Quotes about Work and Family

It's hard to balance work and family. Votes: 2

For me it's always God, family, and then my work. Votes: 2

My work and my family are very important to me. Votes: 2

I work hard and I don't come from a rich family. Votes: 2

I work six months and get three or four with the family. Votes: 2

I'm endlessly fascinated with the ways families work and the ways they don't. Votes: 2

You know, you only get one family, and you have to make it work. Votes: 2

Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun. Votes: 2

My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives. Votes: 2

A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations. Votes: 2

My life is so filled with my children, my family, and the charitable work I do. Votes: 2

I'm a woman trying to balance family, work and friends like so many others out there. Votes: 2

I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard. Votes: 2

The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities. Votes: 2

Finding that balance between work and family is the hardest thing I've ever done - by far. Votes: 2

If you can make the family life and the music work together that's wonderful. If you can make it work. Votes: 2

You finish a job and it's very emotional because you're working crazy long hours, and your work family is like a real family. Votes: 2

In a lot of work places, you work at a lot of jobs and people work more with their colleagues than with their family. Votes: 2

A lot of family members worked in the joint commodities family business. It was a classic case of capitalism at work and socialism at home. Votes: 2

I don't love the phrase 'balancing work and family.' It sets up this idea of scales of justice with work on one side and family on the other side. Votes: 2

I need to work to support my family. Votes: 0

Aim high, work hard, and love your family. Votes: 0

Even a family needs to work as a team. Votes: 0

I can't work without my family being with me. Votes: 0

Love your family, work super hard, live your passion. Votes: 0

Never forget, your family should always have priority over your work. Votes: 0

Family is a collective expression of individual perspective-a living work of art. Votes: 0

Work is the least important thing and family is the most important. Votes: 0

My work isn't any more important than anything else in the family Votes: 0

Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer. Votes: 0

I have to work hard for my family. They don't have a lot. Votes: 0

I work to take care of my family, not the other way around. Votes: 0

The nuclear family doesn't work. It's very destructive; it grew out of selfishness. Votes: 0

I may not always be offered work, but I'll always have my family. Votes: 0

Work is work, but family is for life. That's what really matters to me. Votes: 0

I don't know what it's like to not work; my family embedded that in me. Votes: 0

Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important. Votes: 0

I want to work with the big orchestras. I want to have a big family. Votes: 0

I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work. Votes: 0

The people I work with are like family. I don't mean this in a nice way. Votes: 0

My work's never been accepted by my family, but it's something I'll always carry on with. Votes: 0

Responsible people work, earn, save, invest, make things better for self & family. Lefties call that "greed." Votes: 0

I have a great work ethic - from watching Lucille Ball, not necessarily my own family. Votes: 0

In 2016, you shouldn't have to choose between succeeding at work and being there for your family. Votes: 0

The people I work with, the people I photograph, become a kind of family for me. Votes: 0

The Nugent family is a solid asset. What works for us would work for all humankind. Votes: 0

I believe that you have to treat the people who work with you like your family. Votes: 0

Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve. Votes: 0

It's really all about family, love and the children for me. I work at that every day. Votes: 0

You have to learn to balance work, family, a personal life; it is a part of life. Votes: 0

I want us to do more to support people who are struggling to balance family and work. Votes: 0

Finding extracurricular activities with your husband that are unrelated to children, family and work is a priority. Votes: 0

Having the balance of a work life and a family life has been so good for me. Votes: 0

Having the balance of a work life and a family life has been so good for me. Votes: 0

With my busy schedule, my friends consist of my immediate family and the people I work with! Votes: 0

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family. Votes: 0

I try to win the love and approval of strangers, since it didn't work with my family. Votes: 0

The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that. Votes: 0

In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard. Votes: 0

A person has got to balance work and life and family in order to be a balanced person. Votes: 0

My family are my priority but I've always had a strong work ethic and I like to be busy. Votes: 0

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home. Votes: 0

I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time. Votes: 0

Work hard, but make time for your love, family and friends. Nobody remembers PowerPoint presentations on your final day Votes: 0

