Fatigue Quotes - Page 13

• There is something in obstinacy which differs from every other passion. Whenever it fails, it never recovers, but either breaks like iron, or crumbles sulkily away, like a fractured arch. Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest, their sufferings and their cure; but obstinacy has no resource, and the first wound is mortal.

  Samuel Johnson

  Passion, Iron, Suffering

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• Your life is not little, and your playing small doesn’t serve
  the world. Your living large, on the other hand-your being
  your true self despite fear, fatigue, doubt, and opposition-
  will serve the world more than you can imagine. In fact, it
  may help save it. And saving the world, after all, is
  what all heroes (including you) are here to do.

  Martha Beck

  Hero, Self, Hands

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• After days and nights of incredible labor and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life. Nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Night, Causes, Generations

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.41

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• But for the present I would lie there and know I didn't have to get up, and feel the holy emptiness and blessed fatigue of a saint after the dark night of the soul. For God and Nothing have a lot in common. You look either one of Them straight in the eye for a second and the immediate effect on the human constitution is the same.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Lying, Blessed, Eye

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I write exclusively using computers. Pens and typewriters can fsck right off - I wrote my first half million words in my teens on a manual typewriter (had to trade it for a new one due to keys snapping from metal fatigue) so I am not a pen or typewriter fetishist.

  Charles Stross

  Writing, Keys, Typewriters

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• Habit gives endurance, and fatigue is the best night cap.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Night, Giving, Endurance

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• Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time . . . he will do it better . . . he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible to fatigue while he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Stars, Work

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• If we analyze the operations of scenes of beauty upon the mind, and consider the intimate relation of the mind upon the nervous system and the whole physical economy, the action and reaction which constantly occur between bodily and mental conditions, the reinvigoration which results from such scenes is readily comprehended. . . . The enjoyment of scenery employs the mind without fatigue and yet exercises it; tranquilizes it and yet enlivens it; and thus, through the influence of the mind over the body gives the effect of refreshing rest and reinvigoration to the whole system.

  Frederick Law Olmsted

  Beauty, Exercise, Giving

  Frederick Law Olmsted (1993). “Yosemite and the Mariposa grove: a preliminary report, 1865”, Yosemite Assn

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• Frequently what we say is rest is merely laziness. Our body requires respite and so does our mind and spirit. But a person should never rest because of a laziness which arises from the evil nature in his emotion. How often laziness and emotional distaste for work join to employ physical fatigue as a cover-up.

  Watchman Nee

  Emotional, Evil, Mind

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• Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the price of never getting tired.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Tired, Mediocrity, Spiritual Leadership

  J. Oswald Sanders (2008). “Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books”, p.119, Moody Publishers

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• It is an experiment worth trying to be alone and to be quiet for a brief period every day. Under city conditions it may be difficult to carry out, but most of us could do it if we tried. At any rate, we should moderate the pace at which we are living. If we remain at high gear, at top pressure, we are bound to suffer from fatigue and strain.

  Robert McCracken

  Life, Cities, Suffering

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• Moreover, such a body freed from nervous tension and over-fatigue is the ideal shelter provided by nature for housing a well-balanced mind that is always fully capable of successfully meeting all of the complex problems of modern living.

  Joseph Pilates

  Mind, Body, Shelter

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• The good works that really matter require the help of heaven. And the help of heaven requires working past the point of fatigue so far that only the meek and lowly will keep going long enough. The Lord doesn't put us through this test just to give us a grade; he does it because the process will change us.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Past, Long, Giving

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• Hysteria and degeneration have always existed; but they formerly showed themselves sporadically, and had no importance in the life of the whole community. It was only the vast fatigue which was experienced by the generation on which the multitudes of discoveries and innovations burst abruptly, imposing on it organic exigencies greatly surpassing its strength, which created favourable conditions under which these maladies could gain ground enormously, and become a danger to civilization.

  Max Nordau

  Discovery, Civilization, Hysteria

  Max Simon Nordau (1895). “Degeneration”, London, Heinemann

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• Good Chianti, that aged, majestic and proud wine, enlivens my heart, and frees it painlessly from all fatigue and sadness.

  Francesco Redi

  Heart, Wine, Sadness

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• If a Christian is not willing to rise early and work late, to expend greater effort in diligent study and faithful work, that person will not change a generation. Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the result of never getting tired.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Leadership, Christian, Tired

  J. Oswald Sanders (2007). “Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer”, p.119, Moody Publishers

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• It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.

  John Ruskin

  Time, Failure, Long

  John Ruskin (1850). “Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things”, p.139

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