Quotes About Responsibility

To lead or to parent means not being liked sometimes.

It is every parent's nightmare when a child is in trouble with the law. As a parent, you can do your best to guide young people, but as adults, they make their own choices and live with the consequences of those decisions.

What I continue to learn as a parent is to be mindful of the fact that I am responsible for being the parent that my children need me to be and not necessarily the parent I want to be.

At the very beginning, being a parent did impact how I go about this business.

I realized I didn't just want to parent children in my own little home but to mother the whole world. What's the point of gaining influence if you're not going to use it?

I think that in order to parent effectively, we are going to have to admit two things: We can't keep our children safe. We can't accept the fact that we can't keep our children safe.

I'm a parent. I'm a mother.

You can fudge a lot as an actor, but you can't fudge being a parent.

There is nothing so humbling as being a parent to young children!

As a parent, you want to protect your children, but the fact of racism in this country, of inequality, that is still a lesson my children are going to have to learn. I can't protect my kids from that.

You have to be enough of a parent - you have to be there. If I'm feeling bad, I really do just have to get on with it and try and channel it back into my work somehow, do something positive with it.

It's now arguably over-written about and over-discussed how hard it is to be an entrepreneur. Of course it's hard. So is being a parent. Let's stop over-congratulating ourselves and let's just do our work.

As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility.

I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.

Parenthood changes things a lot.

Parenthood is a great equalizer. It doesn't matter how famous you are - once you become a parent, you are just like everyone else.

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.

Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.

I don't think anyone masters parenthood.

No one realizes how hard parenthood is. I am not saying going into the office is easy. It's not. But parenthood, as fun as it is, is not for the fainthearted.

Becoming a mother has made all the difference in terms of learning to take more responsibility for myself and my life. Parenthood changed the way I do everything.

Parenthood is an adventure.

Parenthood helps you be less selfish, because you don't care about anything as much as you do them.

It's hard not to use cliches when talking about parenthood.