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.
– Astrid Alanda - Each 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 - Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
–George Addair - Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
–Jim Morrison - Fear doesn’t shut you down, it wakes you up.
– Veronica Ruth - Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I can’t allow it to paralyze me.
– Isabel Allende - Fear is the foundation of most governments.
– John Adams - Fear knocked at my door. Faith answered and there was no one there.
– Billy Sunday - Fear wants us to run from things that are not after us.
– John Mason - Fears are educated into us and can, if we wish be educated out.
– Dr. Karl A. Menninger - Have no fear of perfection – you will never reach it.
– Salvador Dali - I am not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
– Woody Allen - I feared change, until I saw that even the most beautiful butterfly had to undergo a metamorphosis before it could fly.
I feared death until I realized that it’s not an end, but a beginning.
I feared growing old until I realized that I gained wisdom every day.
I feared hate until I saw that… it was nothing more than ignorance.
I feared life until I experienced its beauty.
I feared love until it touched my heart, making the darkness fade into endless sunny days
I feared my destiny, until I realized that I had the power to change my life.
I feared pain until I learned that it’s necessary for growth.
I feared rejection until I learned to have faith in myself.
I feared ridicule until I learned how to laugh at myself.
I feared the dark until I saw the beauty of the starlight.
I feared the future until I realized that life just kept getting better.
I feared the light until I learned that the truth would give me strength.
I feared the past until I realized that it could no longer hurt me.
I feared the truth until I saw the ugliness in lies.
– Anonymous - 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 - It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it and sets it free.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick - It is not stress that kills us; it is our reaction to it.
– Hans Selye