50 Inspirational Quotes to Help You Manage Stressful Workdays

"Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen."

- Conan O’Brien

"If I had nine hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first six sharpening my axe."

- Abraham Lincoln

"It’s not whether you get knocked down. It’s whether you get up."

- Vince Lombardi

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it."

- Steve Jobs

"For mindful leaders, cultivating such organizational health requires [...] Eliminate toxicity. Appreciate health. Build trust. Send clear messages. Embrace resistance. Understand blindness. Accept invitations. Heal wounds. Be realistic."

- Michael Carroll

"[Mindful leadership] enables a leader to respond to a situation as it arises, to respond to the reality of constant changes from a place of deep calm and focus [...]."

- Maria Gonzalez

"Mindfulness enables leaders to be fully present, aware of themselves and their impact on other people, and sensitive to their reactions to stressful situations."

- Bill George

"Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder."

- Rumi

"This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play."

- Alan Watts

"Work is only a part of life. But work is life only when done in mindfulness."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Ideally, we are able to find a job and work in such a way that our work is of benefit to the Earth and to all living beings."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Perhaps one of the reasons we don't enjoy all these activities as much as we could is because we think activities need to be exciting for us to enjoy them. Many people confuse joy and happiness with excitement. But excitement is not the same as happiness. With joy and happiness we have a sense of satisfaction. There's a feeling of satisfaction in being in the here and now, when you recognize you have so many conditions for happiness in the present moment, whether you're sitting, walking, standing, or working."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Don’t do any task in order to get it over with. Resolve to do each job in a relaxed way, with all your attention. Enjoy and be one with your work."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"If we're not comparing the present moment to thoughts of the past or thoughts of the future, the present moment is actually perfect just as it is."

- Matt Tenney

"Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you."

- Lao Tzu

"We’re so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are."

- Bill Watterson

"Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already."

- Pema Chodron

"Ask yourself: Where am I? Answer: Here. Ask yourself: What time is it? Answer: Now. Say it until you can hear it."

- Ram Dass

"Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes, which it will."

- James Baraz

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."

- Marcus Aurelius

"In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility."

- Victoria Moran

"We already have everything we are looking for, everything we want to become. Be yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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

- William James

"Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one."

- Hans Selye

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"Your mindset matters. It affects everything – from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being."

- Peter Diamandis

"Stress is caused by being ‘here’ but wanting to be ‘there.’"

- Eckhart Tolle

"Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There’s going to be stress in life, but it’s your choice whether you let it affect you or not."

- Valerie Bertinelli

"It’s not stress that kills us; it is our reaction to it."

- Hans Selye

"Usually, when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new."

- Dalai Lama

"An anxious mind is an unproductive mind that doesn’t inspire the best in others. A top priority for mindful leaders is cultivating peace of mind."

- Matt Tenney

"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure."

- Peter Marshall

"Reduce the stress levels in your life through relaxation techniques like meditation, deep breathing, and exercise. You’ll look and feel way better for it."

- Suzanne Somers

"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

"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

"You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through."

- Marie Osmond

"'What if?' statements throw fuel on the fire of stress and worry. Things can go in a million different directions, and the more time you spend worrying about the possibilities, the less time you’ll spend focusing on taking action that will calm you down and keep your stress under control."

- Travis Bradberry

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty."

- Winston Churchill

"Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

- Lou Holtz

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"Failure is not the opposite of success: it’s part of success."

- Arianna Huffington

"Believe you can and you’re halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing; that’s why we recommend it daily."

- Zig Ziglar

"You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction."

- George Lorimer

"If you can’t yet do great things, do small things in a great way."

- Napoleon Hill

"Work hard and be kind and amazing things will happen."

- Conan O’Brien

"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard."

- Tim Notke

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."

- Colin Powell

"Nothing will work unless you do."

- Maya Angelou

"Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion."

- Simon Sinek

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

- Henry Ford

"Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."

- Vince Lombardi

"Do or do not. There is no try."

- Yoda

"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."

- Hermann Hesse

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did."

