Nikki Haley Quotes

I don't work all the time. That's why I waited to have children until I was ready for that. I try to organise my time according to them because they need me. I don't want to put my work first anymore because it's not as important as my children.

Before my career comes my family.

I was putting so much time and energy into just my work, but I was raised [to believe] that family comes first.

My priority is my son and my husband, and I have a lot of spinning plates, so I try to make sure they're not one of them.

My priorities are my family and my job. I have little time for much else.

I try to balance it out on the whole. Being a mum is always the priority. Next, it's taking care of yourself. Right now, I get to only work two days a week - it's a dream. I can't imagine how hard it is for mothers who work 40 hours a week.

There's an internal battle. I need to work, I need to work, I need to work and I need to be home with my kids and the kids win.

My family is my career.

I was fortunate enough to have my kids early, so being a mom always ended up being a better gig than these other parts that came along. So I always justified not really working a lot because I had a family.

There have definitely been ebbs and flows in my career, but, you know, part of the reason is that I'm a mom. I have a five-year-old daughter. She really factors into my choices, and I never want to go too long without seeing her.

I rarely get a moment to myself, but I love the way that my agenda is dictated by the children, not my work.

Every businessman, or every person who has a passion for his work, is torn for the time spent at work and the time spent with your family.

Any free time I have, the family comes first.

I'm married to my kids and my career.

I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!

What I've tried to do is focus on either my job or being a mom, and just go really hard on that so that I can feel like I'm doing my best job at both roles.

Being a mom was a full-time job. I was never willing to sacrifice everything for my career.

It is about priorities in life and for me, ever since I have been a mom, my family and kid have been my first priority.

I only do two things in my life, and that's take care of my kids and work. Fortunately, these are my favorite things to do, so it works out.

I have always said to myself, 'I never want to say I'm leaving a job because I want to spend more time with my family.' I feel sorry for people when they say that. But my advice to them is that you shouldn't have taken the job in the first place.

After Mason was born, I'd feel guilty doing anything that wasn't related to work.

It makes me happy to work. And it makes me a better mother to be a happy person.

My first job now is as a mother, everything else is secondary. My kids understand that I am an actress, and they are always so surprised to hear my voice on a cartoon character, or see my face on a video box. If it ever gets to be too much though, the career and the kids, I will simply set the career aside.

I think it is important for working moms to recognize that family is the most important.

I want to work, but being a mom is my No. 1 priority.