Overworking Quotes

I used to roll my eyes when I heard the term 'workaholic,' but I guess if the shoe fits, you got to wear it.

When I was young, they used to call me 'foreman,' not because I was in charge, but because I did the work of four men.

I am a workaholic, have always been.

I'll admit I'm a workaholic.

Many talents hurt themselves by over thinking the business and doing too much which waters every thing down and makes major moves mean less.

As soon as you hear a fighter say, "I'm working smarter, not harder," you always want to bet against that guy. That mentality does not work. You have to work hard. And sometimes that means you are going to work too hard. You are going to decline. You are going to tear down your body and your muscle fibers. You are going to get sick.

Long hours don't necessarily mean success.

Being a wrestler, it can get rough in terms of your mindset, just having that mentality embedded in you where you just wanna go, go, go, 100 miles per hour, always redlining your body and never actually taking the time out to let your body recover the right way. As I got older, I started to realized that less sometimes is more.

I don't relax. I can't take vacations. I'm obsessive-compulsive, and I worry with every project that I'm going to fail. When it starts to go well, and I sense that something beautiful and important and meaningful is being created, it's a fantastic feeling, and I find it very hard to stop.

My older brother's really good at making fun of me for just being a workaholic and never taking time for myself. Even when we go on vacation, I'm always working.

I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work... I try to think of sketch ideas, stand-up pieces. I am incapable of leisure and leisure time.

When I was younger, I wanted to guard myself against criticism, so I did so much more work than was needed. Now, though, it's sometimes better to understand something intuitively than have to dig your way into a character.

I'm kind of a workaholic.

By the time I'm done with a project, it's taken so long that I usually don't even like it anymore. I only see the things I wish I'd done differently.

I always have a tendency to take on too many things.

I honestly wear myself out walking around, fixing this and fixing that. Maybe that's why I like to work so much - so I can just get to that moment where I'm like, "Whoa." I have to be super tired and knocked out to stop!

Everybody just tries to be successful. Like, sure, it's good to be successful, but if you're working that hard? This is how I feel, I work so many hours a day, and I'm always working, I'm always traveling.

People think I am a workaholic but I just love business.

I'm a workaholic. I would not pretend to be anything else. I rarely go to bed before one o'clock in the morning. I might kind of have a spa between half-past twelve and one and relax, and that's when I do my thinking, or my non-thinking. That's when I have a bit of space for myself.

Never bite off so much in your job that you can't spend a lot of time with your family.

John Shanks is probably the biggest workaholic I've ever met in my life.

I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.

I've been a workaholic since I was 18.

I'm an extreme workaholic.

Many a man works himself to death by burying himself in his work.