Our policies must be premised on, and must reinforce, values such as family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility. Votes: 0

It isn't that women are less ambitious, but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family. Votes: 0

You can experience true delight on the Sabbath from family history work...Finding family members...can bring immense joy. Votes: 0

Work and family are at the center of our lives, the foundation of our dignity as a free people. Votes: 0

God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family. Votes: 0

Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work. Votes: 0

I'll go wherever the work takes me. If something comes along that feels right, the family will come with me. Votes: 0

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing. Votes: 0

Everybody has heard that family dinner is great for kids. But unfortunately, it doesn't work in many of our lives. Votes: 0

Modern women like to think we invented the idea of balancing work and family but women have always done it. Votes: 0

Friends and family will tell you why your ideas won't work. Most are left-brained employees and specialists and NOT entrepreneurs. Votes: 0

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work. Votes: 0

My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family, it went into sudden widescreen. Votes: 0

I've always wanted to work in entertainment. My family moved to Orlando when I was 15 so I could make it. Votes: 0

I need family support close because when you go to work, they are long days and it can get lonely. Votes: 0

I have a really supportive family, which is really wonderful, but I'm not forcing everyone to watch my work every week. Votes: 0

I didn't like the distance between my family and myself that I was experiencing from having to work all the time. Votes: 0

I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!' Votes: 0

Poems ought to reflect the work the poet does, and his relationships with other people, and family, and institutions, and organization. Votes: 0

I love being on 'Modern Family.' One of my favorite things is looking forward to going to work every day. Votes: 0

They've really got to recognize that all of us bring some of our family issues to work and our work home. Votes: 0

I love music, and outside of work my family keeps me very busy, I have five children to keep track of. Votes: 0

I work six months and get three or four with the family. I've stopped racing to get to the red light. Votes: 0

Stress means something different if it is the result of rewarding work rather than struggling to keep the family out of debt. Votes: 0

My brothers went to work at 12 and put themselves through school and brought the family out of ruin into food and clothing. Votes: 0

The family is the greatest treasure of any country. Let us all work to protect and strengthen this, the cornerstone of society. Votes: 0

You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here. Votes: 0

The most successful people I know create superior results yet still maintain a balance among work, family, and recreation in their lives. Votes: 0

When you work with kids, you realize if they have a really good, stable family environment that they're going to be okay. Votes: 0

Our family love is so special, and I truly believe it is due to our work and dedication to communication and patience. Votes: 0

I was raised to believe in hard work, in faith and family. ... The most important job I'll ever have is spelled D-A-D. Votes: 0

At work you worry over the family at home. At home you fret over work left undone. Behold the working woman's stress. Votes: 0

It was a pleasure to work with everybody at 'American Idol' and to be able to be part of the 'Idol' family. Votes: 0

Above all we want people to remember that there are three values we bring to this country. Family, God and hard work. Votes: 0

I was putting so much time and energy into just my work, but I was raised [to believe] that family comes first. Votes: 0

I only have two things in my life, my family and work. If there's any time left over, then I play sports. Votes: 0

Marlon [Brando] showed me that you could do the work and not have to shut yourself off from people or your family. Votes: 0

I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak. Votes: 0

First, we must do our own personal work, then we tend the necessary work of our family, then our community, then the world. Votes: 0

Look forward to the wonderment of growing up, raising a family and driving by the gas station where the popular kids now work. Votes: 0

Decent work is at the heart of the search for dignity for the individual, stability for the family and peace in the community Votes: 0

My fantasy is, if I wasnt on Dexter, I would move my family to London and work for the BBC on Doctor Who. Votes: 0

I'll work thirteen hours at a time producing a new track. Not a lot of people understand that - not girlfriends, friends, family. Votes: 0

All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction. Votes: 0

You might be smarter, your family might come from privilege, your daddy might own a company, but YOU WILL NOT OUT WORK ME! Votes: 0

I have family, I work with a lot of friends, but you'll never find me saying, "Hey, let's get a drink at 8:30[pm]." Votes: 0

