Welcome to our collection of Resting Quotes, where tranquility and inspiration converge! In the hustle and bustle of daily life, finding moments of repose becomes essential for our well-being. Whether it’s a fleeting pause in a busy day or a prolonged period of relaxation, the act of resting rejuvenates both body and soul. Through these quotes, we invite you to delve into the profound wisdom, poetic reflections, and timeless insights that celebrate the beauty of taking a break, embracing stillness, and finding peace within.
In the words of great thinkers, writers, and philosophers, we uncover the significance of rest as a fundamental aspect of human existence. From meditations on the importance of self-care to musings on the rhythms of nature, these quotes offer solace and encouragement in our quest for balance and serenity. Join us on a journey of introspection and reflection as we explore the art of resting, recharging, and rediscovering the tranquility that resides within each of us. Below, you’ll find an array of quotes on this topic, waiting to be discovered and shared in ways that resonate with you. Let these words be a gentle reminder to prioritize rest amidst life’s demands, for it is in these moments of stillness that we often find our greatest clarity and strength.
A tennis racket lurks in my earliest memories like a sick relative who had come to live with us. When I look at my baby pictures, there it is, resting in my crib in the place of a rattle or chew toy. Douglas Brunt
I’m always hungry for the next thing. I’m never resting on my laurels. Constance Wu
An owl is traditionally a symbol of wisdom, so we are neither doves nor hawks but owls, and we are vigilant when others are resting. Urjit Patel
I normally have a calorie-packed mushroom coffee for breakfast and a big lunch and dinner. But when I’m resting, I’ll make a point to eat more than usual, adding in an extra meal or a few nutritious snacks. Laird Hamilton
I guess I just have one of those resting faces that makes me look like I want to beat you up. Jeremy Renner
For most footballers, they just have to give their all for 90 minutes two times a week, and apart from a few training sessions spend the rest of the time resting. They only train intensively for six weeks before the new season. John Barnes
Saying drinking water is ‘safe’ without any supporting documentation is wrong. Resting on the comfort that the DHEC and the USEPA are there to give you cover is the same mistake the City of Flint made. Erin Brockovich
I’m thankful to my grandmother, who’s resting in peace right now. Bless her soul. She presented giving back in a way where it was so effortless. She would always find something to turn into a community-service thing or just a good deed for the day. Quincy Brown
I think players tend to get anxious if they’ve not really done things properly – like eating, resting or training. If you’re fully prepared you’ve got nothing to worry about – it’s just a game of football. Roy Keane
I hate resting. I feel restless. My preference is to be working. Khaled Hosseini
I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Mark Twain
I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices. Ulysses S. Grant
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. Jules Renard
There is no greater responsibility resting upon peoples and governments everywhere than to make sure that enduring peace will this time – at long last – be established and maintained. Cordell Hull
Our former Guardsmen and Reservists stood ready to answer the call when they wore the cloth of our country, and now we can ensure they have a dignified final resting place when they answer that final call. Glenn Youngkin
When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He’s doing. Joyce Meyer
Of course training is very important, but resting is just as important. You have to get your recuperation, and I think all players make that mistake where they train hard but they don’t rest enough, and even our school boy players, we tell them to get a lot of rest. Chris Coleman
A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert. Denis Kearney
Individuals and businesses must participate in a national discussion about a simpler tax system, one that collects sufficient revenue to meet appropriate federal responsibilities, but one resting on a broader, fairer tax base without penalizing saving and investing, the backbone of a strong, decentralized and thriving economy. Mike Crapo
Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else. Martha Beck
You know, I think of the global economy as an inverted triangle, resting on the shoulders of the American consumer. And if the American consumer cannot have enough disposable income in order to maintain a standard of living that creates more opportunities generation after generation, that’s bad for everybody. Hillary Clinton
I’ve always had a resting expression that either makes me look deep in thought or as though I’m about to fight you. I’ve lost count of the number of directors asking me what the problem is when all I’m doing is sitting still and being. Nicola Walker
I feel like these days, people want to escape and let go when they’re watching movies. They want to empty their minds when resting. Hyun Bin
