Hans Selye Quotes

Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

To be totally without stress is to be dead.

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

Stress is not necessarily something bad it all depends on how you take it. The stress of exhilarating, creative successful work is beneficial, while that of failure, humiliation or infection is detrimental.

The healthiest of all human emotions is gratitude.

Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness.

Nothing erases unpleasant thoughts more effectively than conscious concentration on pleasant ones.

Complete freedom from stress is death

Stress is the spice of life.

Stress, in addition to being itself, was also the cause of itself, and the result of itself.

To remain healthy a man must have some goal, some purpose in life that he can respect and be proud to work for.

If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions .

Gratitude conserves the vital energies of a person more than any other attitude tested.

The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true science. He who knows it not, and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead. We all had this priceless talent when we were young. But as time goes by, many of us lose it. The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement. It is the essence of his being.

To make a great dream come true, you must first have a great dream.

What makes me so certain that the natural human lifespan is far in excess of the actual one is this. Among all my autopsies (and I have performed over 1000), I have never seen a person who died of old age. In fact, I do not think that anyone has ever died of old age yet. We invariably die because one vital part has worn out too early in proportion to the rest of the body.

Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise

Even after the greatest defeats, the depressing thought of being a failure is best combated by taking stock of all your past achievements.

Unlock your natural drives by doing what you enjoy.

Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body's resistance.

Gratitude is the most important of all human emotions.

Leaders are leaders only as long as they have the respect and loyalty of their followers.

My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of big things with their fresh, untrained and unprejudiced mind.

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.