Sleep Quotes

1. “Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.”

— William Arthur Ward

Also featured in: Quotes About Dreams

2. “Dreams are not what you see in your sleep, dreams are things which do not let you sleep.”

— Cristiano Ronaldo

Also featured in: Quotes About Dreams

3. “It’s not about how much you sleep. It’s what you do while you’re awake.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

4. “If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.”

— Warren Buffett

Also featured in: Making Money Quotes

5. “Success and rest don’t sleep together.”

— Og Mandino

6. “It’s early in the morning and your competition is still sleeping.”

— Greg Plitt

Also featured in: Competition Quotes

7. “I have miles to go before I sleep...”

— Robert Frost

8. “My specialty is sleeping and my hobby is also sleeping.”

— Jessica Jung

9. “Sleep is good, he said, And books are better.”

— George R.R. Martin

Also featured in: Book Quotes, Reading Quotes, Healing Quotes

10. “That most of you say you want to be successful, but you don’t want it bad. You just kinda want it. You don’t want it badder than you wanna party. You don’t want it as much as you want to be cool. Most of you don’t want success as much as you want to sleep!”

— Eric Thomas

11. “You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can’t sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live.”

— Ray Bradbury

12. “Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”

— William Blake

Also featured in: Good Morning Quotes, Quotes About Night

13. “You want to be a millionaire. But your values system says you believe in sleep more than grinding!”

— Eric Thomas

14. “And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy’s sleeping? I’m working.”

— Will Smith

15. “You sleep on a win and you’ll wake up with a loss.”

— Conor McGregor

Also featured in: Winning Quotes

16. “Do your best at every job. Don’t sleep! Success generates more success so be hungry for it. Hire good people with a passion for excellence.”

— Steve Jobs

Also featured in: Passion Quotes

17. “I’ll sleep well tonight.”

— Henry Ford

18. “Even while the Earth sleeps we travel.”

— Khalil Gibran

19. “Do not sleep under a roof. Carry no money or food. Go alone to places frightening to the common brand of men. Become a criminal of purpose. Be put in jail, and extricate yourself by your own wisdom.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

20. “I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”

— Margaret Atwood

21. “Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night’s sleep, and you can’t settle anything until morning anyway.”

— Rose Kennedy

Also featured in: Good Morning Quotes

22. “The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.”

— Christopher Hitchens

Also featured in: Struggle Quotes, Anxiety Quotes

23. “Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”

— Walt Whitman

24. “I want to sleep for eternity with a broad smile on my face. I want those who remain behind to say this man has done his duty.”

— Nelson Mandela

25. “Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up. Now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.”

— Alan Watts

Also featured in: Quotes About Trying

26. “Because I cannot sleep I make music in the night.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Quotes About Night

27. “I keep having vivid dreams of success. Then it’s time to sleep.”

— Conor McGregor

Also featured in: MMA Quotes

28. “I want to let her know though that all the nights sleeping beside her even the useless arguments were things ever splendid and the hard words I ever feared to say can now be said: I love you.”

— Charles Bukowski

Also featured in: Quotes About Night

29. “Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.”

— Victor Hugo

30. “Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

Also featured in: Fun Quotes

31. “Sleep is like the unicorn – it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any.”

— Dr. Seuss

Also featured in: Doubt Quotes

32. “Well, the end of another busy day. I can’t wait till I get back to bed. If that don’t work I’ll try to sleep.”

— Mae West

33. “When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.”

— Will Rogers

Also featured in: Hilarious Quotes

34. “It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.”

— Leo Tolstoy

35. “I’d sleep and forget it; I had my own life, my own sad and ragged life forever.”

— Jack Kerouac

36. “Home is watching the moon rise over the open, sleeping land and having someone you can call to the window, so you can look together. Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.”

— Stephen King

37. “Good night, belovedest. Your sleep will be sweet if there is any influences in the wishes of your own.”

— L.M. Montgomery

38. “A boy spends his time finding a girl to sleep with. A real man spends his time looking for the one worth waking up to.”

— John F. Kennedy

Also featured in: Real Quotes

39. “The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.”

— James Allen

40. “I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Heaven Quotes, Good Morning Quotes