These workaholic quotes will inspire you. A workaholic is a person who works compulsively.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging workaholic quotes, workaholic sayings, and workaholic proverbs.
Best Workaholic Quotes
- “What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
- “I’m pretty much a workaholic, but when you’re doing what you love it’s hard to think of a reason to stop.” ~ Ani DiFranco
- “I’m a bit of a workaholic. When I feel like I’m not doing something, it drives me insane.” ~ Ashley Greene
- “Man the life of a workaholic… You either on ya work or just working on it.” ~ Big Sean
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“Working gets in the way of living.” ~ Omar Sharif
- “I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day.” ~ Mitch Albom , Workaholic quotes friend
- “I see myself as a bit of a traveller. I am a workaholic.” ~ Ricki-Lee Coulter
- “I’m not driven by killer ambition. I’m not a workaholic. I’m a good team player. I don’t have to be captain, but I do want to play on a winning team.” ~ Jane Pauley
- “The truth is, everybody I’ve ever met who’s successful is a workaholic.” ~ Ice T
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“No days off. I’m a workaholic.” ~ Wale
- “For a very long time now I’ve been saying to young women, ‘You can have it all, but not all at the same time.’ How important it is to take very good care of yourself, of your mental and physical and spiritual wellbeing; it’s hard to do. It’s easier to be a workaholic than to have a truly balanced life.” ~ Quentin Bryce
- “I’m the true definition of a workaholic.” ~ Kim Kardashian
- “I’m a workaholic, I always try to fill my time with projects.” ~ Teresa Palmer
- “I’ll admit I’m a workaholic.” ~ Kenny Chesney
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“For workaholics, all the eggs of self-esteem are in the basket of work.” ~ Judith M Bardwick
- “Am I a workaholic? Yes, but I also have no problem taking time for myself.” ~ Chris Jericho
- “I’m a workaholic and I don’t believe in ‘no.’ If I’m not sleeping, nobody’s sleeping.” ~ Beyonce Knowles
- “I’m a workaholic. I work and work and work.” ~ Criss Angel
- “I don’t think workaholic is in the dictionary as an affliction, but it’s obviously someone who has a disease, and I don’t feel diseased by it. I just think that I enjoy life and life has many offerings. I feel lucky to be able to have a forum to share a lot of these ideas.” ~ Greg Graffin
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“I’m a real workaholic.” ~ Laurie Anderson
- “If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I’m it, and that’s what passes for leisure.” ~ Steve Earle
- “Lately I’ve been a workaholic. I’m in the studio all the time and I’ve helped to produce a couple of artists” ~ Duncan Sheik
- “I always feel like I’m rehearsing. I’m a workaholic. But youve got to let go and trust and enjoy! I’m a real perfectionist. Its probably my biggest disadvantage. But as long as I can go out there, trust in the work and just have fun, thats what matters.” ~ Nicole Scherzinger
- “One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not. We who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs, or seem to seek them. Who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic, and above all survivors. We are not that way from perversity, and we cannot just relax and let it go. We’ve learned to cope in ways you never had to.” ~ Piers Anthony
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“I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working.” ~ Steven Spielberg
- “I stop short of being a workaholic.” ~ Jim Davis
- “I’m a workaholic. I’ve been doing my job for a long time.” ~ Gisele Bundchen
- “Anyone watching ’30 Rock’ always knew Tina Fey was playing a fictionalized version of herself, a workaholic comedy writer who also plays one on TV. She’s the boss; Liz Lemon just works here.” ~ Rob Sheffield
- “I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.” ~ Alanis Morissette
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“Schizophrenic is the best word – I change from day to day. I can be quite confusing. Indecisive, workaholic, and tired today.” ~ Brian Molko
- “People are saying that I’m an alcoholic, and that’s not true, because I only drink when I work, and I’m a workaholic.” ~ Ron White
- “I’m not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.” ~ Gavin Rossdale
- “Workaholics are addicted to activity; super achievers are committed to results.” ~ Charles Garfield
- “I’m such a workaholic. I’m always thinking about work.” ~ Drew Barrymore
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“This sounds really corny, but I am a slave to my work, a workaholic, and glad of it. I like what I do; this is my place, my little universe, one of them.” ~ Henry Rollins
- “I’m not very good at resting on my laurels. I am a bit of a workaholic, and I like to keep busy and active, so I think that’s what drives me.” ~ Tricia Helfer
- “I’ve never really been a workaholic. I work very hard, but I also enjoy playing. I think it’s important to have a balanced and well-rounded life.” ~ Condoleezza Rice , Workaholic quotes life
- “I’m so passionately hopelessly in love with my job! I think the definition of workaholic is that you can’t wait till the weekend is over so you can start working again.” ~ Ann Shin
- “I’m a workaholic because I don’t want to not work. When you come from basically nothing and you have so much good things happening for you sometimes you have to sacrifice.” ~ Nelly
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“Neither of us are workaholics. I think the key thing is to accept that if you only exist through what you do, then you become what you do, and this is very wrong.” ~ Vincent Cassel
