Top 100 Life Pressure Quotes
#1. Most couples get married because it's time, not because they're in love. They might have money issues, parental pressure, or they're simply tired of being alone - so they pick Mr. Good Enough and tie the knot.
H.M. Ward
#2. There's enough pressure in life without seeking competition. That makes it double pressure.
Frank Bruno
#3. I just want to live my own life instead of everyone else's version of it.
Sol Luckman
#4. Life's pressure is equal to your resistance. Your grief has endless time. Your sadness is bottomless. Your worries are relentless. Your resentment is unquenchable. Your fears are unmovable. Every dimension of your suffering will instruct you, until you have learned your essential lessons.
Bryant McGill
#5. I always had pressure on myself through my life. I put pressure on myself and not from other people. I always wanted to be one of the hottest rappers. So the pressure comes from myself.
Meek Mill
#6. I can become someone else, not out of pressure and desperation, but merely because a new life sounds fun or interesting or joyful.
Chuck Palahniuk
#8. Sometimes crying is needed to feel better. The pressure of life becomes so much at times that you need to relieve it.
R.D. Cole
#9. Ultimately you want to do something in life that people will remember. And with Buffy, I did that. I don't feel like I need to achieve something. I just do it because it's fun. And that takes the pressure off.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
#10. No matter what calamities befall him in everyday life, the true hacker still needs the pressure and inconvenience of four hours of trudging in wind or rain or sleet or sun (or all of them at once), hacking at a white pellet that seems to have a mind of its own and a lousy sense of direction.
Tom O'Connor
#12. Well, when you're the youngest of five, parents kind of lose interest more and more through the children. I think my eldest brother was under loads of pressure to do something amazing with his life, but by the time I came around they were like, 'Well, let's hope he doesn't kill a guy.'
Chris O'Dowd
#13. Pressure is what you live for ... if you are going to be successful in life, you're going to have pressure.
Jack Nicklaus
#14. 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.
Charlotte Mason
#15. The discomfort I felt under that moral pressure has stayed with me all my life and made me eternally wary of the blindness of ideological certainty.
Robyn Davidson
#16. As you circumambulate and move closer to Kaaba, you feel like a small stream merging with a big river. As you approach the center, the pressure of the crowd squeezes you so hard that you are given a new life. You are now a part of the people; you are now a man alive and eternal!
Ali Shariati
#17. Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the lackluster experience of life that so many people complain about.
Tony Robbins
#18. We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.
Sigmund Freud
#19. But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.
Victoria Jackson
#20. Like an old person, the Old Soul is easily tired by pressure, tension and conflict. To them, the matters of everyday life are unsurprising, commonplace and inconsequential in the greater scheme of things.
Aletheia Luna
#21. The acting life is different than I thought it would be. I love it - it's actually a lot less pressure than I thought it would be.
Melanie Lynskey
#22. Sometimes I feel like all the crap in the world is building up inside me, like all the bad is just filling me like a balloon. I push it all back, live my happy life.
But sometimes that balloon exposed and all the crap lands on everything around me.
Keary Taylor
#23. The more we yield to pressure, the more easily we will yield next time.
Billy Graham
#24. Some people prefer the passenger role, because it imposes no real pressure to decide or stand accountable for their life results.
Phil McGraw
#25. He had always known he would go out this way: on fire. He had always known that rage was flammable, dangerous to store under pressure, where he had kept it his whole life.
Joe Hill
#26. Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.
Wavy Gravy
#27. Nerves, stress and the pressure to perform are a part of life. You don't have to conquer these feelings; just learn to live with them.
Eric Whitacre
#28. I formed, in early life, two purposes to which I have inflexibly adhered, under some very strong pressure from warm personal friends. They were, first, never to be a second in a duel; and, second, never to go security for another man's debts.
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
#29. Even when our intentions are noble and our efforts sincere, even when we dedicate our lives to the service of others, the corrosive pressure of frantic over-activity can nonetheless cause suffering in ourselves and others. A "successful" life can become a violent enterprise.
Wayne Muller
#30. The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.
Peter Singer
#31. Humor is essential to a full and happy life. It is a reliever and relaxer of pressure and tension, and the saving element in many situations.
Richard L. Evans
#32. I was born with this. It's a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your whole life without really knowing that something's wrong. I had high blood pressure, and that was the first sign.
Steven Cojocaru
#33. The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means. It is only partly got from books; it is our individual way of just seeing and feeling the total push and pressure of the cosmos.
William James
#34. There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life? We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.
Natalie Portman
#35. If I had succumbed to peer pressure I would still be trolloping about society as a male and probably have just offed myself by now.
Natalie De Clare
#36. You can enjoy the quality of the ad and not let them pressure you to buy what you don't really need. I have had fun taking back superlatives and just ordinary good words and phrases from ads and trying to restore some of their life to them.
