Burn Out Quotes

“It's so easy to fall into the assumption that anything someone else gains is something you lose. To think of success as some lavish party with only a limited number of invites. To convince yourself that if you could only make it to a certain point in the distance, you'll finally find a place to rest. To feel like there's always more than you can do. But I mean, look what's being done to us - to our self-esteem, to our pride, to our bodies. We're exhausted and on the verge of breaking down at any second and... somehow we're expected to just keep going.”
― Ann Liang, I Am Not Jessica Chen

“It is true that even when exhausted you still are providing something to those you serve. But you are out of touch with your deepest strengths, role-modelling self-destructive behaviour, martyring yourself, and giving others cause for guilt.”
― Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

“When the topic of self-care came up, Eve, an academic, writer and visual artist said "There is no glory in a grind that literally grinds you down to dust".”
― Elaine Welteroth, More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are

“In order to burn out, a person needs to have been on fire at one time.”
― Ayala Pines

“Be the best. Work harder, work smarter. Exceed every expectation. But also, be invisible, imperceptible. Don't make anyone uncomfortable. Don't inconvenience. Exist in the negative only, the space around. Do not insert yourself into the main narrative. Go unnoticed. Become the air. Open your eyes.”
― Natasha Brown, Assembly

“De mens zwemt vrij rond in een zee van keuzes, maar hij is gebonden aan het lichaam waarmee en het water waarin hij zwemt. Vrijheid begint ermee die gebondenheid te accepteren.”
― Bregje Hofstede, De herontdekking van het lichaam: over de burn-out

“Being burned out is a lot better than having no fire in the fist place.”
― Scott Ginsberg

“Too often the spotlight that highlights our successes burns out quickly, while the spotlight that scrutinizes our failures is a long-life bulb.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Look, you wake up one day and, and your legs, they just give, and you just can't run anymore.”
― Michael Townley

“By forsaking joy in pursuit of growth, you forget that growth should make you feel alive, and that when you reach your goals, you should feel energized, even exhilarated, not exhausted and burned out.”
― Kristen Butler, The Comfort Zone: Create a Life You Really Love with Less Stress and More Flow

“Our desire not to be inferior to others in terms of performance, combined with the idea that we can freely choose to go the extra mile, can lead to self-exploitation. We force ourselves to go beyond what is good for us — until we burn out.”
― Berend van der Kolk, The Quantified Society

“The cane is just not going to cut it. I shared with some of my colleagues that these brothers live in neighborhoods where they are getting whapped with a piece of stick all night, stabbed with knives, and pegged with screwdrivers that have been sharpened down, and they are leaking blood. When you come to a fella without even interviewing him, without sitting him down to find out why you did what you did, your only interest is caning him, because you are burned out and frustrated yourself. You say to him, ‘Bend over, you are getting six.’ And the boy grits his teeth, skin up his face, takes those six cuts, and he is gone. But have you really been effective? Caning him is no big deal, because he’s probably ducking bullets at night. He has a lot more things on his mind than that. On the other hand, we can further send our delinquent students into damnation by telling them they are no body and all we want to do is punish, punish, punish.
Here at R.M. Bailey, we have been trying a lot of different things. But at the end of the day, nothing that we do is better than the voice itself. Nothing is better than talking to the child, listening, developing trust, developing a friendship. Feel free to come to me anytime if something is bothering you, because I was your age once before. Charles chuck Mackey, former vice principal and coach of the R. M. Bailey Pacers school.”
― Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father

“The new disease of our age is being OK doing everything at exactly the same time.”
― Nigel Cumberland, 100 Things Successful People Do: Little Exercises for Successful Living

“Once in a while a story is spectacular enough to break through and attract media attention, but the swell quickly subsides into the general glut of bad news over which we, as citizens, have so little control.”
― Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats

“When you reach your goals, you should feel energized, even exhilarated, not exhausted and burned out.”
― Kristen Butler, The Comfort Zone: Create a Life You Really Love with Less Stress and More Flow

“You won't fit in around here, Skid," he said lightly. "A do-gooder like you can burn out fast.”
― Ashley Newell, Freakhouse

“More than half of white collar workers believe they have reached a breaking point. They simply can't handle any more information, and they report feeling demoralized as a result.”
― Brad Stulberg, Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success

“Taking breaks isn’t about cheating yourself, it’s about treating yourself.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Billy Gould has always felt if something was worth doing, it was worth doing badly. Worry about doing it too well, he believed, & you may well be crippled by your ambition”
― Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish

“Sie fühlte sich, als wäre sie von dem System gefressen, dann verdaut und ausgekotzt worden. Ihr war schwindelig. Schwindelig von ihrem eigenen Leben.”
― Sarina Samaya, Verwoben im wir

“The way that we live, the way that we're conditioned, the patriarchy, capitalist, white supremacy. Those systems are all designed to keep the masses knackered so that the chosen few at the top can be successful and can gain from our labor”
― Tamu Thomas, Women Who Work Too Much

“I am tired of the battles, but I will continue to fight them until they are tired of me.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Onze wil om qua prestaties niet onder te doen voor anderen, in combinatie met het idee dat we in vrijheid ervoor kunnen kiezen om er een schepje bovenop te doen, kan leiden tot zelfuitbuiting. We dwingen onszelf om verder te gaan dan goed voor ons is – totdat we ‘opbranden’.”
― Berend van der Kolk, De meetmaatschappij