There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow – of the grave as a resting place for the tired and worn out body – has been pleasant to dwell upon. Solomon Northup
New parents will feel that euphoric high where they feel like their mind is racing and they can’t sleep. But its important to take quiet moments when you can. Even if you can t get a full sleep, just resting and calming yourself can be so useful. Jo Frost
Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep. Ludwig Wittgenstein
In essence, I see the value of journalism as resting in a twofold mission: informing the public of accurate and vital information, and its unique ability to provide a truly adversarial check on those in power. Glenn Greenwald
I don’t mind traveling that much when I can go somewhere and stay there for a while, but touring is different. You rarely see anything. You get there early in the morning and you’re resting all day, and you go in and do a sound check, and you do the show, and then bam you’re gone. George Strait
Truly, the bench is a boon to idlers. Whoever first came up with the idea is a genius: free public resting places where you can take time out from the bustle and brouhaha of the city, and simply sit and watch and reflect. Tom Hodgkinson
Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I’ll get seven hours sleep a night, but after breakfast, I’ll have an hour just resting, to recover. In Spain they all have siestas, even businessmen. Anthony Joshua
True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion. Henry Cabot Lodge
I don’t like to look back, and I’m always worried about the next thing rather than resting on the laurels or the degradations of the last thing. Steve Martin
I want to give the audience the whole package, and for me, the whole package is to give them something fresh as well. It’s not as much fun resting on your laurels. Al Jarreau
I am really irked by healthy NBA players resting. I really don’t understand it. Players in the past have played all season for years. I just don’t love it. I feel like it hurts the integrity and competitiveness of the game. It’s got nothing to do with the TV partners; it’s about cheating the fans. Molly Qerim
To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground. Chief Seattle
The orthopaedic surgeon said that if ever I had hip or groin pain, I should rest until the pain went. However, resting is not part of a dancer’s life – so I just danced through the pain. Darcey Bussell
I’m just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment. You shouldn’t; you should be getting out and doing any kind of exercise you can. You don’t have to run a marathon, but you just have to up your activity levels. Jo Brand
I feel like you have moments where you’re just resting at home and not on social media and you think, ‘Ooh yeah, I’m on a TV show.’ Caleb McLaughlin
I was sick for a long time. I had a resting headache and chronic fatigue, and many days I didn’t think I would wake up. Tabitha Brown
Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God’s grace. Charles Spurgeon
My girlfriend is much better than I am at working hard then resting, and she demands that from me, too. She insists on having time when we don’t do anything. We leave the housework and watch a movie. Cynthia Nixon
I remember thinking, ‘Downward dog’ is so not a resting pose!’ Now it actually can be. Jennifer Nettles
If you built a successful company the first time, it’s really important not to fall into the trap of resting on your laurels and doing the same thing the next time. It’s stepping into the unknown that enables you to create something fresh, new, and innovative. Caterina Fake
A man’s motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man. Haniel Long
I have a resting miserable face! Jacob Elordi
The first ‘Wii Fit’ games I tried were the slalom and ski jumping. I believe my spectacular failures here had more to do with the board resting on thick carpet than my shoddy balance. Jen Lancaster
Like most boys, I had a model train set up in my bedroom, resting on a little-used ping-pong table upstairs. Craig Sager
The aristocracy of Western Europe has absolutely tabooed silver in those countries and driven it away from there. Here it finds its only resting place. Richard Parks Bland
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
When I’m in south Florida I’m training, resting, training. I’m working on my craft out here, very tediously. That’s what I come out here for. Dustin Poirier
While I’m playing baseball, I’m still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I’m sure I’ll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I’ll be thinking of music then. Garth Brooks
I’ve always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight you were carrying. Diane Sawyer
We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal. Thich Nhat Hanh
It’s about working hard, resting when you need to, leading a healthy life, and having a support structure around you. These factors help you improve. Adama Traore
I thought I was Superman until I experienced that life-changing anaphylactic shock. I was eating lunch and gobbled down a couple of bowls of gumbo. Then, 15 minutes later, I’m in my dorm room resting up. My eyes started itching and my throat was swelling up. I could barely breathe. Adrian Peterson
