Inspirational Anxiety Quotes

I find that these anxiety quotes are very inspirational and helpful when I am overcome with anxiety and worry.  These quotes helped me to start thinking instead of worrying because it is basically just a waste of time.  So these days when I feel anxiety starting to hit I focus on coming up with a solution to my problem.

When you feel anxious and find it hard to cope read these inspirational anxiety quotes.  They will help you to stay focused on the important aspects of life.  

“It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.”  Rollo May

 “No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.” Olive Schreiner

“One cannot remove anxiety by arguing it away.” Paul Tillich

“Worry is a god, invisible but omnipotent.  It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.”  Benjamin Disraeli

“Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.” Swedish Proverb

“If your eyes are blinded by your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.” Krishnamurti

“If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is.” Anon

“Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.” Arnold Bennett

“There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes.  What madness is it in expecting evil before it arrives.”  Marcus Annaeus Seneca

“A hundred load of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.” George Herbert

“Worry is a futile thing, it’s something like a rocking chair, although it keeps you occupied it doesn’t get you anywhere.” Anon

“When you worry, you go over the same ground endlessly and come out the same place you started.  Thinking, on the other hand, makes progress from one place to another… the problem of life is to change worry into thinking, and anxiety into creative action.” Harold B. Walker

“Which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto his stature?” Mathew 6:27

“I think that these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.” Isak Dinesen

“You always get negative reactions.  If you worry about that, you would never do anything.” Tom Monaghan

“There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry… One of these days is yesterday… and the other day I do not worry about is tomorrow.” Robert James Burdette

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.” A.J. Cronin

“If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure.” Robert Hillyer

“Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.” Edmund Burke

“A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.” John Lubbock

“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.” Robert Frost

“Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.” B.C. Forbes

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Taking Action Quotes

These quotes are particularly for anyone who is finding that taking action is hard.  They will be inspirational in helping you to find courage to do what is necessary, no matter how difficult the task.  

“Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.” Hannah Arendt Quotes

“The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation…the hand is the cutting edge of the mind.” Jacob Bronowski Quotes

“Action is worry’s worst enemy.” American Proverb

“Action without thought is like shooting without aim.”  American Proverb

“Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold water becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.” Leonardo Davinci Quotes

“But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.” Francis Bacon Quotes

“He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.” William Blake Quotes

“It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.” Charlotte Bronte Quotes

“Drastic action may be costly, but it can be less expensive than continuing inaction.”  Richard E. Neustadt

“Action and Becoming are one.” Meister Eckhart Quotes

“I like things to happen; and if they don’t happen, I like to make them happen.” Winston Churchill

“Right action is freedom, from past and future also.” T.S. Elliot Quotes

“Reward of an act is to have done it.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

“By inwardness alone we do not come close to God.  The purest intentions, the finest sense of devotion, the noblest spiritual aspirations are fatuous when not realized in action.” Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Never confuse movement with action.” Ernest Hemingway Quotes

“Action is basically a reaction against loss of balance-a flailing of the arms to regain ones balance.  To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.” Eric Hoffer Quotes

“To act is to affirm the worth of an end.” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes

“Action follow conviction, not knowledge.” Pierre Lacomte du Nouy Quotes

“Only those who themselves go into action now can make appeals for action.” Lenin Quotes

“Let every action aim solely at the common good.” Marcus Aurelius Quotes

“We are born to act.” Marcus Auraelius Quotes

“Actions will be judged according to intentions.” Muhammad Quotes

“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Action is eloquence.” Shakespeare

“Be content  to act, and leave the talking to others.” Baltasar Gracian Quotes

“Things don’t turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.” James A. Garfield Quotes

“I begin to think that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life.  Man was made for action and for bustle, too, I believe.” Abigail Adams Quotes

These are just some of the many quotes on taking action.  You can find a list of other quotes you may be interested in by taking a look at the table of contents below.

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