We are going to make mistakes, but none of us can become an expert in family history work without first being a novice. Votes: 0

My work is inspired by my passion for human rights issues and the environment, and by my love of family, music and nature. Votes: 0

We set out what's going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we'll reassess that... sometimes every week. Votes: 0

If you're not going to do your job, get out of here. Don't mess up my work. This is how I feed my family. Votes: 0

Most of the musical film work that I have done has been in this realm of what I think of as real family entertainment. Votes: 0

I liked work shoes and big, working-class hands. The stars would come and go, but the crew on my movies was my extended family. Votes: 0

My time is focused on family and work. I need to find a way to spend more time with my friends - and cycling. Votes: 0

Having control over your schedule is the only way that women who want to have a career and a family can make it work. Votes: 0

It's much harder to give up on family.Deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake. Votes: 0

It is easy but inaccurate to label any legislation which makes it easier for working families to combine family and work responsibilities 'job killers.' Votes: 0

Outside the ring I work hard when I train and I spend as much time as I can with my family when I'm not training. Votes: 0

I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is. Votes: 0

I'm thankful for the big stuff of course-my family, health, human kindness. But I'm also thankful that I don't have to work for Hollywood anymore. Votes: 0

I'm just excited about life. Life is really good right now with my family and friends, and being able to work with people I respect. Votes: 0

Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself. Votes: 0

Sometimes your personal life is much more significant. Sometimes your work life is more significant. Friends and family, or sometimes the general population, take precedence. Votes: 0

The best part of aging in this business is losing that obsession about work and being able to spend a little more time with family. Votes: 0

My legacy is in my family, not in my work. For me. I don't know about for other people. I try to forget a lot. Votes: 0

[Children should contribute] to a family's essential survival and happiness. [In] an urban society, children are ... robbed of the opportunity to do genuinely responsible work. Votes: 0

We're not hearing any Hollywood people talk about the Crime Family Foundation. We're not talking about any specific details about Hillary Clinton's work on the foundation. Votes: 0

The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy. Votes: 0

Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on. Votes: 0

If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer. Votes: 0

The Latina spirit translates to every aspect of our lives, from beauty to work to family. We're loving, we're loud, and we're beautiful in our essence. Votes: 0

I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place. Votes: 0

As I mentioned, things were particularly hard during the Depression. My paternal grandfather was frequently out of work, and the family was evicted from their home. Votes: 0

My priority is always the family and Victoria [Beckham] and I always ensure we are there for our children. We work hard but family comes first. Votes: 0

Jerome said, It's like, a family doesn't work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than they would be if they were alone, You know? Votes: 0

When I speak with people who love their jobs and have vital friendships at work, they always talk about how their workgroup is like a family. Votes: 0

Having it all means having the same work and family choices that men do. It doesn't mean having everything that you want. No one has that. Votes: 0

My family know not to get me any tech for Christmas. I can never get it to work, and it all becomes very tearful and pressurised. Votes: 0

Just because you're born in a privileged family and have money doesn't mean you're happy. Happiness you can't buy. Happiness is something you need to work for. Votes: 0

I work with wonderful people who support me. And, my beliefs are that the business needs to serve the family rather than the family serve the business. Votes: 0

I'll work to maintain my work ethic out on the road, playing my shows, giving 110%, keeping God first, my family second, and treating my fans like royalty. Votes: 0

Sometimes when people look at the work I've done with my family, they think it's autobiographical. But it really isn't. It's more about the idea of family. Votes: 0

My work often takes me away from my family for long periods of time, so I've really come to appreciate the time I do spend with them. Votes: 0

Film work can be tedious and sort of all over the place, especially when you have a family and you're going off and doing things somewhere else. Votes: 0

I really try hard not to work, not to engage, because I know what that means. What hard work it is; it takes me away from my family. Votes: 0

Success is creating something original and lasting-whether it is a company, a work of art, an idea or analysis that influence others, or a happy and productive family. Votes: 0

