Overcoming Anxiety Quotes

1. “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
2. “Smile, breathe, and go slowly.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
3. “You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.” – Dan Millman
4. “Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.” – Walter Anderson
5. “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
6. “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” – Olin
Miller
7. “You can’t always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.” –
Wayne Dyer
8. “Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that
lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.” – Jennifer Elisabeth
9. “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
10. “It’s OKAY to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave.” – Mandy
Hale
11. “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
12. “I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing your health. Nothing is
worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.” – Steve Maraboli
13. “Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.” –
Kahlil Gibran 
“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.” – Kahlil Gibran

14. “He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.” – Shannon L. Alder
15. “Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.” – William Shakespeare
16. “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
17. “Hey you, keep living. It won’t always be this overwhelming.” – Jacqueline Whitney
18. “Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest taken between two deep breaths.” – Etty
Hillesum
19. “When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.” – Winston Churchill
20. “If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.” – Dean Smith
21. “Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
22. “Rule number one is, don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it’s all small stuff.” – Robert Eliot
23. “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
24. “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” – Steven Hayes
25. “What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.” – Martha Graham
26. “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
27. “If you can’t fly then run; if you can’t run then walk; if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you
have to keep moving forward.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
28. “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” – Wayne Dyer
 “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” – Wayne Dyer

29. “At the end of the day, tell yourself gently: ‘I love you, you did the best you could today, and even if you
didn’t accomplish all you had planned, I love you anyway.” – Anonymous
30. “[Slow breathing] is like an anchor in the midst of an emotional storm: The anchor won’t make the storm
go away, but it will hold you steady until it passes.” – Russ Harris
31. “You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.” – Steve Maraboli
32. “Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a
business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity
and contentment.” – Grenville Kleiser
33. “Life is 10% of what you experience and 90% of how you respond to it.” – Dorothy M. Neddermeyer 

Inspirational Quotes for Anxiety Sufferers

34. “Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.” – William S.
Burroughs
35. “How can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried so much that he
decided to hire someone to do his worrying for him. He found a man who agreed to be his hired worrier
for a salary of $200,000 per year. After the man accepted the job, his first question to his boss was,
‘Where are you going to get $200,000 per year?’ To which the man responded, ‘That’s your worry’” – Max
Lucado
36. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” –
Maya Angelou
37. “Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to
swallow. Let it nurture you because it will.” – Cheryl Strayed
38. “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less
because of that missing drop.” – Mother Teresa
39. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I want to be.” – Lao Tzu
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I want to be.” – Lao Tzu

40. “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you
have to keep moving forward.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
41. “By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.” – Edwin Elliot
42. “For fast acting relief, try slowing down.” – Lily Tomlin
43. “You have a treasure within you that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.” – Eckhart Tolle
44. “Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
45. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” – Maya Angelou
46. “More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love,
less hate.” – Roy T. Bennett
47. “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which
today arm you against the present.” – Marcus Aurelius
48. “Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.” – Benjamin
Franklin
49. “Stop your whining. If you are frightened, be silent. Whining is for prey. It attracts predators. And you are
not prey.” – Robin Hobb
50. “Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.” – Roy
Bennett
51. “The elimination diet: Remove anger, regret, resentment, guilt, blame, and worry. Then watch your health,
and life, improve.” – Charles F. Glassman
52. “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
53. “Just because I can’t explain the feelings causing my anxiety doesn’t make them less valid.” – Lauren
Elizabeth
54. “I just give myself permission to suck. I find this hugely liberating.” – John Green
55. “The universe doesn’t allow perfection.” – Stephen Hawking
56. “Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming.” – Robert Tew
“Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming.” – Robert Tew

57. “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
58. “Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere.” – Erma
Bombeck
59. “I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, not just for tomorrow, but in the
here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the
future.” – Carl Sandburg
60. “Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.” – Jodi Picoult
61. “People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering
that is familiar.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
62. “The way you tell your story to yourself matters.” – Amy Cuddy
63. “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” –
Eleanor Roosevelt
64. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Henry S.
Haskins
65. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside of you that is greater than
any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson
66. “Don’t settle: Don’t finish crappy books. If you don’t like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you’re not on
the right path, get off it.” – Chris Brogan 

Inspirational Quotes About Depression and Anxiety

67. “A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.” – Aesop
68. “Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.” – Roy T.
Bennett
69. “If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to
worry. If it’s not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.” –
The Dalai Lama
70. “Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.” – Ana Monnar
71. “I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. ‘Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.’” – E. B.
White
72. “When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.” – Winston S. Churchill
73. “Stress is an ignorant state. It believes everything is an emergency.” – Natalie Goldberg
74. “The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.” –
William James
75. “Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.” – Thomas
Carlyle
76. “It ain’t no use putting up your umbrella till it rains!” – Alice Caldwell Rice
77. “To live by worry is to live against reality.” – E. Stanley Jones
78. “Worrying about outcomes over which I have no control is punishing myself before the universe has
decided whether I ought to be punished.” – Sherry Thomas
79. “Worry in the dark can make it even darker.” – Camron Wright
80. “You’re worried about what-ifs. Well, what if you stopped worrying?” – Shannon Celebi
81. “Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a
business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity
and contentment.” – Grenville Kleiser
82. “If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” – Amit Ray
83. “Never let life’s hardships disturb you … no one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.” – Nichiren
Daishonen
84. “Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.” – Astrid Alauda
85. “Nothing is permanent in this wicked world — not even our troubles.” – Charlie Chaplin
86. “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” – William James
87. “Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your
emotions.” – Pema Chodron
88. “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
89. “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, she became a butterfly.” – Barbara
Haines Howett
“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, she became a butterfly.” – Barbara Haines
Howett

90. “Once you choose hope, anything is possible.” – Christopher Reeve

91. “Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.” – Matt Lucas
92. “Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.” – Madeleine L’Engle
93. “There are far, far better things ahead than anything we leave behind.” – C. S. Lewis
94. “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
95. “A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear (that results) from the injury of
the oyster. The treasure of our being in this world is also produced by an injured life. If we had not been
wounded, if we had not been injured, then we will not produce the pearl.” – Stephan Hoeller
96. “The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves
against anxiety and sadness.” – Alain de Botton
97. “If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be
to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every
meeting with another person.” – Fred Rogers
98. “Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations. The best is yet to come.” – Zig Ziglar
“Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations. The best is yet to come.” – Zig Ziglar

99. “The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for
the very few that were as good as spring itself.” – Ernest Hemingway
100. “The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for
example, you have done nothing to train the mind so that when you come off the medication, you are just
as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication.” – Daniel Goleman
101. “Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.” –
William James
102. “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
103. “Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the most
wonderful things that will ever happen to us.” – Nicole Reed
104. “Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.” –
Charles Spurgeon
105. “In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived. How well we have loved. How well
we have learned to let go.” – Jack Kornfield

Final Thoughts on Anxiety Quotes

Stress is actually a good thing when it comes in small doses. Nevertheless, you have to be aware that if
you allow yourself to be stressed all the time, your health and well-being suffer.

If stress is threatening to overwhelm your life in a way that debilitates you and prevents you from doing
regular daily tasks, it would be a good idea to get professional help.

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