Explore a collection of the most beloved and motivational quotes and sayings about Stress. Share these powerful messages with your loved ones on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or on your personal blog, and inspire the world with their wisdom. We've compiled the Top 100 Stress Quotes and Sayings from 80 influential authors, including Robert Ringer,Bell Hooks,Andrew J. Bernstein,Debasish Mridha,Valerie Bertinelli, for you to enjoy and share.

It's not stress that kills people, but how they react to it. By Robert Ringer People Stress Kills React

I think stress is anything going on in our lives that impinges on our capacity to have optimum well being. By Bell Hooks Stress Lives Impinges Capacity Optimum

It's time we learned the truth about stress. It's time we identified the thoughts that actually create our stress and learned to dismantle them one by one. By Andrew J. Bernstein Time Learned Stress Truth Identified

Stress is nothing but the fear of change. By Debasish Mridha Stress Change Fear

There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not. By Valerie Bertinelli Life Stress Choice Affect

The source of our stress isn't really difficulties, circumstances and situations-it's our attitude and approach toward them. By Joyce Meyer Difficulties Circumstances Source Stress Situationsit

At its core, stress is simply a state of mind. Everything else is after the fact. By Kiran Dintyala Core Stress Mind Simply State

Stress is when you wake up screaming and realize you haven't fallen asleep yet By Steve Valentine Stress Wake Screaming Realize Fallen

Stress is a thought, a perception of fear, it will melt away if welet our thoughts change with courage. By Debasish Mridha Stress Fear Courage Perception Melt

Where there is a lack of rest, there is an abundance of stress. By Lysa Terkeurst Rest Stress Lack Abundance

Stress means there is something wrong, and you are not aligned with life. By Eckhart Tolle Stress Wrong Life Aligned

Stress is not ... a badge of courage By Kris Carr Stress Courage Badge

In my experience as a psychotherapist, I have found that stress underlies most of the psychological, social, and medical problems people face in contemporary society. If we can get a handle on stress, we can take care of most of the problems we face in our lives. By Jed Diamond Social Psychotherapist Psychological Society Face

If we didn't have any stress, we'd never grow and you'd probably wouldn't test your mettle and you'd probably wouldn't come up with a lot of creative stuff that people come up with by being somewhat on the edge. By David Allen Stress Edge Grow Test Mettle

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. By Natalie Goldberg Stress Earth Breath Basically Disconnection

Positive stress, negative stress, - stress no less. It's all in how you manage your energies. By Jo-Ann L. Tremblay Stress Positive Negative Energies Manage

Stress exacerbates any problem, whether it's diabetes, heart trouble, MS, or whatever. By Mary Ann Mobley Stress Problem Diabetes Heart Trouble

Stress is not bad but a necessary part of facing life's challenges. Whilst the dreamers maintain the delusion that 'all accidents are preventable' the rest of us know that the bumps and challenges of life are necessary for learning, resilience and maturation. There can be no resilience without stress, and no learning without risk. By Rob Long Life Challenges Bad Part Facing

Some people are so used to experiencing stress that they don't remember what life was like without it. By Andrew J. Bernstein People Experiencing Stress Remember Life

I think when we use 'stress', we are often using a kind of dummy word to try to fit many different things into one big category. By Siddhartha Mukherjee Stress Category Kind Dummy Word

Stress should be a powerful driving force, not an obstacle. By Bill Phillips Stress Force Obstacle Powerful Driving

Stressful energy arises when you think some future moment is more important than the present moment, and the doing becomes only a means to an end. By Eckhart Tolle Stressful End Moment Energy Arises

We are not designed to deal with the many stress-inducing situations of the twenty-first century. For most of human history, the stressors we faced were mainly physical, like running away from wild animals. Now they are almost entirely psychological. When was the last time you were frightened by a lion? The things that cause us stress in our modern world are the ones that go inside our heads. By Jed Diamond Century Designed Deal Stressinducing Situations

