Anxiety Quotes - Page 31

• Mankind's history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit. By power, men are forced. Love is engendered by spirit. By power anxieties are created.

  Malcolm X

  Spiritual, Love Is, Men

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.375, Ballantine Books

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• The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Falling In Love, Bed, Repose

  "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translation by Gregory Rabassa, p. 269, 1967.

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• No one wants your worries...not even you. Anxiety comes at a high cost. Let Jesus lead you beside still waters.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Water, Worry

  FaceBook post by Max Lucado from Jun 26, 2015

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• God Is Great. If these three words together enshrine in our mind, heart and soul, then there is never worry, anxiety nor a fear of failure in our life.

  Anuj

  Heart, Worry, Soul

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• as the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered.

  Alain de Botton

  Shifting, Triggers, Altered

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• The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation, and the credit of truth and honesty is as safe; nor have I any fear that a skeptical bias can be given by leaning hard on the sides of fate, of practical power, or of trade, which the doctrine of Faith cannot down-weigh.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Truth, Honesty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.107, Harvard University Press

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• Anxiety and lust are evicting the older passions.

  Mason Cooley

  Passion, Lust

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• You know I still get nervous speaking in front of people. Speaking reminds me of pitching in that way. No matter how much you prepare, there is always that anxiety to perform. Those butterflies. You learn to embrace that stress. Eventually you realize that stress is what pushes you to perform at your peak.... But man the roller coaster! I told myself that after my career was over I would live my life quietly, out of the public eye, with no chance of embarrassing myself in front of large groups of people. Yet...here I am!

  Jim Abbott

  Stress, Butterfly, Eye

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• A free spirit must be able to surmount anxiety time after time.

  Mason Cooley

  Time, Free Spirit, Independence

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• Alcohol postpones anxiety, then multiplies it.

  Mason Cooley

  Alcohol, Alcoholism

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• Notwithstanding all the care and anxiety of the persons who frame Acts of Parliament to guard against every event, it frequently turns out that certain cases were not foreseen.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Events, Care, Certain

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• Look carefully through all the claims pressing upon you in your complicated life, and decide once and for all what it is that is the one really important and overmastering duty in it, and should be the one dominating aim. Then remember that if you succeed in that, the others, so multifarious, are really no more than the fringe of the garment, and that you need not spend so much anxiety over them, provided that the one most important is faithfully attended to.

  Anna Brackett

  Simplicity, Priorities, Important

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• Worry, hate, fear-together with their offshoots: anxiety, bitterness, impatience, avarice, unkindness, judgmentalness, and condemnation-all attack the body at the cellular level. It is impossible to have a healthy body under these conditions.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Hate

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.176, Penguin

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• Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man.

  Janet Flanner

  Beautiful, Loss, Moon

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• For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase—oddly enough—to the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization.

  Alan Watts

  Intelligent, Organization, Intelligence

  Alan Watts (1973). “This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience”, Vintage

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• If the mood is overly anxious, then anxiety must be reduced by lowering uncertainty. Very simply, uncertainty is reduced when people are told what's going on and what will happen to them. In the vacuum of no news, people imagine the worst. Since disappointment is much easier to handle than anxiety, then, good news or bad, honesty is honestly the best policy.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Honesty, Disappointment, People

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• ... we know that productivity suffers when uncertainty is high. But we've failed to realize the equally destructive effects of too little anxiety. ... By protecting people from risk, we destroy their self-esteem. We rob them of the opportunity to become strong, competent people.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Strong, Self Esteem, Opportunity

  Judith M. Bardwick (1995). “Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business”, p.32, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• I think now happiness is a thing you practice like music until you have skill in striking the right notes on time. We have no vocation for it. And I had no practice, not a day when I was free from care and one great anxiety - and one must be free to be happy. I know that much about it by having missed it.

  Corra May Harris

  Happiness, Thinking, Practice

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• The anxiety was like poison ivy. It took nothing to set off that mental itch-a chance remark, remembering an event from the day before-but once it started I found it impossible to stop the cycle. My thoughts twisted in a circle, my pulse hammered, I couldn't concentrate.

  Tracy Thompson

  Circles, Ivy, Pulse

  Tracy Thompson (2014). “The Beast: A Journey Through Depression”, p.43, Diversion Books

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• Competition can damage self-esteem, create anxiety, and lead to cheating and hurt feelings. But so can romantic love.

  Mariah Nelson

  Inspirational, Cheating, Hurt

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• Having a mood disorder is not synonymous with having artistic talent, but it is true that people in the so-called creative professions-writers, actors, artists, musicians-have a higher than normal incidence of such illnesses, and there are also a disproportionate number of alcoholics in these fields whose drinking may be an attempt to medicate the anxiety of depression.

  Tracy Thompson

  Depression, Drinking, Artist

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• Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety.

  Plato

  Affair, Humans

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• Within forty years of their arrival in the Plymouth colony, the first white settlers were afraid their children had lost the dedication and religious conviction of the founding generation. Ever since, Americans have looked to the next generation not only with love and solicitude but with a good measure of anxiety, worrying whether they themselves were good parents, fearful that their children would not turn out well.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Religious, Children, Dedication

  Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• The "family" has clearly emerged anew in the late 1970s as a central subject for discussion, debate, research and writing in bothscholarly and popular arenas. Anxiety over whether or not the family as a basic social institution is dying has diminished. In its stead has emerged a fairly broad consensus around the position that the family is "here to stay," but that it certainly is changing.

  Sheila Kamerman

  Change, Writing, Dying

  Sheila B. Kamerman (1980). “Parenting in an unresponsive society: managing work and family life”, Free Pr

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• Despite its maddeningly vague, inarticulate form, anxiety is almost always trying to tell you something useful and apposite.

  Alain de Botton

  Always Trying, Form, Inarticulate

  Twitter post from Apr 22, 2013

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