50 Anxiety Quotes to Lower Your Stress and Quell Anxiety

Anxiety Disorders are the most common mental illness across the globe. People of all ages, genders, socioeconomic backgrounds, races, ethnicity and nationalities experience anxiety, and it seems like every year the world moves at a faster pace. Globally an estimated 275 million people suffer from an anxiety disorder, making it the most prevalent mental health or neurodevelopmental disorder. In the US, it's affecting around 40 million people and approximately 38 million Indians suffer from It. The best way of eradicating an anxiety disorder is to banish the anxious negative thoughts and replace them with more positive ones. It's easier to keep a positive frame of mind if you keep reading inspirational quotes daily. Inspiring quotes helps to stay more positive and keep negativity vibes away. We have curated best quotes about anxiety, which will help you to lower your stress and quell anxiety.

Anxiety Quotes

1. "Trust yourself. You've survived a lot, and you'll survive whatever is coming." ~ Robert Tew
2. "Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions." ~ Pema Chodron
3. "Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action." ~ Walter Anderson
4. "Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It's a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It's the direct route to serenity and contentment." ~ Grenville Kleiser
5. "Anxiety is a brain game. If you don't allow an anxious feeling to begin, you don't need to get rid of it." ~ Invajy

1. "No amount of anxiety can change the future. No amount of regret can change the past." ~ Karen Salmansohn
2. "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
3. "Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety." ~ Dalai Lama
4. "If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath." ~ Amit Ray
5. "You don't have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you." ~ Dan Millman

Quotes about anxiety

1. "The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one." ~ Elbert Hubbard
2. "Never let life's hardships disturb you ... no one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages." ~ Nichiren Daishonen
3. "Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us." ~ Nicole Reed
4. "It's not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it." ~ Hans Selye
5. "Like two swords can't remain in same sheath; mindfulness and anxiety also can't remain in same person. Live in the present moment." ~ Invajy

1. "I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear." ~ Steve Maraboli
2. "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
3. "Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom." ~ Søren Kierkegaard
4. "Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength." ~ Charles Spurgeon
5. "Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems" ~ Epictetus

Quotes on anxiety

1. "When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." ~ Henry Ford
2. "Anxiety doesn't come from thinking about the future but from wanting to control it." ~ Kahlil Gibran
3. "I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside." ~ Wayne Dyer
4. "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
5. "You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there." ~ Zig Ziglar

1. "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
2. "If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today." ~ E. Joseph Cossman
3. "Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith." ~ Henry Ward Beecher
4. "Just because I can't explain the feelings causing my anxiety doesn't make them less valid." ~ Lauren Elizabeth
5. "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude." ~ Maya Angelou

Inspiring quotes to quell anxiety

1. "We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure." ~ Nick Saban
2. "Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment." ~ J. Donald Walters
3. . "Anxiety happens when you think you have to figure out everything all at once. Breathe. You're strong. You got this. Take it day by day." ~ Karen Salmansohn
4. "The best thing one can do when it is raining, is to let it rain." ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
5. "You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." ~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

1. ""The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." ~ Confucius
2. "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
3. "People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on." ~ Eckhart Tolle
4. "What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?" ~ Thomas a Kempis
5. "How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened." ~ Thomas Jefferson

Quotes for people with anxiety

1. "Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety." ~ Plato
2. "If you can't fly, run. If you can't run, walk. And If you can't walk, crawl, but by all means, keep moving." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
3. "Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow." ~ Swedish proverb
4. "Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment." ~ Dale Carnegie
5. "When you overcome the obstacles, always look back and analyse - did that problem really worth that amount of anxiety?" ~ Invajy

1. "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
2. "Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles." ~ Charlie Chaplin
3. When you feel anxious about something, it means you haven't yet acquired the experience and evidence necessary to show you that you can do the scary thing and be okay. ~ Daniell Koepke
4. "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. "If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times." ~ Dean Smith

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