Pressure Quotes

• 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

  Inspirational, Happiness, Basketball

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• God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.

  Rick Warren

  I Hate You, Butterfly, Anxiety

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  When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

  Peter Marshall

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  Peter Marshall (1949). “Prayers Offered by the Chaplain, the Rev. Peter Marshall, D.D.: At the Opening of the Daily Sessions of the Senate of the United States During the Eightieth and Eighty-first Congress 1947-1949”

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  Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Opportunity, Nba

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• Don't be afraid of pressure. Pressure is what transforms a lump of coal into a diamond.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Coal, Diamond, Lumps

  Twitter post from Feb 26, 2013

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• Courage is grace under pressure.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Positive, Courage

  When asked what he meant by 'guts' in an interview with Dorothy Parker: 'New Yorker' 30 November 1929

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• Don't ever let the pressure exceed the pleasure.

  Joe Maddon

  Pleasure, Exceed

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• The only thing that relieves pressure is preparation.

  Tom Kite

  Preparation

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• No matter how tough, no matter what kind of outside pressure, no matter how many bad breaks along the way, I must keep my sights on the final goal, to win, win, win-and with more love and passion than the world has ever witnessed in any performance.

  Billie Jean King

  Softball, Passion, Winning

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from Apr 20, 2010

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• Pressure can burst a pipe, or pressure can make a diamond.

  Robert Horry

  Positive, Basketball, Diamond

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• It's about using social media for social change: creating a community of advocates who can use their voices on behalf of the voiceless, or leverage their talents, skills, knowledge, and resources to put more children into classrooms, or pressure their elected representatives to get global education top of the agenda.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Children, Media, Skills

  Source: techcrunch.com

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• There's tremendous pressure, if you're in that [goverment] system, to be involved and be interested and to care about it. There's no room to say, "This is stupid."

  Dave Barry

  Stupid, Care, Rooms

  Source: reason.com

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• I changed the pressure from negative to positive. So, instead of thinking everybody wanted to see me fail, I decided everybody wanted to see me win, since I wanted to see myself win.

  Keke Palmer

  Winning, Thinking, Negative

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Karma

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• This is normal, to have pressure. It's how you respond. Take the pressure, use the pressure, have fun.

  Chan Ho Park

  Sports, Fun, Use

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• No pressure, no diamonds.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Uplifting, Good Life, Failure

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• If you're not prepared, it's not pressure you feel, it's fear.

  Bruce Bochy

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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

  Sebastian Coe

  Motivational, Self, Track

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• The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself.

  Mark Messier

  Inspirational, Stress, Hockey

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• Under pressure, one of the most important things I have to remember to do is breathe.

  Curtis Strange

  Golf, Important, Remember

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• Pressure is what you feel when you don't know what's going on.

  Chuck Noll

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Best Football

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• To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world; war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble under these pressures and complain. They are cowards. They lack splendour. But there is another sort of man who is under the same pressure but does not complain, for it is the friction which polishes him. It is the pressure which refines and makes him noble

  Saint Augustine

  War, Men, Worry

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• I like added pressure. It makes me work harder.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Hard Work, Work Harder, Harder

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• There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

  LeBron James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

  InsideHoops.com Interview, www.insidehoops.com. June 14, 2003.

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• Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

  Andrew Denton

  Stress, Common, Cold

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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