ALL MOMS WORK

Let's face it.  Sometimes we all need a little motivation. Work-life balance is never easy for any of us. Here are some of the quotes I've included in ALL MOMS WORK.  I hope that these quotes will brighten your day and give you a needed boost of motivation to find a job, start a business--or just find a way to balance your work-life priorities.

• The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

--Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady of the United States (1884-1962)

• “Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”

--Marie Curie, Physicist (1867-1934)

• “If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.”

--Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, former first lady of the United States (1929-1994)

• “Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.”

--Katherine Hepburn, Actress, (1907-2003)

•  “You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.”

--Rosalynn Carter, former First Lady of the United States, (born in 1927)

• “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”

--Helen Keller, Author, Activist & Lecturer, First Deaf-Blind Person to Graduate from College (1880-1968)

•  “The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.”

--Barbara Bush, former First Lady of the United States,” (born in 1925)

• “Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.”

--Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of Great Britain, (born in 1925)

• “You must do the things you think you cannot do.”

--Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady of the United States (1884-1962)

• “Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.”

-- Louisa May Alcott, American Author, (1832-1888)

•  “Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.”

--Ella Fitzgerald, American Vocalist, (1917-1996)

•  “It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.”

--Betty Ford, former First Lady of the United States, (born in 1918)

• “I looked on childrearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.”

--Rose Kennedy, mother of former U.S. president John F. Kennedy (1890-1995)