50 Quotes About Mothers (Best Ever!)
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QUOTES ABOUT MOTHERS
1 – There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother. Sara Josepha Hale
2 – There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood. Elder M. Russell Ballard
3 – Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation. Robert A. Heinlein
4 – 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
5 – If I were asked to define Motherhood. I would have defined it as Love in its purest form. Unconditional love. Revathi Sankaran
6 – Motherhood brings as much joy as ever, but it still brings boredom, exhaustion, and sorrow too. Nothing else ever will make you as happy or as sad, as proud or as tired, for nothing is quite as hard as helping a person develop his own individuality especially while you struggle to keep your own. Marguerite Kelly
7- Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together. Susan Gale
8 – There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one. Jill Churchill
9 – A mother’s love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking. Helen Rice
10 – Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. Charles R. Swindoll
QUOTES ABOUT MOTHERS
11 – A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. Honore de Balzac
12 – A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. Victor Hugo
13 – Rigid plans work best if you’re building a skyscraper; with something as mysteriously human as giving birth, it’s best, both literally and figuratively, to keep your knees bent. Mark Sloan
14 – A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. Victor Hugo
15 – A mother understands what a child does not say. Jewish proverb
16 – A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary. Dorothy Canfield Fisher
17- Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. Robert Browning
18 – I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is. Oprah
19 – You have suffered enough.’ That became my mantra for motherhood from there on out. You have suffered enough. If you can make it easier, make it easier, and don’t feel guilty about it. Ali Wong
20 – A warrior believes in an end she can’t see and fights for it. A warrior never gives up. A warrior fights for those weaker than herself. It sounds like motherhood to me. Kristin Hannah
QUOTES ABOUT MOTHERS
21 – 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
22 – Motherhood has completely changed me. It’s just about like the most completely humbling experience that I’ve ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can’t stand up to those principles when you’re raising a child, forget it. Diane Keaton
23 – A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary. Dorothy Canfield Fisher
24 – God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. Rudyard Kipling
25 – 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
26 – 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
27- Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. Marion C. Garretty
28 – You don’t take a class; you’re thrown into motherhood and learn from experience. Jennie Finch
29 – Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark … to have been loved so deeply .. will give us some protection forever. J.K. Rowling
30 – 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
QUOTES ABOUT MOTHERS
31 – It’s the curse of motherhood. You’re required to love us even when we vex you. Julia Quinn
32 – Mother is a verb, not a noun. Shonda Rhimes
33 – Mother—that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. T. Dewitt Talmage
34 – Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love. Stevie Wonder
35 – There is eternal influence and power in motherhood. Julie B. Beck
36 – Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. Barbara Kingsolver
37- I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know. Mitch Albom
38 – Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had, and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed. Linda Wooten
39 – I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars. E.M. Forster
40 – My mother is a walking miracle. Leonardo DiCaprio
QUOTES ABOUT MOTHERS
41 – A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. Washington Irving
42 – Kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run. Barbara Kingsolver
43 – Mother’s love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life. Erich Fromm
44 – Birth is a mystery. Words are not enough. Marie O’Connor
45 – Giving birth and being born brings us into the essence of creation, where the human spirit is courageous and bold and the body, a miracle of wisdom. Harriette Hartigan
46 – I think motherhood is the noblest task of all, because you cannot do it at your convenience, or tailor it to suit your preferences.
You have to be ready to give up everything when you take on this task: your time, restful nights, your hobbies, your pursuit of physical fitness, any beauty you may have had, and all of the private little pleasures you might have counted as a right, from late dinners and long soaks in the tub to weekend excursions and cycling trips …
I’m not saying you can’t have any of these things, but you have to be ready to let them all go if you’re going to have children and put them first. Johann Christoph Arnold
47- Motherhood is the greatest potential influence either for good or ill in human life. The mother’s image is the first that stamps itself on the unwritten page of the young child’s mind.
It is her caress that first awakens a sense of security; her kiss, the first realization of affection; her sympathy and tenderness, the first assurance that there is love in the world. David O. McKay
48 – Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. Meryl Streep
49 – I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. Abraham Lincoln
50 – If you’re a mom, you’re a superhero. Period. Rosie Pope
Much love,
Frances Vidakovic
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