Quotes About Family

Through [my children] patience, they're showing me how much they support what's going on, because I'm having to do a lot of work right now.

Successful families try to work together toward solutions instead of resorting to criticism and contention.

I like people. Humanity. My family is a part of my work. They contribute throughout the process with critiques, advice, opinions, etc.

[On parenthood:] You can't change your mind--you know, and say, this isn't working out, let's sell.

Work travel for me, which is - I hate to say it - more enjoyable now that I have kids.

Young women who I think do the best job of balancing family life and a big career start businesses or work for themselves. That's the best way of being in charge of your life.

People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.

From its first startling image, Orhans Inheritance will seep under your skin and leave an indelible mark upon your heart. What lucky readers we are to inherit Aline Ohanesians gorgeous work.

Learning to be extremely disciplined has been the key for me. I work really hard during work hours and family really hard during family hours. Family does always come first though, in any situation.

If a woman did not work and have the opportunity to save and invest on her own throughout her lifetime, she is often totally reliant on her family and Social Security for her retirement years.

Later in life, the memories I have of my mother are of constant work balanced with caring for my ailing father.

More and more men are raising children or want to be close to their kids. They don't want to just lead work-obsessed lives and end up 50 years later with an engraved watch.

After I had the kids, I took a break from work, and all my creativity went into my kitchen. I like experimenting.

I just had a baby. I'm not going to work unless it's something really special and meaningful, because I can't imagine missing all that time with my daughter.

To love your family, love your work, live your purpose and be unconditionally grateful for every moment of your life... is to succeed at the highest level (in my opinion).

We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.

I really feel like I haven't had a job. Playing [baseball] and then doing television. I watched my mom clean houses and stuff, so that's work.

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.

My sons are precious to me and I have tried incredibly hard to strike the right balance between work and home life while being acutely aware that I haven't always got it right.

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

There's no retirement, there's just a few years of non-work by the fire with someone bringing you some tea and relative peace and playing with the grandchildren.

The 'leisured' wife was a badge of achievement, the ornament to hard work and virtue for families on the way up.

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

Like every working mother, there's guilt involved in deciding how you're going to balance family and work.