90 Motherhood Quotes to Celebrate the Most Special Woman in the Universe

These motherhood quotes from famous poets, celebrities, and iconic historical figures are testimonies to the enduring influence of mothers on their children.

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When we opened our eyes to see the world for the first time, we had already forged a lifelong connection with our moms – a binding relationship that could only improve.

What are the benefits of reading these motherhood quotes?

If you still remember how your mom took care of you when you were little or recall how you once thought there was no one strong enough to lean on but her, these motherhood quotes are for you.

They will help you:

• find the words to tell your mom how you feel
• remember that you are not alone in facing the struggles of motherhood
• offer loving and supporting words to other mothers you might know

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Motherhood quotes celebrating a special woman

1. “All I am I owe to my mother.” – George Washington

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2. “He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark.” – J. K. Rowling

3. “I see myself as mom first. I’m so lucky to have that role in life. The world can like me, hate me or fall apart around me and at least, I wake up with my kids and I’m happy.” – Angelina Jolie

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4. The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.” – Karl Lagerfeld

5. “A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.” – Tenneva Jordan

6. “A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” – Dorothy Canfield Fisher

7. “A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.” – Emily Dickinson

8. “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” – Victor Hugo

9. “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” – Agatha Christie

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10. “Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.” – Lady Gaga

Motherhood quotes to remind you of what mothers mean to us

11. “All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” – Abraham Lincoln

12. “At the end of the day, my most important job is still mom-in-chief.” – Michelle Obama

13. “Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.” – Tina Fey

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14. “Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had.” – Linda Wooten

15. “God could not be everywhere. And therefore, he made mothers.” – Rudyard Kipling

16. “Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.” – Kate Winslet

17. “Having kids -the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings – is the biggest job anyone can embark on.” – Maria Shriver

18. “I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.” – Oprah Winfrey

19. “I know how to do anything. I’m a mom.” – Roseanne Barr

20. “I’ve never had more appreciation for anyone in my entire life until I became a mom.” – Chrissy Teigen

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Motherhood quotes for a special woman

21. “If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” – Stevie Wonder

22. “If you’re a mom, you’re a superhero. Period.” – Rosie Pope

23. “In the end, mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.” – Randy Susan Meyers

24. “It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?” – Mahatma Gandhi

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25. “It’s not easy being a mother. If it were, fathers would do it.” – Golden Girls

26. “A mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heart throb.” – Leroy Brownlow

27. “Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” – Erich Fromm

28. “Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.” – Meryl Streep

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29. “Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy.” – Danielle Steel

30. “Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.” – Ricki Lake

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Motherhood quotes to remind them of their strength and capabilities

31. “Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.” – Barbara Walters

32. “Motherhood was the great equalizer for me. I started to identify with everybody.” – Annie Lennox

33. “Mothers can look through a child’s eyes and see tomorrow.” – Reed Markham

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34. “My mom had four kids, one with special needs. She had a full-time job, and she still came home and made dinner for us every night, from scratch. It was amazing.” – Eva Longoria

35. “My mother is a walking miracle.” – Leonardo DiCaprio

36. “My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.” – Michael Jordan

37. “Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.” – Lin Yutang

38. “She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great but how to laugh through it.” – Liza Minnelli

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. “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

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Motherhood quotes to show love, support, and appreciation

41. “The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant.” – Jane Sellman

42. “There is no way to be a perfect mother, but a million ways to be a good one.” – Jill Churchill

43. “There is nothing in the world of art like the songs Mother used to sing.” – Billy Sunday

44. “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

45. “We are born of love. Love is our mother.” – Rumi

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46. “We have a secret in our culture and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.” – Laura Stavoe Harm

47. “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

48. “Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

49. “A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.” – Princess Diana

50. “There is no velvet so soft as a mother’s lap, no rose as lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps.” – Archibald Thompson

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More motherhood quotes and sayings

51. “Mothers are all slightly insane.” – J. D. Salinger

52. “My mom smiled at me. Her smile kind of hugged me.” – R.J. Palacio

53. “Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind.” – Howard W. Hunter

54. “Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.” – Barbara Kingsolver

55. “Thus far the mighty mystery of motherhood is this: How is it that doing it all feels like nothing is ever getting done.” – Rebecca Woolf

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56. “There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” – James E. Faust

57. “A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.” – W. Somerset Maugham

58. Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue.” – Will Rogers

59. There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.” – N.K. Jemisin

60. “She has watched every moment of your life, almost, and she loves you as God does, to the marrow of your bones.” – Marilynne Robinson

Motherhood Quotes To Celebrate Mother`s Love

61. “Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world, a mother’s love is not.” — James Joyce

62. “The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other women.” — Stephen Gaskin

63. “I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” — Mitch Albom

64. “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” — Robert Browning

65. “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

66. “Men are what their mothers made them.”  — Ralph Waldo Emerson

67. “There is nothing as sincere as a mother’s kiss.” — Saleem Sharma

68. “A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” — Cardinal Mermillod

69. “A mother’s love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible” — Marion C. Garretty.

70. “I love my mother as trees love water and sunshine. She helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights.” —Terry Guillemets

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Inspiring Motherhood Quotes

71. “I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.” — Lance Conrad

72. “Only mothers can think of the future because they give birth to it in their children.” — Maxim Gorky

73. “I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” — Abraham Lincoln

74. “The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.” — Jodi Picoult

75. “My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.” — Lisa Leslie

76. “A mother’s love endures through all.” — Washington Irving

77. “For when a child is born the mother also is born again.” — Gilbert Parker

78. “No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.” — Florida Scott-Maxwell

79. “One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.” — George Herbert

80. “There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Motherhood Quotes About The Amazing Transition

81. “Motherhood isn’t a typical love story, it’s the raw unedited version with all the outtakes, which is what makes it the most beautiful love story of all.” ― Jessica Urlichs

82. “I’m beginning to perceive motherhood as a long, slow letting go, of which birth is just the first step.” ― Sandra Steingraber

83. “The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.” ― Karen Maezen Miller

84. “A mother is always patient. A mother is always kind. A mother is always giving. A mother never falls apart. A mother is the buffer between her child and the cruel world.” ― Jessamine Chan

85. “But becoming a mother alters every ince of your body, your routine, your soul, your heart.” ― Jessi Klein

86. “Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.” ― Helen Hunt Jackson

87. “Could it be true that one has to experience in order to understand? I have always denied this idea, and yet of motherhood, for me at least, it seems to be the case.” ― Rachel Cusk

88. “While motherhood has been one of her greatest joys, she also wants to let the world in on how challenging it can be to juggle everything on her plate.” ― Serena Williams

89. “Babies are the sunlight that help to bloom an incredibly beautiful flower called Mother.” ― Debasish Mridha

90. “It is a truism that motherhood makes many women feminist.” ― Darcy Lockman

Which of these motherhood quotes resonated with you best?

They say it’s difficult to understand your mother until you have become a parent yourself and assumed the responsibility of molding your own children to be the best versions of themselves, just like your own mother has molded you to be who you are now.

These motherhood quotes reflect what our mothers went through to bring us into this world and help shape our destinies.

These motherhood quotes are meant to remind us of the pains she had to endure, the sacrifices she had to make, and the unconditional love she had to give.

Along with the joys she reaped for embracing her roles as a caregiver, teacher, provider, disciplinarian, cheerleader, counselor, consultant, peacemaker, and many, many more.

May we celebrate our mothers not just once or twice a year but every day.

She deserves it.

Which of these motherhood quotes and sayings is your favorite?

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