Charles Murray Quotes

I never told my kids, 'You've got to work hard.' I just worked hard, and they followed my example.

I belong to a family where I think we're all fairly treated, boys or girls. Although I have to work doubly hard just to be able to be recognised. That meant long hours, but the hard work paid off.

My mum and dad ran a family cafe in Sligo for 35 years and worked long hours. We grew up in a very hard-working family and had a lovely atmosphere, as we lived above the restaurant. It definitely made me want to work hard, whatever I chose to do. As the baby of seven kids, I was definitely a bit spoilt.

My family were really hard-working, blue-collar people, and I didn't know the idea or concept of working and having fun. I thought you just worked and made money to support your family.

I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.

I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.

When I say that Latinos share conservative values, when Ronald Reagan said that, we mean the love of family, the love of country, a commitment to personal responsibility, to hard work.

Victorian values…were the values when our country became great.

Different as they may be from my parents' generation, today's new Americans still bring with them the same old fashioned family values: discipline, a sense of responsibility, an eagerness to work—to achieve ...

I think that for social conservatism to make sense as a political world view, it has to have a more capacious understanding of what kind of society it wants than just saying, 'Leave us alone and let us pass laws against abortion.'

My parents worked really hard.

Many might feel that I am very traditional in my approach, but I feel that the most important thing is to have the blessings of your parents. That's very important. Plus, be ready for consistent hard work, despite the inevitable ups and downs in this field.

I won't do a role which children in my family cannot look up to.

I want my kids to understand that hard work is essential and that I wouldn't have them do anything that I wouldn't do with them.

The 4th Congressional is a rural district where people are proud to put in an honest day's work. We believe in God and family, and that success is created by working hard every day. We don't want the government interfering in our lives or telling us what to do.

I pride myself on being a family man. I pride myself on being respectful and hardworking. That's just me.

If it's one thing my parents did right, it was teaching me to have a good work ethic, and I plan on doing the same with my kids!

I come from south Louisiana where everyone has a blue-collar work ethic.

My father belongs to a different generation altogether. He has spent most of his time working hard to make our lives comfortable, and ours is more of a conventional father-son relationship rather than one of friends.

I was raised in Italy for the early part of my life, in a relatively small village near Siena, and everyone worked there, from the day that they would walk to the day that they died, so I didn't really see that I was particularly different.

There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement.

My father's definitely old-school. And he raised me with integrity - to be places on time, show up, and work hard.

Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-classparents have not acquired this skill. We are using our children as symbols of leisure-class standing without building in safeguards against an overweening sense of entitlement--a sense of entitlement that may incline some young people more toward the good life than toward the hard work that, for most of us, makes the good life possible.

Properly speaking, all true work is religion.