Quotes About Career Over Family

#1. Thank God I didn't put my career over family. That would have been the biggest mistake of my life. I'm really happy it went the way it did.

Leslie Mann

#2. I went to an ordinary school in New York City with no other actors. I learned to compartmentalise different parts of my life. I was one person at home and then another person at work and for that reason my career didn't challenge my family life.

Brooke Shields

#3. It's always been family first for me. No matter how well my career goes, nobody here will ask anything of me. I'm just another Dunn to them.

Adam Dunn

#4. ..i'd like to take my professional life, my career, my writing, my family and my friends seriously, but please, please protect me from ever taking myself too seriously.... Seumas

Seumas Gallacher

#5. I come from a middle class family, and my parents weren't too supportive of my career choices.

Kangana Ranaut

#6. I come from a mixed family, where my mother is art house cinema and my father is B-movie genre cinema. They're estranged, and I've been trying to bring them together for all of my career to one degree or another.

Quentin Tarantino

#7. I think if you do not enjoy your time, your life, if you do not live intensely and do not spend time with your family, in one way or another it will be reflected in your career.

Novak Djokovic

#8. When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family. My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel, there was no doubt about it.

Nick Flynn

#9. I'm in shock. Whitney was such an amazing artist. When I started my English career, I wanted to be like her. I loved her so much. My prayers go out to her daughter and to all of her family.

Celine Dion

#10. I met my wife, I had no money, I had nothing, and I started my family without really, my career was nowhere, but I had these other businesses, I had these things I was doing to be able to afford a small home.

Greg Grunberg

#11. My whole family was very supportive of my choice in a career. I started playing music when I was about 6 years old.

Leland Sklar

#12. I got my family here and my career here and I'm sitting here in the middle, and I'm stuck. So I have to do something, you know, have to reach out and get some help.

William Perry

#13. I am blessed to have married the man that God sent me. He's loving, compassionate, strong and supportive of my children, family and career. I look forward to our lives together.

Monica

#14. The trick is to have a career and have a family. It's like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.

Tom Waits

#15. My best career decision was probably not giving up when I wanted to. God as well as my family and friends were there for me during my toughest times.

Jeremy Lin

#16. For me, my No. 1 priority in life was to always have a family. If I had not been able to work anymore, then that would have been it. I would definitely choose family over career. It's really great that my field has allowed me to work and let me do things that a woman does naturally.

Heidi Klum

#17. I could describe my career in two words: who knew. I was on the path to becoming a professional baseball player, but I got injured in college. When I decided to move out to L.A. to try acting, nobody was betting on me, not even my family. But it's always been that way for me; nothing has come easy.

Shemar Moore

#18. A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.

Chris Christie

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

Mary Matalin

#20. I think my family's watched me over the years in my career, in my pursuit of my career, and they've seen the challenges and the struggles that come with being an actor, with being a writer and a director, and the challenges of morphing my career in from just being an actor into a writer/director.

Ricky Schroder

#21. When I get into relationships, I'm an all-or-nothing person. I just completely give in to the person. It becomes my first priority in life; family, friends and career follow.

Sonam Kapoor

#22. For me, politics is not a career. For me, my career was being in business and starting a business and making it successful. My life's passion has been my family, my faith and my country.

Mitt Romney

#23. I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. And she is an awesome mom. When you are Latina, it is all about family, and to see that she prioritizes family and her career at the same time is really nice.

Becky G

#24. My family and I built my whole career from scratch.

Maria Sharapova

#25. I had a great tennis career. I have no regrets. But to find peace with yourself, and to finally be with your family - I'm probably the happiest guy in the world.

Bjorn Borg

#26. Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it.

Cara Delevingne

#27. My attention since 'Clueless' has been on family, relationships, activism, the planet, and my career.

Alicia Silverstone

#28. War affected my family a lot, and I was quite curious about it. I first went off to war in the early 90's as a journalist, partly out of curiosity and partly because I needed a career. War reporting has been very glamorous and exciting, and everything else that young men like.

Sebastian Junger

#29. I love having the laid-back, easy-going, family-priority nature of New Zealand, but I'm certainly enjoying the States in terms of the career opportunities and the enthusiasm I get to find work.

Rose McIver

#30. I do believe that God blessed me in life with a wonderful family, a successful career, and a loving marriage, and remain thankful for that blessing.

Bonnie Tyler

#31. My definition of a green-collar job is this: a family-supporting, career-track job that directly contributes to preserving or enhancing environmental quality.

Van Jones

#32. I don't care how happily married you are or how deeply enmeshed you are with your children and family and career
every woman needs a couple of chicks who'll break out the sangria just because you need to vent.

Jen Lancaster

#33. AP promoted me to the White House beat because I knew Clinton, his family, friends, and staff better than anybody in the national press corps. Those contacts helped me break a few stories and get my career in Washington jump-started.

Ron Fournier

#34. My mother was a stay-at-home mom until I was about 11, when she got a job - and it was like a light came on inside her. It's not wrong to be passionate about your career. When you love what you do, you bring that stimulation back to your family.

Allison Pearson

#35. I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

Nora Roberts

#36. Will had been ruined by fluke circumstances - wrong place, wrong time. And he wasn't only being robbed of his future, but also his past; all of his hard work, the respect of his family, his fiancee, career, and friends ...

Shane Stadler

#37. My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.

Samuel Barnett

#38. Aaron Spelling always had his finger on the pulse of pop culture, he knew what the public wanted to see. He was one of the most loyal men in this business and believed in me at a time in my career when no one else would. My prayers are with his family.

Alyssa Milano

#39. I love the game so much. I've been penalized. I've been fined. I have some regrets in my career. But for those four hours on Sunday, you can be free and just let it all go. Retiring had nothing to do with football; it had to do with my family.

Randy Moss

#40. I have a career, which is important, but my family is the priority. First family, and then career. It's a delicate balance.

Jimmy Cliff