Quotes about Stress

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.

life is filled with such little events, little frustrations, little anxieties, and little disappointments that tempt us to fret, fume, and worry.

One of the speaker's main points was that if we want to live less stressful lives, we must learn to live with a single agenda: God's agenda. He pointed out that we tend to live under two agendas, ours and God's, and that the tension between them sets up stress.

To worry was as bad as to be afraid. It simply made things more difficult.

I've had plenty to worry about one time or other. I'm through worrying.

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.

I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest.

Everyone deals with pressure in different ways.

I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.

America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.

If it isn't urgent, worry about it later