Stop beating yourself up because learning to fail will help you succeed. You can thrive under pressure. It’s a mental game. Inspirational pressure quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.
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Famous Pressure Quotes
The pressures were wrong. There was just enough money and not enough time. – Renata Adler
There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper. – James Carroll
Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster. – Brian Tracy

Breath is the power behind all things…. I breathe in and know that good things will happen. – Tao Porchon-Lynch
Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it’s because you’ve started to think of failure. – Tommy Lasorda
Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. – Hermann Hesse
Pressure makes diamonds. – George S. Patton
The only pressure I’m under is the pressure I’ve put on myself. – Mark Messier
Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it. – Albert Smith
A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure. – Henry Kissinger
When you start thinking of pressure, it’s because you’ve started to think of failure. – Tommy Lasorda
No pressure, no diamonds. – Thomas Carlyle
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. – Thích Nhất Hạnh
Calmness is the cradle of power. – Josiah Gilbert Holland
Simply let experience take place very freely, so that your open heart is suffused with the tenderness of true compassion. – Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Pressure is something you feel when you don’t know what the hell you’re doing. – Peyton Manning
Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea. – Mikhail Lermontov
Don’t try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers every day without forcing their buds. – Osho
Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive. – Ziggy Marley
Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man. – Criss Jami
Rule number one is, don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it’s all small stuff. – Robert Eliot
Understand this and be free: we are not in our bodies; our bodies are inside us. – Sean A. Mulvihill
Give your stress wings and let it fly away. – Terri Guillemets
Let pressure pass over and through you. That way you can’t be harmed by it. – Brian Herbert
Set peace of mind as your highest goal and organize your life around it. – Brian Tracy
The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man … It is more powerful than external circumstances. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. – William James.
Pressure is a privilege it’s what you do with it that matters. – Billie Jean King
The day she let go of the things that were weighing her down, was the day she began to shine the brightest. – Katrina Mayer
The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done. – Alain de Botton
In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pressure is only what you make of it and what you put on yourself. – Marcus Giles
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. – Oprah Winfrey
One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully, we will get it done quicker and with much less stress. – Viggo Mortensen
Don’t ever let the pressure exceed the pleasure. – Joe Maddon
Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face. – Nelson DeMille
Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it. – Billie Jean King
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. – James Allen
I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine. – Bruce Lee
Pressure has the power to create a diamond, but it has to be the “”right”” pressure. – Shannon L. Alder
When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky. – Buddha
Peer pressure is pressure you put on yourself to fit in! – Jeff Moore
How we handle pressure will determine whether we stand or break. – Ed Hindson
The ugly reality is that peer pressure reaches its greatest intensity at just the age when kids tend to be most insensitive and cruel. – Walt Mueller
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure. – Peter Marshall
There’s one advantage to being 102. There’s no peer pressure. – Dennis Wolfberg
Pressure comes from a lack of preparation. – Colin Kaepernick
Higher learning undergoes emotional pressure. – Toba Beta
Not all peer pressure is bad. If you have peers who are pushing you to go further in life and believe in your dreams. Man, you got it made! – Jeff Moore
The more pressure you place on yourself, in search of increase the more you will likely get of it – Sunday Adelaja
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. – Alexander Hamilton
Pressure is nothing more than the shadow of great opportunity. – Michael Johnson
You would have no peer pressure if you cared less about the opinions of others. – Jeff Moore
All pressure is self-inflicted. It’s what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you. – Sebastian Coe
Why fit in when you were born to stand out. – Dr. Seuss
Life’s pressure is equal to your resistance. – Bryant McGill
Be true to who you are and proud of who you’re becoming. I never met a critic who was doing better than me. – Jeff Moore
External pressure seems to produce internal unity. – Kenneth Waltz
We do not quit playing because we grow old; we grow old because we quit playing. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Pressure makes diamonds – George S. Patton Jr.
Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster. – Brian Tracy
Courage is grace under pressure. – Ernest Hemingway
Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise. – Kobe Bryant
No pressure, no diamonds. – Thomas Carlyle
Pressure is something you feel when you don’t know what you’re doing. – Chuck Noll
“When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds – Peter Marshall
Only the unprepared are overcome by pressure. – Lou Holtz
eep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you, too, can become great. – Mark Twain
Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action. – A. Philip Randolph
Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken. – Oscar Wilde
Pressure comes from within and so must be mastered from within. – Ed Jacoby
Opportunity is missed by most people because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work. – Thomas Edison
Pressure can either burst a pipe or make a diamond. – Robert Horry
Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don’t have a dime in your pocket. – Lee Trevino
I’m sick of all the pressure. I’m sick of feeling like I’ll ruin all their happiness if I don’t do what they want me to do. – Holly Bourne
Remember diamonds are created under pressure so hold on, it be your time to shine soon. – Sope Agbelusi
Pressure is not necessarily bad. Pressure can make you produce. The challenge of pressure is learning how to handle it–which requires developing internal confidence and inner strength. – Paula White
When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm. – Edwin Louis Cole
Pressure doesn’t exist. We create it for ourselves. – Derek Hough
Pressure squeezes effort out of winners and excuses out of losers. – Orrin Woodward