Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Stress

Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion.
Guy Finley

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
Confucius (551–479 BCE) Chinese Philosopher

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn’t ask me, I’d still have to say it.
George Burns (1896–1996) American Comedian

Believing that you must do something perfectly is a recipe for stress, and you’ll associate that stress with the task and thus condition yourself to avoid it.
Steve Pavlina (b.1971) American Motivational Speaker

If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
Carlos Castaneda (1925–98) Peruvian-born American Anthropologist, Author

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) American Nationalist, Author, Pamphleteer, Radical, Inventor

Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don’t feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.
Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tone the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.
Arnold Schwarzenegger (b.1947) Austrian-American Athlete, Actor, Politician

Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty, it is it’s own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands.
Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Indian Hindu Political leader

It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it’s helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, “You’re caught in the dream”.
Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author

There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. Like imprisoned steam, the more it is pressed the more it rises to resist the pressure. The more we are obliged to do the more we are able to accomplish.
Tryon Edwards (1809–94) American Theologian, Author

When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.
Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author

Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.
A. A. Milne (1882–1956) British Humorist, Playwright, Children’s Writer

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
Wayne Dyer (1940–2015) American Self-Help Author

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.
Natalie Goldberg (b.1948) American Buddhist Author

That’s the purpose of stress. It’s a friend. It’s an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it’s time to do The Work.
Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author

Looking to any angry, anxious, or otherwise stressed emotional state to help you sort out the pain you’re in is like trying to organize your monthly bills by throwing them into a blender.
Guy Finley

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 (121–180) Emperor of Rome, Stoic Philosopher

When you suffer an attack of nerves you’re being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?
Russell Hoban (1925–2011) American Novelist, Children’s Writer

The experiences of camp life show that a man does have a choice of action. There were enough examples, often of a heroic nature, which proved that apathy could be overcome, irritability suppressed. Man can preserve a vestige of spiritual freedom, of independence of mind, even in such terrible conditions of psychic and physical stress. We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s way. The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity—even in the most difficult circumstances—to add a deeper meaning to life.
Viktor Frankl (1905–97) Austrian Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist

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 his teachers.
Harvey Williams Cushing (1869–1939) American Neurosurgeon, Biographer

The man who doesn’t relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American Writer, Publisher, Artist, Philosopher

Non-comprehenders are often distressed. Not you, though—because with good humor you’re blessed. After all, your thoughts went like this, I dare say: It was none but the Lord who made us that way.
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist

Give your stress wings and let it fly away.
Terri Guillemets

Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you’re waking up to instant stress. You shouldn’t be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it’s time to start your day.
Sharon Anderson-Gold (1947–2011) American Philosopher, Academic

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.
Richard Carlson (1912–77) American Actor, TV Personality, Film Director, Screenwriter

I have discovered that in every language and every country I have visited, there are no new stories. They’re all recycled. The same stressful thoughts arise in each mind one way or another, sooner or later.
Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.
Sylvia Plath (1932–63) American Poet, Novelist

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.
Etty Hillesum (1914–43) Jewish Diarist

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring – it was peace.
Milan Kundera (b.1929) Czech Novelist

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