Abby Lee Miller Quotes

If you become a father, you're not doing things for yourself anymore. You're thinking about someone else. And that is not a burden.

A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

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.

Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.

I really enjoy taking care of people, and I was really ready to have a kid, so I didn't have to sacrifice anything that I didn't want to give up.

The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority. The gift of motherhood is the selflessness that it introduces you to, and I think that's really freeing... I think it allows you to put yourself in other people's shoes...the empathy that it slugs you with, being a mother. And I think it makes you a better storyteller.

The greatest thing about having a child is putting yourself second in your own life. It's a massive gift to be able to say you're not the most important person to yourself.

Improv requires one thing I lack that I think most mothers need - the basic instinct to put someone else first.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

When you become a parent, it's not all about you anymore.

I'd make a good friend, not mother. I'm too selfish. I think a lot of mothers are selfish and they end up having children, but I don't want to put some small tiny person through that.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It's the most wonderful thing.

Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Being a mother comes first for me. Before my husband, before this surrogacy crusade, before myself. I don't see myself as particularly strong.

I have always been a great believer that women should support women, and my admiration goes out to mothers everywhere, as they constantly put their own needs behind those of their children, embracing daily uncertainties and entering the new uncharted territories that each day brings, to be, in return, rewarded with joy and unending love.

When you become a pa, you have different priorities now, and you're not living for yourself; you're living for someone else now.

Motherhood is the ultimate call to sacrifice.

To be a mother is a beautiful thing, but to be able to assume the role for a child in need is nothing less than amazing. I believe that any woman who takes on the role of a mother, whether it be naturally or through foster care or adoption, should be held in the highest regard.

There are things that are more important than my personal happiness.

I think really that's just the basic Christian lesson that sometimes takes us years and years to understand - have equal concern for another human being as you have for yourself or perhaps even more concern for another human being than you have for yourself.

You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.

What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of the one loved, both in body and in soul.

Women don't take care of themselves because they take care of everybody else.

When you become a mother, you think less about yourself and care more about the world.