Lauryn Hill Quotes

Beyond a certain point, that was all a mother could do for her children - Hang around long enough to drive them crazy.

In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe.

In life, try your best to do the right thing. Have fun while you're alive. Take advantage of every asset you have. Don't take anything for granted.

It takes a lot of work to be a great mother, a great daughter, and a great friend. All those things take effort, and I think, after having my daughter, she opened up this fearlessness within me, and I'm setting an example for her.

I'll be the best person and mother, everything I can be.

I needed to really grow up myself so I could be the woman that my daughter deserves.

I still want to make Kyra proud of the person I am - father, husband, actor, musician.

I like having fun, but the most important thing is to be as good a person as you can be.

Azura is a complete joy and has changed my life. She keeps me on track. I want to make sure I'm the best person I can possibly be for her.

I have such an amazing relationship with my mom, and I think, 'Wow, I'm going to have that with my daughter.'

Every day is an opportunity for me to learn - that's how I've approached life.

I don't feel bad about telling somebody I see a psychologist. I don't feel that you should feel bad about improving yourself.

There's no real manual on being a parent. There's no real manual on being a wife. I keep reminding myself, My mother did all this, only she never got to leave the house. OK, I can do this. We're all learning on our own learning curve.

I always say about my daughters, they save me from my miserable self. They take me out, you know, a comedian, you could live in your head a lot. And you're writing and you're doubting. But when I'm with my kids and my family, it's all about them.

The process is really what you have to do day in and day out to be successful, we try to define the standard that we want everybody to sort of work toward, adhere to, and do it on a consistent basis. And the things that I talked about before, being responsible for your own self-determination, having a positive attitude, having great work ethic, having discipline to be able to execute on a consistent basis, whatever it is you're trying to do, those are the things that we try to focus on, and we don't try to focus as much on the outcomes as we do on being all that you can be.

My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.

My mother never stagnated in a place where she said, I have it all.

Would rather learn from failures I'm proud of than take pride in success I don't believe in.

all daughters, even when most aggravated by their mothers, have a secret respect for them. They believe perhaps that they can do everything better than their mothers can, and many things they can do better, but they have not yet lived long enough to be sure how successfully they will meet the major emergencies of life, which lie, sometimes quite creditably, behind their mothers.

I am very protective. I just want to make sure that she can have a healthy, safe, normal life...in the back of my mind, she's my priority. And life is completely different now. I feel really, really just lucky that I can still do what I love, and now have a way bigger meaning. And that's to be her mother.

Recipe for success: Be polite, prepare yourself for whatever you are asked to do, keep yourself tidy, be cheerful, don't be envious, be honest with yourself so you will be honest with others, be helpful, interest yourself in your job, don't pity yourself, be quick to praise, be loyal to your friends, avoid prejudices, be independent, interest yourself in politics, and read the newspapers.

No matter how successful you become you gotta keep grindin' and be a good person and then good things will come to you.

Being a king, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother.

My mother is one of those very unusual, superb human beings-she's innately strong and incredibly smart. She created an environment for me to explore who I was.

[My favorite thing about motherhood is] that it's made me grow into a woman finally, and I finally grew up, thank God.