Some events in life are so overwhelming that people will experience stress no matter how good they are at controlling their minds in normal circumstances. By Gudjon Bergmann Circumstances Events Life Overwhelming People

I don't have any stress. I'm very lucky. I live a very healthy life. By Karl Lagerfeld Stress Lucky Life Live Healthy

Stress is a false perception of fear of the unknown. By Debasish Mridha Stress Unknown False Perception Fear

Hans Selye, the pioneer in the understanding of human stress, was often asked the following question: "What is the most stressful condition a person can face?" His unexpected response: "Not having something to BELIEVE in. By Hans Selye Selye Hans Stress Question Face

exhaustion and the daily rigours of the By Anonymous Exhaustion Daily Rigours

Stress is a form of suffering. Look at your body and see what stress does to the body and its functions - what it does to the heart, the circulation, the immune system, the digestive function, the liver. By Eckhart Tolle Suffering Stress Form Body Functions

There's a terrible price to pay for stress in your life - it really takes a hit on your heart. By Leeza Gibbons Life Heart Terrible Price Pay

When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained. By Viggo Mortensen Strained Stress Human Behave Oddly

Life is stress by definition. By Rebecca Mcnutt Life Definition Stress

Learn to let urgency go. Nothing is urgent. Stress is the product of uncertainty and urgency of life. By Debasish Mridha Learn Urgency Urgent Stress Life

Symptoms of chronic stress are feelings of fragmentation and of chasing after time - of not being able to be present. What we are looking for is a settled, joyful state of being, and we need to give this state space. The Archbishop once told me that people often think he needs time to pray and reflect because he is a religious leader. He said those who must live in the marketplace - business people, professionals and workers - need it even more. By Desmond Tutu Symptoms Present Chronic Stress Feelings

Stress is the result of not listening to your heart. If you ignore it for too long, and surrender your power to someone else, your chest will explode with panic. I take plenty of time for me. By Jason Mraz Stress Heart Result Listening Long

When we're stressed, our brains persistently mis-predict what will make us happy. By Kelly Mcgonigal Stressed Happy Brains Persistently Mispredict

There is no stress, anxiety or fear; it's our mind's game with our heart to dare. Change your perception and don't let your mind wander. By Debasish Mridha Stress Anxiety Fear Dare Mind

The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like the rarest of orchids and does not want to be cured of. Stress makes Americans feel busy, important, and in demand, and simultaneously deprived, ignored, and victimized. Stress makes them feel interesting and complex instead of boring and simple, and carries an assumption of sensitivity not unlike the Old World assumption that aristocrats were high-strung. In short, stress has become a status symbol. By Florence King Freud Stress Beloved Symptom American

Stress is something that makes you feel you can't be yourself. By Penney Peirce Stress Makes Feel

We've all had stress creep up on us without even noticing it until we lost it on someone who didn't deserve it, and then we realize that we probably should have checked in with ourselves a little earlier. By Ariel Garten Earlier Stress Creep Noticing Lost

Stress" is mostly the result of not being allowed to kill some asshole you really want to slice and dice. By S.m. Stirling Stress Dice Result Allowed Kill

Stress happens when the mind resists what is. Most of us tend to either push or resist the river of our lives, to fight circumstance rather than make use of things as they are. Resistance creates turbulence, which you feel as physical, mental, and emotional tension. Tension is a subtle pain, which - like any pain - signals that something is amiss. When we are out of natural balance, we create tension; by listening to our body, we can take responsibility for releasing it. By Dan Millman Stress Tension Mind Pain Resists

Whenever you experience stress of any kind, look into yourself and ask, In what way am I compromising my innermost values in this situation? By Stephen Covey Kind Situation Experience Stress Compromising

Ever wonder why most of the people you know or have met seem to be in chronic stress? By Jay Allen Stress People Met Chronic

