Top stress Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of stress quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Bernie Siegel
It is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation. The other great tonic for the immune system is love—loving ourselves as well as others.
- Bernie Siegel
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Image of Matt Hardy
That is something I try to stress to the wrestlers nowadays - there is an epidemic of spot monkeys in the business. They often are so concerned with the fans' reactions that they're willing to kill themselves, while I am trying to help them move past that. It is not about the move, it's about the moment you create, and that's what I'm doing through my broken brilliance.
- Matt Hardy
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Image of Ann Voskamp
Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.
- Ann Voskamp
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Image of Dean Ornish
Love and intimacy are at the roots of what makes us sick and what makes us well, what causes sadness and what brings happiness, what makes us suffer and what leads to healing...I am not aware of any other factor in medicine- not diet, not smoking, not exercise, not stress, not genetics, not drugs, not surgery- that has a greater impact on our quality of life, incidence of illness and premature death from all causes.
- Dean Ornish
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Stress is not so much what you do, but how you react to what you do.
- Dean Ornish
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Image of Robert J. Shiller
As I write in 2012 we certainly do not believe that it is over yet, and the worst may be yet to come. Efforts by governments to solve the underlying problems responsible for the crisis have still not gotten very far, and the 'stress tests' that governments have used to encourage optimism about our financial institutions were of questionable thoroughness.
- Robert J. Shiller
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Image of Larry Winget
Stress comes from knowing what is right and doing what is wrong
- Larry Winget
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Image of Peggy Noonan
What we need most right now, at this moment, is a kind of patriotic grace - a grace that takes the long view, apprehends the moment we're in, comes up with ways of dealing with it, and eschews the politically cheap and manipulative. That admits affection and respect. That encourages them. That acknowledges that the small things that divide us are not worthy of the moment; that agrees that the things that can be done to ease the stresses we feel as a nation should be encouraged, while those that encourage our cohesion as a nation should be supported.
- Peggy Noonan
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Image of Rebel Wilson
I've got a swimming pool and I pretend to be like a mermaid, like in the middle of the night. It kind of de-stresses me.
- Rebel Wilson
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Image of Corrie Ten Boom
In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.
- Corrie Ten Boom
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Image of Andrew Weil
Practicing regular, mindful breathing can be calming and energizing and can even help with stress-related health problems ranging from panic attacks to digestive disorders.
- Andrew Weil
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I tried to change the conventional paradigm, for example, by insisting on the reality of mind-body interaction, by stressing the importance of natural therapies, by focusing attention on lifestyle issues, by looking at worthwhile aspects of alternative medicine. Many people have been threatened by that. Doctors especially tend to think that they know everything about the human body, and don't realize that medical education has really omitted many very important subjects.
- Andrew Weil
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Image of Bruce H. Lipton
Most illness is just stress from not living in harmony
- Bruce H. Lipton
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Image of Meghan O'Rourke
Funerals cost so much money, and are likely to be an additional source of stress in this recession - it's sad that we don't have a more humane, less commercialized way to approach burial.
- Meghan O'Rourke
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Image of John Brunner
Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those and only those factors which are identificatory, at the expense of others which it necessarily shares with competing institutions because human beings belong to all of them.
- John Brunner
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Image of Karen Rose
Burning sage changes the energy for the home, so if you've had an argument or some form of stress, it removes negative energies.
- Karen Rose
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Image of Robert Wright
Humans have various ways of coping with extended stress, and one is the anticipation of a better time. Here, as with retribution, there is often a kind of symmetry: the more intense the stress and the more hopeless the situation, the more fabulous the coming times that are anticipated.
- Robert Wright
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Image of Naoki Higashida
But I ask you, those of you who are with us all day, not to stress yourselves out because of us. When you do this, it feels as if you're denying any value at all that our lives may have--and that saps the spirit we need to soldier on. The hardest ordeal for us is the idea that we are causing grief for other people. We can put up with our own hardships okay, but the thought that our lives are the source of other people's unhappiness, that's plain unbearable.
- Naoki Higashida
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Image of Stewart Udall
A land ethic for tomorrow should...stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life.
- Stewart Udall
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Image of Helen Thomas
I'll tell you how I handle stress. I say-This too shall pass. You've got to try to stay cool and admit when you're wrong, and tell them when you're right.
- Helen Thomas
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Image of Tara Brach
Underneath the stress is fear, and the biggest is our own personal fear of failure.
- Tara Brach
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Image of Eckhart Tolle
Stress is wanting something to be the way it isn't.
- Eckhart Tolle
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Image of Tom Rath
Don’t worry about breaks every 20 minutes ruining your focus on a task. Contrary to what I might have guessed, taking regular breaks from mental tasks actually improves your creativity and productivity. Skipping breaks, on the other hand, leads to stress and fatigue.
