Johnny Marr Quotes

I'm a working mom. I've been working since I was 14 years old.

I would have worked no matter what. I was born and raised that way. It occurred to me to be married second.

My principal motivation is supporting my family, which is not a bad reason for getting up in the morning. That's always been my motivation - to take care of the people who rely on me.

I've never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I've never wanted to speculate and make a load of money. I just wanted this.

I'd started working when I was 21 and had been very determined about my career, very focused, even as a little kid, so it was something I had been working at for a long time.

I always studied because I knew I had to. I needed to survive and take care of my mother.

I work because I want to work. Work keeps me going.

You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligation to learn everything that you can.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught.

Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold the idea that working hard is the most honorable, noblest, greatest and most beautiful virtue.

My philosophy is that you do what you have to do.

I'm not the kind of guy who wants to basically collect money and do nothing.

For a long time, I played for me, for my career.

I saw how hard my parents worked, and I didn't want to be a freeloader.

My motivation wasn't really to get a $95 million contract, you know?

I always hustled to make money and pay for school. I was never afraid of hard work.

My dad has a lot of foresight and decided that I would not do any shows in Mumbai till I became a singer and got to sing my own songs. He knew that if I started earning money from shows, I would not have the time and aggression to rough it out to become a singer.

Mom always got me to school and the driving range while Dad was working. She also kept me quiet and humble. Both of them taught me to let my golf do the talking.

There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.

I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else.

Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?

I don't mean this to sound cliche, but it's really about the work for me. I like to keep working on things.

Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard.