Quotes about anxiety

The bad thing about being a world-class worrier was that being right was worse than being wrong.

The ever-present possibility of making a big mistake worried him.

He’d have worried about it more if he’d known that he already had.

Stop worrying about what you cannot control. It’s a total waste of your energy, energy that could otherwise be used to help you focus on what you can influence. I spend large parts of my coaching sessions helping people to sift through their challenges and concerns – helping them to determine what they can change and what they have no control over.

All her concerns, all her fears, began to feel trifling. It was just a trick of perspective, really, seeing things as they truly were.

Anxiety is a useful tool: it forces us to make plans. But when too much anxiety freezes us into indecision, it needs checking.

Anxiety grew, the fear that always comes when an established pattern falters.

Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life, and faith is the oil.

Strangely, although the world is already full of fearful things, mortals seems always to hunt for new worries.

...people always said that parenting and worrying were synonymous...

Worrying and anxiety go together, but worry is not an emotion; it’s the thinking part of anxiety.