Top 656 Stress Quotes

I’ve reduced a lot of the stress in my life. I’ve gotten rid of a lot of things. The light was turned on and a lot of the cockroaches started spinning. I swept them out the door. And sometimes you just have to throw things out because they carry a certain energy.
Wesley Snipes
I don’t know if I always want to be in front of the camera. I love producing, I love the camaraderie. I love the adventures. I love the stress.
Sandra Bullock
I’m doing great heart-wise. I get a complete stress test once a year, and those have gone well. I have stents in two arteries, and they are holding up. My other arteries haven’t shown any additional clogging.
Alberto Salazar
When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that.
Pol Pot
I’m a dog lover. With the holidays, everything gets a little bit hectic. There’s a lot on your mind, and maybe you forget that your animals also feel that stress as well. So try to keep them on the same routine; try to keep the chocolate out of their mouth.
Justin Hartley
I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It’s not just about being able to run around the block a few times. It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
Aimee Mullins
A few years ago, I would let it get to me. But now, as long as my mum and my sister and my kids don’t have any stress, I’m good.
Raheem Sterling
There’s such a thing as good stress and bad stress. Bad stress is when somebody else stresses you out, and good stress is when you stress yourself out over something you want to accomplish, which makes you want to perfect it.
Denzel Curry
Stress is not the spice of life any more than arsenic is. And without it, you won’t feel bored.
Andrew J. Bernstein
I realized that filmmaking is an eminently scalable act. No matter how big or how small, there’s joys and stresses that will all scale themselves magnificently to fit the production.
David Lowery
On the whole, I now see my work as being an expression of my spiritual life and, because I look at it that way, I have a different centre. I go through the stress and pressure, but I think I’m lucky because I come from a different source point.
Forest Whitaker
There is one thing I should say, and it’s important: Young Broadway singers and anybody who is an orator of any kind – lawyers who have to speak in court or pastors or anyone who has a lot of stress on their vocal cords: You should do the maintenance. You should do whatever it takes to feel fresh and good.
Julie Andrews
I don’t stress about things I can’t change, so if I have a day when I don’t look great, I don’t look in the mirror! I try to fit in one session of Bikram yoga and one run a week and, if I can, one swim, but that’s pushing it.
Donna Air
Stress is the demon in our society, stalking the cities and the countryside, striking down young and old and growing in strength daily.
Srikumar Rao
Stress is an important dragon to slay – or at least tame – in your life.
Marilu Henner
Reality shows can put a lot of stress on you.
Karishma Tanna
I cannot stress a greater importance than to teach the young generation about the risks of unhealthy eating. A great way to pique their interest in nutrition is to involve them more in the cooking process. They not only will learn to cook for themselves, but also develop a lifetime of healthy habits.
Marcus Samuelsson
The moment I see my daughter’s face, I am instantly happier, my stress just disappears, and I forget everything else.
S. Sreesanth
If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.
Emma Goldman
I feel like when you successful, it’s more stress ’cause it’s more stuff you dealin’ with.
YG
My diet, my regime, the whole life I have on the road has always got that little bit of stress because I’m always afraid I’m going to get a cold. And it’s just such a nightmare when you got a cold or an irritation and you have to do a show.
Geddy Lee
Don’t worry about breaks every 20 minutes ruining your focus on a task. Contrary to what I might have guessed, taking regular breaks from mental tasks actually improves your creativity and productivity. Skipping breaks, on the other hand, leads to stress and fatigue.
Tom Rath
I didn’t start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born – I started getting wicked BO. You know there’s a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.
Dave Grohl
You all know I have terminal cancer-and I have a lot of it. But what you may not know is that stress induces its spread and induces its activity. Stress may even bring it on. Yet stress is the fuel of the activist.
Tom McCall
Live in the moment, day by day, and don’t stress about the future. People are so caught up in looking into the future, that they kind of lose what’s in front of them.
Jenna Ushkowitz
Don’t get me wrong: I’m a sucker for weddings. I’ll get misty-eyed watching the union of two perfect strangers. But in some cases – and I need to stress some cases – I feel like we’re getting blindsided by the spectacle of it all.
Dan Levy
While the line between stress, deep anxiety, and depression often blurs, most entrepreneurs struggle with broad mental health issues at various points in their lives.
Brad Feld
There is such a hype and a big build up to me, and it's

There is such a hype and a big build up to me, and it’s very hard to meet those expectations. That’s been a big stress in my life.
Shawn Mendes
Stress is part of your career. You have to accept it and deal with it because there is a lot of emotion in tennis.
Stan Wawrinka
If it’s a Clean Bandit-related stress, there are smooth things they play on Classical FM that can help, such as Barber’s ‘Adagio for Strings,’ or there is a choral version of it too that is very relaxing.
Grace Chatto
I’ve chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about.
Martin Short
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
We have this amazing ability to turn on the exactly same stress response worrying about a mortgage that a zebra does when it’s sprinting away from a lion.
Robert Sapolsky
Any of us are capable of doing things we’re not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses.
Bill James
There’s no way to escape the culture that has evolved, from which we ourselves have evolved. Naturally, we stress it, break it up, reassemble it to suit our own needs. But it is there – a source of vital strength.
Wole Soyinka
The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who’ve happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It’s happened a few times in forty years.
Fred Saberhagen
Once I got cancer of the tongue and throat, I realised that stress is a killer and I had to try and get stress out of my life.
Geoffrey Boycott
As important as it is to learn how to deal with different kinds of people, truly toxic people will never be worth your time and energy – and they take a lot of each. Toxic people create unnecessary complexity, strife, and, worst of all, stress.
Travis Bradberry
As far as diversity’s concerned, there’s me, there’s Al Madrigal, there’s Aasif Mandvi. But I’m not walking around feeling black all the time. That would stress me out.
Jessica Williams
Some people gain weight during times of stress, but I lose weight.
Cindy McCain
The physical aspects of the game, it’s probably the highlight for me. It’s a way for me to get a lot of anger and stress off of my shoulders.
Brian Banks
Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.
Jamais Cascio
Babies have much higher levels of stress in childcare.
Mem Fox
Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.
Alexis Bledel
The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.
Hank Johnson
The thing I stress to my fans is that I’ve been making big, universally friendly-type music for a long time now. I never really made underground music.
Machine Gun Kelly
When you become famous super young, you learn how to behave by the rules because you’re the one that has to take the stress. But that also creates a barrier that I really didn’t want.
Robyn
Being a lawyer is absolutely stressful in its own right. But then, doing ‘The Bachelor’ and ‘The Bachelorette’ and all the media afterwards, you can imagine, that’s just like a whole new level of stress.
Rachel Lindsay
While positive mental states may be associated with less stress and more resilience to infection, positive well-being might also be accompanied by a healthy lifestyle.
Michael Greger
The reason humans experience so much more stress than other species isn’t just because we think more, but also because we think differently.
Andrew J. Bernstein
I believe in spending money to make your home the perfect sanctuary away from work and the stress of everyday life.
Hilary Farr
I’m used to things changing, I’m used to having to keep going and not really stopping to think and stress out.
Julia Fox
I think I did a good job of compartmentalizing my life. It’s crazy to say it, but even if football was this dangerous thing, it was a place where I could focus all my energy. I’m sure it’s not the healthiest thing to direct stress from football into football, but that’s basically what I did.
Chris Borland
If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time.
Gregory Bateson
People don’t realize the amount of stress you put on your body both physically and mentally from just the wear and tear of a season.
Grant Hill
I have two daughters, and we live here in Manhattan, and having gone through the Manhattan kindergarten application process, nothing will ever rival the stress of that.
Tina Fey