Rory O'Malley Quotes

Your life is more important than your work.

I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important.

A lot of time, mothers put their kids first, their selves aside, and then there's some moms who are like, 'Look, I'm going to try and balance it all out and still have my personal life.'

You have to have something in your life that's more important than the work. People don't really like to admit that. They say, 'Oh, my work is my most important thing.'

My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.

I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day.

Working hard is a great way to impact the world, to learn, to grow, to feel accomplished, and sometimes even to find happiness, but it becomes a problem when you do so at the expense of the people closest to you.

Give to yourself as much as you give of yourself! This means you have to put yourself first.

We're not only hockey players. A lot of guys have families and girlfriends. You can't just think about hockey 24-7.

I was never really a career woman. My life always came first.

I put my family first, and that's why for a long time, you didn't see me dating or hear about me dating or hear about me out. I had other focuses in my life, and that would be my family and my work.

You have to learn to balance work, family, a personal life; it is a part of life.

Life is more important than work.

Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.

I don't live for my work. My life is my life. That's more important, and I think that helps my work.

You can't take care of charity unless you take care of yourself first.

I realized that if you try to be the perfect mom, perfect wife, perfect actress, you start to feel overwhelmed. You shut down. I got that really fast... I was running back and forth from breast-feeding to filming a scene, overextending myself on every level. I realized I have to make priorities, and my family is number one no matter what.

For so many career women who are also mothers, our own well-being comes last. But when you take the time to make your health a priority, other parts of your life will fall into line.

My ambitions are less important than my well-being. My children come first.

Don't feel badly when you take off work to go for a run, to go for a walk; don't feel badly to take time to play with your children, to be part of their lives. Work is important, but you can't work at your best unless you're a whole person.

We, as women, particularly if we have families, you know, we're taking care of children, we're taking care of, you know, our home, our husbands, we take care of everybody but ourselves. And it's really unfortunate.

It got to a stage where I realised I didn't care about eating, sleeping, breathing tennis because my first priority in my life was always my family.

There are many things that I value, and many of them have nothing to do with my salary.

My well-being and my happiness is much more important to me than how much I can achieve.

Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.