Overworked Quotes

“people are often “overworked and underutilized.”

— Liz Wiseman

“As a king can wear a crown, a crown can also weary a king.”

— Anthony Liccione

Vices are simply overworked virtues.

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

I overworked myself to a point of malnourishment.

— Alexis Ren

I'm the most overworked, overtrained, underpaid fighter.

— Nick Diaz

I feel overworked, but when I don't work, I feel weird.

— Pharrell Williams

“You look like the back end of an overworked farm mule.”

— Sarah M. Eden

We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.

— Oscar Wilde

I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.

— Terrell Owens

I am overworked sometimes. I'm tired sometimes. I'm sleepy sometimes. And social media allows me to show you that I'm human, too.

— Mikhail Varshavski

I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.

— Florence Griffith Joyner

I think I was probably overworked. I was doing huge tours and having two days off and then going out again. It…

— Kate Nash

“It's not easy being human. Especially when you are tired and overworked all the time... That's when you become inhuman.”

— Hakan Nesser

We say yes to every invite, and then we feel tired and anxious and stressed and overworked and burnt out.

— Jay Shetty

“It is the harpooneer that makes the voyage, and if you take the breath out of his body how can you expect…

— Herman Melville

“Go online and fucking figure it out for yourself because everyone’s overworked and understaffed.”

— Gillian Flynn

“The disturbing part is that no one teaches us how to deal with death at any point during our medical training, or…

— DEAN MAFAKO, M.D

When it comes to making an album I take that very seriously. I am meticulous, overworked. That's my time to put everything…

— Dave Grohl

Our bodies are constantly giving us signals about what we can and cannot handle. It's when we choose to ignore them that…

— Christina Anstead

This is a dirty business, that is why I go out and play with my heart. I feel like football players are…

— Terrell Owens

I have seen both extremes; when there was no work, I was frustrated and now that I'm overworked, I feel the same.…

— Amit Trivedi

Actually, it is precisely in overworked countries like Japan, England and the US that people watch an absurd amount of television. Up…

— Rutger Bregman

“It is a do-it-yourself era: health care, real estate, police investigation. Go online and f*ing figure it out for yourself because everyone’s…

— Gillian Flynn

I was tired and I had overworked myself and burnt myself out. So I went to Egypt by myself. When I saw…

— Alicia Keys

When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters…

— Zaha Hadid

If workers are overworked, or companies hire temps at low wages, this fundamentally comes down to the quality of life for a…

— Nina Turner

Like a lot of overcommitted, overworked Americans, I do not have much time to exercise. Plain and simple. Instead of merely accepting…

— Stephanie Ruhle

I know that anybody who does all this and doesn't have to, everything thinks she's very driven. The truth is, I enjoy…

— Beverly Sills

It used to be that wealthy people were the leisure class, and having time off was a status symbol. That's switched now:…

— Katrina Onstad

“I reached and grabbed ahold of the garden rake that was leaned up against the tree, when suddenly I felt my heart…

— DEAN MAFAKO, M.D

How easy it is to work for God when we are filled with His Spirit! His service is so sweet, so delightful;…

— Dwight L. Moody

“I know you are feeling overworked and overwhelmed so please feel free to take a seat and relax and collect your thoughts…

— Thee Ace Man

“Vices are simply overworked virtues, anyway. Economy and frugality are to be commended but follow them on in an increasing ratio and…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

The willing horse is always overworked.

— Charles Darwin

I'm far from perfect. I'm still learning. I overworked myself, and I paid the price. I consider the breakdown a breakthrough. I…

— Mariah Carey

To keep an organization young and fit, don't hire anyone until everybody's so overworked they'll be glad to see the newcomer no…

— Robert Townsend

I didn't want to get back into the whole industry. I left overworked, overwhelmed, and not having any control over my life.…

— Cheryl James

Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but…

— Anna Howard Shaw

“To be "overworked" or "overcommitted," in this sense, is a sign of value and a bid for status (and perhaps a preemptive…

— John Trimbur

Sometimes I think what it might be like if I stayed in the background and was just singing in a choir somewhere.…

— Tevin Campbell