Workhorse Quotes & Sayings

If he's walking around with the title, whose right and whose wrong? He's awesome. And I'm his protege, so what does that make me? That makes me awesome as well. — Alex Riley

Truth was only a shifting fog to them, to be burned off by the light of their convoluted reasoning. Followers, — Terry Goodkind

I was a workhorse; there was never a practice that I didn't enjoy. — Joe Namath

But secrets had a way of forcing you to stare in the eyes of reality. — Marian L. Thomas

Knowledge is power, especially when it is hitched to a workhorse. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

Success happens with a consistent increase in quality in your life — Tony Robbins

Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic. — Ramakrishna

When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax. — Natasha Trethewey

You should just go, go to work, work hard, be a perfectionist, be a workhorse. If you work 10 years straight, you'll be comfortable and set for life. That is a fact. — Greg Gutfeld

Poetry was not meant to be a workhorse; it was not designed to paint pretty moral pictures of life; it was not brought into being to confuse us with cryptograms, or high platitudes, or pompous pretensions. The poet was meant to be a seer; he was designed to run toward the intensities and magnificences of life, to bathe his hands in reality. But where the mystic ran toward Reality in silence and lost himself in it, the poet as soon as he had experienced it, ran back toward humanity crying the good news and putting it into shimmering webs of words. — Francis Beauchesne Thornton

Elvis was incredibly cooperative. He would try anything. He wasn't a diva, no prima donna. When it came to work, he was a workhorse. — Jerry Leiber

For me, the most effective cabaret evenings have been some of the most personal ones, where the performer is comfortable enough to simply be themselves. — Malcolm Gets

It's thought of as an eccentric thing for an actor to really try to maintain quality control through the whole career. Most people think, 'You just work. You just keep working.' And in some ways I wish I could be a guy who's just a workhorse. — John C. Reilly

A happy love needs to be reciprocated. — Vladimir Putin

By Vietnam, the Jeep had given way to the helicopter, and it is hard to imagine a modern army fighting a war without this supremely adaptable workhorse. — Saul David

I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15. — Jewel

I bought a Jaguar when I was 28. I'd always wanted one. I had it for years, then my friend had it, then my dad had it. It was a good workhorse. — Sean Bean

Taking pains, working hard, not flaunting his or her chops so much as relying on them, the pop artisan teeters on a fine fulcrum between the stern, sell-the-product morality of the workhorse and the artist's urge to discover a pattern in, or derive a meaning from, the random facts of the world. — Michael Chabon

I have three libraries. As a gift, a friend alphabetized and organized my main library of novels, history books, and nonfiction. Then I have a photo-book collection. Then there's this nearly whole room of my childhood books. I've also got cookbooks and a big collection of horse-related books. — Sally Mann

Drosophila has long been our main workhorse in genetics, yielding insight in the relation between chromosomes and genes. — Frans De Waal

I think it's hard to compare 'Twitter' and 'Instagram'. Twitter has a more mature business. — Kevin Systrom

A very little key will open a very heavy door. — Charles Dickens

I think of myself more as a workhorse actor. It will be hot and cold and up and down, but no one will kick me out of the business. — Kevin Bacon

And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote. — Amy Winehouse

Drumming's pretty physical. We sit at the back of the stage getting beat up like a workhorse. — Tommy Lee

The greater man the greater courtesy. — Alfred Lord Tennyson