John C. Maxwell Quotes

I am not a big fan of positive thinking. The term suggests that there is something negative that you have to counteract by being positive. That is an artificial duality.

Worrying is just a prayer for the worst possible scenario.

So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario.

There are lots of things, including changing the kind of inner dialog, that can mitigate anxiety. And yes, there are people who have the glass half full and glass half empty, and I'm afraid the glass is going to break and I'll cut myself on the shards.

All the doomsayers were wrong…. People want to show they are more intelligent by predicting the worst case scenario.

Don't make it worse by thinking it's more painful than it actually is.

It's the nature of human consciousness to look for trouble constantly, and we find it. We find it.

Negative thinking hinders others from making a positive response.

No matter how bad you think something is, when you look into it, it's always worse.

Maybe I was just one of those people who couldn't rest easy unless things went catastrophically wrong.

My stepdad always said, "If you're going to believe the good, you're going to believe the bad." I think that's really important.

I'm usually always thinking about the cons.

I'm a confirmed negaholic. I don't just see a glass that's half full and call it half-empty; I see a glass that's completely full and worry that someone's going to tip it over.

Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.

I wouldn't say 'most' people are prone to negativity. I think it's probably that most people allow negativity to color their thinking, depending on circumstances, but I also believe most people make the necessary efforts to return to positive thinking as quickly as possible.

It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.

This was an idea peculiar to Camille, Maximilien thought, that the worse things get, the better they get. No one else seems to think this way.

A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.

I'm a worrier. In the UK, if I'm known for anything, it's sort of for being cynical.

Often think of the worst-case scenario, the "Eaten By Wolves" factor.

An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism.

I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened.