Best stress & adversity Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The best antidote to stress is resilience... having the ability to respond to change or adversity proactively and resourcefully.”

Ability Stress Adversity Resilience Antidote

Author:Lauren Mackler

“Whenever I do the sign of the cross, it always brings comfort in situations when you are faced with adversity and stress.”

Situation Comfort Crosses Stress Adversity

Author:Troy Polamalu

“In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.”

Source: Iacocca: An Autobiography

“One of the best ways to properly evaluate and adapt to the many environmental stresses of life is to simply view them as normal. The adversity and failures in our lives, if adapted to and viewed as normal corrective feedback to use to get back on target, serve to develop in us an immunity against anxiety, depression, and the adverse responses to stress. Instead of tackling the most important priorities that would make us successful and effective in life, we prefer the path of least resistance and do things simply that will relieve our tension, such as shuffling papers and majoring in minors.”

“There are many kinds of adult adversities that can provoke severe psychological distress, including debt and unemployment, dysfunctional marital relationships and occupational stress. The reality is that the social causes of mental ill-health are all around us.”

Kind Reality Social Causes Adults Stress Adversity Including Ill Debt Psychological Provoking Distress Severe Unemployment Ill Health

Author:Richard Bentall

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

Source: Prayers Offered by the Chaplain, the Rev. Peter Marshall, D.D.: At the Opening of the Daily Sessions of the Senate of the United States During the Eightieth and Eighty-first Congress 1947-1949

“One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.”

“We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.”

“Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.”

Stress Adversity Constant

Author:Charles Bukowski

“In times of stress, be bold and valiant.”

Courage Stress Adversity Valiant

Author:Horace

“The key to winning is poise under stress.”

Winning Keys Stress Adversity Nfl Poise Stressors Under Stress

Author:Paul Brown

“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”

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Author:Seneca the Elder

“know the feelin, when you feelin like a villain, You be havin good thoughts but the evils be revealin'. And the stresses of life can take you off the right path, Jealousy and envy tends to infiltrate your staff... We gotta hold it down so we can move on past All adversities, so we can get through fast.”

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Author:Q-Tip

“In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.”

Needs Feels Order Realizing Stress Adversity Storm Anchors

Book:Jesus is Victor

Source: Jesus is Victor

“It is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom and bear its fruit. So in our lives it is storm and stress and hurt and suffering that make real men and women bring the world's work to its highest perfection.”

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Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“For thirty years now, in times of stress and strain, when something has me backed against the wall and I'm ready to do something really stupid with my anger, a sorrowful face appears in my mind and asks... "Problem or inconvenience?" I think of this as the Wollman Test of Reality. Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in the breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference.”

“Every soul craves to fill the void. Only God can satisfy and set us free.”