Burnout Prevention Quotes

“In today’s world, marked by a mental health epidemic and a loneliness epidemic, coupled with burnout and work stress, rising costs of living, and increasing inequality, Global Holistic Wealth Day is more essential than ever.”
― Keisha Blair

“It is not the career we need to conquer but our own reasons for living into it.”
― Julieanne O'Connor

“Burnout is not just about being too busy or feeling overwhelmed…It's feeling like your work has no purpose and you don't have support.”
― Richie Norton

“many of the places we’ve labelled weakness, sin, or failure are actually our nervous system doing its best to keep us alive. When we understand how God designed our bodies to respond to stress, we can stop fighting ourselves and begin to partner with Him in kindness.”
― Katie-Jo Gracie, Rest For The Weary: Biblical Support for Autistic Burnout and Recovery

“Burnout is a slow, insidious experience. Burnout is not afraid of playing the long game. To prevent burnout, we need to play a long game, too.”
― Sally Clarke, Protect Your Spark: How to Prevent Burnout and Live Authentically

“The rest of God is not a rest from work - it is a rest in work”
― Shaneen Clarke, The Lord of The Silence: Experiencing intimacy with God in this fast paced world

“It’s your job to be curious. To discover what matters. Then to give yourself over to it fully. But none of this is entirely possible, if you are not practicing self-care.”
― Julieanne O'Connor

“If you’re losing hope because the work stress is too much, then quitting a project is not the solution. As everything in life comes with stress. We can’t eliminate the stress that life brings with it, but we can learn how to handle that stress better.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, The Art of Running a Successful Wedding Services Business: The Missing Puzzle Piece You’re Looking For

“Your worth is not measured by your income level, job status, job title, productivity, popularity, or performance ratings.”
― Robin Kirby, The Sparkle: How to Beat Burnout, End Exhaustion and Find a Career that Lights You Up.

“Our jobs were never meant to become the center of us. They were never meant to be the source of our worthiness. They were never meant to become the start and end of our identity.”
― Robin Kirby, The Sparkle: How to Beat Burnout, End Exhaustion and Find a Career that Lights You Up.

“Our jobs are a means to an end. They are a tactic, not an end game. They are a vehicle to move us down the road of life but they were never meant to be the destination.

You can love your job and love your employer, but love yourself more. Don't depend on a revenue line and a profit margin for your emotional and mental well-being.”
― Robin Kirby, The Sparkle: How to Beat Burnout, End Exhaustion and Find a Career that Lights You Up.

“Burnout can result in a person being unresonably short with colleagues, missing deadlines, and doing work that isn't up to their usual standards. It ccan cause you to be unmotivated and unfocused, or dissatisfied
and uncaring when you do have an office success. But burnout can also manifest physically: it can lead to insomnia or, conversely, extreme fatigue.”
― Lauren Wesley Wilson, What Do You Need?: How Women of Color Can Take Ownership of Their Careers to Accelerate Their Path to Success

“Rest is revolutionary—it defies the pressure to always be ‘on’ and reminds us that we’re human, not machines.”
― Ken Breniman, Subversive Acts of Humanity: A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction

“In a world that demands constant busyness, choosing rest is choosing to value yourself. It’s choosing to thrive, not just survive.”
― Ken Breniman, Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction

“Self-care is what makes caregiving sustainable.”
― Eleanor Brownn, The Other Serenity Prayer: Meditations on Self-Kindness

“I had said yes to everything, for so long, that my body finally said no for me.”
― Vivek Naik, The Cost of Yes: Stop People-Pleasing, Set Boundaries, and Recover from Burnout Without Guilt

“Taking a year out from a thriving practice to pursue something new—whether it is launching a business or working on a doctorate—can feel daunting, especially if it means dipping into your financial reserves. These kinds of considerations and conversations often come up for therapists and psychologists after a decade or more of running a successful practice.”
― Christopher Dines, Mindfulness Burnout Prevention : For Therapists and Psychologists — 2nd Edition, Revised and Updated