Rest Quotes

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.

Ovid

Work when you’re working, rest when you’re resting.

The art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of our great men.

J A Hatfield

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

Leonardo da Vinci

Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried men of business; let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!

Thomas Carlyle

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

Bansky

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 the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest.

Ashleigh Brilliant

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

Alan Cohen

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

Sydney J Harris

The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.

Seneca the Younger

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another.

Anatole France

Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

Thoreau

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbour — such is my idea of happiness.

Leo Tolstoy

Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.

Maya Angelou

Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.

Thomas A Kempis

Rest and be thankful.

William Wordsworth

Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures.

Elisabeth Elliot

Love turns work into rest.

Teresa of Avila

A change is as good as a rest.

Stephen King

Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.

Mark Buchanan

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