Quotes About Challenges

Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.

The joy in motherhood comes in moments. There will be hard times and frustrating times, but amid the challenges there are shining moments of joy and satisfaction.

The challenges I have faced - among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother - are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me from uncommon achievements.

I'm not really single. I mean I am, but i have a son. Being a single mother is different from being a single woman.

My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities.

Like any working mother I find it hard to have a social life. But my kids are so well adjusted. There isn't a brat bone in their body so I haven't done anything that bad.

I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

Becoming a mother has been the most amazing experience - in an instant you become strong. You have to be a little bit wiser; it's the most important job in the world.

I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.

Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.

First ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers.

I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.

It is hard to tell your mother to change her life.

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.

What I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in show business, because to be a mother is the most difficult I will ever have to do.

That industry expects you to prove yourself over and over again. Do I stay doing this, or do I raise my daughter and live surrounded by people who love me? Wasn't even really a choice.

Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do.

My sons are a hell of a lot easier to get through to than my daughter is. She seems to have my number. She can just run through the buttons.

Living with a teenage daughter is like living with the Taliban. A mum is not allowed to laugh, sing, dance or wear short skirts.

Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.

The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.

I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want.

My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I understand the difficulties that families have. I understand single parenting.