M. Russell Ballard Quotes

My work life is intense. But I love what I do.

I enjoy my fun time and everything like that but I love what I do.

I’m in for work at 6.30am and one of the last to leave. I don’t want to go home. We have beds at the training ground and I go home sometimes and say to my wife: 'Do you know something, I didn’t want to leave work today!' It’s not a slight on my wife. It’s just a great position to be in when you love your job so much.

You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well.

You have to be very committed and find happiness in the work that you do.

I always remember the words of George Halas, the owner of the Chicago Bears football team. When he was well into his eighties a friend found him in his office on Sunday, and asked him why, at his age, he was working on a Sunday. His response, 'It’s only work if there’s someplace else you’d rather be.'

I believe in my work and in the joy of it. You have to be with the work and the work has to be with you. It absorbs you totally and you absorb it totally.

Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.

I love what I do. When a month goes by and I'm not working, I'm miserable.

My work is a love for me; I'd do it for free, but don't tell my bosses.

My job means I work late.

I love what I do. I work a lot, I work all the time, but I love it.

I have a very simple approach in career: You work with the people you love.

I'm a good dad and a fair husband and I work quite a bit. That takes up a fair amount of time.

I think it's important to love what you do and have a good time with it. I go to work every day and have a blast.

I can't imagine not working, really. I just think work's more fun than fun.

My life is very much consumed with work.

In the end, I need to be fulfilled in my work - that's more important than the money.

You've got to love what you do. You've got to like doing it, because it is a lot of your life.

I don't take a lot of vacations.

I love this... being busy and working every day.

A huge part of my life is my job, and that's the highest compliment you can pay to any job.

Your job, what you do every day, I think it takes a high priority over anything. That was something I dedicated myself to throughout my career.

I'm overwhelmed by and in awe of the work that I do. I adore my work. I live to work.