Hardest Job Quotes

• The hardest job of all is trying to look busy when you're not.

  William Feather

  Jobs, Work, Trying

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• I always say to people that working full time and being a mom is probably the hardest job, because as a mom you think about your child 24/7.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Mom, Jobs, Children

  "Giada talks Mother's Day traditions". Interview with Vidya Rao, www.today.com. May 3, 2010.

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• Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Jobs, Generations, Pay

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• Staying at home with your kids is probably one of the hardest jobs, emotionally, physically and mentally.

  Cobie Smulders

  Jobs, Home, Kids

  "Expect the ‘Unexpected’ with Cobie Smulders". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. July 23, 2015.

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• Guarding LeBron James has to be the hardest job in basketball.

  Steve Kerr

  Basketball, Jobs, Nba Championships

  "Game Quotes: Cavaliers vs. Golden State Warriors - June 16". Interview, www.nba.com. June 17, 2015.

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• Being a mother is probably the hardest job in the world. I feel like, in a lot of ways, children come into the world to teach us.

  Mariah Carey

  Mother, Jobs, Children

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• It's the job that I take most seriously in my life and I think it's the hardest job.

  Debra Messing

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

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• Being a caretaker is, and never will be, an easy job; in fact, it is that hardest job in the world and many times a thankless job. You have to be the pillar of strength even when you feel like you are crumbling to pieces inside.

  Jenna Morasca

  Jobs, Crumbling, Pieces

  "Jenna Morasca and Ethan Zohn Share Their Story of Love, Survivor and Battling Cancer". Interview with Rosemary Brennan, www.glamour.com. May 10, 2011.

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• Anybody who was in the military or a military family has a certain sensitivity to the separation. Everyone knows military wives have the hardest jobs. I was born into one. When I think back to those days, I didn't appreciate it then.

  Lester Holt

  Jobs, Military, Thinking

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• I think that teachers have the hardest job in the world, and they are the most unsung heroes so much of the time.

  Emma Walton Hamilton

  Teacher, Jobs, Hero

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Being a parent is the hardest job ever in life.

  Nicole Ari Parker

  Jobs, Parent, Being A Parent

  "Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker – Love Never Looked This Good". Interview with DeWayne Rogers, rollingout.com. August 29, 2012.

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• I don't like being in the service industry and having to deal with people yelling at me all the time. McDonald's was the hardest job I ever had - so I have a lot of respect for people who work in the fast food industry. Because it's a hard job.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Jobs, Yelling, Mcdonalds

  "Kathleen Hanna on buffalo chicken, Destiny's Child, and the sketchy things she did to McDonald's apple pies". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. February 10, 2015.

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• If I believe in something, I will fight for it with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing. Professional liberals want the fiery debate. They glory in defeat. The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to take an extreme position.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Jobs, Believe, Fighting

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• Playing Elizabeth Taylor was probably the hardest job I've ever done.

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Jobs, Done, Hardest

  "Fenn & Now" by Dennis Hensley. Movieline (USA), p. 54-59, June 1999.

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• Well it's hard to be yourself, it's the hardest job there is.

  Bill Murray

  Being Yourself, Jobs, Wells

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• The crazy thing is that practical solutions exist. We don't need to perpetuate these problems. I think our hardest job is to convey a sense of optimism, show how things can get better, and get people to invest in solutions.

  Mark Powell

  Jobs, Crazy, Thinking

  Source: www.treehugger.com

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• When I was a kid about joining the Peace Corps. It said it was "the hardest job you'll ever love." This is what parenting is, as far as I'm concerned. This is parenting. That is the friggin' Peace Corps. Because you don't love doing this - this is the thing you love the most in your life, it's the best thing you ever do.

  Pat Benatar

  Jobs, Kids, Joining

  Interview with Jancee Dunn, believermag.com. May 1, 2003.

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• That statement [ Stephen Ambrose:'You, Sam, have the hardest job, which is, pretend like nothing has happened in the last 200 years.'] woke me up to the fact that the landscape that Lewis and Clark came across was greater than the Serengeti. And it's gone.

  Sam Abell

  Jobs, Years, Gone

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• I did a story for the Geographic on Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, and Stephen Ambrose was the writer. He said, "I've got the easiest job in the world. I just have to re-tell the story of the greatest fishing, camping, hunting, canoeing trip of all time. You, Sam, have the hardest job, which is, pretend like nothing has happened in the last 200 years.

  Sam Abell

  Jobs, Hunting, Years

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• Being an actor is definitely not the hardest job in the world - it's definitely a first-world problem to have, but I'm not very good with rejection. I constantly question whether or not I'm suited for this business, because it is your job to get rejected.

  Aya Cash

  Jobs, Rejection, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every political contest is hard, that's part of the DNA in America. We make it really tough to run for and hold the highest and hardest job in our country.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Running, Jobs

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• By TV standards - I'm not comparing it to manual labor by any means - by TV comedy standards, it is the hardest job I will ever, ever have. There is nothing that could be harder. I mean, when you combine the amount of writing that has to be done - sharp writing - with the fact that you then take it to the street and improvise with both celebrities who have no idea what's going to happen and real people who are not actors or comedians who don't even know I'm about to talk to them... It's lightning in a bottle every time.

  Billy Eichner

  Jobs, Real, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't think in the religious way that most people associate that word with, but Hern is a committed guy. He's doing the hardest job with the late-term thing. I don't think that's easy on a person, especially under the kind of terrorism that doctors of his kind have seen over the past twenty years. He's a tough guy.

  John H Richardson

  Religious, Jobs, Past

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• I think new life is the most exciting thing and I absolutely have so much respect for my friends and family that have gone and done it because it seems like the hardest job in the world. So, who knows - maybe one day I might try it myself. But I completely salute anyone who does.

  Christine Bottomley

  Jobs, Thinking, Family And Friends

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My hardest job has been to keep from being a millionaire.

  Amadeo Giannini

  Jobs, Millionaire, Has Beens

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