Welcome to Breaks Quotes, a curated collection of insightful, inspiring, and thought-provoking quotes about the concept of breaks. In a world that often glorifies constant hustle and productivity, taking breaks is an essential aspect of maintaining balance, well-being, and creativity in our lives. Whether it’s a short pause during a busy day or an extended period of rest and rejuvenation, breaks offer us the opportunity to recharge, reflect, and reconnect with ourselves.
Throughout history, thinkers, writers, and leaders have recognized the importance of breaks in fostering innovation, productivity, and overall happiness. From philosophers advocating for moments of contemplation to entrepreneurs emphasizing the value of downtime for optimal performance, the wisdom surrounding breaks spans various disciplines and cultures. Here, we gather a diverse array of quotes that celebrate the power of breaks and encourage us to embrace them as an integral part of our lives.
I really liked the snake that breaks out of the cage in the beginning of the movie. I saw it in real life, and it was really cool. Really big and fat. The owls are cool as well, but you can’t really pet them. Tom Felton
My husband John’s and my breaks are often very culture heavy. He cannot pass a museum without venturing inside, so we tend to see a lot of architecture and so-called places of interest. Prue Leith
A lot of heart breaks, broken trusts have given me the perspective that you have got to choose what affects you and what does not, because it is a crazy life out there. Karan Kundrra
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven. George Herbert
The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers. Harvey Cushing
A child’s giggle tickles me deeply, and it breaks my heart when that begins to disappear. So I do what I can to create opportunities for children to continue to laugh and rediscover their joy. Goldie Hawn
Shinji Kagawa is one of the best players in the world, and he now plays 20 minutes at Manchester United – on the left wing! My heart breaks. Really, I have tears in my eyes. Central midfield is Shinji’s best role. Jurgen Klopp
Coffee… The caffeine in your morning coffee stops an enzyme called amylase from working correctly, which is located in your mouth and gut, and breaks down starchy carbs. Eddie Hall
We are losing our superstars like Johnny and June Carter Cash and that breaks my heart. Wynonna Judd
Things aren’t right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade? Bill Maher
If you look at women in sports, they generally have to be more qualified because it is kind of a man’s world. Guys will give guys a lot more breaks than a woman. I’d argue that women make fewer mistakes and are held to a higher standard. I think the ultimate respect you can pay to a woman in my business is you’re my equal. Colin Cowherd
I’m just interested in people on the edges. I feel an affinity for people who haven’t had the best breaks in society. I’m always on their side. I find them more human, maybe. What I want to do more than anything is acknowledge their existence. Mary Ellen Mark
The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung. Phillips Brooks
Sometimes you’re in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks. Gary Sinise
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. Thomas Fuller
When hardships come into your life it breaks you for a while, but when it is done with you evolve into a new person. Madalsa Sharma
It’s the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles. Claude M. Bristol
I really wanted to give back to the youth – especially abused or underprivileged kids. Just hearing their stories breaks your heart. So that’s who I wanted to give back to. Austin Rivers
Nature never breaks her own laws. Leonardo da Vinci
Tearing up a picture of the Pope comes under the heading of a Comedy Killer. It kind of breaks the spirit of the evening. Lorne Michaels
Movies have these transcendent moments where everything is just right, from the dialogue to the music to the lighting to the narrative context; everything is just perfect, and something magical happens – the film breaks through the screen and does something to you. Jason Silva
Music is such a great communicator. It breaks down linguistic barriers, cultural barriers, it basically reaches out. That’s when rock n’ roll succeeds, and that’s what virtuosity is all about. The Edge