- “Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.” ~ Yoko Ono
- “Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.” ~ Mary Daly
- “I’m a workaholic, so I ignore the signs of fatigue and just keep going and going, and then conk out when I get home. It can be pretty stressful.” ~ Keke Palmer
- “Beaches and romantic comedies are not my thing. I’m a workaholic.” ~ Rooney Mara
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“Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.” ~ Hillary Clinton
- “I’m such a damn workaholic, that it’s interesting to be like, “Oh, what do I do for fun?”” ~ Brad Williams
- “I had identified discipline as a really important part of my life, in maintaining my sanity. It’s kind of interesting when people don’t know me and then get to know me and see just how workaholic I am and how unhappy I am when I don’t have something to work on, or if I am not provided with the tools to be able to accomplish those things, like touring without my looping rig or without a piano, I’m just kind of like, ‘Aahhh, what do I do with my day?’ To me, that’s just a large part of my sanity.” ~ Owen Pallett
- “”Dream big, work hard.” My parents brought up Kylie [Jenner] and me to be workaholics. That’s something I really appreciate.” ~ Kendall Jenner
- “I don’t think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative.” ~ Sebastian Coe
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“I’m a workaholic. I also go to the gym a lot – it’s my new thing. Yes, I am a compulsive person.” ~ Jonathan Rhys Meyers
- “My mom and I are like sisters. We kind of grew up together. She always treated me as an adult. I never had curfew. She’s a workaholic, like I am. We’re not super family-oriented people, you know?” ~ Kelly Clarkson
- “Workaholics don’t actually accomplish more than nonworkaholics. They may claim to be perfectionists, but that just mean they’re wasting time fixating on inconsequential details instead of moving on to the next task.” ~ David Heinemeier Hansson
- “I think that it depends what you mean by successful. If you mean ‘make money’ you need to be part of the machine unless you’re one of those superhuman people who can do everything by yourself, and have workaholic tendencies and really good advisers and a good investor.” ~ Sia Furler
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“For quite a while I called myself a workaholic. I was proud of that label. Then one day it hit me; a workaholic is a label for an unproductive person.” ~ Mike Michalowicz
- “For years, I worked seven-day weeks, through birthdays and most public holidays, Christmases and New Year’s Eves included. I worked mornings and afternoons, resuming work after dinner. I remember feeling as if life were a protracted exercise in pulling myself out of a well by a rope, and that rope was work.” ~ Antonella Gambotto-Burke
- “Understand that workaholics aren’t productive people. Quite the contrary. A workaholic is someone who takes twice as much time to accomplish half as much as a Lazy Achiever.” ~ Ernie J Zelinski
- “The most important thing to remember about drunks is that drunks are far more intelligent than non-drunks- they spend a lot of time talking in pubs, unlike workaholics who concentrate on their careers and ambitions, who never develop their higher spiritual values, who never explore the insides of their head like a drunk does.” ~ Shane MacGowan
- “The drivenness in any addiction is about the ruptured self, the belief that one is flawed as a person. The content of the addiction, whether it is alcoholism or work, is an attempt at an intimate relationship. The workaholic with her work or the alcoholic with his booze are having a love affair. Each alters mood to avoid the feeling of loneliness and hurt in the underbelly of shame.” ~ John Bradshaw
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“Andy [Murray] is one of the premier workaholics. He’s given himself a lot of opportunities through that.” ~ Milos Raonic
- “The workaholics have done immense harm to the world. And the greatest harm they have done is that they have deprived life of its moments of celebration and festivity. It is because of them that there is so little festivity in the world, and every day it is becoming more and more dull and dreary and miserable.” ~ Rajneesh
- “I think your significant other should be way more important than your work. Personally, I love working. I don’t know that I’d say I’m a workaholic because I also love maxing and relaxing.” ~ Kristen Bell
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“I work, to this day, from morning to night, seven days a week. I’m always working two, three years ahead of my own timeline; I’m a workaholic.” ~ DJ Ashba
- “People with passion are incredibly inventive and tenacious individuals. They go way beyond the call of duty and frequently either work on their passion without pay or give more of themselves than their pay warrants. And I do not equate passion with workaholism, in which people say they love their work so much they do it all the time. Workaholics are working to fill a vacuum, or to escape, not to connect with their souls.” ~ Janet Hagberg
- “Benedictine spirituality is a consistent one: live life normally, live life thoughtfully, live life profoundly, live life well. Never neglect and never exaggerate. It is a lesson that a world full of cults and fads and workaholics and short courses in difficult subjects needs dearly to learn.” ~ Joan D. Chittister
- “I have a really, really strong work ethic and I learned that from my dad because my dad was a workaholic but he always had even more time for us. As hard as he would work, he always made the time. So it’s just about balancing family, I think, and work – and giving everything 100%. And that’s what he taught me.” ~ Tori Spelling
