Stress Management Quotes:

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Make People Feel Better, Live For Yourself

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

- William James

topic: Happiness, Fear, Stress, Inspirational Stress, Pragmatists

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

topic: Stress, Keys, Expectations, Inspirational Stress, Stress And Anxiety

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

topic: Life, Motivational, Happiness, Inspirational Stress, Stop Procrastination

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

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Depression, Hurt And Pain, Inspirational Stress

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

- Natalie Goldberg

source: FaceBook post by Natalie Goldberg from Jul 25, 2011

topic: Stress, Believe, Ignorant, Inspirational Stress, Inspirational Stress Relief

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

- Hans Selye

topic: Positive, Happiness, Attitude, Aimlessness, My Attitude

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

- Ashleigh Brilliant

topic: Funny, Success, Women, Inspirational Stress, Stress Management

Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow

- Douglas Pagels

source: Alin Austin, Douglas Pagels (1993). “100 Things to Always Remember-- and One Thing to Never Forget”, Blue Mountain Arts

topic: Stress, Color, Rainbow, Inspirational Retirement, Inspirational Stress Relief

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

- Hans Selye

topic: Inspirational, Stress, Anxiety, Inspirational Stress, Inspirational Stress Relief

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

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Success, Work, Stress, Important Work, Inspirational Stress Relief

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

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Keep Busy, Inspirational Adversity

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

- Will Rogers

topic: Funny, Life, Wisdom, Managing Time, Time Spent

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened

- Winston Churchill

topic: Life, Depressing, Funny Inspirational, You Make Me Happy, Stress And Worry

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

topic: Stress, Keys, Worry, Inspirational Stress, Inspirational Stress Relief

What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.

- W. H. Davies

source: Songs of Joy (1911) "Leisure"

topic: Life, Humor, Care, Inspirational Stress Relief, Stress And Life

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

- Mother Teresa

source: Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers”, p.17, New World Library

topic: Life, New Year, Mother, Inspirational Future, Inspirational New Beginning

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

- Aesop

topic: Peace, Stress, Food, Inspirational Stress Relief, Stress And Anxiety

For fast-acting relief try slowing down.

- Lily Tomlin

topic: Inspirational, Breakup, Stress, Inspirational Stress Relief, Stress Management

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Life, Education, Spirit Of Life, Meaning Life

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

- Sydney J. Harris

topic: Funny, Witty, Time, Managing Time, Inspirational Stress Relief

If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it

- Mary Engelbreit

topic: Thinking, Way, Live For Yourself, Good Thoughts, My Attitude

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

- Sylvia Plath

topic: Inspirational, Sad, Women, Inspirational Stress Relief, Stress Management

Stress is when you wake up screaming and realize you haven't fallen asleep yet

- Steve Valentine

topic: Stress, Wake Up, Realizing, Under Stress, Stress Management

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

topic: Happiness, Appreciation, Retirement, Always Happy, Joy Happiness

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

- John Lubbock

topic: Inspirational, Success, Summer, Inspirational Nature, Inspirational Retirement

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath.

- Natalie Goldberg

topic: Stress, Earth, Forget, Inspirational Stress Relief, Stress And Anxiety

'What about stress? Are you using your stress-management techniques when things seem to be getting on top of you?' 'Nothing is getting on top of me.' As I said it, a totally inappropriate picture popped into my mind. 'What are you feeling?' Jake's breath warm against my face, my bruised lips tingling from his kisses. 'Tell me what it feels like with me inside you.'

- Josh Lanyon

topic: Stress, Kissing, Feelings, Stress Management, Bruised

There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.

- Kenneth H. Cooper

topic: Stress, Exercise, Smoking, Stress Management

Training is a case of stress management. Stress and rest, stress and rest

- Brooks Johnson

topic: Stress, Training, Management, Stress Management

I learned about stress management from my kids. Every night after work, I drink some chocolate milk, eat sugary cereal straight from the box, then run around the house in my underwear screaming like a monkey.

- Randy Glasbergen

topic: Running, Stress, Kids, Stress Management, Chocolate Milk