Quotes about Pressure

The anxieties of all of us, our worries, vexations, bothers, troubles, uneasy apprehensions and strenuous efforts are due, in perhaps the large majority of instances, to what other people will say;

Each of us struggles daily with the pressures of conformity and the loneliness of difference from which those choices seem to offer escape.

The crowd would have forgiven anything, except a man who could remain normal under the vibrations of its enormous collective sneer.

There's no surer way to destroy a man than to force him into a spot where he has to aim at not doing his best, where he has to struggle to do a bad job, day after day.

She firmly believes feminism to be anti-woman because it pressures women to become more like men.

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more patient and less pressured.

Aunt Wellington, of whom Valancy stood in abject awe, would tell her about Olive's new chiffon dress and Cecil's last devoted letter. Valancy would have to look as pleased and interested as if the dress and letter had been hers or else Aunt Wellington would be offended. And Valancy had long ago decided that she would rather offend God than Aunt Wellington, because God might forgive her but Aunt Wellington never would.

If I understand accountability, but not acceptability, I will live under pressure to behave well in order to be accepted. If I understand acceptability, but not accountability, I may become casually indifferent to sinful living. When I understand first my acceptability and then my accountability, I will be constrained to please the One who died for me, fearful that I might grieve Him, not wanting to, because I love Him.

The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done.

Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.

Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds. Each new season of life offers to train us for the next season if we pay attention and adapt.