Medical thinking usually sees stress as highly disturbing but isolated events such as, for example, sudden unemployment, a marriage breakup, or the death of a loved one. These major events are potent sources of stress for many, but there are chronic daily stresses in people's lives that are more insidious and more harmful in their long-term biological consequences. Internally generated stresses take their toll without in any way seeming out of the ordinary. By Gabor Mate Medical Sudden Unemployment Breakup Stress

Prolonged stress causes the human body to make adaptations so it can continue to serve you at a functional level. The more stress, the more adaptations. By Janet Gallagher Nestor Prolonged Level Stress Adaptations Human

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. By Marilu Henner Challenges Management Happy Healthy Life

Why stress tomorrow when you can stress today? By Douglas Wilson Today Stress Tomorrow

With the high stress of life many people find that their mind is constantly racing. They cannot stop from thinking even during time away from work or school, when they'd like to be relaxing. Subsequently, they may also feel associated physical tension in their bodies. In this case, the mind and the body are very closely connected to the stress response. By Tim Mccarthy Racing High Life People Find

To overcome stress you have to find out something. You've got to do some research and homework. You need to find out who you are today. By Frederick Lenz Find Overcome Stress Homework Research

When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you're doing, you become stressed. By Eckhart Tolle Stressed Arrive Goal

Stress is not caused by your busy life or challenging circumstances, it's simply the result of an imbalance between silence and activity. By Jerry Thomas Stress Circumstances Activity Caused Busy

If you're over stressed it's because you're under asked. By Mark Victor Hansen Asked Stressed

Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin. By Ann Voskamp Stress Stealer Joy Sin Respond

the top ten causes of death around the world can either be caused or exacerbated by stress. By Wallace J. Nichols Stress Top Ten Death World

If you are doing that which is within you, what that part of you that is beyond body would like you to do, then you would not experience stress because you would be very fulfilled. By Frederick Lenz Fulfilled Part Body Experience Stress

I don't like stress because stress stresses me out. By Jason Dufner Stress Stresses

Fear of the unknown and resentment bring stress. By Debasish Mridha Fear Stress Unknown Resentment Bring

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness. By Richard Carlson Stress Illness Socially Acceptable Form

Stress is your body's way of saying you haven't worked enough unpaid overtime. By Scott Adams Stress Overtime Body Worked Unpaid

Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness. By Hans Selye Frustrations Insecurity Hypertension Suicide Mental

Stress is when you're 29 years old, playing for Rochdale, with an expiring contract and a mortgage to pay. By John Gregory Rochdale Stress Years Playing Pay

That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work. By Byron Katie Stress Purpose Work Friend Clock

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. By Wayne Dyer World Beliefs Stress Truth Actual

Removing stress enhances health. By William Gladstone Removing Health Stress Enhances

When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug. By Aaron Levie Stress Bug Passionate Featurenot

Stress is a byproduct of subconscious beliefs you have about the world. You can't choose not to believe something. You believe it because you think it's true. To eliminate stress, you must learn to challenge these beliefs so that you see them differently. By Andrew J. Bernstein World Byproduct Subconscious Stress Beliefs

If there's one lesson I've learned, it's that life is all about change, and stress comes from avoiding change. By Brad Thor Change Learned Lesson Life Stress

Anxiety will bear a lot of nuisance. By Josh Billings Anxiety Nuisance Bear Lot

Fear in the mind causes stress in the body. By Mark Driscoll Fear Body Mind Stress

Stress is not the spice of life any more than arsenic is. And without it, you won't feel bored. By Andrew J. Bernstein Stress Spice Life Arsenic Bored

The first way to balance stress in my life is to get an internal balance of who I am. And I know who I am by knowing whose I am. I am a child of God. I was put on earth not by accident, but for a purpose. I am deeply loved by God. I am accepted by him. He has a plan for my life, and because he put me here, I am significant. By Rick Warren Balance God Stress Internal Life

Anxiety and stress-related mental dysfunction is the plague of modern-day society. Millions of people are tormented by anxious thinking and the consequent distress this brings, irrespective of whether they live in a mansion or a bed-sit or whether they earn millions or are living on the breadline. This would indicate that external circumstances cannot prevent or cause pathological anxiety or free people from negative emotions. By Christopher Dines Society Stressrelated Mental Dysfunction Plague

