50 Inspirational Quotes to Help You Overcome Overwhelm

"Nobody can bring you peace but yourself."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Gautama Buddha

"You are more than the mistakes you’ve made. Instead you’re the wisdom, love, strength, and compassion you’ve gained from all you’ve been through."

- Karen Salmansohn

"I know that each of us has much to do. Sometimes we feel overwhelmed by the tasks we face. But if we keep our priorities in order, we can accomplish all that we should. We can endure to the end regardless of temptations, problems, and challenges."

- Joseph B. Wirthlin

"Anxiety happens when you think to have to figure out everything all at once. Breathe. You’re strong. You got this. Take it day by day."

- Karen Salmansohn

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

- Lily Tomlin

"Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace."

- Dalai Lama

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

"You have dealt with so much, and done the best that you can. So, take a moment now to appreciate how strong you are."

- Karen Salmansohn

"I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what's happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it."

- Joel Osteen

"Accept responsibility for your life. You know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."

- Les Brown

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

- Anne Lamott

"So many of us live in our own palace of pain, convinced that we are alone in our struggle, but the fact is… we’re not alone."

- Lisa Lieberman-Wang

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

- Aristotle

"I was a little excited, but mostly blorft. ‘Blorft’ is an adjective I just made up that means ‘completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum’. I have been blorft every day for the past seven years."

- Tina Fey

"Stop living in the land of why. There are no happy answers to “why me?” “why didn’t I?” “Why did I?” If you must ask any questions, ponder: “How can I grow?” “What’s in my control to change?” “What’s a gain in my pain?"

- Karen Salmansohn

"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

"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Stowe

"Breath. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Unprecedented financial pressures, and an ever-increasingly aggressive public culture, along with social, moral and spiritual fragmentation, are leading to lives being overwhelmed by stress, intolerable interior isolation and even quiet despair."

- Sean Brady

"I’m not yet where I want to be. But thank goodness I’m not where I used to be. Onward and upward."

- Karen Salmansohn

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace."

- Robert J. Sawyer

"Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, and your spirit. Then get back to work."

- Ralph Marston

"Life can be magnificent and overwhelming – that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live."

- Albert Camus

"Don’t ever stop believing in your own personal transformation. It is still happening even on the days you may not realize it or feel like it."

- Lalah Delia

"The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough."

- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

"Challenges are part of life. Overcoming them makes you a stronger person."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"Be so focused on believing that you can, that it doesn’t matter if anyone says you can’t."

- Chris Burkmenn

"Our greatest battles are with our minds."

- Jameson Frank

"A woman who lives with the stress of an overwhelmed schedule will often ache with the sadness of an underwhelmed soul."

- Lysa TerKeurst

"Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday."

- Dale Carnegie

"None of us can go back and start a new beginning, but all of us can start a new day and make a new ending."

- Lisa Lieberman-Wang

"Some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default."

- J.K. Rowling

"Trials and tribulations of every kind are what give us the strength to rise above and find success."

- Lisa Lieberman-Wang

"Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations."

- Ralph Marston

"Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it."

- Jane Wagner

"If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person."

- Seneca

"Don’t believe every worried thought you have. Worried thoughts are notoriously inaccurate."

- Renee Jain

"Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering."

- A.A. Milne

"Nobody is perfect, so stop trying to be perfect."

- Lisa Lieberman-Wang

"When it gets difficult is often right before you succeed."

- Chris Darrett

"No one knows what you have been through or what your pretty little eyes have seen, but I can reassure you – whatever you have conquered, it shines through your mind."

- Nikki Rowe

"Never be ashamed of how you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion you want and do what makes you happy."

- Demi Lovato

"When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody, you often feel like 'Oh my God, I'm so overwhelmed; I'm dealing with this huge thing on my own.' In fact, poetry's a nice reminder that, no, everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences."

- Caroline Kennedy

"With a fixed mindset, you believe you are who you are and you cannot change. This creates problems when you're challenged because anything that appears to be more than you can handle is bound to make you feel hopeless and overwhelmed."

- Travis Bradberry

"Tenacity is not about avoiding being overwhelmed but being indomitable in the face of the overwhelming odds of your venture's failure."

- Andy Dunn

"Sometimes when you're overwhelmed by a situation - when you're in the darkest of darkness - that's when your priorities are reordered."

- Phoebe Snow

"Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success."

- Og Mandino

"People are remarkably bad at remembering long lists of goals. I learned this at a professional level when trying to get my high-performance coaching clients to stay on track; the longer their lists of to-dos and goals, the more overwhelmed and off-track they got. Clarity comes with simplicity."

- Brendon Burchard

"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst."

- William Penn

"The key is in not spending time, but in investing it."

- Stephen R. Covey

"The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my savior; in him I find protection. He is my shield, the strength of my salvation, and my stronghold."

- Psalm 18:2

"Cast your burden upon the Lord and He will sustain you; He will never allow the righteous to be shaken."

- Psalm 55:22

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

"We are struggling for a uniting word, but the good news is that we have a uniting movement."

- Emma Watson

"Relax. No one else knows what they’re doing, either."

- Ricky Gervais

"I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling."

- Frida Kahlo

"We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of pie."

- David Mamet

"Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means."

- Ronald Reagan

"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

"Whenever I've performed in India, I've been overwhelmed with the amount of love from the Indian fans. Their passion, their energy - it makes me grateful that I'm able to do what I love every single day."

- Hardwell

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you’ll make one."

- Elbert Hubbard

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

- Rudyard Kipling

"I am overwhelmed with gratitude, and my heart is full. 'American Sniper' has broken records, which follows such an honest path of Chris's life."

- Taya Kyle

"Overwhelmed by the miraculous potentialities of the machine, our human greed has interfered with the biological cycle of human companionship which keeps the life of a community healthy."

- Walter Gropius

"The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion."

- Albrecht Durer

"Every relationship I've been in, I've overwhelmed the girl. They just can't handle all the love."

- Justin Timberlake

"So far, you’ve survived 100% of your worst days. You’re doing great."

"Don’t let people pull you into their storm. Instead, pull them into your peace."

"This too shall pass. It may be an uncomfortable experience, but it will eventually end. That’s much like the passing of a kidney stone."

"Lower your expectations of people, and you will be pleasantly surprised."