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it. Matthew Arnold
I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There’s nothing resting about acting. David Morrissey
You have to love yourself. That’s the single most powerful thing. Out of that springs: How are you eating? How are you exercising? How are you resting? Nia Peeples
It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems. Thich Nhat Hanh
Resting metabolic rate is largely genetically determined, but our calorie intake has an effect as well. Joel Fuhrman
There’s no sort o’ mistake in little Bullet. He can pick up miles on his feet, and fling ’em behind him as fast as the next man’s hoss, I don’t care where he comes from. And he can keep at it as long as the sun can shine without resting. Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died. Adlai Stevenson I
I’ve begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of. Neil Strauss
Resting for me is fitness training. Jenson Button
So much of our business is ‘What have you done lately?’ There is no resting on the laurels. Christopher Daniels
Training and resting takes up most of my time. Sunil Chhetri
I have to say that you don’t really know stress until you know that the path of the free world is resting a little bit on your shoulders. Harper Reed
My whammy system is set up so I can yank the bar up as well as do dive-bombs with it. This means that if I accidentally push down on the bridge with my palm, my strings go sharp and sound out of tune. I make sure this never happens by never resting my hand on the bridge when muting. I always do my muting just in front of the bridge. Dimebag Darrell
We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society. Carl Jung
Being tired isn’t anything. What’s important is the mind. The body being tired isn’t important. You can get over the body being tired by resting for a half-hour or an hour. What’s important is whether the mind is tired. Salt Bae
Off the field, Ronaldo was also focusing on everything extensively, such as resting up properly and strengthening his body. After training sessions, he would often work on his free-kicks and then come to me and say, ‘Edwin, can you go in goal?’ Edwin van der Sar
I’m always trying to do stuff I haven’t done before or challenge myself so I’m not resting on my laurels all of the time because if I just found my little niche and never left it, I’d be pretty boring, I think. Zooey Deschanel
I insist on two months’ vacation each year and resting between performances, spending time with my family. Mirella Freni
Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People. Caleb Cushing
There’s no question that resting meat helps it to retain juices, though the exact degree to which it does so is up for debate. I’ve tested dozens of steaks over the years, and I’ve found significant variation. J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary. Benjamin Tucker
Those who read the Scriptures and judge for themselves, not resting satisfied with the perverted application of the text, do not find the distinction that theology and ecclesiastical authorities have made in the condition of the sexes. Lucretia Mott
A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men. Martin Farquhar Tupper
That’s the thing I’m worst at: resting. I have to be forced to do it. Sometimes I think of loopholes. ‘Oh, I’m just going for a walk, up a dune that’s 45 degrees, but I’m walking, so it’s not a workout.’ Ronda Rousey
I’m a Pisces – I can’t rest if you aren’t resting well. Tituss Burgess
I found it possible to observe at least the superficial capillaries of muscles both in the frog and in mammals through a binocular microscope, using strong reflected light as a source of illumination. Resting muscles observed in this way are usually quite pale, and the microscope reveals only a few capillaries at fairly regular intervals. August Krogh
The madness of spring is so enticing. I love it when things are opening up and emerging from the ground. I also love the middle of summer when fruit is bursting forth, but I even love the garden in the winter when everything is resting. Ross Gay
I get a lot of the ideas when I’m resting – either when I’m meditating or getting some kind of work done on my back, like physical therapy or acupuncture. That’s where I get my best ideas, maybe because I’m balancing my body. Katy Perry
In my case, I was placing extreme pressure on my lower spine from rotating my hips too much. This is a common cause of bad backs – and bad shots – for golfers of all levels. In addition to resting, I worked with my trainer, Joey Diovisalvi, on strengthening the weaker lower-body muscles that contributed to my overactive hips and back pain. Rickie Fowler
Sometimes even a well-rested steak will lose juices when you cut into it. Sometimes a completely un-rested steak won’t spill a drop. But as a general rule, resting meat for about one-third of its total cooking time guarantees that more juices will stay inside than on your cutting board or plate. J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
Traditionally, skaters tend to tie their skates very tightly. I tend to just tie my foot down, then in the ankle area, I tend to keep it loose. It gives me better mobility. But also, you’re relying on your own strength as opposed to resting on the boot. Patrick Chan