These Tired quotes will inspire you. The fatigue is real. We all feel exhausted and with our increasingly busy schedules, fatigue has become a normal part of our lives. Take a break with a collection of motivational and insightful tired quotes below.
Tired, drained of strength and energy fatigued often to the point of exhaustion.
Inspirational Tired Quotes
- “When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “A lunch date is more fun than a dinner date; you’re not tired. It’s a secret that not a lot of other parents told me about.” ~ Jessica Capshaw
- “The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity.” ~ Barack Obama
- “We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.” ~ Ray Bradbury
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“I am so tired of rearranging my life around what the stupidest people might do.” ~ Bill Maher
- “We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.” ~ Charles Stanley, Emotionally tired quotes
- “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” ~ Newt Gingrich
- “Life is one long process of getting tired.” ~ Samuel Butler
- “I’m so tired, but I can’t sleep. Standing on the edge of something much too deep.” ~ Sarah McLachlan
- “I don’t stop when I’m tired. I only stop when I’m done.” ~ Marilyn Monroe
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“Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.” ~ Jules Renard
- “Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I’m tired of making other people feel good about themselves.” ~ Dan Castellaneta
- “I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.” ~ Fannie Lou Hamer
- “The moment comes when the great nurse, death, takes a human, the child, by the hand and quietly says, “It is time to go home. Night is coming. It is your bedtime, child of earth. Come; you’re tired. Lie down at last in the quiet nursery of nature and sleep. Sleep well. The day is gone. Stars shine in the canopy of eternity.”” ~ Joshua L. Liebman
- “What we need is love without getting tired.” ~ Mother Teresa, Tired quotes love
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“I wish I had an answer to that because I’m tired of answering that question.” ~ Yogi Berra
- “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” ~ Emma Lazarus
- “I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.” ~ Rumi
- “The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they’re not.” ~ Hillary Clinton
- “Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don’t realize this until you’re getting sober but the reason why you’re depressed all the time is it’s the drugs that are depressing you.” ~ Steven Adler
- “I’m getting sick and tired of doing anything halfway.” ~ Knute Rockne
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“A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.” ~ Dan Chaon
- “The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Perhaps I’m old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.” ~ Douglas Adams
- “Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.” ~ Will Durant
- “Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.” ~ B. C. Forbes, Physically tired quotes
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“Retired is being tired twice, I’ve thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.” ~ Richard Armour
- “The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves.” ~ John L. Lewis
- “I’m tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.” ~ L. Neil Smith
- “One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don’t sell.” ~ John Zorn
- “The demonstrators in Ukraine will persevere and succeed, or grow tired, cold and fade.” ~ Bob Schaffer
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“Are you tired of sand being kicked in your face? I promise you new muscles in days!” ~ Charles Atlas
- “The American public is sick and tired of being lied to.” ~ Patrick Leahy
- “One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when you didn’t like being married, or got tired of your husband, you could get Unmarried.” ~ Eleanor Porter
- “Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You’re tired, you’ve had a headache since you arrived, but you can’t leave because then you’d miss the party.” ~ Simon Hoggart
- “I’m so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions.” ~ Bjorn Ulvaeus
- “We don’t hate the media, it’s just that when there’s too much of it we get bored, but it happens to every human being. I don’t think we even hated the media by the time that movie was made. We were just tired.” ~ Ed O’Brien
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“They weren’t crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.” ~ Kate Millett
- “There’s always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you’re a fraud after all!” ~ Ben Stiller
- “I’m tired of living unable to love anyone. I don’t have a single friend – not one. And, worst of all, I can’t even love myself. Why is that? Why can’t I love myself? It’s because I can’t love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Do you understand what I am saying? A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself.” ~ Haruki Murakami
- “When I was young, I worked for a capitalist twelve hours a day and I was always tired. Now I work for myself twenty hours a day and I never get tired” ~ Nikita Khrushchev
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“If we grow weary and give up, the goal remains for someone else to achieve.” ~ Zig Ziglar
- “The revolution has been dubbed “The Orange Revolution,” orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government…” ~ Bob Schaffer
- “If I’m tired of me, I’m sure the public is as well.” ~ Michael Stipe
- “No one ever gets tired of loving. But everyone gets tired of waiting, assuming, hearing lies, and hurting.” ~ Megan Fox
- “The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I’d been up all night inventing the Camcorder.” ~ Al Gore
- “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“I’m tired of pretending I’m not special.” ~ Charlie Sheen
- “Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.” ~ Anne Bronte
- “We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend upon material success . . . but on Jesus alone.” ~ Frances Xavier Cabrini
- “Hope is a song in a weary throat.” ~ Pauli Murray
- “If you think, you are late. If you are late, you use strength. If you use strength you get tired. And if you get tired, you die!” ~ Saulo Ribeiro
- “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.” ~ Samuel Johnson, Tired quotes about life
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“You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.” ~ John Lennon
- “A sex symbol is a heavy load to carry when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.” ~ Clara Bow
- “I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?” ~ Jean Kerr
- “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.” ~ Emma Lazarus
- “I am tired of hiding and I am tired of lying by omission. I suffered for years because I was scared to be out. My spirit suffered, my mental health suffered and my relationships suffered. And I’m standing here today, with all of you, on the other side of that pain.” ~ Ellen Page, Mentally tired quotes
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“Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.” ~ Marilyn Monroe
- “Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if you think you’re tired of hearing about us, you should try being one of us.” ~ Anna Quindlen
- “I’m tired of being considered property.” ~ L. Neil Smith
- “The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.” ~ Gordon B. Hinckley
- “Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.” ~ Anton Chekhov
- “Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.” ~ Andrea Arnold