stress management quotes

I get nervous for everything – literally everything.

You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it’s quite literally that.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

I don’t ever make moves under pressure.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

I don’t feel too much pressure. I only see an opportunity.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it’s your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can’t package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.

When things haven’t gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

A lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.

We use work to numb out. We can’t turn off our machines because we’re afraid we’re going to miss something.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

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

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Put your leaders in stressful scenarios. Make them figure out solutions under pressure. See if you can make them frustrated, angry, and flustered, and then demand decisive leadership from them. They will be challenged at first, but they will get better over time.

When I feel I’m doing too much, I do less if I can.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

If I panic, everyone else panics.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.

I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I’d get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother.

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.