Seeking more inner peace?
Try these anxiety quotes!
Anxiety sufferers, as well as those simply going through a tough time, will find these inspirational quotes helpful.
Some will make you feel understood, and others can fight your fears.
So take a deep breath and jump in!
Living with Anxiety Quotes
Anxiety is a part of life for most everyone – perhaps even those who pretend it isn’t.
Remind yourself to not let anxious thoughts control you with these quotes and sayings.
Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.
~ C.H. Spurgeon
I get nervous about everything. Sometimes, I don’t even know why I’m anxious. I just am. And no one seems to understand that.
~ Unknown
What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
~ Thomas à Kempis
Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
~ Kahlil Gibran
I’m telling you, anxiety is always feeling like something is out of place, and when you can’t find what it is – you start to think it’s you.
~ Rachel H.
Every day is a struggle, even when I’m at my best. My anxiety is always with me, and my panic taps me on my shoulder a few times a day. On my good days, I can brush it off. On my bad days, I just want to stay in bed.
~ Unknown
Living with anxiety is like being followed by a voice. It knows all your insecurities and uses them against you. It gets to the point when it’s the loudest voice in the room-it’s the only one you can hear.
~ Unknown
Worry is my worst enemy… an enemy I unleash upon myself.
~ Terri Guillemets
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
~ Mary Hemingway
You can’t always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.
~ Wayne Dyer
Although anxiety is part of life, never let it control you.
~ Paulo Coelho
It’s sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.
~ Amanda Seyfried
Anxiety is not being able to sleep because you said something wrong two years ago and can’t stop thinking about it.
~ Unknown
You don’t have to control your thoughts. You have to stop letting them control you.
~ Dan Millman
We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
~ Joseph Campbell
Don’t assume I’m weak because I have panic attacks. You’ll never know the amount of strength it takes to face the world every day.
~ Unknown
If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.
~ Brené Brown
Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength – carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
Just because I can’t explain the feelings causing my anxiety, doesn’t make them less valid.
~ Lauren Elizabeth
Hey you, keep living. It won’t always be this overwhelming.
~ Jacqueline Whitney
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
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Funny Anxiety Quotes
Sometimes the best antidote to stress and anxiety is to keep your good humor. So check out this group of quotes!
Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.
~ Jodi Picoult
I like my music so loud I can’t hear my thoughts.
~ Unknown
I don’t struggle with anxiety. I’m actually pretty good at it.
~ Unknown
We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.
~ David Mamet
People with anxiety don’t have a train of thought. We have 7 trains on 4 tracks that narrowly avoid each other when paths cross, and all the conductors are screaming.
~ Unknown
Anxiety is a lot like a toddler. It never stops talking, tells you you’re wrong about everything, and wakes you up at 3 a.m.
~ Anonymous
It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
~ Hans Selye
What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
~ Martha Graham
Worry in the dark can make it even darker.
~ Camron Wright
There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea.
~ Bernard-Paul Heroux
The best thing one can do when it is raining, is to let it rain.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
~ Olin Miller
If you’re going through hell keep going.
~ Winston Churchill
I’ve got 99 problems and 86 of them are completely made up scenarios in my head that I’m stressing about for absolutely no logical reason.
~ Unknown
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world — not even our troubles.
~ Charlie Chaplin
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.
~ Frank A. Clark
Go easy on yourself. Whatever you do today, let it be enough.
~ Unknown
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Positive Anxiety Quotes
These quotes take a direct route to a positive attitude. And that’s a good thing!
Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest taken between two deep breaths.
~ Etty Hillesum
Mantra for anxiety: Anxiety is not you. It’s something moving through you. It can leave out of the same door it came in.
~ James Clear
Every 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
Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it — just as we have learned to live with storms.
~ Paulo Coelho
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
~ William James
Sometimes the best thing you can do is not think, not wonder, not imagine, not obsess. Just breathe and have faith that everything will work out for the best.
~ Unknown
Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others, or even ourselves as worthy of love.
~ Prem Prakash
If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.
~ Mary Engelbreit
There are these moments you think you won’t survive. And then you survive.
~ David Levithan
Breathe darling. This is just a chapter. It’s not your whole story.
~ S.C. Lourie
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Inspirational Anxiety Quotes
Inspire yourself with more quotes for anxious people.
If we wanted to change the situation, we first had to change ourselves. And to change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
~ Stephen Covey
No amount of anxiety can change the future. No amount of regret can change the past.
~ Karen Salmansohn
Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.
