Mila Kunis Quotes

I think over the years, being a mother, I've matured in so many ways.

For me, my lack of patience in real life - I have always had very little patience. It's been very much my downfall in life. But having a child puts it in perspective. Very quickly you're like, "Oh, I need to learn what patience is."

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life.

As a person, I have never been discourteous or nasty to anybody. I may have stood my ground a bit too directly, a bit too firmly, and I believe I have, over a number of years, learned to be a little less direct.

What I've learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is.

But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.

Watching children grow up, you learn a lot about life and about being a better person - you learn a lot about what's really important in the world and what isn't.

I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.

I love being a dad, and I'm good at it. Kids teach you about life, like how not to focus on yourself so much.

I don't know if 'M*A*S*H' made me a better actor, but I know it made me a better human being.

I have become a person who can focus more on love.

My daughter has changed me. She has made me grow up quicker because I don't just have a kid, I have a baby girl. She has made me more patient. I am actually soft when I get around her. I don't think she changed me as a fighter, but she has changed me as a person. She has helped me mature.

I've become more empathetic, and my capacity to understand and be patient - to give people a break - has enlarged over the years.

But they've [my children] made me better. They hold me more accountable for who I am and who I aspire to be, and they make me want to be better. And that's not just as a mommy, but as a woman and as an athlete.

I think that being a mom has made me a better person. I'm much more patient and much more chill than I was before.

I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.

One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.

My favorite thing about being a mom is just what a better person it makes you on a daily basis.

If I was single and did not have kids, I wonder whether if I would try as hard to be patient, to mind how I react to situations. Not saying people who do not have children don't, but in my life and how I fight against doing the things that have positive impact in my life...I think I would find it easier not to practice the principles did I not have children.

Motherhood has been the best thing that has ever happened to me. It has taught me a lot about myself, about the things I'm great at, and the things I need to work on.

If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable lesson in patience and understanding... and snatch an opportunity to shape character.

As a father of seven kids, and been a kid myself at one point, I realize you don't always make the best decisions every time out. And life is a learning experience.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me.