- Mark Twain

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

- C.S. Lewis

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

"If you believe it will work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you believe it won’t, you will see obstacles."

- Wayne Dyer

"Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better."

- Jim Rohn

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

- Dale Carnegie

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."

- Florence Nightingale

"Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed."

- Bob Riley

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

- Helen Keller

"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."

- Stephen R. Covey

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

- Truman Capote

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot

"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."

- Charles R. Swindoll

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."

- Stephen Hawking

"Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be."

- Zig Ziglar

"It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that’s where transformation happens. That’s how change occurs."

- Jillian Michaels

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

- Thomas Edison

"Don’t be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don’t let others discourage you or tell you that you can’t do it. In my day I was told women didn’t go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn’t."

- Gertrude B. Elion

"Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."

- Thomas Jefferson

"If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude."

- Maya Angelou

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…"

- Dr. Seuss

"It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe."

- Muhammad Ali

"Visualization works if you work hard. That’s the thing. You can’t just visualize and go eat a sandwich."

- Jim Carrey

"Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work."

- Stephen King

"We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."

- Marie Curie

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without."

- Gautama Buddha

"You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

"If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath."

- Amit Ray

"Just when you feel you have no time to relax, know this is the moment you most need to relax."

- Matt Haig

"If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever."

- Dalai Lama

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives."

- Maya Angelou

"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it."

- William Durant

"In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me, there lay an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Best advice ever received was from one of my meditation teachers at the monastery: ‘Be present, be patient, be gentle, be kind…everything else will take care of itself.’"

- Andy Puddicombe

"When you're quiet, everything settles on the floor of your mind like sediment in undisturbed still water."

- Megan Monahan

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."

- Viktor E. Frankl

"Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."

- Bertrand Russell

"Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck."

- Dalai Lama XIV

"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles."

- Charlie Chaplin

"Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within it a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it."

- Buddha

"No one can hurt me without my permission."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The hard days are what make you stronger."

- Aly Raisman

"If you believe it’ll work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you don’t believe it’ll work out, you’ll see obstacles."

- Wayne Dyer

"If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Remember the blue sky. It may at times be obscured by clouds, but it is always there."

- Andy Puddicombe

"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside."

- Wayne Dyer

"Your focus determines your reality."

- George Lucas

"Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften."

- Jack Kornfield

"These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb."

- Najwa Zebian

"It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view."

- Dalai Lama

"In our times, it is radical to choose to sit still and be silent, to resist an identity of busyness, ceaseless motion, and noise, and to reclaim our sanity and humanity by coming home to ourselves."

- Sumi Loundon Kim

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."

- Lao Tzu

"In today’s rush, we all think too much - seek too much - want too much - and forget about the joy of just being."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes ... including you."

- Anne Lamott

"It takes courage to say yes to rest and play, in a culture where exhaustion is seen as a symbol status."

- Brené Brown

"There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind—you are the one who hears it."

- Michael A. Singer

"So much time and effort is spent on wanting to change, trying to change, to be somebody different, better, or new. Why not use this time to get comfortable with yourself as you are instead?"

- Andy Puddicombe

"Don’t believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that – thoughts."

- Allan Lokos

"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves."

- Buddha

"Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our compassionate thoughts."

- Buddha

"Everything is created twice. First in the mind and then in reality."

- Robin Sharma

"Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most."

- Buddha

"To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Look at children. Of course they may quarrel, but generally speaking they do not harbor ill feelings as much or as long as adults do. [...] If they feel angry with someone, they express it, and then it is finished. They can still play with that person the following day."

- Dalai Lama

"A beautiful way to practice mindfulness, which is almost guaranteed to improve your social life, is to [...] give your full moment-to-moment attention to another person with a nonjudgmental mind [...]."

- Chade-Meng Tan

"The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes."

- Pema Chodron

"Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

- Dalai Lama

"Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right."

- Henry Ford

"Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear."

- George Addair

"A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure."

- Dalai Lama

"Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates: Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind?"

