Paul Tsongas Quotes

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

Life is too short to work so hard.

I've got a great life. It's a shame the work gets in the way of the golf, really.

My parents have always said, 'You'll be so unhappy if you're no more than your career, that it's important to get out there and do things other than just your career.'

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.

There is no evidence that success in business will make us happy people or allow us to have happy families.

I work to live, not live to work, so my head's at home, not in some showbiz life.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

I just don't think any job is worth sacrificing your private life for.

I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools, we've both been able to buy a house for our parents, respectively, in the places they live.

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.

I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living.

I really feel sorry for people who are, who divide their whole life up into 'things that I like' and 'things that I must do.' You're only here for a short time, mate. Learn to like it.

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

I've been sacrificing my life for my work for 30 years, and now I want it the other way around. I want to find work that fits into my life and that would be based here.

I don't know anyone that says, 'Boy, I had a great career, and I'm happy because I screwed up my life outside of my career, my family life.' There's no one that feels that way.

I wouldn't be able to have the successes in my career if it weren't for the happiness in my personal life.

Europeans still believe that working is for living. Americans often have that the other way around.

You have one life, and it can't be just about work because you lose out on so many amazing years of your life if you just work, work, and work.

I never put a premium on making a living. It was never one of those things that was important to me.

I feel like if you have balance in life, you have to be consumed by your job because, ultimately, it will never be a job; it will never be something that you feel you're working on.

Do not get so concerned with making a living that you forget to make a life.

I'd rather work to live than live to work.

My career is my whole life, so if I'm not happy with that, it affects everything else.