Workaholic Quotes

“It is not as much about who you used to be, as it is about who you choose to be.”
― Sanhita Baruah

“Work can sometimes be very tricky. It gives with one hand and takes away with the other. It gives you money and takes away your time. It offers you wealth and steals your happiness.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“Healthy people understand that others have the capacity to choose to end relationships and it serves as motivation for them to learn to relate in healthy and loving ways. However, when we are driven by shame, we don't just fear losing a relationship, but we live in terror that if we let anyone really get to know us, we would never be desired, pursued, or loved. In us, that fear can be worked out in the development of unhealthy denial, workaholism, perfectionism, chameleon-type behavior, and sadly, even revictimization... When we live in denial or present a false self out of fear... we will do anything to be accepted by people... When we begin to tell the truth about what happened to us we also begin the process of turning about from this type of idolatry... When we begin to tear away our layers of illegitimate shame... When our own vision is not distorted by our shame we can discern what was our responsibility and what wasn't.”
― Wendy Mahill, Growing a Passionate Heart

“Don't marry a shopaholic if you're not prepared to be a workaholic.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Work will be your mother, she whispered; it will lead you through dark days; it will clear you a level place to rest at last.”
― Emma Donoghue, Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

“But for years, my best coping strategy has been work. I have assumed so many responsibilities and said yes to so many things. Working hard creates my own gravity. The more I work, the more I am on terra firma.”
― David Chang, Eat a Peach

“People frequently ask me why I work so hard - prolong hours, infrequent vacations, and never calling in sick or missing work for any other reason. The short answer is that work is indivisible from life itself.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“We're not in this life just to work, we're in it to live.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Gift

“Overworking is the Black Plague of the 21st Century.”
― Richie Norton

“Own the amount of time you spend at work as a choice, not a consequence. Don’t play the victim of your job.

Hard work is a high. It is. Don’t forget what you’re reaching for while getting high on work.”
― Richie Norton

“Time can't be given. But it can be shared”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Gift

“I was cranked to a fifth gear, and everything I did, I did on a deadline.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“Had it not been for "Nightline," Morrie would have died without ever seeing me again. I had no good excuse for this, except the one that everyone these days seems to have.
I had become too wrapped up in the siren song of my life. I was busy.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“You need to believe more deeply than anyone else. You build a cult by showing everyone that you are willing to go further than all of them to see out your vision. You can't ask everyone else to swallow the Kool-Aid if you're not going to take the first gulp.”
― David Chang, Eat a Peach

“परिश्रमी लोगों के लिए काम करना ख़ुशी का सबब होता है । चुनौतियां उन्हें थकाने नहीं, उर्जावान बनाने का काम करती हैं ।”
― Vandana Yadav, कितने मोर्चे

“Watch out for when you're not working, you're not talking about work.”
― Brother Pedro

“Everyone has a need to feel a sense of self-worth and self-actualization – that he or she believes his or her existence is meaningful. Unfortunately, the Industrial Revolution wrongfully instilled a social norm that self-worth should primarily come from work ethic – if you work hard, you will be rewarded. But because of AI, jobs based on repetitive tasks will soon be gone forever.

We need to redefine the idea of work ethic for the new workforce paradigm. The importance of a job should not be solely dependent on its economic value but should also be measured by what it adds to society. We should also reassess our notion that longer work hours are the best way to achieve success and should remove the stigma associated with service professions.”
― Kai-Fu Lee

“If success came in snortable form, I'd sniff it up each nostril and rub the residue on my gums.”
― Mary Laura Philpott, I Miss You When I Blink: Essays

“How much longer can I fake this?”
― Mary Laura Philpott, I Miss You When I Blink: Essays

“I wanted to do a job so well that I'd feel done. I wanted to accomplish enough to be good enough.”
― Mary Laura Philpott, I Miss You When I Blink: Essays

“The more I discover about Elon Musk, the more I dislike him.”
― Steven Magee

“It's often the way that people who take their work seriously laugh at stupid jokes; it's as if they are under-humoured and, as a consequence, suffer from premature laugh-ejaculation.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“Some people realize very late that they're not holding the earth on its axis by too much work they're doing. Remember, with or without you life will continue just normally on this planet, so take a break and rest more often.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“Workaholics can lose everything except the work.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“A human being in a highly technicized productive unit is simply not allowed to be spontaneous. It just interferes with the plan laid down in advance by the engineers and technicians who decide how he should word, and in this way he, the human being, is profoundly diminished, because he is not permitted to be spontaneous.”
― Aldous Huxley, Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience

“Studies show definite negative health consequences to those who hold jobs that offer them low intellectual discretion (a measure of how repetitive a job is) and little freedom of schedule (such as the ability to take a break at one’s discretion). Those holding such jobs are at significantly higher risk for coronary heart disease. A more recent meta-analysis revealed that the risks go beyond coronary heart disease to include significantly higher rates of all-cause morality for workers with low job control. Lack of occupational freedom kills!”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

“Going for a weekend silent retreat might be a wonderful idea. Doing so for a decade might be a terrible idea, as humans flourish in communicative sociality. Too much of anything even a good thing, can become detrimental.”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

“When I turned 15, my father let me drive our old ’66 Chevy Impala and I was finally able to get a “real” job – at a fast-food restaurant. Where else at that age? I never stopped working. For most of my life, I worked a good 15-20 hours a day, for years, and I made the mistake of thinking I was damn near invincible, only to eventually find out I wasn’t.”
― Scott C. Holstad

“You know you’ve lost your simplicity when you’ve found your busy-ness.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Detaching our identities from the work we can do and the pain we endure creates something of an identity crisis.”
― Jasmine Marie, Black Girls Breathing: Heal from Trauma, Combat Chronic Stress, and Find Your Freedom