Famous stress quotes

Sometimes the best therapy is a long drive and some music.

Whoever is trying to bring you down is already below you.

You don't gain anything from stressing. Remember that.

Remember, most of your stress comes from the way you respond, not the way life is. Adjust your attitude, and all that extra stress is gone.

Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.
- Brian Tracy

You know you’re becoming wise when you care more about what you control and less about what you don’t. - Maxime Lagacé

Thoughts aren’t personal. They just appear, like raindrops. Would you argue with a raindrop?
- Byron Katie

Don't stress the could haves, if it should have, it would have.

Make jokes. No stress. Love. Live life. Proceed. Progress.
- Lil Wayne

The truth is that stress doesn’t come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.
- Andrew J. Bernstein

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

You know, a little stress can be a good thing. It's like an alarm in your head that tells you to make adjustments.
- Scott Fellows

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. You don’t have to control your thoughts.
- Dan Millman

Stress is something that is sort of out of your control. You get stressed out over looking at the finish line. Stress is something that is an outside thing. Stress is an anxiety.
- Joe Torre

Worry and stress affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system, and profoundly affects heart action.
- Charles W. Mayo, M.D.

Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.
- Paulo Coelho

There are thousands of causes for stress, and one antidote to stress is self-expression. That’s what happens to me every day. My thoughts get off my chest, down my sleeves and onto my pad.
- Garson Kanin

There cannot be a stressful crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
- Henry Kissinger

Debt free is stress free.
- D. Muthukrishnan

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

Take chances, make mistakes–that is how we grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
- Mary Tyler Moore

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
- James Allen

Awareness is inherently pure like the empty sky. Stress, annoyance, and anger can temporarily occupy its space but can never pollute it.
- Haemin Sunim

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.
- J. K. Rowling

Don’t try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers every day without forcing their buds.
- Osho

My key to dealing with stress is simple: just stay cool and stay focused.
- Ashton Eaton

The world is ruled by letting things take their course.
- Lao Tzu

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell

A certain amount of doing nothing, and stopping rushing around, would cool everything.
- Alan Watts

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
- George Bernard Shaw

Society has sold you the greatest of lies, that the goal of life is to become “happy.” This one chase has cost you your life.
- Kapil Gupta

Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
- Mikhail Lermontov

Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others, or even ourselves as worthy of love.
- Prem Prakash