Quotes About Challenges

It's hard and sometimes it's scary. It still amazes my mother. I went home for Christmas one year and there were fans all over the front lawn, hoping to see me.

Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.

I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.

I am not a pregnant working mother wronged.

It's obvious that they're going to want Ali's daughter and Frazier's daughter to fight it out.

No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud.

My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying.

Right now, my daughter's just rolling her eyes at everything I do; I'm just an embarrassment.

Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.

On one thing professionals and amateurs agree: mothers can't win.

There's a whole generation of young people who are faced with the so-called 'jobless recovery.' Necessity is the mother of invention. They are out there, all around the world, creating new companies.

Our message today is one of hope. It is about potential waiting to be fulfilled: the surest way to meet the global challenges we face now and in the future is to make every mother and child count.

In the land of Cheerios, dirty diapers, fleeting naps and interrupted sleep, other mothers are a lifeline.

You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.

You leak sometimes. My pediatrician said, 'Can't you just wear pads under your clothes?' I said, 'You don't know the kind of clothes I wear on photo shoots.'

Marriages are failing, and mothers are raising their children alone. Many women would rather remain alone than marry a man who can't contribute anything to the family's income.

The term 'working mother' is redundant.

I believe that bringing a life into this world is the single most important thing a person can undertake, and it can also be the most challenging. I think as mothers we are all just trying our best.

I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.

I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children.

Every working mother struggles with the BlackBerry, knowing the boss can call.

This weird pressure that mothers are put under, like this idea that if you can't breastfeed, you're not doing something properly, or if you choose not to.

I had a really scary pregnancy and a very difficult delivery. My daughter and I are lucky to be alive.