Quotes About Stress

Fear breeds fear.

In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.

There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.

Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.

If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly, quietly, without hurry or flurry ... and if the instant you feel yourself growing nervous and ... out of breath, you would stop and take breath, you would find this simple common-sense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.

Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress.

The busy have no time for tears.

If you lose, you're going to be fired, and if you win, you only put off the day you're going to be fired.

Farmers worry only during the growing season, but town people worry all the time.

It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather.

At their wits' end.

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly, quietly, without hurry or flurry ... and if the instant you feel yourself growing nervous and ... out of breath, you would stop and take a breath, you would find this simple common-sense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish.

Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system, and profoundly affects the health. You have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt.

Worry is a god, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

A worried man could borrow a lot of trouble with practically no collateral.

Bacteria and other microorganisms find it easier to infect people who worry and fret.

Worry is a funky luxury when a lot has to be done.

A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.

Worry doesn't help tomorrow's troubles, but it does ruin today's happiness.

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.