Pressure Quotes

It does not matter how great the pressure is. What really matters is where the pressure lies -- whether it comes between you and God, or whether it presses you nearer His heart.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

Thank you Mama for the nine months you carried me through/…No one knows the pressure you bear a just only you.

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.

If you’re not in Gryffindor, we’ll disinherit you,” said Ron, “but no pressure.

Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters.

The people in the popular group say there is no peer pressure because they are at the top of the food chain. Really what they are doing is just eating away at everybody else.

To be himself, one neeeds to be free from the pressure of evaluative praise

I like pressure. It's that kind of thing that will actually help me perform to the best of my abilities. It will help me with training. It'll help with everything.

I respect a system that says we're going to put every bit of pressure on anybody we have to put it on to get to the drug dealer who is bringing his poison into the country.

You don't know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket.

All we can do now is try to prevent secondary damage by relieving pressure on the brain caused by the initial injury. There is no reparative treatment for traumatic brain injury.

When a man is hit by Friendly Fire, his blood pressure lowers and his morale sinks. I have been hit by Friendly Fire in my heart. Sighs spill from my body instead of blood.

No pressure, no diamonds.

The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

I'm puttin' pressure on you kids like I'm a soccer mom.

The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you're not.

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.

The key to handling pressure is to enjoy it when you're confronted with it rather than worry about it too much.

All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.

I'm lucky because I don't feel too much pressure - it's only in the last hour before the race, and even then it's good, positive pressure.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not.

Pressure can burst a pipe, or pressure can make a diamond.

I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy.

Pressure doesn't exist. We create it for ourselves.

I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure.

I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm.

The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and stain from the lees of the vat.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

You know what's the worst part about being an actress? It's the pressure to look gorgeous all the time and to behave perfectly. But I'm not perfect, nobody is.

A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

The pressure began to mount as I kept winning every time and people were anxious to see if I could be beaten.

I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.

I don't fold under pressure, great athletes perform better under pressure, so put pressure on me.

Heart in champions has to do with the depth of our motivation and how well your mind and body react to pressure - that is, being able to do what you do best under maximum pain and stress.

I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.

Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress

We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment.

Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.

Giving up is the ultimate tragedy.

I love the pressure of managing Manchester United

You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

The backgrounds by design are a very key part of the conversation, because I want a kind of fight or pressure to exist between the figure and the background.

Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship.