Quotes About Parenting And Sacrifice

#1. A parent holds within their hands the gift of a child to which they must expend the gift of themselves. And in such a monumental outpouring, the parent will lose both the child and the gifts given, but they will possess the far greater gift of knowing that they gave both. - Author: Craig D. Lounsbrough

#2. It was trying to make my tennis game look mildly respectable, which I found you don't even really need to practice if you have a really good editor. They can edit it and you're like, "Hey, it looks like I'm playing really well." That was the fun part, but it was like going to summer camp. - Author: Paul Reiser

#3. Leadership is giving out far more than one expects in direct return. The rewards are intangible, yet priceless. - Author: T Jay Taylor

#4. When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys. - Author: Catherine Bell

#5. Through it all I have learned that parenting is basically a life of self sacrifice. - Author: Stephen Covey

#6. Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen. - Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up. - Author: Jillian Michaels

#8. Ask a child's guardians what it takes to be good at their jobs, and most will answer with a single word ...
SACRIFICE.
Parents give up so much: time, sleep, freedom, money, intimacy ...
pretty much everything but complaining how much they sacrifice. - Author: Brian K. Vaughan

#9. Rabbit underground, rabbit safe and sound. - Author: Richard Adams

#10. I had come to realize that you must do what you must for your children, even it if called for the sacrifice of your very soul. - Author: Lynn Cullen

#11. You'll sacrifice for your child in ways you had never imagined. And they're not exciting and earth shattering ways, either. They're small, seemingly insignificant gestures that mean the world to them. - Author: Heather McVea

#12. In its original Latin form, sacrifice means to make sacred or to make holy. I wholeheartedly believe that when we are fully engaged in parenting, regardless of how imperfect, vulnerable, and messy it is, we are creating something sacred. - Author: Brene Brown

#13. In a city the multiplicity of threads forced a whirling confusion on the loom but here the simple pattern and the slow weaving made purpose more discernible. - Author: Elizabeth Goudge

#14. Computers brought philosophy into everyday life. - Author: Sherry Turkle

#15. If a father does not altogether embrace a life of uncompromised sacrifice as the core of all principles by which he nurtures his children, he is a father by birth only and no power on earth can ever or will ever make that sufficient. - Author: Craig D. Lounsbrough

#16. In some of the most heavily populated slave states - South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia - between thirty-five and fifty percent of the white families held slaves in 1860. - Author: James Oakes

#17. Every so often, I am thanked for being 'unapologetically me.' I treasure those moments, those people, and remember them every time I'm feeling timid. - Author: Alethea Kontis

#18. There is no question that engagement requires sacrifice, but that's what we signed up for when we decided to become parents. - Author: Brene Brown

#19. To lead solely on the behalf of those being led is the utter pinnacle of fatherhood, and it is sad that so few ever stand on the summit. - Author: Craig D. Lounsbrough

#20. These rituals Rango could not sustain, for he could not maintain the effort to arrive on time since his lifelong habit had created the opposite habit: to elude, to avoid, to disappoint every expectation of others, every commitment, every promise, every crystallization. - Author: Anais Nin

#21. You give up a lot when you enter the years of parenting. It's a sacrifice. - Author: Alexis Denisof

#22. Sacrifice was nine tenths of parenting. - Author: Zadie Smith

#23. Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting. - Author: Chris Cleave

#24. 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. - Author: Robert Breault

#25. Sadie," he said forlornly, "when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest jobs as a father, one of my greatest duties, was to realize that my own dreams, my own goals and wishes, are secondary to my children's. - Author: Rick Riordan