Katherine Jenkins Quotes

My mother was pretty strict. I hated it, but maybe it made me a bit more sensible.

My family keeps me pretty grounded. Like if I try anything diva, they're like, 'Oh shut up. Go and do the dishwasher.'

I haven't changed a bit. I go out with my mates, but I probably have to watch what I do a little more.

Of course, everybody makes mistakes, and we've all been young and stupid. But people need to have a sense of respect, particularly in this business, because hundreds of people are ready to take your place at any time. Maybe some people should think about that.

When you have people catering to you non-stop, you lose it. You need someone to kick you in the butt every now and then!

One of the main rules with my mom was if I broke a club, she was going to take it and I wouldn't get it back. So I made sure I kept all my clubs.

The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.

He will punish you as a father punishes his disobedient child, unless you do as he desires.

My parents' usual reprimand was to remind me that I was not the Prince of Wales.

I told my family, 'If I get out of line, just kick my butt.' The last thing that I want is to change.

When I was 16, my mother moved me out of Brooklyn and sent me to Florida to stay with my family for a little bit because I was being bad, not going to school and stuff.

I have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.

Maturity is humility. It is being big enough to say, "I was wrong." And, when he/she is right, the mature person need not experience the satisfaction of saying, "I told you so."

I've gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you're not getting away with it, it's taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others.

There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school.

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

Have I said dumb things? Absolutely, who hasn't? But I have never backed away from being called out on something I did or said wrong.

I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may turn it into a wrong against yourself and also against your neighbor.

They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.