~ Bob Kerrey
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
~ George Bernard Shaw
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.
~ Maya Angelou
She has been through hell. So believe me when I say, fear her when she looks into a fire and smiles.
~ E. Corona
If you feel like you’re losing everything, remember trees lose their leaves every year and they stand tall and wait for better days to come.
~ Unknown
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.
~ Anonymous proverb
It is very hard to explain to people who have never known severe depression or anxiety the sheer continuous intensity of it. There is no off switch.
~ Matt Haig
While fear depletes power, faith gives wings for the soul’s elevation.
~ T.F. Hodge
Today’s a perfect day for a whole new start. Let go of fear and free your mind. It’s time to open your heart.
~ Chris Butler
You can’t calm the storm. So stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass.
~ Timber Hawkeye
I know you’re sad, so I won’t tell you to have a good day. Instead, I advise you to have a day. Stay alive, feed yourself well, wear comfortable clothes, and don’t give up on yourself just yet. It’ll get better. Until then, have a day.
~ Unknown
You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
~ Martin Luther King
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
~ William James
Keep walking through the storm. Your rainbow is waiting on the other side.
~ Heather Stillufsen
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
~ Virginia Woolf
You have dug your soul out of the dark, you have fought to be here; do not go back to what buried you.
~ Bianca Sparacino
Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.
~ Winnie the Pooh
You can’t stop the waves but you can learn to surf.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
~ Shannon L. Alder
You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.
~ Steve Maraboli
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It’s OKAY to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave.
~ Mandy Hale
If you can’t fly, run. If you can’t run, walk. If you can’t walk, crawl, but by all means, keep moving.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everything you have ever wanted is sitting on the other side of fear.
~ George Addair
P.S. You’re not going to die. Here’s the white-hot truth: if you go bankrupt, you’ll still be okay. If you lose the gig, the lover, the house, you’ll still be okay. If you sing off-key, get beat by the competition, have your heart shattered, get fired… it’s not going to kill you. Ask anyone who’s been through it.
~ Danielle LaPorte
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Short Anxiety Quotes
Short and sweet, to text or tweet.
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
~ Swedish proverb
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
~ Søren Kierkegaard
Act the way that you want to feel.
~ Gretchen Rubin
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
~ Seneca
It’s not time to worry yet.
~ Harper Lee
The way you tell your story to yourself matters.
~ Amy Cuddy
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not everything that weighs you down is yours to carry.
~ Anonymous
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.
~ Walter Anderson
I know what it’s like to be afraid of your own mind.
~ Dr.Reid
I am exhausted from trying to be stronger than I feel.
~ Unknown
It’s perfectly okay to admit you’re not okay.
~ Unknown
All I want is a clear mind and a happy heart.
~ Dipti Bhoyar
When I let go of what I am, I become what I want to be.
~ Lao Tzu
Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Your mountain may be harder to climb, but oh the view is divine.
~ Jennae Cecelia
Fear is interest paid on a debt you may not even owe.
~ Unknown
Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.
~ William Shakespeare
Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
~ T. S. Eliot
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
~ Plato
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Calming Anxiety Quotes
Calm those anxious feelings with these wise words.
If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
~ Amit Ray
Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming.
~ Robert Tew
Flowers grow back even after the harshest winters. You will too.
~ Jennae Cecilia
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges.
~ Bryant McGill
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
~ William S. Burroughs
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.
~ Natalie Goldberg
Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.
~ Amit Ray
Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.
~ Roy Bennett
Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
~ Anais Nin
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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 Roc
Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.
~ Astrid Alauda
Breathe. You’re going to be okay. You’ve gotten through so many things in your life. You’ve got this.
~ Karen Salmansohn
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
~ Anne Lamott
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Anxiety Relieving Quotes
Less stress, more peace!
Smile, breathe, and go slowly.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Surrender to what is. Let go of what was. Have faith in what will be.
~ Sonia Ricotte
Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations. The best is yet to come.
~ Zig Ziglar
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight
~ Benjamin Franklin
Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety; after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.
~ Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Remember how far you’ve come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.
~ Rick Warren
The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
~ Sydney J. Harris
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
~ Epictetus
To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one’s self…. And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one’s self.
~ Søren Kierkegaard
Life is 10 percent what you experience and 90 percent how you respond to it.
~ Dorothy M. Neddermeyer
Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.
~ Ana Monnar
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Best Quotes for Calming Anxiety
It’s my sincere wish that you’ve found some relief in these inspirational quotes for anxiety sufferers.
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