50 Inspiring Mom Quotes to Celebrate Motherhood

"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."

- Jodi Picoult

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"I wholeheartedly believe that when we are fully engaged in parenting regardless of how imperfect, vulnerable, and messy it is, we are creating something sacred."

- Brene Brown

"Be thankful for what you have, you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough."

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

"A good mom has bad days & great days & normal days & overwhelming days & perfect days & trying days & supermom days & just being a mom days & a whole lot of love & real & crazy motherhood days."

- Rachel Marie Martin

"What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."

- E.M. Forster

"Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws."

- Barbara Kingsolver

"There is no way to be the perfect mother but a million ways to be a good one."

- Jill Churchill

"You are not ‘just’ anything. Not just a woman. Or just a friend. A wife. A partner. Or just a mother. You are a universe made up of waves that brought life. Stars that hold dreams. Landscapes of home. Rocks that will crumble but will always remain. The winds gentle sway, and strongest roar. You are someone’s ‘all’ and ‘all’ is not lost. You are a mother but never, just."

- Jessica Urlichs

"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

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

- James E. Faust

"Mothers and 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

"Who can justly measure the righteous influence of a mother’s love? What enduring fruits result from the seeds of truth that a mother carefully plants and lovingly cultivates in the fertile soil of a child’s trusting mind and heart? As a mother, you have been given divine instincts to help you sense your child’s special talents and unique capacities."

- Richard G. Scott

"There is no way to be a perfect mother, but a million ways to be a good one."

- Jill Churchill

"You have nothing in this world more precious than your children. When you grow old, when your hair turns white and your body grows weary, when you are prone to sit in a rocker and meditate on the things of your life, nothing will be so important as the question of how your children have turned out."

- Gordon B. Hinckley

"To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world."

- Dr. Seuss

"The noblest thoughts my soul can claim, / The holiest words my tongue can frame, / Unworthy are to praise the name / More sacred than all other. / An infant when her love first came— / A man, I find it just the same; / Reverently I breathe her name, / The blessed name of mother"

- George Griffith Fetter

"The highest and noblest work in this life is that of a mother."

- Russell M. Nelson

"Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and service next to the angels."

- First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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

- M. Russell Ballard

"This struggle is real. The juggle is real. That’s why everyone should hire working mothers. They are put in crazy situations all the time and are forced to problem-solve. They are some of my most resourceful employees."

- Sara Blakely

"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 impossible.’ And then you just keep going, and you sort of do the impossible."

- Tina Fey

"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."

- Ariana Huffington

"Get rid of the guilt. When you’re at one place, don’t feel bad that you’re not at work. When you’re at work, don’t feel bad that you’re not at home."

- Katie Couric

"No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love."

- Edwin Chapin

"There’s always going to be bad stuff out there. But here’s the amazing thing light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can’t stick the dark into the light."

- Jodi Picoult

"Don’t wait until everything is just right [..] There will always be challenges, obstacles, and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger…"

- Mark Victor Hansen

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

- Rosie Pope

"There are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child."

- Anne Lamott

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

- Marion C. Garretty

"A mother’s love is everything. It is what brings a child into this world. It is what molds their entire being. When a mother sees her child in danger, she is literally capable of anything. Mothers have lifted cars off of their children and destroyed entire dynasties. A mother’s love is the strongest energy known to man."

- Jamie McGuire

"Children do not need us to shape them; they need us to respond to who they are."

- Naomi Aldort

"You must first teach a child he is loved. Only then is he ready to learn everything else."

- Amanda Morgan

"Speak with your children as if are the wisest, kindest, most beautiful humans on earth, for what they believe is what they will become."

- Brooke Hampton

"It’s time we stop buying the lie that we need to be hard on kids because ‘the world is hard.” Love them as hard as you can. That’s what they need."

- Tara Vogler

"If your children fear you, they cannot trust you. If they don’t trust you, they cannot learn from you."

- Lori Petro

"Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?"

- Jane Nelson

"It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless."

- L.R. Knost

"The way we talk to children becomes their inner voice."

- Peggy O’ Mara

"It’s not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can’t tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself."

- Joyce Maynard

"What it’s like to be a parent: It’s one of the hardest things you’ll ever do, but in exchange, it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love."