- Buddha

"When you move your focus from competition to contribution, life becomes a celebration. Never try to defeat people, just win their hearts."

- Buddha

"When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself [...] He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right."

- Walt Disney

"You can have results or excuses. Not both."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Of all the things that matter, that really and truly matter, working more efficiently and getting more done, is not one of them."

- Mike Dooley

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

- Maya Angelou

"The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."

- Stephen Covey

"Challenges are what makes life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Don’t count the days, make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"You can do anything—but not everything."

- David Allen

"You must never think of the whole street at once, understand? You must only concentrate on the next step, the next breath, the next stroke of the broom, and the next, and the next. Nothing else. That way you enjoy your work, which is important, because then you make a good job of it. And that's how it ought to be."

- Michael Ende

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

- Robert Schuller

"Mindfulness gives you time. Time gives you choices. Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom."

- Bhante H. Gunaratana

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

"You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."

- Zig Ziglar

"How we pay attention to the present moment largely determines the character of our experience, and therefore, the quality of our lives."

- Sam Harris

"I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done."

- Lucille Ball

"Always deliver more than expected."

- Larry Page

"You can do anything, but not everything. Prioritize better."

- David Allen

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

- Woody Allen

"Self-esteem comes from achieving something important when it’s hard to do."

- Clayton M. Christensen

"If plan ‘A’ doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters – 204 if you’re in Japan."

- Claire Cook

"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one."

- Dolly Parton

"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."

- Tom Stoppard

"It’s always the hard part that creates value."

- Seth Godin

"Success is my only option, failure’s not."

- Eminem

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

- Albert Einstein

"If you want to succeed, you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success."

- John Rockefeller

"Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor."

- Rumi

"If you hear a voice within you, say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means, paint, and that voice will be silenced."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"Be so good they can’t ignore you."

- Steve Martin

"If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs."

- Dhirubhai Ambani

"When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for everyone telling you you’re nuts."

- Larry Ellison

"Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success."

- Biz Stone

"The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried."

- Stephen McCranie

"I wake up every morning and think to myself, ‘How far can I push this company in the next 24 hours?’"

- Leah Busque

"If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore."

- Michele Ruiz

"If we have the attitude that it’s going to be a great day it usually is."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"Impossible is just an opinion."

- Paulo Coelho

"Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up."

- Isabelle Lafleche

"Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

- John D. Rockefeller

"Greatness only comes before hustle in the dictionary."

- Ross Simmonds

"If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them."

- Shonda Rhimes

"If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door."

- Milton Berle

"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm."

- Willa Cather

"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."

- Mother Teresa

"You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather."

- Pema Chödrön

"Failure is the caterpillar. Success is the butterfly."

- Peta Kelly

"In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived. How well we have loved. How well we have learned to let go."

- Jack Kornfield

"Staying positive does not mean that things will turn out okay. Rather it is knowing that you will be okay no matter how things turn out."

- Garth Ennis

"Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly."

- Neil Gaiman

"Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still."

- Barbara Kingsolver

"Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be."

- Eckhart Tolle

"You be greater than your feelings. I don’t demand this of you—life does. Otherwise, you’ll be washed away by feelings. You’ll be washed out to sea and never seen again."

- Phillip Roth

"Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise."

- Frank Ocean

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

- Mark Twain

"Don’t let the bastards grind you down."

- Margaret Atwood

"Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you."

- George R.R. Martin

"If the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person."

- Clayton M. Christensen

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity."

- Amelia Earhart

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

"It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure."

- Joseph Campbell

"A proud heart can survive general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone."

- Chinua Achebe

"Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it."

- Chinese proverb

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

- George Bernard Shaw

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra."

- Jimmy Johnson

"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."

- Will Rogers

"Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won’t have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren’t even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they’re doing it."

- Anne Lamott

"If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off… no matter what they say."

- Barbara McClintock

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."

- Arthur C. Clarke

"You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it."

- Charles Buxton

"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."

- Paulo Coelho

"Unless someone like you care a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it’s not."

