A few weeks ago we put together a selection of our favorite stress relief quotes. Since then, we have found a few more that have inspired us as well, all of which can be applied to the theme of “Work Stress.” Enjoy!

1. “If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

3. “People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.” – George Bernard Shaw

4. “Believing that you must do something perfectly is a recipe for stress, and you’ll associate that stress with the task and thus condition yourself to avoid it.” – Steve Pavlina

 5. “Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.” – Theodore N. Vail

6. “It takes a real storm in the average person’s life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.” -Author Unknown

 7. “I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.” – Mark Twain

8. “You can’t wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.” – Pat Schroeder

9. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

10. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

11. “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

12. “There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein

13. “Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” – John Wooden

14. “Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.” – Author Unknown

15. “Feelings come and feelings go. There is no need to fear them and no need to crave them. Let them come, and then let them go. No feeling is your permanent reality, no matter how intense it is.” – Author Unknown