Quotes About Family More Important Than Work

#1. I never really had male influences in my life. Steady, male influences. And that's what I wanna be for my family. As a musician, I definitely will attain everything that I set out to. I work very hard. But more important to me is that my family is taken care of.

Trey Songz

#2. It's impossible to be someone you're not, so quit trying. I am as passionate about my hobbies as I am about my work and my family. All three are equally important to me at all times.

Gautam Singhania

#3. 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.

Stephen Gillett

#4. The single most important thing in my life is God. The second most important thing in my life is my family and the third thing is the great profession that I chose. I chose to do something that I love. I never had to work a day in my life.

Sam Rutigliano

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

Ed Harris

#6. Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.

J. C. Watts

#7. My work isn't any more important than anything else in the family.

J.J. Abrams

#8. It is important that Congress works to promote home ownership in Indian Country. These federal housing funds and programs will help young Native American families to stay on tribal lands in order to live, work and raise a family.

Rick Renzi

#9. A major part of being prepared is having a plan. Local calls don't always work in the immediate vicinity of a disaster, so it's important to have an out-of-town contact with whom the entire family can check in.

Mike Crapo

#10. I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded.

Kristen Bell

#11. To raise a child is to submit to a staggering amount of work, much of which is deeply unpleasant. It would be crazy to have children if they weren't so damned important.

Jonathan V. Last

#12. The people in your life should always be more important than the work you do.

C.S. Woolley

#13. As long as working women also have to do the work of child and family care at home, they will have two jobs instead of one. Perhaps more important, children will grow up thinking that only women can be loving and nurturing, and men cannot.

Gloria Steinem

#14. 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.

Ricky Gervais

#15. I think the work ethic that was established in my family was something very important. If you plant the seed, if you sow sparingly and reap sparingly. If you sow in abundance you'll reap in abundance.

Lauryn Hill

#16. 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.

Harry Hamlin

#17. Work used to be the No. 1 important thing to me. Everything revolved around it, and to have a new perspective and have something else, my family, not just being a mom but being a part of an incredible family of my own, it makes me have a different perspective on life that I think is richer.

Lindsay Price

#18. 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?

Do Won Chang

#19. I've learned it's really important to work hard and keep your family and friends close. You've got to let them know how much you appreciate them for sticking by you.

Carrie Underwood

#20. I think it's the essence of any film and any stage production
any work where you do work with other people
of course collaboration is hugely important. One does for awhile become family.

Julie Andrews

#21. This is a great country and requires a good deal of all of us, so I can imagine nothing more important than for all of you to continue to work in public affairs and be interested in them, not only to bring up a family, but also give part of your time to your community, your state, and your country.

John F. Kennedy

#22. - You said that going on the Road to Santiago is important. For it, one must give up everything for some time: family, work, projects. And I don't know whether I'll find everything the same when

Paulo Coelho

#23. I use myself as a template for my comedy. So first my background as a Muslim man, my being a doctor, I talk about my family quite a lot, my kids. Anything that resonates with me I talk about. The important thing is it should be able to work in a family setting.

Riaad Moosa

#24. My family life is incredibly important to me. I want to be with them as much as I can. I try to work in New York, or I work in the summer time when my family can come with me.

Julianne Moore

#25. My work and my family are very important to me.

Stephen Hawking

#26. You have to have something in your life that's more important than the work. People don't really like to admit that. I think that you have to find something else. I don't know what it is. Is it yoga or God or politics? For me it's just family.

Kevin Bacon

#27. Work is the least important thing and family is the most important.

Jerry Seinfeld

#28. The important thing is that you find some time every day to "break bread" with those you love most and consistently work at building a richer, more meaningful family life.

Robin S. Sharma

#29. The charity work is just a part of what I do. Like ... I make time to clean my house, to care for my pets, to visit my extended family, because those things are important to me. Same with helping others.

Lori Foster

#30. Family is important. Kids are important. Satisfaction at work and having a partner you can talk to is important. Having someone who understands you and loves you anyway is important.

Nikki Sex

#31. Well, one of the most important things for Americans to be reminded of is that a lot of the exceptional nature of our country is founded in Judeo-Christian values that promotes individualism, personal responsibility, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to family, charity.

Jim DeMint

#32. A lover was affectionate and a husband was authoritative. His work was always way more important than his family. His work and his needs were to be accepted as uppermost in every way. She could take leave from her work for one day to take her child to the carnival but he could not.

Anuradha Bhattacharyya

#33. When I turned 30, I realised the value of time and with it, the other important things in life. That's when I did up my house, started spending time with my family and friends and did all that a normal girl would do. All these things I was balancing with my work.

Rani Mukerji

#34. If you look at the literature of the 19th century, you get things like Kafka and Dostoevsky, who basically write about feeling bored and alienated. That's because we lost contact with the important things in life like work that you enjoy, or the garden, nature, your family and friends.

Tom Hodgkinson

#35. You have to decide what's important to you and work it out. When I'm with my family, I try to concentrate on my family and when I'm at work, I try to concentrate on my work.

JJ Ramberg

#36. The most important Christian Education institution is not the pulpit or the school, important as those institutions are; but it is the Christian family. And that institution has to a very large extent ceased to do its work.

John Gresham Machen

#37. Your greatest asset is your paycheck. Disability insurance protects you and your family if you are unable to work by providing income which will help pay your bills and take care of your family. It's just as important as life insurance.

Dave Ramsey

#38. For me, the family is more important, of course! I don't want to change my family, or situation, for work. But I think it is possible for these things not to fight each other.

Paz Vega

#39. There is no social program in this country that is as important as a good job that pays well, that gives someone an opportunity to go to work, have some security, have benefits, and take care of their family and have a good life.

Byron Dorgan