Wayne Dyer Quotes

The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

Being nervous is a waste of time.

Panic is never productive.

I worry about everything, which is silly because there's very little you can control anyway.

You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.

I would dearly love to resist the temptation, if you can call it that, to worry. It's boring, it's anti-social, it's unproductive and it's depressing.

But they are useless. They can only give you answers

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

Has worrying about tomorrow every changed it?

Convince yourself that worrying about many situations will make them worse rather than improve them.

Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.

Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time.

I worry too much.

I'm totally an anxious mess all the time. There's a constant dialogue going on in my brain, and it's just reminding me of all the failures that I have had, and all of the things I need to do, and all of the things I'm not doing good enough.

I'm a worry-wart, I'd say.

Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.

If I make a wrong decision, I worry what might have been. I stress out over very insignificant things.

It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliche - but why worry about things you have no control over?

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.

Usually when I get nervous and don't know how to prepare for something, I just don't do anything at all, which is not necessarily the best idea.

So, I remember when I was a kid, I was waiting for my mom to come home when she was working late, and, you know, I was like, 'Oh my God, what happened to her? Is she OK? Did something happen to her getting in the car?' I was a little kid. But those are actually early onsets of anxiety.

Some people, no matter how robust their stock portfolios or how healthy their children, are always mentally preparing for doom. They are just born worriers, their brains forever anticipating the dropping of some dreaded other shoe.

When you are desperate, it's usually because of fear.

I do worry - a lot.

A mind concerned about danger is a clouded mind. It's paralyzing.