Stress Quotes

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  • “The best way to predict the future is to invest in it.” – Anonymous
  • “Not everything that weighs you down is yours to carry.” – Anonymous
  • “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”— Lao Tzu
  • “You won’t stress over it unless you care.”― Joyce Rachelle
  • Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche. – Andrew Denton
  • “Gratitude can reduce your stress and anxiety.” – Bree Miller
  • “Stress spelled backward is desserts.” – Loretta Laroche
  • I enjoy an evening stroll. It helps me to reflect and eases stress. – Blac Chyna
  • “It’s not stress that kills us, it’s our reaction to it.” – Hans Selye
  • “For fast-acting relief, try slowing down. “– Lily Tomlin
  • “Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.”– Brené Brown
  • “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.”– Ovid
  • “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.”– Lou Holtz
  • “Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.”– Hans Selye
  • “You can do anything but not everything.”―David Allen
  • “Calmness is the cradle of power.”―Josiah Gilbert Holland
  • “There cannot be a stressful crisis next week. My schedule is already full.”―Henry Kissinger
  • “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.”―Montesquieu
  • “Stress is caused by being ‘here’ but wanting to be ‘there.’– Eckhart Tolle
  • “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.”– Leo F. Buscaglia
  • “A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. “– Aesop
  • “If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”– Jack Kornfield
  • “We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”– Dolly Parton
  • There’s a lot of stress… but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window. – Dan Brown
  • “Laughter helps bring balance to a stressful situation.” – Kala Stevenson
  • “A good way to overcome stress is to help others out of theirs.” ― Dada J. P. Vaswani
  • Where there is a lack of rest, there is an abundance of stress.~ Lysa TerKeurst
  • “I think one of the biggest things that sleep does is help with emotional stress.” – Joe Zeller
  • “Even the worst days have an ending, and the best days have a beginning.”― Jennifer Coletta
  • “These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.”– Najwa Zebian
  • “If you think too far ahead, then it’ll just stress you out.” – Laurie Hernandez
  • “A diamond is just a piece of charcoal that handled stress exceptionally well.” – Anonymous
  • “Every day brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace.” – Joan Borysenko
  • “Behind every stressful thought is the desire for things to be other than they are.” – Toni Bernhard
  • “The best way to reduce stress in your life is to stop screwing up.” – Roy F. Baumeister
  • “Live a life that is well balanced; don’t do things in excess.”  -Daniel Smith
  • “Rule number one is, don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it’s all small stuff.” —Robert Eliot.
  • “Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.” —Brian Tracy.
  • “Keep walking through the storm. Your rainbow is waiting on the other side.” – Heather Stillufsen
  • “Stress acts as an accelerator: it will push you either forward or backward, but you choose which direction.”―Chelsea Erieau
  • “You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.”– Wayne Dyer
  • “Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”– Chinese proverb
  • “Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.”– Hans Selye
  • “Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”– Benjamin Franklin
  • “When you have a moment, just listen to the beauty of silence. It has so much to say.”– Armin Ganguly
  • “You may have a million desires to be in other places, doing other things, but you are not there, you are here.”– Zen proverb
  • “Today I refuse to stress myself out about things I cannot control or change.”- Anonymous
  • I’ve chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about. – Martin Short
  • “If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.”– Dean Smith
  • “Make others laugh by laughing at yourself. This is the best way to de-stress.”― Tapan Ghosh
  • “Stress and unhappiness come not from situations, but how you respond to situations.” – Brian Tracy
  • “Creating something I can use is the best stress reliever.” – Blake Lively
  • “God will never give you anything you can’t handle, so don’t stress.” – Kelly Clarkson
  • “Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming.” – Robert Tew
  • “Self-care is, fundamentally, about bringing balance back to a life that has grown imbalanced from too many commitments or responsibilities.” -Robyn L. Gobin
  • “Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. So relax.” -Bryant McGrill
  • “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” —William
  • “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
  • “Once you choose hope, anything is possible.” – Christopher Reeve.
  • “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King.
  • “Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”―Thich Nhat Hanh.