He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled. William Ellery Channing
Parties are only bad when a fight breaks out, when men fight over women or vice versa. Someone takes a fall, an ambulance comes, and the police arrive. If you can avoid those things, pretty much all behaviour is acceptable. Bill Murray
When I think back on it, of course I got lucky and got great directors and good breaks but all that was the physical part. But what made me a star was that I could take a chance and not have anything to worry about in terms of losing. Shah Rukh Khan
Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn’t matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest. Barack Obama
If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations. Dean Karnazes
Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart. Phyllis McGinley
Every time I say something that’s extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet. Kanye West
Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs. Andrew Mellon
The day breaks not, it is my heart. John Donne
Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts – a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards’ manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved. Gavin Bryars
The metaphor I’ve used is… somebody’s going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won’t be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets. Randy Pausch
A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again. Jean Renoir
If you ask people what they’ve always wanted to do, most people haven’t done it. That breaks my heart. Angelina Jolie
What do cells do when they see a broken piece of DNA? Cells don’t like such breaks. They’ll do pretty much anything they can to fix things up. If a chromosome is broken, the cells will repair the break using an intact chromosome. Jack W. Szostak
I’ve taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them. Clint Eastwood
Writing novels is largely about endurance and patience. I take a lot of breaks, hit walls, and go do something else while I think things through. But I do it every day, and I try to treat it as a job, something that is not dictated by whimsy or muses. Adam Mansbach
When my voice breaks, it recovers automatically. I don’t do anything special to maintain my voice. I have a natural voice and don’t have to take care of it. Arijit Singh
Poetry has the ability to create entire moments with just a few choice words. The spacing and line breaks create rhythm, a helpful musicality, a natural flow. The separate stanzas aid in perpetuating a kind of incremental reading, one small chunk at a time. Jason Reynolds
When I do see a picture of myself that has been touched up too much, I do get a bit sad… it makes me look like a hypocrite. It breaks my heart. I would rather shoot a magazine and shoot my flaws, but that’s not up to me. Kendra Wilkinson
A good society is characterised not just by liberty but by mutual respect and responsibility. When this breaks down it takes a lot more than police officers to put things right. David Lammy
Hong Cha-young is the type who doesn’t back down but breaks through fear and moves forward without hesitation. Her head-on,’ break-through’ attitude in life is similar to mine. But her speech, behavior, and reactions were thoroughly built for the character of Hong Cha-young. Jeon Yeo-been
A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong. Tecumseh
Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces. Henry David Thoreau
I hate to say it – it breaks my heart – but we’re a tacky, money-obsessed culture. Pete Doherty
When I met Raj Kundra for the first time, I thought my whole life would change. I thought I’d get big breaks. I never thought Shilpa Shetty’s husband would make me do wrong things. Sherlyn Chopra
I’m just glad when I was fighting for us to wrestle I would always have people tell me, ‘Gail, women’s wrestling is for the bathroom breaks, you know they really don’t want to see it.’ I would get discouraged a little bit but I was very adamant, so I’m glad that we girls proved them wrong. Gail Kim
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. Joseph Addison
We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us. Vernon Howard
It breaks my heart that we are always being nudged toward the most recently published books, when so many worthy books have gone unexplored. Cathy Marie Buchanan
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law. Martin Luther King, Jr.
