# Quotes about anxiety - Quotes: 10 - Authors: 9 - Broader topic: [Quotes about emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md) - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/anxiety - JSON version (same data): https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/anxiety.json ## Quotes > The bad thing about being a world-class worrier was that being right was worse than being wrong. [Charles Sheffield](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield.md) · [Starfire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield/starfire.md) · p. 77 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield/starfire/the-bad-thing.md) Topics: [anxiety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/anxiety.md) > 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. [Fredric Brown](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fredric-brown.md) · [What Mad Universe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fredric-brown/what-mad-universe.md) · p. 89 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fredric-brown/what-mad-universe/the-ever-present-possibility.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [mistakes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/mistakes.md), [anxiety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/anxiety.md) > 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. [Nigel Cumberland](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nigel-cumberland.md) · [100 Things Successful People Do](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nigel-cumberland/100-things-successful-people-do.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nigel-cumberland/100-things-successful-people-do/stop-worrying-about.md) Topics: [anxiety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/anxiety.md) > All her concerns, all her fears, began to feel trifling. It was just a trick of perspective, really, seeing things as they truly were. [Alastair Reynolds](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds.md) · [On the Steel Breeze](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/on-the-steel-breeze.md) · p. 506 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/on-the-steel-breeze/all-her-concerns.md) Topics: [anxiety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/anxiety.md) > Anxiety is a useful tool: it forces us to make plans. But when too much anxiety freezes us into indecision, it needs checking. [Alastair Reynolds](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds.md) · [Century Rain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/century-rain.md) · p. 506 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/century-rain/anxiety-is-a-useful.md) Topics: [anxiety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/anxiety.md) > Anxiety grew, the fear that always comes when an established pattern falters. [Tanith Lee](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee.md) · [The Birthgrave](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/the-birthgrave.md) · p. 268 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/the-birthgrave/anxiety-grew-the.md) Topics: [anxiety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/anxiety.md) > Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life, and faith is the oil. [Abraham Verghese](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abraham-verghese.md) · [The Covenant of Water](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abraham-verghese/the-covenant-of-water.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abraham-verghese/the-covenant-of-water/worry-and-anxiety.md) Topics: [faith](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/faith.md), [anxiety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/anxiety.md) > Strangely, although the world is already full of fearful things, mortals seems always to hunt for new worries. [Tad Williams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams.md) · [To Green Angel Tower](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/to-green-angel-tower.md) · p. 307 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/to-green-angel-tower/strangely-although-the.md) Topics: [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md), [anxiety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/anxiety.md) > ...people always said that parenting and worrying were synonymous... [Nicholas Sparks](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks.md) · [The Choice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/the-choice.md) · p. 193 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/the-choice/people-always-said.md) Topics: [parents](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/parents.md), [anxiety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/anxiety.md) > Worrying and anxiety go together, but worry is not an emotion; it’s the thinking part of anxiety. [Brené Brown](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brene-brown.md) · [Atlas of the Heart](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brene-brown/atlas-of-the-heart.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brene-brown/atlas-of-the-heart/worrying-and-anxiety.md) Topics: [anxiety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/anxiety.md)