The 25 Best Stress Quotes

The stress quotes below are powerful little reminders to focus you on how to reduce or eliminate the stress from your life.

Review all 25 of these top stress quotes, copy your favorites, and consider posting them on your car dashboard, computer monitor, mirror, front door, or anywhere where your eyes often travel during the course of a typical day. Doing this with stress quotes is an effective way to help you remain aware of key ways to ease the stress in your life!

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Is everything as urgent as your stress would imply?
- Carrie Latet


No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick


Take your seat on the shore. Listen to the ancient voice in the waves. Taste the salt of life on your tongue. Run your fingers through the eternal sand. Breathe deeply. If you find yourself worrying about your cell phone and emails, if you find yourself feeling guilty that you should be doing “something important,” breathe deeply again. And again. Breathe deeply until every fabric of your being is reminded that this, being here, is your top priority. This is peace. This is wisdom. The work is a means to living, but this is the living.
- Brian Vaszily

Don't let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.
- Astrid Alauda


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


Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. 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.
- Dan Millman


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 Iacoca


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


There is more to life than increasing its speed.
- Mohandas K. Gandhi


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


There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
- Peter Drucker

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


Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.
- Natalie Goldberg


The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.
- Robert Maclver


Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Coincidence? I think not!
- Unknown

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


Appreciating each other is a true family value, one that will bail out much of the stress on the planet and help strengthen the universal bond all people have.
- Sara Paddison


Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
- Ovid


Stress is the trash of modern life - we all generate it but if you don't dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.
- Terri Guillemets


Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.
- John De Paola


The irony is this: Our bodies react to stress in exactly the same way whether or not we have a good reason for being stressed. The body doesn't care if we're right or wrong. Even in those times when we feel perfectly justified in getting angry - when we tell ourselves it's the healthy response - we pay for it just the same.
- Doc Childre and Howard Martin


If your teeth are clenched and your fists are clenched, your lifespan is probably clenched.
- Adabella Radici


Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.
- Pooh's Little Instruction Book


Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
- Chinese Proverb


A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

- William Henry Davies

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