Work Stress Quotes:

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

- Hans Selye

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

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

- William James

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

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

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

Believing that you must do something perfectly is a recipe for stress, and you'll associate that stress with the task and thus condition yourself to avoid it

- Steve Pavlina

topic: Stress, Believe, Recipes, Stress And Life, Life Stress

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

- Prem Prakash

source: Prem Prakash (1998). “The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion: A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras”, p.7, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

topic: Pain, Stress, Anxiety, Worthy Of Love, Stress And Anxiety

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

- Joshua L. Liebman

topic: Life, Motivational, Positive, Maturity Level, Spiritual Maturity

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

- Steve Nash

topic: Stress, Worry, Don't Stress, Inspirational Stress, Inspirational Stress Relief

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

- H. L. Mencken

topic: Stress, Men, Liberty, Labor Day Wishes, Labour Day

The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Motivational, Worry, Inspirational Stress, Inspirational Stress Relief, Stress And Worry

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

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

topic: Stress, Relief, Problem, Inspirational Stress, Under Stress

Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.

- William J. Clinton

topic: Happiness, Hate, Stress, Under Stress, Stress And Life

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

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

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Letting Go, Fields, Tiny, Inspirational Stress Relief, Stress And Life

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

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

- Aesop

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

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

- Lily Tomlin

topic: Funny, Leadership, Stress, Inspirational Stress, Leading Causes

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

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

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 nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

- Richard Carlson

source: Richard Carlson (2016). “You Can Be Happy No Matter What”, p.161, Mango Media Inc.

topic: Inspirational, Stress, Relaxation, Mentally Ill, Inspirational Stress

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

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

- Margaret Fuller

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

topic: Funny, Life, Meaningful, Inspirational Stress, Inspirational Stress Relief

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

- Etty Hillesum

topic: Appreciation, Prayer, Yoga, Inspirational Stress Relief, Stress And Life

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

topic: Stress, Mind, Resistance, Peaceful Warrior, Inspirational Stress

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

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

- Hans Selye

topic: Stress, Survival, Becoming, Inspirational Stress, Stress And Life

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

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Stress, Acceptance, Inspirational Stress, Stress And Anxiety, Stress And Life

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

topic: Happiness, Stress, Caring, Inspirational Stress, Inspirational Stress Relief

Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.

- Natalie Imbruglia

source: Song: Don't You Think?, Album: Left of the Middle, 1997

topic: Reality, Insanity, Humorous Birthday, Hurting You, Gold Digger

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

topic: Fear, Stress, Anger, Inspirational Stress, Stress And Anxiety

The nature of the economic system should be a matter for public choice, and free market capitalism should not be accepted without any discussion of the rich variety of alternatives ... Unlike civil laws, economic laws are imposed on people with all the authority of immutable laws of nature. But the economy is created by people, supported by government intervention, regulation, statute and subsidy, and implemented in such a way that it gives substantial wealth and power to a privileged few, while the majority face a life of relentless work, stress and periodic financial insecurity.

- Tony Benn

topic: Stress, Government, Law, Privileged, Work Stress