Inspirational Stress Quotes

• I try to take it one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Funny, Success, Women

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  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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.16, Bantam

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• Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

  Hans Selye

  Inspirational, Stress, Anxiety

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• Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.

  Marilu Henner

  Stress, Control Of Your Life, Keys

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• There is more to life than increasing its speed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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• 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

  Fear, Stress, Anger

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  The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

  William James

  Happiness, Fear, Stress

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• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

  Hans Selye

  Positive, Happiness, Attitude

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  Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Inspirational, Funny, Letting Go

  FaceBook post by Natalie Goldberg from Jul 25, 2011

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• Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.

  Lily Tomlin

  Funny, Leadership, Stress

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• 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

  Happiness, Being Happy, Appreciation

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• Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.

  Hans Selye

  Stress, Survival, Getting Older

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• If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Positive, Depression

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• Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.

  David Allen

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

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• Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”, Doubleday Books

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• Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

  Margaret Fuller

  Funny, Life, Meaningful

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe”, p.159, tredition

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• A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood

  John Gray

  Stress, Relief, Problem

  John Gray “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”

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• Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there'.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Happiness, Powerful

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.84, New World Library

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• Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. 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

  Life, Pain, Attitude

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• It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

  Wayne Dyer

  Happiness, Stress, Caring

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• You can't worry about things you have no control over.

  Steve Nash

  Stress, Worry, Don't Stress

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• The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Happiness, Life Lesson, Stress

  Norman Vincent Peale “The Power of Positive Thinking”, Om Books International

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• 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

  Funny, Stress, Humor

  George Burns (1989). “How to live to be 100--or more: the ultimate diet, sex, and exercise book”, Plume

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• Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop

  Ovid

  Inspirational, Success, Wisdom

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