  • “You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.” – Steve Maraboli
  • “Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations. The best is yet to come.” – Zig Ziglar
  • “Stress is real, and you never know what a person is going through behind the camera.” – Soulja Boy
  • “The human body can be placed under huge stresses before death will result.” ― Steven Magee
  • “It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”– Bruce Lee
  • “Trying to be a perfectionist brings increased stress and hinders performance.” – T. Whitmore
  • “One of the best ways to reduce stress is to accept the things that you cannot control.” – M. P. Neary
  • “There are two medicines for all ills: time and silence.”– Alexander Dumas
  • “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”– Anne Lamott
  • “Every once in a while, do you just like to take your time with what you’re doing?”– Fred Rogers
  • “To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.”―Leonard Bernstein
  • “Stress is not what happens to us. It’s our response TO what happens. And RESPONSE is something we can choose.”—Maureen Killoran
  • “It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out; it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.”―Robert W. Service
  • “Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.” –Mary Oliver
  • “It’s a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.”– Paulo Coelho
  • “Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.”– Nelson DeMille
  • “If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.”– Doug Larson
  • “% of what you’re stressing about right now won’t even matter a year from now. Take a deep breath.”– Mel Robbins
  • “When you feel overwhelmed, start eliminating all the non-essential things from your life. Clarity brings calm.”– Darius Foroux
  • Problems can be experienced as… a chance for renewal rather than stress. – Marilyn Ferguson
  • Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. – Natalie Goldberg
  • “When money becomes your purpose, stress and depression becomes your path.”― Prabakaran Thirumalai
  • “Practicing mindful meditation is an extremely effective way to manage both our feelings of stress and anxiety.” – Kristine Ally
  • “Worrying is a waste of time; it changes nothing. It will only create stress, which can have major effects on your health.” – Robert Washington
  • “At some point, I finally realized that stress made a really bad companion… so I had it pack its shit and leave.” – Steve Maraboli
  • “Enjoy the pressure. Enjoy the stress. Enjoy being uncomfortable. And don’t shy away from it, embrace it.” – Gary Woodland
  • “Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.”— Wayne W. Dyer
  • “I will breathe. I will think of solutions. I will not let my worry control me. I will not let my stress level break me. I will simply breathe. And it will be okay because I don’t quit.” – Shayne McClendon.
  • “Stress is largely self-inflicted, so the ability to manage stress more effectively comes from managing oneself.”―Michael Hetherington
  • “When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.”– Peter Marshall
  • “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.”– Maya Angelou
  • We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.~ David Mamet
  • “The day she let go of the things that were weighing her down, was the day she began to shine the brightest.”– Katrina Mayer
  • “Worrying and Stressing is useless simply because whatever GOD has for you is for you. Let GOD happen.” – Sabrina Newby
  • “Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.”— Oprah Winfrey
  • “It’s not about balance, it’s about designing a work-home-family life that makes you feel good. A life you don’t need a vacation from.” -Jacqueline Frosh
  • When I’m under stress, I do yoga. It’s when I’m happiest that I have a problem with junk food. – Britney Spears
  • “People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.” – George Bernard Shaw
  • “Stress comes from the fear of the unknown. To reduce stress, love what you do and be who you are.”― Debasish Mridha
  • “Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There’s going to be stress in life, but it’s your choice whether you let it affect you or not.” – Valerie Bertinelli
  • “Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.” – William Burroughs
  • “Breath is the power behind all things…. I breathe in and know that good things will happen.” —Tao
  • “The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.” – Alain de Botton.
  • “Today’s a perfect day for a whole new start. Let go of fear and free your mind. It’s time to open your heart.” – Chris Butler
  • “When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.” – Buddha
  • “Over-thinking causes unnecessary stress and worry, and tends to blow things out of proportion.” – Melissa Eshleman
  • “A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.”– Albert Einstein
  • “That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.”– Chinese Proverb
  • “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”– Elbert Hubbard
  • “Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.”– Henry Ward Beecher
  • “If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved then worrying will do you no good.”– Shantideva
  • “Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry – all forms of fear – are caused by too much future, and not enough presence.”– Eckhart Tolle
  • “Don’t spin your wheels trying to get everything done. Focus on getting the right things done instead.”– Greg McKeown
  • “In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.” – Lee Iacocca
  • “Whenever you feel tension mounting up, just smile: you will break the force of tension.”― Dada J. P. Vaswani
  • “Don’t stress over being yourself. The act of being yourself is simply to be. Be without changing yourself for others. Simply be.”― Avina Celeste
  • “Much of the stress people encounter is derived from dishonesty. People first lie to themselves and then to others.” – David DeNotaris
  • “Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.” – Hermann Hesse
  • “Stress can destroy much more than just our physical health. Too often, it eats away at our hope, belief, and faith.” – Charles F. Glassman
  • “Times of stress are also times that are signals for growth, and if we use adversity properly, we can grow through adversity.”– Abraham Twerski
  • “The high value put upon every minute of time, the idea of hurry-hurry as the most important objective of living, is unquestionably the most dangerous enemy of joy.”– Hermann Hesse
  • “One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”– Bertrand Russell
  • “All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn
  • “Take some time to learn which opinions you need to value and which ones you simply need to stop listening to.” -Frankie Robinson
  • “Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.” – Norman Vincent Peale.
  • “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”—Marcus Aurelius
  • “There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.”– Brian Andreas
  • “Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it’s the time when they most need to think.” – William J. Clinton
  • “Remember that every time you say yes to something, especially when you are half-hearted in agreeing, you add stress in your life.” – Philip Vang
  • “Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is. The only problem in your life is your mind’s resistance to life as it unfolds.”– Dan Millman
  • Stress is like spice – in the right proportion it enhances the flavor of a dish. Too little produces a bland, dull meal; too much may choke you. – Donald Tubesing
  • “Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don’t try to figure anything out. Don’t try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest.”– Tilopa
  • “The more stress you accumulate, the heavier it becomes. If you accumulate too much, the weight of carrying it can break you.”― Oscar Auliq-Ice