If you're looking for a way to relax and decompress from the thoughts racing through your head, these anxiety quotes will help you find some much-needed relief when you feel like you're getting out of control.

Anxiety is a feeling of fear, worry, apprehension, and nervousness. Anxiety can affect your life and interfere with daily activities such as school, work, and relationships in some cases. Anxiety is a normal emotion. Everyone experiences anxiety from time to time. In some cases, the demands of daily life can make anxiety more common.

Anxiety can be beneficial at times. It can motivate you to complete tasks, work harder toward a goal, and warn you when you are in danger. Anxiety can help you identify potential threats and challenges, giving you time to prepare. Although dealing with anxiety can be difficult, the good news is that it is defeatable.

Quotes like the ones below serve as mini-therapy sessions. When you read a quote and it makes you feel good, gives you hope, or makes you feel better, that quote is good for you. Trusting that you'll have the resources you need when you need them reduces stress and allows you to enjoy the present moment.

Here is a collection of inspirational, calming, and uplifting anxiety quotes, sayings, and proverbs to help you deal with it.

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Anxiety Quotes

1. “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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2. “Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.” ~ William Shakespeare

3. “You don’t have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.” ~ Dan Millman

4. “Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.” ~ Roy T. Bennett

5. “Surrender to what is. Let go of what was. Have faith in what will be.” ~ Sonia Ricotte

6. “Everything you have ever wanted, is sitting on the other side of fear.” ~ George Addair

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7. “The way you tell your story to yourself matters.” ~ Amy Cuddy

8. “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” ~ Mother Teresa

9. “You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” ~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

10. “It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.” ~ Hans Selye

11. “Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.” ~ Charles Spurgeon

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12. “You are the biggest enemy of your own sleep.” ~ Pawan Mishra

13. “Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.” ~ Thomas Carlyle

14. “What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.” ~ Martha Graham

15. “Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations. The best is yet to come.” ~ Zig Ziglar

16. “You cannot always control what goes on outside, but you can always control what goes on inside.” ~ Wayne Dyer

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17. “When I don’t have something to worry about, I worry. Nothing comes so naturally to a human being as anxiety and worry.” ~ Brian Richardson

18. “Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.” ~ Astrid Alauda

19. “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” ~ Wayne Dyer

20. “Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.” ~ Ana Monnar

Quotes about Anxiety

21. “Never fear shadows. They simply mean there’s a light shining somewhere nearby.” ~ Ruth E. Renkel

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22. “It’s not time to worry yet.” ~ Harper Lee

23. “Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.” ~ Søren Kierkegaard 

24. “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” ~ William James

25. “Once you choose hope, anything is possible.” ~ Christopher Reeve

26. “You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.” ~ Steve Maraboli

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27. “If you can’t fly then run; if you can’t run then walk; if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

28. “You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens.” ~ Mandy Hale

29. “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

30. “Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.” ~ Alain de Botton

31. “Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.” ~ Walter Anderson

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32. “Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape.” ~ George Santayana

33. “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” ~ Olin Miller

34. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” ~ Henry Stanley Haskins

35. “Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.” ~ Bill Vaughan

36. “Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming.” ~ Robert Tew

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37. “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

38. “Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you because it will.” ~ Cheryl Strayed

39. “I’m just suggesting that when you’re faced with fear and anxiety, don’t medicate. Meditate instead.” ~ Russell Simmons

40. “Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.” ~ William S. Burroughs

Quotes on Anxiety

41. “Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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42. “Anxiety beclouds the future.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

43. “Living a life somewhere else in your mind is nothing more than being a prisoner where you are.” ~ Shannon L. Alder

44. “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” ~ Steven Hayes

45. “If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.” ~ Pema Chodron

46. “Stress is an ignorant state. It believes everything is an emergency.” ~ Natalie Goldberg

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47. “Just because I can’t explain the feelings causing my anxiety, doesn’t make them less valid.” ~ Lauren Elizabeth 

48. “Each moment of worry, anxiety or stress represents lack of faith in miracles, f