Complete freedom from stress is death.

Hans Selye

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.

Hans Selye

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

Hans Selye

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

Hans Selye

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

Hans Selye

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

Hans Selye

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

Hans Selye

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

Hans Selye

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

Hans Selye

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.

Hans Selye

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.

Hans Selye

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

Hans Selye