Harry Carey Jr. Quotes

I want my kids to know that what I do is work. It's fun, it's a great job, but it's work.

I don't mind talking about my family and how to balance it all. But, in today's world, we should probably be asking both women and men about work and family and how to balance the two.

I have a fashion degree and worked as a buyer for Calvin Klein and Macy's before I had kids. I've always worked. I love to work. But my family comes first.

I've taken blame about being a bad father - if being a bad father is working your butt off trying to create a career at one time.

Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other. Thus, no marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose, respecting and relying upon each other's strengths.

Parents, raise your kids. Young men and women, raise your kids.

Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so.

I want to spend as much time as I can with my family, yet I'm aware of having to bring home the bacon.

I figured out, I guess, that the job just makes me happy if it's not number one. So if it all works, great. If it doesn't, I still go home, look at my kids, and I have a big smile on my face.

I love to work. I have a passion for what I do.

Working is living to me.

I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.

People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to sacrifice as much as men. Women want a man, they want a family, they want to have children, they want to be loved, and to be an artist. And they can't; it's impossible.

Work has been the central column for most of my life; it has always been my identity.

A man's prime interest in life must be his work.

I love what I do a lot, but it's my work.

It helps to have a happy home life to keep up alongside your career.

My dad took a lot of pride in what he did for a living.

Everything in our lives revolves around our jobs, as much as we hate to say it. Where we live at, where our kids go to school, what we eat, what lifestyle we live, depends on the income we bring in and being able to provide for your family, and that's your employment.

At the end of the day, it is about taking care of your family. Going out and doing the job like Stevie Ray would say, to the best of your ability until something better comes along. I say that because it's very simple; we are all in the entertainment business.

As I've grown in the league and in life, having my kids around and seeing their growth and development is special and it's something I wouldn't trade for all the jobs in the world.

When my children look and ask about what I do, they know I'm the boss.

I'm lucky to have a job where I can bring my kids to work. I love the days they come visit me on set. My goal is and has always been to do work that my kids can be proud of - to set a good example for them. As long as I can still spend quality time with my kids, I'll continue to do what I'm doing and hopefully make them proud.

Whether we call it a job or a career, work is more than just something we do. It is a part of who we are.

Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.