'Job Killer.' Those are the two words you are most likely to hear uttered by most American CEOs when confronted with proposals to enact family-friendly work policies. Votes: 0

Work is fundamental to the dignity of a person. . . . It gives one the ability to maintain oneself, one's family, to contribute to the growth of one's own nation. Votes: 0

The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity. Votes: 0

Every Maryland family wants financial security, schools that work, quality healthcare, safer neighborhoods, and ever-expanding economic opportunity. These are the building blocks of a superior quality of life. Votes: 0

The human spirit is more powerful than any drug and THAT is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. THESE are the things that matter. Votes: 0

I know some people say it's not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it's always worked so well for me. Votes: 0

I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers; they're both artists and actors, and their work and the way they see the world inspires me. Votes: 0

The family is the great catechism God has given the world. The work of our lifetime is to learn how to read it and then study it prayerfully. Votes: 0

Invest in your work life balance. Time with friends and family is as important as times at work. Getting that out of balance is a path toward unhappiness. Votes: 0

Work together as a family, even if it may be faster and easier to do the job ourselves. Talk with our sons and daughters as we work together. Votes: 0

I come from the kind of family where work is work; my parents always taught me that it's better to be doing something than sitting around doing nothing. Votes: 0

No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity. Votes: 0

I tend to listen to my friends and family empathetically, and I try to help work through their problems from the inside. I try to adopt their thinking. Votes: 0

It gets lonely. I miss my family on stage. This might change one day. I'm certainly not going to say I'm not going to work with them again. Votes: 0

Nebraskans are known for giving of themselves and that quality is part of what makes our state such a wonderful place to live, work and raise a family. Votes: 0

It's important my daughters learn from the hard work my wife and I put into this company. Who better to look out for your best interests than family? Votes: 0

In both life and work, stay flexible. Whether in a country, a company, or a family, the same holds true: Dictatorship and rigidity rarely work. Freedom and elasticity do. Votes: 0

The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.' Votes: 0

I dont love the phrase balancing work and family. It sets up this idea of scales of justice with work on one side and family on the other side. Votes: 0

Losing a family member is extremely difficult for anyone to take. But the normal reaction is to want to get back to your work as soon as you can. Votes: 0

Before you went to work this morning in the city, did you spend some time with your family? Did you kiss your wife and tell her that she's pretty? Votes: 0

The greatest solution of all is to live and work in partnership with yourself, your family and friends, your work and community, your nation, your world, nature, and spirit. Votes: 0

Fourth, come home from work and take an active role with your family. Don't put work, friends, or sports ahead of listening to, playing with, and teaching your children. Votes: 0

My other work, teaching, also is satisfying because I can be with people but in controlled circumstances, which aren't as likely to yield the pain of dealing with family. Votes: 0

If we are to create a new agenda for family/work policies, employers and employees have to take a seat at the same table and recognize their mutual gains. Votes: 0

I come from a family of working women, my mum went to work two weeks after I was born - my parents had no money, there was no choice. Votes: 0

I don't like the outside world to intrude when I'm making a film. I like to either see my family or work, but I don't like to go out. Votes: 0

All people have is hope. That's what brings the next day and whatever that day may bring. A hope grounded in the real world of living, friendship, work, family. Votes: 0

It's a big deal to bring your family on the road, you know? I'd love to do it sometime, but you have to work out schools and all that. Votes: 0

Growing up, the most important thing, after taking care of your family and getting a decent job of work, was having a laugh. That was the point to life. Votes: 0

I'd like to find great roles close to home and work on great projects while staying near my family. My family's the most important thing to me right now. Votes: 0

AERIN is saturated with the qualities that have surrounded me my entire life, many of which came from my grandmother, Estee: passion, style, hard work, family, and, of course, all things beautiful. Votes: 0

Family and work. Family and work. I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured destruction as their aim, or I can let them nourish each other. Votes: 0

Work-family conflicts--the trade-offs of your money or your life, your job or your child--would not be forced upon women with suchsanguine disregard if men experienced the same career stalls caused by the-buck-stops-here responsibility for children. Votes: 0