Pressured Quotes

Don't pressure yourself. Don't worry about what others think you should do or what the societal "norm" is. Do what moves you and makes you smile and the "good" will follow.

There is no pressure when you are making a dream come true.

If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you're destined for failure.

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.

Whatever pressure I feel all comes from me, from within.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success.

The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'

If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that's something, but the people in power can live with that. What they can't live with is sustained pressure that keeps building, organisations that keep doing things, people that keep learning lessons from the last time and doing it better the next time.

Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium.

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.

The percentage of mentally disturbed people in the United States is very high.

From the time the American gets up in the morning, he feels as if someone is trying to influence his will in some way: he is a person with a thousand pressures. The Americans live under a great strain ... and have great feelings of frustration.

No one leads people to Jesus; He leads people to Himself. All the pressure's off; just go love everybody without agenda.

In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mother’s first duty to her children is to secure for them a quiet and growing time, a full six years of passive receptive life, the waking part of it for the most part spent out in the fresh air.

We can always stick together when we are losing, but tend to find means of breaking up when we're winning. In Grace under Pressure, by Hastie, 1984.

Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure.

Courage is grace under pressure.

American men are allotted just as many tears as American women.

But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.

Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.

No matter who you are, we're creatures of habit.

The better your habits are, the better they will be in pressure situations.

If the going is tough and the pressure is on, If the reserves of strength have been drained and the summit is still not in sight, then the quality to seek in the person is neither great strength nor quickness of hand, but rather a resolute mind firmly set on its purpose that refuses to let its body slack or rest.

He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age

I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy.

Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.

Whatever has been achieved through pressure and violence is unstable, unreliable and incorrect.

Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

A team divided against itself can break down at any moment.

The least bit of pressure or adversity will crack it apart

I think the pressure has also helped me want to rise above that pressure, and it has helped in accelerating the healing process. It's helped give me a drive. I have a definite survival drive, and the pressure gave me a drive to get on top of it.

The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.

The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.

Enrollment in Colorado is expected to expand about 25 percent in seven years.

It's very difficult to find those additional funds. Therefore, I think you're probably going to have increased pressure on tuition.

I wanted the American public to know that not everyone in Iraq and Afghanistan were targets that needed to be neutralized, but rather people who were struggling to live in the pressure cooker environment of what we call asymmetric warfare.

All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even ordinary living has epic depth and lyric intensity, and this, their material handicap, is their spiritual advantage.

The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.