150 Timeless Mom Quotes

Motherhood has taught me the meaning of living in the moment and being at peace. Children don’t think about yesterday, and they don’t think about tomorrow. They just exist in the moment.

You don’t take a class; you’re thrown into motherhood and learn from experience.

Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness.

Motherhood changes everything.

Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

Motherhood is a million little moments that God weaves together with grace.

Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else’s happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you’re not sure what the right thing is… and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.

There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.

If I were asked to define Motherhood, I would have defined it as Love in its purest form. Unconditional love.

The joy of motherhood comes in moments. There will be hard times and frustrating times. But amid the challenges, there are shining moments of joy and satisfaction.

Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I’ve become a juggler, I suppose. It’s all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do.

A mother’s arms are made of tenderness, and children sleep soundly in them.

A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.

The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs since the payment is pure love.

A mother’s love endures through all.

In the end, I am the only one who can give my children a happy mother who loves life.

Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

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.

The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.

God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.

My favorite thing about being a mom is just what a better person it makes you on a daily basis.

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.

Mothers give up so much, so that their children can have so much.

A mother and daughter’s love is never separated.

The more a daughter knows the details of her mother’s life, the stronger the daughter.

Mothers and daughters together are a powerful force to be reckoned with.

A mother’s treasure is her daughter.

Mothers and daughters are part of each other’s consciousness, in different degrees and in a different way, but still with the mutual sense of something which has always been there.

My mom taught me that a woman’s mind should be the most beautiful part of her.

The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.

As they get older our daughters become more and more like us too.

A mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually vaccinates her daughter against low self-esteem.

As mothers and daughters, we are connected to one another. My mother is in the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is in my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is in the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.

No matter how old she may be, sometimes a girl just needs her mom.

The love between a mother and a daughter is forever.

Mothers are the most dynamic and influential force on the development of a young woman’s journey to being herself.

Even as a small child, I understood that women had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.

Sometimes even grown women need their mother’s comfort so they can take a break from all that being strong.

A boy’s best friend is his mother.

My mother was the making of me. She was so true, so sure of me; and I felt I had something to live for, someone I must not disappoint.

Ain’t a woman alive who could take my mama’s place.

There is an endearing tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that transcends all other affections of the heart.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

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.

Men are what their mothers made them.

A mother’s love doesn’t make her son more dependent and timid; it actually makes him stronger and more independent.

Little boys can test your patience, run you ragged, and make you want to pull your hair out. But they will also melt your heart with just one look, and make you wonder how you ever existed before them.

Sons are the anchors of a mother’s life.

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

To be a mother of a son is one of the most important things you can do to change the world. Raise them to respect women, raise them to stand up for others, raise them to care for the earth, raise them to be kind, compassionate and honest.

You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes.

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.

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.

We are born of love; love is our mother.

A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.

Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.

There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother.

A mother’s love grows by giving.

Mothers were meant to love us unconditionally, to understand our moments of stupidity, to reprimand us for lame excuses while yet acknowledging our point of view, to weep over our pain and failures as well as cry at our joy and successes, and to cheer us on despite countless start-overs. Heaven knows, no one else will.

I remember my Mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.

Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.

I love my mother as trees love water and sunshine. She helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights.

A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.

Mothers observe all, absorb all, give all, forgive all, offer all, suffer all, feel all, heal all, hope for all, pray for all. But most of all, Mothers love always.

This whole thing, being a mom, isn’t about me teaching my children. They’re here to teach me.

Making the decision to have a child—it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ It’s a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.

Motherhood is basically finding activities for children in three-hour pockets of time for the rest of your life.

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

By the time you realize your mother was right, you have a daughter who thinks that you’re wrong.

That’s what motherhood is: you’re working, you’re doing 25 different jobs, and you’re not getting paid.

The hand that rocks the cradle usually is attached to someone who isn’t getting enough sleep.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylum would be filled with mothers.

It’s not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.

There ought to be a hall of fame for mamas, creation’s most unique and precious pearls.

The mother of three notoriously unruly youngsters was asked whether or not she’d have children if she had it to do over again. ‘Yes’, she replied ‘but not the same ones.

I need you, I need you here, I need you now. I cannot do this alone. I need my Mommy, and dammit, I don’t care who knows it.

My mother’s menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.

One thing I know for sure—this motherhood thing is not for sissies.

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease.

When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.

A mother understands what a child does not say.

Successful mothers are not the ones that have never struggled. They are the ones that never give up, despite the struggles.

Mom could make small things seem miraculous. That was her talent.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it’s the most exquisite love of all.

Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heartthrob.

As it stand, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

Moms are as relentless as the tides. They just don’t drive us to practice, they drive us to greatness.

I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.

No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother’s love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.

The best thing about being a mom is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had and dealing with fears you never knew existed.

A mom is like a teabag. You can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

The woman is weak, but the mother is strong.

The work of a mother is hard, too often unheralded work. Please know that it is worth it then, now, and forever.

If you’re a mom, you’re a superhero. Period.

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.

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

There will be so many times you feel like you failed. But in the eyes, heart, and mind of your child you are super mom.

Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.

Becoming a mother has made me next-level confident. I’ve never felt more empowered.

I am a mother and mothers don’t have the luxury of falling apart in front of their children, even when they are afraid, even when their children are adults.

The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her; but the strength of a woman is measured by the extent of her refusal to allow those hardships to dictate her and who she becomes.

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love.

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.

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.

She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn’t take them along.

Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.

A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same; and most mothers kiss and scold together.

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.

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.

You’re always going to wonder if you’re doing things wrong, but that’s what it means to be a mom, to care so much about someone else that you just want to be as perfect as possible.

A mother’s love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking.

Mother – that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.

My Mother: She is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

At the end of the day my most important job is still mom-in-chief.

My Mom smiled at me. Her smile kind of hugged me.

There will be so many times you feel like you’ve failed. But in the eyes, heart, and mind of your child, you are supermom.

There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child – and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.

Moms, even good ones, sometimes lose it a little so as not to lose it all.

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.

I see myself as a 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.

There is no one perfect way to be a good mother. Each mother has different challenges, different skills and abilities, and certainly different children. The choice is different and unique for each mother and each family.

Mother’s love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.

The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother.

A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.

The mother’s heart is the child’s school-room.