Quotes about Pressure

Most messages for men ultimately fail. The reason is simple: they ignore what is deep and true to a man's heart—his real passions—and simply try to shape him up through various forms of pressure.

The business world—where the majority of American men live and die—requires a man to be efficient and punctual. Corporate policies and procedures are designed with one aim: to harness a man to the plow and make him produce.

Pressure nearly always guarantees you will have a hard time discerning what God is saying, if you hear anything at all.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all morality.

I mean, they are just as susceptible to pressure and in many ways more susceptible to pressure because they are desperately anxious, this is their tremendous chance to break through the rather narrow lives they may lead.

The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.

Some of us have been told what we want our whole lives. We've been told we should want to go out for sports or not. We should want a college education or a graduate degree or a particular career. We should want to date this person and not the other.

No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense.

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

The problem is, lifestyle demands can quickly lock in place the personal resource allocation process.

Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.