Michelle Obama Quotes

I need to start caring about myself if I'm going to be a proper father.

I want to be as healthy as I can because I'm a mom now.

A few years ago, I would let it get to me. But now, as long as my mum and my sister and my kids don't have any stress, I'm good.

You can have a career and kids who love you. But you have to nurture yourself and find a way to be fulfilled so you're not resentful.

I find that things don't bother me as much. If I had a bad day on set, it sort of just rolls of my back in a way that it didn't before. So that's where the biggest difference is, stuff that used to get under my skin or that I would worry about or be anxious about just isn't a problem. So in some ways, having a child has been very liberating. I found it very liberating.

You don't have to be at rock bottom to take care of yourself.

Looking after children is one of the ways of looking after yourself.

I've given myself a bit more of a break in that I can't say yes to everything. I have to prioritize, and obviously it starts with your children. But I used to be much later on the list. I've started putting myself within a safe distance from that first priority. You just have to remind yourself to not forget about your relationship and to not forget about yourself. And it's interesting, because I have a very fraught relationship with working out.

When there is no job related stress, you are more aware of your mate and children, if you are a parent.

My greatest sense of accomplishment has come from having two amazing sons, but it's also a paradox in that the times when I felt like the biggest failure have been times when I felt like, as a parent, I wasn't making the right decisions or succeeding in the way that I should.

A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits than the woman whose total concern is centered in her own personal problems.

I've had a lot of cognitive behavioural therapy, and am having a family now.

You have to prioritize what you stress about when you have a child.

Somewhere deep inside me was the will and determination not only to live, but to be a more present mother for my kids, instead of one who was emotionally unavailable because she was in so much pain, as my own mother was.

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

I want to be healthy, to be there for my husband and my kids.

I think people that have fear that, 'Oh if I have a kid I won't be able to do this and I won't be able to do that.' It's kind of the opposite. It really gives you energy. It makes people better.

There definitely was a time when I was pretty obsessed with my weight, but I'm better off not stressing about my body all the time.

There are terrible jerks, and there are an unusually large concentration of them in the workplace. And that means that you do have to make some changes in your behavior, but there is absolutely no need for you to give them power over your happiness.

I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much.

One of the things you realize when you have a health crisis in your immediate family is that life does not stop so that you can go through that experience.

I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

I like looking after my family.

Being a mother makes everything more urgent.