Quotes About Responsibility

~Before, my career came first. All I had to think about was myself. Now my children prevail. It doesn't mean my career is less important; I just have to position things differently.~

Parents have the glorious opportunity of being the most powerful influence, above and beyond any other, on the new lives that bless their homes.

The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say: 'Willie is no good; I'll sell him.

Parents are teachers, guides, leaders, protectors and providers for their children.

(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.

One of the ways in which parenting is a learning experience and an opportunity for moral growth is that we learn as parents that we don't choose the kind of child that we have.

parenting isn't a noun but a verb--an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job, the learning curve is, well, fairly flat.

Parenting is the easiest job to get - you just have to screw up once and it's yours.

From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.

You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don't have the right to abandon him just because he's inconvenient or has trouble in school.

The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.

Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good at something.

Parenting is the most important profession in the world.

A good parent gives their child roots and wings.

Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.

You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others... It's a good metaphor for parenting

They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another.

I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.

I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.

I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.

Mothers are only human, you turn it over to God and then you just wing it.

A father is a man who fails every day.

This is probably one of the most difficult challenges any parent could face - learning to love the other parent enough to make the children first.

(Cartoon caption:) I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.