Corita Kent
#37. I like to make big decisions when I am at home living a routine life, getting up, walking my dog, having breakfast, when I have no pressure. I do not like doing it when I making a film. It is too stressful.
Paul Walker
#38. The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success.
Eric Thomas
#39. If you feel some tremendous pressure to do everything perfectly so you won't have a horrible incarnation in your next life - that type of fear is unnecessary. Life is not that finicky.
Frederick Lenz
#40. I had thought that successful people, wealthy people, prosperous people, don't stretch themselves and they don't live a life of pressure. Well I was wrong.
Sunday Adelaja
#41. Life, she thought, was like that sometimes; for years, things were a certain way, and then in an instant, almost without conscious thought, they weren't that way any longer, as if all the hidden pressure on their having been the way they'd been had found release through a necessary valve.
Matthew Thomas
#42. You always have a choice to know your life and live with the understanding or simply give up, to the daily pressure of life.
Roshan Sharma
#43. The apostle Paul urges Christians everywhere in all ages to be nonconformists as far as the world system is concerned. We are not to conform. A true Christian, living an obedient life, is a constant rebuke to those who accept the
moral standards of this world.
Billy Graham
#44. Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.
Vash Young
#45. I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
Patrick DeWitt
#46. It's more pressure on women to - if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care.
Sheryl Sandberg
#47. For me, family is life. The decision to start one wasn't complex at all. My career has been wonderful, but it's not my life. I don't feel pressure to get back to work.
Miranda Kerr
#48. I knew I was putting you under immense pressure when I rejected your work the other day. I set an impossible deadline - yet you have met it with work that I can only call outstanding. As your teacher, I had to push you to your limits so that you could recognize your own true potential.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#50. The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance.
Henry A. Kissinger
#51. There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.
Queen Latifah
#52. There's this incredible pressure, especially on teens, to be perfect, look right, have the right clothes, date the right people, get into the right school, have the right home life, and so on.
Deborah Reber
#53. With 'Suite Life,' I had three years to sit a little bit on the back burner and learn with less pressure.
Debby Ryan
#55. It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself.
Armistead Maupin
#56. The very lack of explicit pressure was itself a compelling force, for it created a world in which the expectation of success was simply there, a fact of life as basic as breakfast.
H.W. Brands
#57. The next generation should embrace their struggles. A butterfly develops only after a struggle to break free from its cocoon. A diamond can only emerge after taking in all the pressure that it can. Struggle hard and never ever give up! You are born to be a Hero.
Avijeet Das
#58. Growth ought to simplify life. Right? Wrong. The more truth I assimilate, the more I am aware of what I should be and do. You know what this produces? Tension. God-imposed tension! The growing, obedient Christian will always live with this kind of pressure.
J. Grant Howard
#59. There's pressure every night to be the best on the court. I put a lot of pressure on myself. Pressure is part of the game. It is also part of life. I want to prove I can do the work and be a success off the court as well as on it.
Lamar Odom
#60. When I had money, I felt pressure, whether it was to invest it or do good with it, and I couldn't let it fizzle out. It was like I needed to prove to myself that I could look after it, only I did the opposite, but you have to take a chance in life.
Shane Filan
#61. Even thought you can't see it, my son, things are changing. Things ALWAYS change, given enough time and pressure. The very thought of that is scary to some, but change is absolutely nothing to be afraid of. It is a simple fact of life.
EXO Books
#62. Up with life. Stamp out all small and large indignities. Leave everyone alone to make it without pressure. Down with hurting. Lower the standard of living. Do without plastics. Smash the servo-mechanisms. Stop grabbing. Snuff the breeze and hug the kids. Love all love. Hate all hate.
John D. MacDonald
#63. I don't think there's any player that's more talented than Alex Rodriguez. He cares very deeply about doing well. Baseball is his life. He puts a lot of pressure on himself.
Joe Torre
#64. Life can be impossibly tough. At times it seems like there is no escape from either the pressure or monotony of a world where you are corralled into being something or someone you are not. But there is an escape, to more peaceful and gentler places, and a happier state of mind.
Fennel Hudson
#65. Great pressure is brought to bear to make us undervalue ourselves. On the other hand, civilization teaches that each of us is an inestimable prize. There are, then, these two preparations: one for life and the other for death. Therefore we value and are ashamed to value ourselves.
Saul Bellow
#66. A man's final query is determined by how well he acts under pressure. If man can control his demeanor under extreme stress, he will be judged in a positive way.
Angela Khristin Brown
#67. There's a lot of pressure on kids, period, just to be successful in life.
Kenan Thompson
#68. I'm a working mother ... You try to pay the bills, you try to keep your life going and there's pressure.
Carnie Wilson
#69. There was no press involvement, there was no pressure. Life was very pure and it became more complicated.
