37 Quotes About Nervousness

Finding calmness in times of stress can be difficult. These quotes about nervousness are just some examples to what is all involved in dealing with these types of environment.

“A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.”

“A nervous silence loosens tongues.”

“A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.”

“Being nervous actually kept me very tense.”

“Being nervous is not something you should be ashamed of. Nervous means you care, you really want to do well.”

“Being nervous isn’t bad. It just means something important is happening.”

“Being nervous when talking in front of a lot of people. Sweaty hands, shakey voice, forgetting what your about to say.”

“Butterflies in your stomach. More like killer bees.”

“Confidence is what we get when we take fear, face it and replace it.”

“Don’t try to be what you’re not. If you’re nervous, be nervous. If you’re shy, be shy. It’s cute.”

“Every time you go out there, you want to be a little nervous, have a little bit of butterflies in your stomach and get the juices flowing.”

“He lifted his hand to knock, but then he stopped. He could go neither forward nor back, so he simply stayed that way—hand frozen in the air.”

“His hands were tingling and he was sweating under falling snowflakes.”

“I am not afraid to go in the forest; I am just nervous to see what is still in it.”

“If you’re not nervous, it means you don’t care.”

“If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.”

“I’m a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.”

“Most beginners are too anxious for results. Real progress takes place over a long period of time.”

“Nervous people tend to overreact.”

“Nervousness always provokes mistakes, and mistakes lead to easy convictions.”

“Nervousness made her feel nauseous, almost like she had two hearts frantically beating in her chest, instead of one.”

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”

“Sometimes when you’re just thrown into something, you are more ready for it than when you have time to think it over and get nervous about it.”

“That nervous feeling when you think about that certain someone and how you’re about to see them soon.”

“The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.”

“The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.”

“The silence was worse than the gunshots. The wait worse than the confusion. The forebode worse than any danger.”

“The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.”

“Time flies when you are anxious!”

“To show his nervousness was not shameful; only to admit it.”

“To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.”

“When you feel afraid or nervous to do a thing then do it because the real harm which you may thus receive is less poignant than its expectation and fear.”

“When you feel nervous, recall your pride.”

“When you have butterflies and you’re feeling anxious and you have anxiety or are nervous, that’s when you’re most powerful… A lot of people, instead of honing this power and using it,
they allow it to just consume them. ”

“Worry wasn’t an emotion to which he was particularly accustomed—and it worried him.”

“You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.”

“You’re making me nervous by being so weird. But your weirdness is what I like about you.”

There are many ways to deal with nervousness. Using some effective strategies to handle your emotions will help you to make better decisions.