Anxiety Quotes

It's funny, there are so many women who are former executives and have taken all that stress and anxiety and transferred it onto their kids.

I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

When I left home, I was going to ride around a little while and then go to my mom's. As I rode and rode and rode, I felt even more anxiety coming upon me about not wanting to live.

And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it.

It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.

Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.

I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.

Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.

I think the joy of wanting to direct is having that nervous anxiety knowing your film is about to be shown and you're sitting right there with everyone.

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.

There stands no contradiction between giving voice to legitimate anxiety and at the same time, as and when exchange of fire commences, looking to the rest of the country, as well as all of us in the House, to give full moral support to our forces.

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me.

The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.

Kindness is the cause of all anxiety.

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.

My sense is that economic anxiety means electoral volatility.

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.