Ivanka Trump Quotes

When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there's less and less time for songwriting.

I think my children know that Mother's priority is to be with them first. But I don't think it has to be an either/or situation. Work is very important to me, and it wouldn't be in the best interest of my children for me to stay home seven days a week.

I am a mother, so I'm used to balancing things.

My biggest challenge every day is to be a great mother and a great businesswoman.

When you're working and you're busy and you're successful, no matter what, something suffers, whether it's your relationship with your mother, your relationship with your whole family. Certain things suffer and take the back burner, not because they're on the back burner in your heart but because the world just moves so quickly. A lot of people, when they're chasing their dreams, they have to leave people they love.

I've taken blame about being a bad father - if being a bad father is working your butt off trying to create a career at one time.

I love performing, but I never really liked show business. My success is my family. I want to be more successful as a mother.

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.

Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.

I dedicated almost 12 years to the music industry before having children.

I'm doing less than I used to because I'm a family man now, and I have two kids.

My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.

A career is a career, but you're a mother until you die.

Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.

Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my professional duties. It is tricky, but I think I manage it.

Nothing comes before my children. I find that putting everything else in order of importance also helps to get everything done.

I want to be playing music, and I want to be a great mom, and I want to do everything.

Eventually, I'll go back to acting, but for right now, my children are the most important thing in the world to me.

As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!

I'm a mom first, a singer second.

Being a mother makes everything more urgent.

My son is 14, and I only have this time with him. True, it's not like before when I couldn't explain to a little boy why I can't read him his bedtime story six nights a week. And he's even said to me, 'Mom, if you want to do a show somewhere, you should go.'

The only thing that I stress out about is, how am I going to make sure that I balance out my time for motherhood?