55 Quotes on Stress to Bring Peace to Your Mind

1. “It’s not stress that kills us, it’s our reaction to it.” - Hans Selye

2. "Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there." - Eckhart Tolle

3. “The truth is that stress doesn’t come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about your circumstances.” - Andrew Bernstein

4. “We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.” - John Newton

5. “It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out; it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.” - Robert W. Service

6. "If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times." - Dean Smith

7. “These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.” - Najwa Zebian

8. "You don't know what people are really like until they're under a lot of stress." - Tim Allen

9. "All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for." - Jon Kabat-Zinn

10. "Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it." - Lily Tomlin

1. "God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress." - Kelly Clarkson

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

3. “My key to dealing with stress is simple: just stay cool and stay focused.” - Ashton Eaton

4. “When you find yourself stressed, ask yourself one question: Will this matter in 5 years from now? If yes, then do something about the situation. If no, then let it go.” - Catherine Pulsifer

5. "You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." - Christopher Robin

7. "Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside of you that is greater than any obstacle." - Christian D. Larson

8. "No amount of anxiety can change the future. No amount of regret can change the past." - Karen Salmansohn

9. “You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.” - Wayne Dyer

10. "Just enjoy every moment - don't stress. Just be yourself." -bel

11. "Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future but from wanting to control it." - Kahlil Gibran

12. "In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers." - Fred Rogers

13. "You can do anything, but not everything." - David Allen

14. "Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. So relax." - Bryant McGill

15. "Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure." - Oprah Winfrey

1.“Sometimes we just need a mental vacation. Take a 15 minute break and start planning your next vacation.” - Catherine Pulsifer

2. “Wisdom is knowing when to have rest, when to have activity, and how much of each to have.” - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

3. “There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.” - Alan Cohen

4. “Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.” - Maya Angelou

5. "The time to relax is when you don't have time for it." - Sydney J. Harris

6. “Everything needs a break.” - Toba Beta

7. “We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves, otherwise we harden.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

8. “The opportunity to step away from everything and take a break is something that shouldn’t be squandered.” - Harper Reed

9. "Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness." - Deborah Day

10. "Take the time today to love yourself. You deserve it." - Avina Celeste

11. “Just when you feel you have no time to relax, know that this is the moment you most need to make time to relax.” - Matt Haig

12. “Do something nice for yourself today. Find some quiet, sit in stillness, breathe. Put your problems on pause. You deserve a break.” -Akiroq Brost

13. “When things are not happening as planned just stop worrying and take an unplanned break to regain yourself.” -Giridhar Alwar

14. “Sometimes doing nothing makes way for everything.” - Hiral Nagda

15. “Don't underestimate the power of resting. It builds you back unlike anything.” - Hiral Nagda

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

2. “Stress should be a powerful driving force, not an obstacle.” - Bill Phillips

3. "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

4. “Stress acts as an accelerator: it will push you either forward or backward, but you choose which direction.” - Chelsea Erieau

5. "What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens." - Ellen Glasgow

6. "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

7. "Everyday brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace." - Joan Z. Borysenko

8. “Times of stress are also times that are signals for growth, and if we use adversity properly, we can grow through adversity.” - Rabbi Dr. Abraham Twerski

9. "Everyone has the ability to increase resilience to stress. It requires hard work and dedication, but over time, you can equip yourself to handle whatever life throws your way without adverse effects to your health. Training your brain to manage stress won't just affect the quality of your life, but perhaps even the length of it." - Amy Morin

10. "Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we're taking on too much, but because we're taking on too little of what really strengthens us." - Marcus Buckingham

11. "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." - Wayne Dyer

12. "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." - Joyce Meyer

13. "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." - Jocko Willink

14. "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

15. “Stress is like spice – in the right proportion, it enhances the flavour of a dish. Too little produces a bland, dull meal; too much may choke you.” - Donald Tubesing