A large percentage of what we think of when we talk about stress-related diseases are disorders of excessive stress-responses. By Robert M. Sapolsky Stressresponses Large Percentage Talk Stressrelated

I have no stress, because I am the best. By Lil' Wayne Stress

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche. By Andrew Denton Pressure Psyche Stress Common Cold

In our circle, stress was a valuable status marker: I stress, therefore I am. By Antonella Gambotto-Burke Circle Marker Stress Valuable Status

Stress is extremely harmful to the body. By Eckhart Tolle Stress Body Extremely Harmful

My goal is to educate you about the effects of stress on the body, creating a level of self-awareness that causes you to stop and ask yourself, Is anyone or anything really worth it? So By Joe Dispenza Body Creating Goal Educate Effects

Stress is a function not of events, but of our view of those events. By Ellen Langer Events Stress Function View

psychological reactance. By Michael Pantalon Psychological Reactance

Stress is a form of suffering, but it is accepted as normal. And it is normal in our world. By Eckhart Tolle Stress Suffering Normal Form Accepted

I think positive stress is actually a good thing. It's sort of the stretch goal "Wow, let me see how much faster I can run" or "Let me see how many more ideas I can generate in five minutes." By David Allen Thing Wow Positive Stress Good

Our brains are wired such that it's difficult to take action until we feel at least some level of this emotional state. In fact, performance peaks under the heightened activation that comes with moderate levels of stress. As long as the stress isn't prolonged, it's harmless. By Travis Bradberry State Brains Wired Difficult Action

Work is a form of nervousness. By Robert Benchley Work Nervousness Form

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. By Robert Wright Humans Stress Coping Extended Anticipation

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. By Andrew J. Bernstein Life Remember Stress Thoughts

Because we usually do not consider unimportant events stressful, stress can also be an excellent indicator of the significance we attach to an event--in other words, it highlights what is important to us. By U.s. Department Of The Army Stressful Stress Words Unimportant Excellent

Stress is something that's created in the mind, basically. It's how we look at things. So ovr greatest defense against stress is the ability to change ovr minds; to change ovr thinking. By Goldie Hawn Basically Ovr Stress Created Change

The stress that some of us feel - it's a lack of faith, it really is. By Francis Chan Feel Faith Stress Lack

The amount of stress in your life is determined by how much energy you expend resisting your life. By Gary Zukav Life Amount Stress Determined Energy

Whenever we feel stressed out, that's a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sustained over months and years, those hormones can ruin our health and make us a nervous wreck. By Daniel Goleman Hormones Feel Stressed Signal Brain

Nowadays people consider it a disgrace to admit that they are not stressed. By Judith Martin Nowadays Stressed People Disgrace Admit

Stress is caused by our resistance to what already is. Even our difficulties we need to accept. My greatest wish is to do God's will. By Dorothy Maclean Stress Caused Resistance Accept God

Everything that's supposedly caused by stress, I tell people there's a Nobel Prize there if you find out the real cause. By Barry Marshall Nobel Prize Stress Supposedly Caused

Change your stress, before it changes you! Restore your Freedom to Choose! By Richard D. Murphy Stress Choose Freedom Change Changes

We all enjoy pushing ourselves to accomplish our objectives. But we don't need stress to get there. By Andrew J. Bernstein Objectives Enjoy Pushing Accomplish Stress

Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you're attached to something not true for you. By Byron Katie Stress Alarm Clock Attached True

Researchers have found that the way people feel about the stress in their lives is a far more powerful predictor of their general health - whether they're more likely to be depressed, anxious, smoke cigarettes, or overeat - than any other measure. By Brigid Schulte Anxious Researchers Health Depressed Smoke

People get so stressed and nervous and mad. By Kim Clijsters People Mad Stressed Nervous