Top 1200 Anxiety And Worry Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

For most of my life, I was a worrier and an over-thinker. I had pretty bad social anxiety.

Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.

Unfortunately, on one or both of my shoulders sits lots of anxiety and that is a controlling factor in my life.

Some worry endlessly over missions that were missed, or marriages that did not turn out, or babies that did not arrive, or children that seem lost, or dreams unfulfilled, or because age limits what they can do. I do not think it pleases the Lord when we worry because we think we never do enough or that what we do is never good enough....Some needlessly carry a heavy burden of guilt which could be removed through confession and repentance.

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.

Don't be forecasting evil unless it is what you can guard against. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.

I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.

In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged.

There is probably no greater anxiety in life than going home to visit your mother for Christmas.

Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.

The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.

The Samurai is the first to suffer anxiety for human society, and he is the last to seek personal pleasure.

See, I never gain an ounce, because, you know, my anxiety acts like aerobics.

If you reflect within yourself and find nothing to be ashamed of, how could you have anxiety or fear.

There is no actual stress or anxiety in the world, your thoughts create these false beliefs.

I had some social anxiety when I was younger because I wasn't surrounded by many people in my life.

A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.

Anxiety checks learning. A feeling of well being and respect stimulates an alert mind.

People still have existential anxiety. It just may not be expressed in Hebraic idiom.

Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.

Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Oh, I still get a little anxiety when I'm doing NFL live for ESPN.

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years.

On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me.

I've seen, and experienced, the anxiety of not being able to find work for months on end.

If you want to understand entrepreneurs, you have to study the psychology of the juvenile delinquent. They don't have the same anxiety triggers that we have.

Pleasure can also be a mirror of the anxiety we feel in everyday life, it can have a message inside.

To worry is to acknowledge that the world is unpredictable, and there is power in understanding one's own powerlessness at times. But too often worry takes on life of its own. Men are quite prone to this. They'll plague themselves with so many 'what if's and 'if only's that they soon forget to ponder the true possibilities before them. Which inevitably lead to poor decisions. Whatever happens will happen. Sometimes we have say over the future. Sometimes we don't. Either way, worrying alone never accomplishes anything.

Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not

Social Security is fine for those at or near retirement today. For those receiving their checks today, don't worry. It's going to be there for you. For those that are nearing their retirement years, don't worry, it's going to be there for you. But for your kids - for your boy and my boy, and for their children, for our kids and grandkids, it's a real big question as to whether or not the system's going to be there.

'Men die of the diseases which they have studied most,' remarked the surgeon, snipping off the end of a cigar with all his professional neatness and finish. 'It's as if the morbid condition was an evil creature which, when it found itself closely hunted, flew at the throat of its pursuer. If you worry the microbes too much they may worry you. I've seen cases of it, and not necessarily in microbic diseases either. There was, of course, the well-known instance of Liston and the aneurism; and a dozen others that I could mention.'

I try to stay positive and keep my head up right, but I really do have a lot of anxiety.

Most childhoods are full of anxiety, but that tends to get smoothed over, so you have a sense of nostalgia.

There are two ways to get rid of an anxiety monster,my friend-you either have a bath or a nap.

Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.

I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.

When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.

The hypochondriac disease consists in indigestion and consequent flatulency, with anxiety or want of pleasurable sensation.

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

The anxiety phase of my first depression lasted six months. It was incredibly paralyzing.

If I'm on my way to play a round of golf there is an anxiety in me, a feeling of 'I can't lose today.'

Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up.

More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

The role of anxiety in the development of human personality is central, and it is intricate beyond our understanding.

I don't have stage or camera fright but there is a little anxiety while performing in-front of a lot of people.

Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism.

To be interested in something is to be involved in what is essentially a stressful relationship with that thing, to suffer anxiety on its behalf.

At times, I've been incapacitated by anxiety and unhappiness. You really know what joy is if you have experienced the opposite.

Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up a jungle river without once being bitten by mosquitoes, or you can almost die of thirst in the desert while holding a cold drink in your hand, or dine in the finest restaurants and never have to worry about paying the bill, or ride the wild country of our western frontier and never worry about losing your scalp to a raiding party.

I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

Beautiful things can happen when you act intuitively and instinctively in a moment of anxiety and do something radical.

I'm generally a people-pleaser so I get high anxiety from any sort of confrontation.

My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental.

The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock.

Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.

I always wanted to see people's lives transformed from depression and anxiety to joy and peace.