anxiety

Those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end but rather that it shall never have a beginning.

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously.

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space yet nothing troubles me less.

I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

I have accepted fear as a part of life-specifically the fear of change. ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....

The future is called "perhaps " which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

Fear is created not by the world around us but in the mind by what we think is going to happen.

Anxiety is fear of one's self.

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs and never care how to come down the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall.

There is a difference between a psychopath and a neurotic. A psychopath thinks two and two are five. A neurotic knows that two and two are four but he worries about it.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.