Inspiring Stress Quotes: A Powerful Collection to Uplift Your Spirit

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

- Hans Selye

"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

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Eckhart Tolle

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

- Ziggy Marley

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

- Eckhart Tolle

"You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

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

- Kahlil Gibran

"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

"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

"Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming."

- Robert Tew

"You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you."

- Dan Millman

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Peter Marshall

"No amount of anxiety can change the future. No amount of regret can change the past."

- Karen Salmansohn

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

- Amit Ray

"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

"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

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

- Peter G. Hanson

"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

"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

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Ziggy Marley

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

- Hans Selye

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

- William James

"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

"'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

"Stress is not what happens to us. It is our response to what happens. And response is something we can choose."

- Maureen Killoran

"If the problem can be solved, why worry? If the problem cannot be solved, worrying will do you no good."

- Shantideva

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"In stressful times, it’s okay to not be perfect. It’s okay to cut yourself some slack. Because right now, you might not be your best self. But you are growing, and you are trying your best, and that is good enough."

- Ashley Hetherington

"I will breathe. I will think of solutions. I will not let my worry control me. I will not stress myself out about things I can’t control or change."

- Shayne McClendon

"Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is rather than as you think it should be."

- Wayne W. Dyer

"Stress is not what happens to us, it's how we choose to react to what happens to us."

- Bill Cosby

"We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

- Joseph Campbell

"The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom."

- James Allen

"The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Stress is not the enemy. It is a signal that we need to make some changes in our lives."

- Hans Selye

"Stress is like a wave. It comes and goes. We can't stop the waves, but we can learn to surf them."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

"Stress is not what happens to us. It's our response to what happens to us."

- Hans Selye

"Every day brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace."

- Joan Borysenko

"Remember that stress doesn’t come from what’s going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what’s going on in your life."

- Andrew J. Bernstein

"You don't have to see the whole staircase; just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"Take chances, make mistakes–that is how we grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave."

- Mary Tyler Moore

"What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain."

- Maya Angelou

"The only way to be happy is to live in the present moment, and to accept it as it is."

- Eckhart Tolle

"You are not your thoughts. You are not your emotions. You are the observer of your thoughts and emotions."

- Eckhart Tolle

"The next time you are tempted to get anxious or upset about something – especially something in the past or the future – think about what you are doing and turn your mind to what is going on today."

- Joyce Meyers

"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

"Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future."

- Deepak Chopra

"Every day, think as you wake up, ‘I am fortunate to be alive. I have a precious human life. I am not going to waste it."

- Dalai Lama

"Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Keep calm and carry on."

- Winston S. Churchill

"The only way to deal with stress is to accept it, embrace it, and work with it."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

"Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. So relax."

- Bryant McGill

"What worries you masters you."

- John Locke

"Stress is not caused by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us."

- Kelly McGonigal

"In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts."

- Fred Rogers

"Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it."

- Dorothy M. Neddermeyer

"The secret to dealing with stress is to accept it and then let it go."

- Deepak Chopra

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

- Eckhart Tolle

"Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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

- Robert Schuller

"You will come across obstacles in life—fair and unfair. and you will discover, time and time again, that what matters most is not what these obstacles are, but how we see them, how we react to them, and whether we keep our composure."

- Ryan Holiday

"We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward."

- Isabel Allende

"Stress is a normal and often healthy emotion. It gives us the energy and motivation to tackle challenges and achieve our goals. However, when stress becomes excessive, it can lead to a variety of health problems, including anxiety, depression, and heart disease. It is important to find healthy ways to manage stress, such as exercise, relaxation techniques, and spending time with loved ones."

- American Psychological Association

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

- Confucius

"Let nothing due to a cause outside yourself disturb your calm."

- Marcus Aurelius

"More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Stress is a state of mind. It's up to you to decide how you want to react to it."

- Wayne Dyer

"Stress is not what happens to us. It's our perception of what happens to us."

- Wayne Dyer

"It's not stress that kills us. It's our reaction to it."

- Hans Selye

"I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear."

- Steve Maraboli

"Stress acts as an accelerator: it will push you either forward or backward, but you choose which direction."

- Chelsea Erieau

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

- Stephen Covey

"Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed."

- William James

"A good way to overcome stress is to help others out of theirs."

- Dada J. P. Vaswani

"The day she let go of the things that were weighing her down was the day she began to shine the brightest."

- Katrina Mayer

"Breath is the power behind all things. I breathe in and know that good things will happen."

- Tao Porchon-Lynch

"A very wise man once told me that you can’t look back — you just have to put the past behind you and find something better in your future."

- Jodi Picoult

"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it."

- Sydney J. Harris

"Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it."

- Brian Tracy

"You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle."

- Paulo Coelho

"The bad days are more important than the good days. If you write or exercise or meditate or cook when you don’t feel like it, then you maintain the habit. And if you maintain the habit, then all you need is time."

- James Clear

"It's not the load that breaks you down. It's the way you carry it."

- Lou Holtz

"You can do anything—but not everything."

- David Allen

"Rule number one is, don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it’s all small stuff."

- Robert Eliot

"Don't let the stress of yesterday spoil the joy of today."

- Kalon D. Quagliana

"Stress is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere."

- Glenn Turner

"Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe."

- Mark Twain

"Don't let stress steal your joy."

- Joel Osteen

"Don't worry about things you can't control. Focus on the things you can."

- John Wooden

"Even too much sunshine can be devastating, while only with rain can growth occur. Accept both as part of the growing process in the garden of life."

- Donald S. Neviaser

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

- Kelly Clarkson

"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

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

- Lily Tomlin

"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

"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

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

- Gandhi

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

- Charles W. Mayo, M.D.

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

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

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

- Marianne Williamson

"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

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

- Marilyn Ferguson

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

- Henry Ford

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need."

- Lao Tzu

"Sometimes, the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us."

- Nicole Reed

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

- Najwa Zebian

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

- Annie Lamott

"You can do anything, but not everything."

- David Allen

"It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life."

- Paulo Coelho

"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."

- JK Rowling

"Today, expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it."

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

- Winnie the Pooh

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

- Henry Kissinger

"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

"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 greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."

- Elbert Hubbard

"As usual, the deed was less daunting than the thought of it."

- Osamu Tezuka

"After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere."

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Ricky Gervais

"You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline."

- Jim Collins

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

- David Mamet

"You are stronger than you think you are. You can handle whatever comes your way."

"Stress is a part of life, but it doesn't have to control it. You can choose how you react to it and how to let it affect you."

- Unknown

"It's okay to not be okay. Take care of yourself and reach out for help when you need it."

"Stress is a part of life, but it doesn't have to control it. We can choose to be happy and grateful, even in the midst of difficult circumstances."

"Don't let stress steal your peace."

"Take a deep breath and let it all go. You're doing the best you can."

"Cheer up; the worst is yet to come. Simply put, quit worrying over the little stuff and wait for something really big."

"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly."