These fatigue quotes will inspire you. Fatigue is extreme tiredness resulting from mental or physical exertion or illness.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging fatigue quotes, fatigue sayings, and fatigue proverbs.
Famous Fatigue Quotes
- “Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.” ~ Morgan Freeman
- “The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- “Fatigue roughens up the edges of your nerves; it exposes your fears and your weaknesses.” ~ June Havoc
- “Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration, and resentment.” ~ Dale Carnegie
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“The strongest have their moments of fatigue.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “And for tired eyes every light is too bright, and for tired lips every breath too heavy, and for tired ears every word too much.” ~ Georg Buchner
- “Fatigue is the best pillow.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs us of our skills, our judgment, and blinds us to creative solutions.” ~ Harvey Mackay
- “At times, life is hard, as hard as crucible steel. It has its bleak and painful moments. Like the ever-flowing water of a river, life has its moments of drought and its moments of flood. Like the ever-changing cycle of the seasons, life has the soothing warmth of the summers and the piercing chill of its winters. But through it all, God walks with us. Never forget that God is able to lift you from the fatigue of despair to the buoyancy of hope, and transform dark and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of inner peace.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Fatigue makes cowards of us all.” ~ Vince Lombardi
- “Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.” ~ Eric Hoffer
- “In a long race, if I’m worried about fatigue, my concentration is the first thing to go.” ~ Helio Castroneves
- “Grudge no expense – yield to no opposition – forget fatigue – till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .” ~ Maria Weston Chapman
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“Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.” ~ Max Ehrmann
- “When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
- “Mental stamina – determination – is a quality of the mind shattered by fatigue. But physical stamina – endurance – is built upon fatigue.” ~ Len Smith , Mental fatigue quotes
- “Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
- “There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.” ~ Charles Spurgeon
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“Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.” ~ Andre Gide
- “In the mountains, fatigue is the biggest controllable limitation that will come between you and success.” ~ Steve House
- “The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.” ~ Samuel Johnson
- “Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.” ~ Laura Hillenbrand
- “I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore – it was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.” ~ Al Franken
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“We try not to talk much about mental fatigue.” ~ Tommy Bowden
- “[On the Barbie doll:] Her values, while somewhat Yuppified, are not so bad. Look at GI Joe. His only wardrobe is fatigues, he spends all his time trying to kill people, or getting his own innards splashed across the landscape. His big hobby is death.” ~ Caryl Rivers
- “Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness — by making the ultimate escape from life. — No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.” ~ Dag Hammarskjold
- “The Russian people are suffering from economic fatigue and from disillusionment with the Allies! The world thinks the Russian Revolution is at an end. Do not be mistaken. The Russian Revolution is just beginning.” ~ Alexander Kerensky
- “The truth is, I’ve been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I’m on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.” ~ Patricia Richardson
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“Most of the albums that have taken long have been related to illness and fatigue or producer problems.” ~ David Coverdale
- “When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.” ~ Barbara Amiel
- “Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.” ~ Leonora Carrington
- “Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.” ~ Patrick MacGill
- “Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.” ~ John Vanbrugh
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“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” ~ Thomas Paine
- “I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project” ~ Laura Hillenbrand , Chronic fatigue quotes
- “One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.” ~ Samuel Johnson
- “Asked whether donor nations may be becoming fatigued … The fatigue may be there, but I don’t think we can justify it in the face of such misery. We may need to wake up our conscience and our conscience must force us to act.” ~ Kofi Annan
- “There’s the fatigue that you have to forget about, because the red curtain still has to rise.” ~ Mireille Mathieu
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“To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.” ~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
- “One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.” ~ Thomas Carlyle
- “What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter – a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.” ~ Henri Matisse
- “I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.” ~ Maria Mitchell
- “You see that the people who are drawn to alternative medicine are often fairly healthy and they go to alternative medicine for what I call the ‘symptoms of life.’ Fatigue, joint pains, inability to concentrate, perhaps, the kinds of things that anyone over twenty-five gets at some point.” ~ Marcia Angell
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“The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.” ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- “Certainly there’s got to be a little bit of reality show fatigue happening.” ~ Josh Schwartz
- “A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.” ~ James Monroe
- “But I still serve pretty big and that’s one of my biggest weapons, so if my shoulder holds up and I can count on it, I can win a few matches and then you never know how the other guys are going to react to the fatigue and the length of the matches.” ~ Guy Forget
- “Number two, we’re going to play with a lot of effort. Our guys are going to be in such good shape that fatigue is not going to be a problem. We’re going to play with full effort from snap to whistle on every play the entire game.” ~ Steve Spurrier
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“The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.” ~ Charles Babbage
- “Thoughts are like bullets. They go right to you. You’re like the target. When you walk around and you are depressed or there is fatigue or a behavior which you’re not used to, that can be someone else’s energy on you. You need to know how to clean that off. Also people want to contact loved ones who have passed over.” ~ James Van Praagh
- “Fatigue is your friend. Through exhaustion and through people just being so depleted, the stuff around the nerve endings gets worn away and other things begin to emerge and you take way bigger risks.” ~ Lorne Michaels
- “Don’t tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.” ~ Antonin Artaud
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“Some folks get nauseous, have body cramping — they will get lightheaded and get a sense of fatigue.” ~ William Jackson
- “What you never want to do is have a story that doesn’t track emotionally, because then you’re going joke to joke and you’re going to fatigue the audience. The only thing that’s going to string them to the next joke is how successful the previous joke is.” ~ Paul Feig
- “There is a greater fatigue concerning the African problem today than five or 10 years ago. The situation now in Africa is worse today than it was 10 years ago.” ~ Boutros Boutros-Ghali
- “I call it fan fatigue. I went to see Bob Dylan last year, who I think is absolutely incredible, but he suffers from his audience.” ~ Roger Daltrey
- “RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
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“How sweet is rest after fatigue! How sweet will heaven be when our journey is ended.” ~ George Whitefield
- “Passion makes the old medicine new:
Passion lops off the bough of weariness.
Passion is the elixir that renews:
how can there be weariness
when passion is present?
Oh, don’t sigh heavily from fatigue:
seek passion, seek passion, seek passion!” ~ Rumi - “What is the answer to this fatigue? Relax! Relax! Relax! Learn to relax while you are doing your work!” ~ Dale Carnegie
- “There’s no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It’s experiencing the climb itself – in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue – that has to be the goal.” ~ Karyn Kusama
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“I feel occasionally my skull will crack, fatigue is continuous – I only go from less exhausted to more exhausted & back again.” ~ Sylvia Plath
- “Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.” ~ Henri Matisse
- “The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.” ~ William Cowper
- “Be an example to your men, in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don’t in your endurance of fatigue and privation. Always be tactful and well-mannered and teach your subordinates to do the same. Avoid excessive sharpness or harshness of voice, which usually indicates the man who has shortcomings of his own to hide.” ~ Erwin Rommel
Fatigue is a term used to describe an overall feeling of tiredness or lack of energy.
