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Chinese Proverb

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

Topic: Stress
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

More Quotes from Chinese Proverb

Teachers open the door, but you must enter yourself. — Chinese Proverb

The people follow the example of those above them. — Chinese Proverb

Example Leadership

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

› Chinese Proverb

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. — Chinese Proverb

The man who moved a mountain was the one who began carrying away small stones. — Chinese Proverb

Action Goals Persistence

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. — Chinese Proverb

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. — Chinese Proverb

Character Example Leadership

Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire. — Chinese Proverb

Cooperation Team

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come. — Chinese Proverb

Kindness Optimism

More on Stress

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do. — Helen Keller

Goals Stress Victory

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

› James Allen

Power Strength Stress Thinking

A light heart lives long. — William Shakespeare

Faith Kindness Stress

I have been driven many times upon my knees by overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day. — Abraham Lincoln

Conviction Prayer Stress Wisdom

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. — William James

Acceptance Adversity Misfortune Stress

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. — Benjamin Disraeli

Action Happiness Stress

Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present. — Albert Camus

Awareness Goals Gratitude Peace Purpose Stress Time

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. — William Penn

Solitude Stress

Tomorrow to fresh woods and pastures new. — John Milton

Adversity Strength Stress

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Goals Planning Purpose Stress Time

You must be shapeless, formless, like water. — Bruce Lee

adapt Discipline Imagination Life Stress

Unfolded by the water are the faces of the flowers. — Hawaiin Proverb

Life Solitude Stress

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. — William James

Ability Stress Thinking

There is in the worst fortunes the best of chances for a happy change. — Euripides

Adversity Change Happiness Stress

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

Stress Virtue Work

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

› Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perfection Solitude Stress

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. — Abraham Lincoln

Laughter Stress

Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear. — Marcus Aurelius

Adversity Misfortune Strength Stress

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are united. — Alexander von Humboldt

Action Health Stress

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. — Publilius Syrus

Leadership Stress

Every mountain you climb requires moments in solitude. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Awareness Goals Solitude Stress

A man is not hurt so much by what happens as by his opinion of what happens. — Michel de Montaigne

Attitude Choice Self Stress

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. — Theodore Roosevelt

Action Decision Stress

There is more to life than increasing its speed. — Mohandas Gandhi

Perception Stress

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