Kate Chopin Quotes

I would give up the unessential; I would give up my money, I would give up my life for my children; but I wouldnt give myself. I can't make it more clear; it's only something I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me.

I could not identify with harming my child or giving up my child. But I could identify with giving up my child if it were going to be ultimately in his best interest.

I'm very smart with my paper! I stopped buying things for myself a long time ago - now I just buy things for my kids or my wife.

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

I had time with my mother, but I really lived with my father. One time he gave all his salary so I could travel to a training camp. He couldn't pay the rent, but he did that.

My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me.

The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.

I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.

I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Every woman goes through a lot of agony before she decides in favour of her own happiness or that of her children.

To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself.

Two halves don't make a whole. Two wholes make a whole. In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn't doing better by doing that. I became less of a man.

Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.

There’s an old Arab saying … Let one hundred mothers cry, but not my mother – but better my mother than me.

I'm not doing anything Jack Nicholson turned down. Any part that required a character distanced from myself would have been a reach. But the one thing I've always done well at, and I'm most devoted to, is my children.

You do things for your kids you won't do for yourself.

I devote my whole life to my family, and that's the least I could do, because there's only one me and 14 of them. I have to give all my energy and all of me to my kids.

I know I admitted to being in love with Nasir Hussain in 'The Hit Girl', but as much as I loved him, I could never consider breaking up his family and traumatising his children. It was far simpler and satisfying to be on my own.

Putting another human being above yourself isn't healthy. I think it's capitalistic.

My parents have sacrificed so much, more than any parents really should.

Sometimes the most difficult decision is to not martyr yourself for someone, but instead to choose to live for them. Because of them.

Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.

Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.