Michael Cudlitz Quotes

Work defines our lives and our place in the world.

This is what I do for a living. It's not who I am as a human being.

My father used to have an expression. He'd say, 'Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It's about your dignity. It's about respect. It's about your place in your community.'

In no small part I think all of us kind of look in the mirror and feel good or not feel good about the person we seen in the mirror in no small part because of the jobs we have.

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

For me, call me what you want, as long as I'm working.

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on.

For myself, I can't understand a life without a job. I don't know what I would do without employment. Retirement is out of the question for me.

For me, you don't ever want to be defined by the color of your skin. You want to be defined by your work ethic, the person that you are, your character, your personality. That's what I've tried to go out and do.

I'm not a businessman. I could pack it in, but I like work. I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson, but I've worked since I was eight, with a paper round and in a fruit and veg shop.

My main hobby is working. I love what I do.

My work means everything to me.

I think what's most interesting about me is the work that I do.

My entire career, I've been a worker.

We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.

That's part of the reason Rex drafted me, because I value this job. It's my life. If somebody wanted to take that away from me, it's personal.

I work because I think that I wouldn't feel good about myself unless I was contributing.

At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.

We're working people, and that's what we like to do, work.

When work is not going well, it's useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that we were people long before we became workers - and will continue to be human once we have put our tools down forever.

Without work, so much of one's identity just evaporates.

These days we seem more bound to our bosses than ever before. We even identify our own selves with the jobs we do: 'What do you do?' is the first question we ask each other at parties, as if a job title could express a fundamental truth about our personality.

A lot of who I am is in the work I do.

Evidence suggests jobs are crucial not only to economic well-being but also to self-esteem.

Working is living to me.