My grandad’s a gospel singer, and his children were singers, too. But I don’t believe in God in the same way… not religion; it breaks us up too much. The same with musical styles – it breaks people up. I believe they are all one thing – why not put them together? Labrinth
No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy – well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I’m President, I never will. Barack Obama
If a man breaks a pledge, the public ought to know it. Steve Forbes
What was so extraordinary to me about going through this box of my mother’s letters and diaries was meeting my mother not as my mother, but as a real person. And what breaks my heart is that I had no idea how self-aware she was and how protective of me she was. Ruth Reichl
The American media produce a product of very poor quality. Its information is not reliable, it has too much chrome and glitz, its doors rattle, it breaks down almost immediately, and it’s sold without warranty. It’s flashy, but it’s basically junk. Michael Crichton
Breaks balance out. The sun don’t shine on the same ol’ dog’s rear end every day. Darrell Royal
A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant. Ivor Novello
It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy. Hillary Clinton
Fashion breaks my heart. Kanye West
I work three months really hard, nonstop, and then I take a month off. Then I do it all over again. I work hard but I give myself four breaks a year. Tyler Perry
A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It’s all a matter of pride. Nancy Lopez
There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call ‘the breaks.’ In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things – read and write – and wait. Countee Cullen
The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation… God does not love weak souls and flabby flesh. The spirit desires to wrestle with flesh which is strong and full of resistance. It is a carnivorous bird which is incessantly hungry; it eats flesh and, by assimilating it, makes it disappear. Nikos Kazantzakis
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind. William Blake
I think President Obama is not progressive. And I know a lot of people hate to hear that; it breaks their heart. But that’s the reality. It’s not in his nature. His nature is pro-establishment. If he had a wrestling nickname, it would be The Establishment. Cenk Uygur
Coding, it’s an endless process of trial and error, of trying to get the right command in the right place, with sometimes just a semicolon making the difference between success and failure. Code breaks and then it falls apart, and it often takes many, many tries until that magical moment when what you’re trying to build comes to life. Reshma Saujani
If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself. Martin Luther
Tax breaks and other financial breaks that favor the wealthiest among us do not create greater prosperity for all; they simply siphon off more and more money to those who already have it, and more and more money away from those who do not. Marianne Williamson
Nothing’s a break for me. Not even the breaks are breaks. Robert Downey, Jr.
If it bends, it’s funny; if it breaks, it’s not funny. Kate O’Brien
Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale. Earl Browder
You don’t have to work for Google, or any of the other firms encouraging staff to pursue personal projects on company time, to use slowness to unlock your creativity. Anyone can do it. Start by clearing space in your schedule for rest, daydreaming and serendipity. Take breaks away from your desk, especially when you get stuck on a problem. Carl Honore
The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o’er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength. Robert Browning
My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall – that is my strength, my only strength. Antonio Gramsci
Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down. Mahmoud Darwish
I’m a complete deviant. All creative work breaks new ground. Mary Daly
If a war breaks out with the United States, the navy will have to put all its strength into interceptive operations, so… massive sea-borne supplies might be momentarily interrupted. Isoroku Yamamoto
It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it. Lou Holtz
Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks? Steven Wright
There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage. Marian Wright Edelman
The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. Sallust
We need to blinker ourselves, to better monitor our attentional focus. Enforced periods of no email or Internet to allow us to sustain concentration have been shown to be tremendously helpful. And breaks – even a 15-minute break every two or three hours – make us more productive in the long run. Daniel Levitin
Now you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here, in the United States of America. Barack Obama
The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games. Adam Gopnik
Success is that old ABC – ability, breaks, and courage. Charles Luckman
Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe. Jonathan Sacks
Russian machine never breaks. Alexander Ovechkin
The breaks you take from work pay you back manifold when you return because you come back with a fresher mind and newer thinking. Some of your best ideas come when you’re on vacation. Gautam Singhania
Sometimes I don’t even pull my shoes off for six weeks at a time, except, you know, just to take a shower. I just take breaks between 24 hours a day, just a break now and then, it don’t take me long to rest; maybe 20 to30 minutes sometime, or maybe an hour. Howard Finster
We are the last remaining country to allow ourselves two breaks in the season. You just have to look at England, Italy and Spain, they play right through the season. We on the other hand take six weeks off in the winter until the end of January, and that is a luxury. Franz Beckenbauer
A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death. Nikos Kazantzakis
A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law. Kurt Huber
No war is inevitable until it breaks out. A. J. P. Taylor
I have to shoot without any breaks. I yell at Herzog and hit him. I have to fight for every sequence. I wish Herzog would catch the plague, more than ever. Klaus Kinski
Rashford’s pace is incredible. You don’t catch him when he breaks away. Louis van Gaal
Music speaks to people in a way that breaks down boundaries that words and actions sometimes can’t. Dan Reynolds
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks. Ludwig Wittgenstein
