Quotes about Anxiety

The essence of a cohesive leadership team is trust, which is marked by an absence of politics, unnecessary anxiety, and wasted energy. Every executive wants to achieve this, but few are able to do so because they fail to understand the roots of these problems, the most damaging of which is politics.

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.

Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways -- and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection.

Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life.

I hate knowing about illness. Whenever I read a medical book, I immediately start to get all the symptoms.

Reality is the leading cause of stress.

I've come to look upon death the same way I look upon root-canal work. Everyone else seems to get through it all right, so it couldn't be too difficult for me.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Worry is like a rocking chair. It will give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.

I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.

Fear in the midst of the storm is instinctive and beneficial. Fear of a storm that could happen is not. It's an intrusive emotion that can lead us to a greatly diminished life.

All anxiety is fear-based.