Stress Quotes

The non-specific response of the body to any demand for change.definition of stress

Hans Selye, General Adaption Syn

In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.

Fred Rogers

Stress is like a pulse, if you have it you’re alive.

Steve Maraboli

Go after what it is that creates meaning in your life and then trust yourself to handle the stress that follows.

Kelly McGonigal

If you respect yourself in stressful situations, it will help you see the positive… It will help you see the message in the mess.

Steve Maraboli

The perfect no-stress environment is the grave. When we change our perception we gain control. The stress becomes a challenge, not a threat. When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress in our life becomes manageable.

Greg Anderson

Garraty wondered how it would be, to lie in the biggest, dustiest library silence of all, dreaming endless, thoughtless dreams behind your gummed-down eyelids, dressed forever in your Sunday suit. No worries about money, success, fear, joy, pain, sorrow, sex, or love. Absolute zero. No father, mother, girlfriend, lover. The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wing. An end to the agony of movement, to the long nightmare of going down the road. The body in peace, stillness, and order. The perfect darkness of death.How would that be? Just how would that be?

Stephen King

If you think you're under pressure, you're probably not, because when you really are, you don't even have time to think about it.

Ron De Jonge

What is the biggest obstacle facing the family right now? It is over-commitment; time pressure. There is nothing that will destroy family life more insidiously than hectic schedules and busy lives, where spouses are too exhausted to communicate, too worn out to have sex, too fatigued to talk to the kids. That frantic lifestyle is just as destructive as one involving outbroken sin. If Satan can't make you sin, he'll make you busy, and that's just about the same thing.

Dr. James Dobson

I like added pressure. It makes me work harder.

Mary Lou Retton

I wish...I wish were dead...And what use would that be to anyone?

J.K. Rowling

You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.

Steve Maraboli

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

Marilyn Ferguson

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

Andrew Denton

Past tense means you used to be nervous.

Source Unknown

You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.

Vicki Baum

All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.

Sebastian Coe

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

Tommy Lasorda

In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults!

Agnes Repplier, Books and Men, O

The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers.

Harvey Cushing