Exhausted Quotes

• It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way.

  Oswald Chambers

  Trying, Way, Impossible

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Run Today's Race: A Word from Oswald Chambers for Every Day of the Year”, p.59, Discovery House

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• I took only twice a time-out, once, when I was hurt, and a second time, when I much felt I was exhausted out of personal reasons.

  Cathy Freeman

  Hurt, Reason, Felt

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• I am really very, very tired of everything - more than tired.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Tired

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• When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Order, Darkness, Turns

  Letter to Farkas Bolyai, September 2, 1808.

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• History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

  Abba Eban

  Funny, Sarcastic, War

  Speech in London, 16 Dec. 1970, in The Times 17 Dec. 1970

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• Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

  Newt Gingrich

  Stay Strong, Perseverance, Determination

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• Life is one long process of getting tired.

  Samuel Butler

  Love, Life, Tired

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 1

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• I know that I've overfed myself trying to prop myself up because I'm exhausted.

  Geri Halliwell

  Trying, Props, Knows

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  Don't stop when you're tired; stop when you're done.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Tired, Gym Motivational, Done

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• A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

  William Styron

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). “Conversations with William Styron”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.

  Arthur Miller

  Dream, Eras, Illusion

  "The Year it Came Apart". New York magazine, Vol. 8, No. 1, p. 30, December 30, 1974 - January 6, 1975.

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• I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

  Winona Ryder

  Terrible

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• The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

  Samuel Johnson

  World, Saws, Anticipation

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.148, Univ of California Press

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• Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.

  Boris Pasternak

  Lying, Order, Best Effort

  The New York Times, January 1, 1978.

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• I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I don't think a director should have any kids. I don't even think it's good for your physical health. Even guys in their 30s look exhausted because directors never get enough sleep. What I do is stressful enough

  Tom Berenger

  Sleep, Kids, Thinking

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• I was very blessed with a good body. Never got hurt. Never was in the hospital. The only time I was in the hospital was when I would get exhausted a little bit, and go in for a check-up or something.

  Willie Mays

  Hurt, Blessed, Body

  "Greatest All-Around Player in the History of Baseball". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 19, 1996.

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• I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.

  Irvine Welsh

  Guy, Males, Literature

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• But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.

  George Saintsbury

  Giving, Style, Gold

  George Saintsbury (1913). “The English Novel”

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• It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

  Dan Simmons

  Writing, Relax, Attributes

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• I don't think anyone has exhausted the range of sound possible in a conventional rock band, but people do become slaves to their own easiest techniques

  Steve Albini

  Thinking, Rocks, People

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• When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Karma, Running

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• Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own

  Irwin Shaw

  Fall, Writing, People

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• A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

  John Lothrop Motley

  Lying, Long, Culture

  John Lothrop Motley (1863). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume”, p.12

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• It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Triumph, Proof, Poland

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (2013). “Henryk Sienkiewicz: Three Stories”, p.7, Wildside Press LLC

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