- Tom Rath
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Image of Simone Elkeles
You're stressing too much about what might be. Do something to take your mind off thinking about what might never happen.
- Simone Elkeles
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Image of Jane Wagner
I made some studies, and reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle, I found it too confining. It was just too needful; it expected me to be there for it all the time, and with all I have to do--I had to let something go.
- Jane Wagner
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Image of Howard Thurman
Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.
- Howard Thurman
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Image of James Redfield
How many people do you know who are obsessed with their work, who are type A or have stress related diseases and who can’t slow down? They can’t slow down because they use their routine to distract themselves, to reduce life to only its practical considerations. And they do this to avoid recalling how uncertain they are about why they live.
- James Redfield
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Image of William Julius Wilson
If we could create the conditions that make racism difficult, or discourage it, then there would be less stress and less need for affirmative action programs. One of those conditions would be an economic policy that would create tight labor markets over long periods of time. Now does that mean that affirmative action is here only temporarily? I think the ultimate goal should be to remove it.
- William Julius Wilson
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Image of Suzanne Somers
Reduce the stress levels in your life through relaxation techniques like meditation, deep breathing, and exercise. Youll look and feel way better for it.
- Suzanne Somers
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Image of Alan Garner
Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.
- Alan Garner
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Image of John  Gray
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
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Image of Tim Ryan
Mindfulness is about finding ways to slow down and pay attention to the present moment-which improves performance and reduces stress. It’s about having the time and space to attend to what’s right in front of us, even though many other forces are trying to keep us stuck in the past or inviting us to fantasize or worry about the future. It’s about a natural quality each of us possesses, and which we can further develop in just a few minutes a day.
- Tim Ryan
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Image of Robert M. Sapolsky
Stress is not a state of mind... it's measurable and dangerous, and humans can't seem to find their off-switch.
- Robert M. Sapolsky
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If you live in a baboon troop in the Serengeti, you only have to work three hours a day for your calories, and predators don't mess with you much. What that means is you've got nine hours of free time every day to devote to generating psychological stress toward other animals in your troop. So the baboon is a wonderful model for living well enough and long enough to pay the price for all the social-stressor nonsense that they create for each other. They're just like us: They're not getting done in by predators and famines, they're getting done in by each other.
- Robert M. Sapolsky
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We all seek out stress. We hate the wrong kinds of stress but when it's the right kind, we love it - we pay good money to be stressed by a scary movie, a roller coaster ride, a challenging puzzle.
- Robert M. Sapolsky
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Image of Ian Botham
I want to stress again one aspect of the game which is most important. Never argue with an umpire.
- Ian Botham
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Image of Shawn Achor
Research shows you get multiple tasks done faster if you do them one at a time. It also decreases stress and raises happiness.
- Shawn Achor
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Image of Ilsa J. Bick
As a doc, though, I've seen what happens when people are under a lot of stress. Doesn't always bring out their best. When people are scared, they get angry. They'll do things they never thought they would. They'll bargain and compromise in order to survive; they'll chase after miracle cures and believe just about anything so long as it gives them hope. When hope fails, then watch out. Some people get brutal. They'll turn on each other; they'll become their own worst enemies.
- Ilsa J. Bick
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Image of Steve Nash
You can't worry about things you have no control over.
- Steve Nash
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Image of Laura Prepon
There is a much bigger picture we are all striving for. To sweat the small stuff just stresses you out for no reason.
- Laura Prepon
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Image of Sully Erna
Avoiding problems doesn't make them go away - you think it does, but it really doesn't. They're just postponed. Those problems just stay inside your subconscious and brew until your body gets to a point where it's had enough and decides to release some of the stress itself. That's what an anxiety attack is! It happens when you don't know how to vent your frustration, fears, stress, sadness, madness, whatever it is that bothers you, the things you should be confronting and getting closure with. If you don't confront these things and deal with them, your body does it for you.
- Sully Erna
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Image of Andrew Bernstein
Remember that stress doesn't come from what's going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what's going on in your life.
- Andrew Bernstein
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We all enjoy pushing ourselves to accomplish our objectives. But we don't need stress to get there.
- Andrew Bernstein
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We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress is when you're anxious, upset, or frustrated, which dramatically reduce your ability to perform.
- Andrew Bernstein
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Some people are so used to experiencing stress that they don't remember what life was like without it.
- Andrew Bernstein
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If you're successful and stressed out, you're succeeding in spite of your stress, not because of it.
- Andrew Bernstein
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Stress is not the spice of life any more than arsenic is. And without it, you won't feel bored.
- Andrew Bernstein
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People often say that stress is a motivator. What we're referring to when we say this is really better described as stimulation and engagement.
- Andrew Bernstein
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Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.
- Andrew Bernstein
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