Quotes of Overwork - somelinesforyou

“ A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork. ”

- Robert Frost

“ I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation. ”

- Charles Evans Hughes

“ I never knew a person who suffered from overwork. There are many, however, who suffered from too much ambition, and not enough action. ”

- James Mantague

“ More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies. ”

- Rudyard Kipling

“ The brain is the only part of the human machine that doesn't wear out. Probably it's because the brain is the only part that is not overworked. ”

- Unknown

“ The usual trouble with volunteers is not killing them with overwork, but simply boring them to death. ”

- Harold J. Seymour

“ We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety. ”

- Sir John Lubbock

“ Statistics indicate that, as a result of overwork, modern executives are dropping like flies on the nation's golf courses. ”

- Ira Wallach

“ Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Most illnesses do not, as is generally thought, come like a bolt out of the blue. The ground is prepared for years through faulty diet, intemperance, overwork, and moral conflicts, slowly eroding the subject's vitality. ”

- Paul Tournier
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