Words of Wisdom

[Snow Goddess]

Motivational Quotations on Excuses

For many people,
an excuse is better than an achievement because
an achievement, no matter how great,
leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future
but an excuse can last for life."
Eric Hoffer

"The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel.
Any idiot can feel pain.
Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses."
Erica Jong

"Sometimes, people use age as a convenient excuse.
'I'm to old too start something new', or, 'I couldn't learn that at my age.'
Other people, though, go on to acheive their greatest accomplishments in life in later years."
Catherine Pulsifer

“An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie;
for an excuse is a lie guarded.”
Alexander Pope

"Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible."
Francois La Rochefoucauld

"I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse."
Florence Nightingale

"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."
Rudyard Kipling

He who excuses himself, accuses himself.
Gabriel Meurier

"Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions."
Charles Simmons

[Snow Goddess]

Motivational Quotations on Stress

When you find yourself stressed, ask yourself one question:
Will this matter in 5 years from now?
If yes, then do something about the situation.
If no, then let it go."
Catherine Pulsifer
"Even to much sunshine can be devasting,
While only with rain can growth occur.
Accept both as part of the growing process
In the garden of life."
Donald S. Neviaser, from The Inner View

“Stress is simply the adaptation of our bodies and minds to change; and change, as we noted, is about the only constant left in the workplace.”
Peter G. Hanson, M.D.

"Don't sweat the small stuff...
and it's all small stuff."
Richard Carlson, PH.D.

“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

"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it."
Author Unkown

"Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."
Benjamin Franklin

If you focus on the possible when you experience difficult situations you can positively change your outlook, reduce your stress, and concentrate on achieving things that otherwise may not have been possible.
Catherine Pulsifer

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

"Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche."
Andrew Denton

"Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously."
Norman Vincent Peale

"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

"Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow."
Douglas Pagels

“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’
I am always tempted to ask, 'compared to what'?”
Sydney Harris

[Snow Goddess]

"Have a variety of interests...These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest."
George Matthew Allen

"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are."
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

“If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.”
Elizabeth Bowen

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

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

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
Lao Tzu

"To be free of destructive stress don't sweat the small stuff and by realizing that all stuff is small."
Author Unknown

“Every exit is an entry somewhere.”
Tom Stoppard

[Snow Goddess]

You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life."
James G. Bilkey
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept in trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
Dale Carnegie

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

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

“You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.”
James G. Bilkey

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."
Bertrand Russell

"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.

"Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one."
Dr. Hans Selye

"One must pick and choose one's battles in life
Or risk living in many emotional foxholes."
Donald S. Neviaser, from The Inner View
“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
Seneca

"Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you're waking up to instant stress. You shouldn't be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it's time to start your day."
Sharon Gold

"The happiest people I know are the ones who have learned how to hold everything loosely and have given the worrisome, stress-filled, fearful details of their lives into God's keeping."
Charles R. Swindoll

"Practice easing your way along. Don't get het up or in a dither. Do your best; take it as it comes. You can handle anything if you think you can. Just keep your cool and your sense of humor. "
Smiley Blanton, MD

"Angels around us, angels beside us, angels within us. Angels are watching over you when times are good or stressed. Their wings wrap gently around you, whispering you are loved and blessed." ~Angel Blessing

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