30 Rest Quotes Reminding Us To Take A Break

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
- John Lubbock

Sometimes you need to give yourself a break when you've had a lot of life change.
- Barbara Freethy

Resting and relaxing is as important as going out there and making it happen.
- Hiral Nagda

Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
- Ralph Marston

Don't underestimate the power of resting. It builds you back unlike anything.
- Hiral Nagda

Real rest feels like every cell is thanking you for taking care of you. It’s calm, not full of checklists and chores. It’s simple: not multitasking; not fixing broken things.
- Jennifer Williamson

Learn to relax. Your body is precious, as it houses your mind and spirit. Inner peace begins with a relaxed body.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Sometimes you have to give your body a break before it breaks you. I mean, you have to rest your body before it arrests you with sickness. Rest to restart and break to breakthrough.
- Ned Bryan Abakah

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rest is not a luxury for the privileged; it is a fundamental right for every human being. It is better to voluntarily do it in the comfort of your bedroom than waiting till its too late in the horror of the hospital bed.
- Lucas D. Shallua

The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.
- May Sarton

Mindfulness is more than just sitting in a quiet room and reflecting, it's about achieving a state of being alert and focused but still relaxed.
- Neal Hoffman

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.
- Alan Cohen

We needed to get rid of the belief that we couldn't rest until our work was done. Work is never done.
- Sonia Choquette

As important as it is to have a plan for doing work, it is perhaps more important to have a plan for rest, relaxation, self-care, and sleep.
- Akiroq Brost

Hard work is important. So are play and nonproductivity. My worth is tied not to my productivity but to my existence. I am worthy of rest.
- Glennon Doyle

No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive.
- Joyce Brothers

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.
- Kenneth Grahame

Wisdom is knowing when to have rest, when to have activity, and how much of each to have.
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Yes, you must rest from time to time to succeed! But remember, knowing how much rest you need is an art! If you rest too much, your target will literally run away; if you rest too little, you'll throw in the towel before reaching your goal!
- Mehmet Murat ildan

If you have a setback, you rest. Then one day, probably sooner than you think, you wake up, ready to try again.
- Amita Parikh

Burnout is more of an issue of poor energy management and low clarity than of over-giving.
- Brendon Burchard

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
- Anne Lamott

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
- Benjamin Franklin

Rest in reason. Move in passion.
- Khalil Gibran

If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit.
- Banksy

It’s precisely those who are busiest who most need to give themselves a break.
- Pico Iyer

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves, otherwise we harden.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Just because you take breaks doesn’t mean you’re broken.
- Curtis Tyrone Jones

Rest brings relevance to the world that becomes increasingly empty, irrelevant and meaningless.
- Lucas D. Shallua