75+ Unique Motherhood Quotes to Cherish

Looking for a wonderful motherhood quote or just want to think about mothers’ incredible strength and wisdom? Read on for 75 inspiring parenting quotes from actresses, writers, singers, and CEOs, many of whom are moms themselves.

1. Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy. —Tina Fey
2. I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.- Unknow
3. A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s. – Princess Diana
4. Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.– Tina Fey
5. 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.– Sophia Loren
6. In giving birth to our babies, we may find that we give birth to new possibilities within ourselves.—Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn
7. There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.—Jill Churchill
8. Little souls find their way to you whether they’re from your womb or someone else’s. – Sheryl Crow
9. Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.- Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space Suit—Will Travel
10. The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires. – Dorothy Parker
11. My favorite thing about being a mom is just what a better person it makes you on a daily basis.– Drew Barrymore
12. At the end of the day my most important job is still mom-in-chief.– Michelle Obama
13. If you’re a mom, you’re a superhero. Period. – Rosie Pope
14. I’ve never had more appreciation for anyone in my entire life until I became a mom. – Chrissy Teigen
15. Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.- Eric Fromm
16. Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials —Meryl Streep
17. When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.—Charley Benetto
18. Ain’t no hood like motherhood. – Unknown
19. Growing tiny humans is exhausting. – Beingmomandmore
20. Men are what their mothers made them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson 
21. If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? – Milton Berle 
22. One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.—George Herbert
23. She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn’t take them along. —Margaret Culkin Banning
24. If I know what love is, it’s because of you.”– Hermann Hesse

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25. The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. – Jessica Lange
26. Becoming a mother makes you realize you can do almost anything one-handed.– Unknown
27. Life doesn’t come with a manual; it comes with a mother– Unknown
28. I’m a strong woman because a strong woman raised me. – Unknown
29. A mother and daughter’s love is never separated.– Viola Shipman
30. Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are. – Cheryl Lacey Donovan 
31. A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.—Unknown
32. The mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. – Honore de Balzac
33. 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.—Jessica Lange
34. Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heartthrob.—Leroy Brownlow
35. The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.—Elaine Heffner
    

36. In the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child reads the message: ‘You are there!—Adrienne Rich
37. If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.—Stevie Wonder
38. When you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” —Mitch Albom
39. The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly – indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection. – Arianna Huffington
40. When little people are overwhelmed by big emotions, its our job to share our calm, not to join their chaos. – LR Knost
41. [Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge and scary—it’s an act of infinite optimism.—Gilda Radner
42. A mother’s love liberates. —Maya Angelou
43. The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.—Jodi Picoult
44. Call your mother. Tell her you love her. Remember, you’re the only person who knows what her heart sounds like from the inside. —Rachel Wolchin
45. In the end, mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.—Randy Susan Meyers
46. God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.—Rudyard Kipling
47. We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.—Laura Stavoe Harm
48. I like to think of motherhood as a great big adventure. You set off on a journey, you don’t really know how to navigate things, and you don’t exactly know where you’re going or how you’re going to get there.— Unknown
49. A new baby is like the beginning of all things — wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.— Eda J. Le Shan
50. There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.— Virginia Kelley

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51. Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.— Gail Tsukiyama
52. 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.— Jessica Lange
53. The best part of being a mom to me is the unconditional love. I have never felt a love as pure, a love that’s as rewarding. — Monica Denise Brown
54. My biggest goal for the future is motherhood. ― Misty May-Treanor
55. Motherhood is messy. And challenging. And crazy. And sleepless. And giving. And still unbelievably beautiful. – Rachel Martin

56. In giving birth to our babies, we may find that we give birth to new possibilities within ourselves. — Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn
57. Babies are bits of star-dust blown from the hand of God. Lucky the woman who knows the pangs of birth for she has held a star.— Larry Barretto
58. Making a decision to have a child — it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.— Elizabeth Stone
59. A mother’s love is instinctual, unconditional, and forever. – Unknown
60. Motherhood: All love begins and ends here. – Unknown 
61. He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. —J.K. Rowling
62. If Mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy. —Ferrell Sims
63. Don’t wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life. – Joyce Meyer
64. My Favorite thing about being a mom is just what a better person it makes you on a daily basis. – Drew Barrymore
65. Little souls find their way to you whether they’re from your womb or someone else’s. – Sheryl Crow

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66. “You’re going to get advice from a lot of people, and you can take bits and pieces, but you know innately what your child needs. You should trust that.” – Lucy Liu
67. “Becoming a mother has made me next-level confident. I’ve never felt more empowered.” – Kelly Clarkson
68. A woman must combine the role of mother, wife, and politician. – Emma Bonino.
69. My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. – Pablo Picasso
70. Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. – Aristotle
71. Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me. – Alice Walker
72. My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque. – Denzel Washington
73. .”I think every working mom probably feels the same thing: You go through big chunks of time where you’re just thinking, ‘This is impossible — oh, this is impossible.’ And then you just keep going and keep going and you sort of do the impossible.” – Tina Fey
    

74. If you are a mom, you are a superhero. Period.  – Rosie Pope Jodi Shea, Laramie
75. Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. – Lin Yutang
76. My more serious quote… “That awkward moment when you’re not sure if you actually have free time or if you’re just forgetting everything” – Unknown
77. Live in the moment and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering. –Fanny Crosby
78. My childhood may be over, but that doesn’t mean playtime is. –Ron Olson
79. All mothers are working mothers. –Author Unknown
80. To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow. — Maya Angelou