Fear and Anxiety

I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world.

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die.

I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it .

Some of the worst things in my life never even happened.

I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.

Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.

Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.

What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.

But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

Nothing is so much to be feared as Evil Report.

Fear arises sooner than anything else.

Here is a thing which the more you fear and avoid it the nearer you approach to it, and this is misery; the more you flee from it the more miserable and restless you will become.

He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived.

Love, Fear, and Esteem, Write these on three stones.

To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.