- Dr. Seuss

"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the Earth."

- William Faulkner

"There is only one way to avoid criticism. Do nothing. Be nothing. Say nothing."

- Aristotle

"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world."

- Robin Williams

"Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path then by all means you should follow that."

- Ellen Degeneres

"Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started."

- David Allen

"It’s easy to solve a problem that everyone sees, but it’s hard to solve a problem that almost no one sees."

- Tony Fadell

"If you hit the target every time, it’s too near or too big."

- Tom Hirshfield

"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it isn’t open."

- Frank Zappa

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

- Anne Frank

"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

"Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive."

- Ziggy Marley

"If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn’t ask me, I’d still have to say it."

- George Burns

"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

"Be undeniable."

- Ralphie May

"There is more to life than increasing its speed."

- Gandhi

"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."

- Salvador Dali

"Stress is simply the adaptation of our bodies and minds to change."

- Peter G. Hanson

"There is no such thing as a stress-free life. No evidence has ever been presented which suggests that a stress-free life can ever be achieved. Stress can be managed, relieved and lessened, but never eliminated."

- Gudjon Bergmann

"All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

"God give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, the courage to change the things that should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other."

- Reinhold Niebuhr

"If you light a lamp for someone else, it will also brighten your path."

- Buddha

"Problems can be experienced as … a chance for renewal rather than stress."

- Marilyn Ferguson

"As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive."

- Rodney King

"For fast-acting relief, try slowing down."

- Lily Tomlin

"Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved."

- Jane Goodall

"We can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts."

- Madeleine L’Engle

"You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."

- Jack London

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."

- Mark Twain

"God will never give you anything you can’t handle, so don’t stress."

- Kelly Clarkson

"For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you."

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."

- Elbert Hubbard

"And when the broken-hearted people living in the world agree, there will be an answer, let it be."

- The Beatles

"Breathe in the good shit. Breathe out the bullshit."

- Karen Salmansohn

"Treat everyone you meet as if they were you."

- Doug Dillon

"And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make."

- The Beatles

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

- Carl Sagan

"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works: if from the head, almost nothing."

- Marc Chagall

"Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure."

- Stanley McChrystal

"How many times do I have to teach you: just because something works doesn’t mean it can’t be improved."

- Shuri

"If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily."

- Jack Canfield

"There is no greater disability in society than the inability to see a person as more."

- Robert M. Hensel

"Imitation is suicide."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"The main way to reduce stress in the workplace is by picking the right people."

- Jesse Schell

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and again and bring their friend."

- Walt Disney

"The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents."

- Antos Parrish

"Innovation distinguishes from a leader and a follower."

- Steve Jobs

"Worry and stress affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system, and profoundly affects heart action."

- Charles W. Mayo, M.D.

"Fulfillment isn’t found over the rainbow—it’s found in the here and now. Today I define success by the fluidity with which I transcend emotional landmines and choose joy and gratitude instead."

- RuPaul

"The people that you work with are, when you get down to it, your very best friends."

- Michael Scott

"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There are thousands of causes for stress, and one antidote to stress is self-expression. That’s what happens to me every day. My thoughts get off my chest, down my sleeves and onto my pad."

- Garson Kanin

"The number one root of all illness, as we know, is stress."

- Marianne Williamson

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships."

- Michael Jordan

"Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it."

- Roald Dahl

"There cannot be a stressful crisis next week. My schedule is already full."

- Henry Kissinger

"Speak softly and carry a big stick."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Hire character. Train skill."

- Peter Schutz

"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."

- Nikola Tesla

"Faced with stress, too many people feel they have nowhere to turn to, that they don’t have access to the kind of friendships or communities where they can easily and openly share their problems and worries."

- Daisaku Ikeda

"The Answer to the Great Question… Of Life, the Universe and Everything… Is… Forty-two."

- Douglas Adams

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

"Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more."

"For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them."

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

"If it’s out of your hands, it deserves freedom from your mind too."

"To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is."

"Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax."

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes…Including you."

"One day or day one. You decide."