Funny Stress Quotes from the Witty and Famous

Funny stress quotes and motivational quotes on stress from statesmen, historical figures, scientists, writers, poets, philosophers, physicians etc.

Funny Stress Quotes

“One moment of patience may ward off great disaster, one moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.”
Chinese wisdom

“Stress is simply the adaptation of our bodies and minds to change.”
Peter G. Hanson, M.D.

“The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.”
Sydney J. Harris

“Worry and stress affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system, and profoundly affects heart action.”
Charles W. Mayo, M.D.

“There cannot be a stressful crisis next week. My schedule is already full.”
Henry Kissinger stress quotes

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
Marcus Aurelius

“Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.”
Margaret Fuller

“That the birds of worry and care fly above your head, this you cannot change. But that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.”
Chinese Proverb

“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.”
Winston Churchill

“Stress is when you wake up screaming, and then realize that you haven’t fallen asleep yet.”
Funny stress quotes from an author unknown

“Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.”
Richard Bach

“Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”
Chinese Proverb

“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”
Aesop Fables

“He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.”
Japanese wisdom

“The mark of a successful man is one that has spent an entire day on the bank of a river without feeling guilty about it.”
Author Unknown

“If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.”
Doug Larson

“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”
Will Rogers, Autobiography, 1949

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
Albert Einstein

“Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.”
John De Paola

“The next time you find yourself in an argument, rather than defend your position, see if you can see the other point of view first.”
Richard Carlson, PH.D.

“Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.”
Natalie Goldberg

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
Bertrand Russell

“I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.”
Jennifer Yane

“The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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