Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

Might not most men be as well named boys grown old.

I changed up everything around me. I hold myself more accountable in certain situations. I try to be a better man, a better father, a better teammate.

The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child-raising is not the child but the parent.

Men are boys in bigger packages.

Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.

A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.

My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a more responsible man, as opposed to just someone who's a perpetual teenager, thinking you're a man when you're not.

Children change you. They really do.

It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

I was an overly young father, is the most polite way of putting it. I think I was rather immature and all I can say is that I think I've made a much better grandfather... I don't think I was ready to be a father to be honest.

It's easy to say you're more mature because all of a sudden you have a child, but it's a process.

It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child.

One of my best friends, Mike, had a kid. Just seeing him go through it all was inspiring. It would be so nice to care about someone more than yourself. And Mike is a total delinquent, so if he can do it, I figure I can, too.

Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.

Fatherhood is an honor, and men should be strong enough to step up to the plate.

I've changed a lot because I am a father.

Fatherhood has changed me and my perspective towards life.

Fatherhood has changed me, I've become more patient.

Fatherhood has gone and done much more than marriage. It has made me a far more responsible person.

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 have met a lot of guys in their 40s who have the maturity of a 15 - year-old and men in their 20s who have older sensibilities. They just need to live in their own apartment. That's kind of a deal breaker.

We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one.

Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.

Some people are boys longer than others.

If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.