John Dryden Quotes

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

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

The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.

Most of the things I worried about in life never happened.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Worry is the stomach's worst poison.

I'm tortured because I care. I'm always upset about not doing things as good as I think I could have because I care.

'What if?' is just about the worst question I can ask myself, and I want to avoid it at all costs for the rest of my life.

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

Worrying is imagining that which you don't want.

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

Worry is negative goal setting.

The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

Why couldn't she have this, just enjoy this, without creating obstacles, digging up problems, worrying about mistakes, about tomorrow's? Why let the maybe's, the what if's, the probabilities spoil something so lovely?

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.

I get nervous about everything. I think there's something wrong if you don't get nervous.

I used to second guess myself all the time. I can sit there and work in circles when I'm nervous about what I'm doing.

I'm anxious about work, the future, friendships, past relationships... I'm just one of those people that, whatever I'm doing, it's a big worry.

I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.

It's hard for me to be happy because I'm always worried about something going awry or what could happen to screw it up. It's hard for me to sit and look around, going, 'Ah, I'm really happy.' I'm not that kind of person.

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.

Most things I worry about never happen anyway.

It's when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential.