Quotes about Stress
Anxiety quickly demoralizes the whole body, and lays it open to the entrance of disease;
— James Allen
Thoughts of fear have been known to kill a man as speedily as a bullet, and they are continually killing thousands of people just as surely though less rapidly. The
— James Allen
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
— George Bernard Shaw
But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.
— Arthur C. Clarke
When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
If you take on too much, your overcommitted schedules will become monsters that interfere with my agenda for you.
— Thomas a Kempis
Sometimes it seems to me that I shall never write out all the books I have in my head, because of the strain. The devilish thing about writing is that it calls upon every nerve to hold itself taut. This is exactly what I cannot do--
— Virginia Woolf
Whenever she was particularly discomposed, she always performed one of these pedestrian feats; and the amount of her discomposure might always be estimated by the duration of her walk.
— Charles Dickens
Nothing so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task…
— William James
I truly cannot imagine men with men, women with women, doing what they were not physically created to do, without abnormal stress and misbehavior.
— Jerry Falwell
We all know of families who have obligated themselves for more than they could pay. There is a world of heartache behind such cases.
— Ezra Taft Benson