J.K. Rowling
#70. It is unrealistic to assume that if all goes well in a child's life, he or she will be happy. Happiness is not something one can ask of a child. Children suffer in a way that adults don't always realize under the pressure their parents put on them to be happy.
Adam Phillips
#71. The apostle Paul said, "Be not conformed to this world." These words cut like a sharp sword across our way of life. They have the tone of the battle call in them. They separate the weak from the strong. But they are words of inspiration, and we need to hear them today.
Billy Graham
#72. The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.
Walter Savage Landor
#73. Don't be so hard on yourself, don't put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you'll be perfect when you're dead.
Dan Harmon
#74. The thing is," said Gilheeny, "is that we live in constant fear of our lives. It makes the blood pressure elevate like an Arabian geyser, and the tension headaches we get would knock the balls off a bull with the twist in the maxillary sinuses themselves.
Samuel Shem
#75. Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.
Kate Upton
#76. Becoming a vegan gave me another opportunity to live a healthy life. I was so congested from all the drugs and bad cocaine, I could hardly breathe, [I had] high blood pressure, [was] almost dying [and had] arthritis. And once I became a vegan all that stuff diminished,
Mike Tyson
#77. The Gift of Life is a Treasure. Some fill it with Pressure ... some with Pleasure!-RVM
R.v.m.
#78. There's so much pressure put on relationships to deliver the satisfaction of life. And to me, that is just not the answer. I feel like it should be something in addition to what you love or be a part of that.
James Franco
#79. In a way, the goal of all writing projects should be to "get the hell out." You don't simply want to finish; you want to finish as quickly and easily as possible (without undue stress or pressure, of course) so that you can move on to the next project - or, the rest of your life.
Hillary Rettig
#80. If you have the spirit of understanding everything in a positive way, you will enjoy each and every moment of life, whether it's pressure or pleasure.
Rishika Jain
#81. Be yourself. Don't worry about what other people are thinking of you, because they're probably feeling the same kind of scared, horrible feelings that everyone does.
Phil Lester
#82. I actually think the civil service, who are the malignancy at the heart of public life, have consciously prevented, talked ministers out of, made it difficult regulatory-wise, to allow more pressure on alternative energy sources to grow.
Ken Livingstone
#83. No pressure in this life will be too much where our Lord cannot help you. If you feel tired and worn out constantly it is because you have been weary walking in the desert without the refreshing streams of prayer and abiding with the Lord.
Greg Gordon
#84. Ready to come harder than you've ever come in your life?" I ask solemnly, lifting one of his knees up. He smiles. "You sure you want to put that much pressure on yourself, dude?" "No pressure. Just fact. Science has proven it.
Sarina Bowen
#85. While the pressures of life are inevitable, if at the end of the day you are unable to completely let go of the day and return to a calm, centered inner state, you are overstressed.
Deepak Chopra
#86. Always think extra hard before crossing over to a bad side, if you were weak enough to cross over, you may not be strong enough to cross back!
Victoria Addino
#87. There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.
Tim Roth
#88. Let's face it. It's already hard being yourself, so why do we insist on adding pressure trying to please others.
Atlanta Hunter
#89. RVM's Thought for the Day -
The Gift of life is a Treasure. Some fill it with Pressure ... some with Pleasure !
R.v.m.
#90. The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, 'Was I thin at that time or fat?' And it doesn't seem to let up.
Felicity Huffman
#91. Guys will NEVER understand what it is like to be a girl and all the pain we have to deal with therefore they should shut up about things they don't understand. Likewise girls will NEVER know what it is like to be a guy and all the pressure they deal with, so shut up girls as well.
Megan Wilson
#92. Societal peer pressure to conform runs strong, but as more of us continue to think and act for ourselves, rather than be under the influence of group-think, we begin to make more effective choices.
Evita Ochel
#93. A jewel's just a rock put under enormous heat and pressure.
Jodi Picoult
#94. As life goes on I'm learning to trust myself more, so I am more comfortable - you have to be, doing things in front of people, especially when there's lots of pressure. I have to make decisions.
Tyler Blackburn
#95. Peace doesn't deny difficulty, but it has an inner calm and quietness even while enduring the difficulty.
Glenn C. Stewart
#96. When we long for life without difficulty,
remind us that oaks grow strong under contrary winds
and diamonds are made under pressure.
Peter Marshall
#97. Any time there's a lot of pressure, it's life and death, you go toward this very dark kind of humor. Soldiers do it. Cops do it.
Ronald Perelman
#98. There's a kind of pressure that your own life muscles onto you, to do something just like you would do, to behave just like yourself.
Alexandra Kleeman
#99. I have lots of ideas and put pressure on myself to action them all. This can make life very busy so organisation can sometimes be crazy.
Gemma Cairney
#100. Life should never happen to you, but you should hold the power over life, with what kind of experience you wish to have, without any internal and external pressure.
Roshan Sharma