- Nicholas Sparks

"The real questions for parents should be: “Are you engaged? Are you paying attention?” If so, plan to make lots of mistakes and bad decisions. Imperfect parenting moments turn into gifts as our children watch us try to figure out what went wrong and how we can do better next time. The mandate is not to be perfect and raise happy children. Perfection doesn’t exist, and I’ve found what makes children happy doesn’t always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults."

- Brene Brown

"The question isn’t so much “Are you parenting the right way?” as it is: “Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?”"

- Brene Brown

"Have we created a space in our families where our kids know that they belong. Where there are no prerequisites for worthiness, you don’t have to hustle here for me to believe you’re worthy of loving. You don’t have to perform here for me to think that you belong here. You don’t have to be perfect. You don’t have to get a certain grade on your test. You don’t have to hit so many home-runs. You belong here."

- Brené Brown

"The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means you already are one."

- Jodi Picoult

"Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices."

- Betsy Jacobsen

"Successful mothers are not the ones who have never struggled. They are the ones who never gave up despite the struggles."

- Sharon Jaynes

"I don’t know about changing my perspective, because motherhood is such a glorious blessing and I am very thankful for that. It is such a beautiful experience. I so strongly recommend it. It’s bliss, love, and fulfillment of another level."

- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

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

- Victor Hugo

"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

"A happy mother is a good mother, and if work makes you hum, your whole family sings along."

- Sharon Meers and Joanna Strober

"I looked on child-rearing 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

"Being a mother is not about what you gave up to have a child, but what you’ve gained from having one."

- Jill Churchill

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

- Michelle Obama

"A mother needs only step into the shower to be instantly reassured she is indispensable to every member of her family."

- Lynne Williams

"Having a baby is just living in the constant unexpected. You never know when you’re gonna get crapped on or when you’re gonna get a big smile or when that smile immediately turns into hysterics."

- Blake Lively

"I tell my daughter every morning, ‘Now, what are the two most important parts of you?’ And she says, ‘My head and my heart.’ Because that’s what I’ve learned in the foxhole: What gets you through life is strength of character and strength of spirit and love."

- Viola Davis

"No one is ever quite ready; everyone is always caught off guard. Parenthood chooses you. And you open your eyes, look at what you’ve got, say “Oh, my gosh,” and recognize that of all the balls there ever were, this is the one you should not drop. It’s not a question of choice."

- Marisa de los Santos

"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

"The women whom I love and admire for their strength and grace did not get that way because shit worked out. They got that way because shit went wrong, and they handled it. They handled it in a thousand different ways on a thousand different days, but they handled it. Those women are my superheroes."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"I’ve never met a 2-year-old who is terrible. I’m so cool with every stage my daughter goes through. I just think she’s amazing. I hope she’s not looking at me thinking, ‘Mom, are the terrible 30s coming on with you?’"

- Katie Holmes

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

- Jill Churchill

"Say yes to the feelings, even as you say no to the behavior."

- Daniel J. Siegel

"It’s not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings."

- Ann Landers

"Even if I’m setting myself up for failure, I think it’s worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her children are, in their knock-knock jokes and earnest questions. A mother who spends less time obsessing about what will happen, or what has happened, and more time reveling in what is. A mother who doesn’t fret over failings and slights, who realizes her worries and anxieties are just thoughts, the continuous chattering and judgment of a too-busy mind. A mother who doesn’t worry so much about being bad or good but just recognizes that she’s both, and neither. A mother who does her best, and for whom that is good enough, even if, in the end, her best turns out to be, simply, not bad."

- Ayelet Waldman

"If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent."

- Bette Davis

"Even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you’d be okay."

- Jojo Moyes

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

- Mitch Albom

"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

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

- Cardinal Mermillod

"Effective discipline means that we’re not only stopping a bad behavior or promoting a good one, but also teaching skills and nurturing the connections in our children’s brains that will help them make better decisions and handle themselves well in the future."

- Daniel J. Siegel

"As parents, we are wired to try to save our children from any harm and hurt, but ultimately we can’t. They’ll fall down, they’ll get their feelings hurt, and they’ll get scared and sad and angry. Actually, it’s often these difficult experiences that allow them to grow and learn about the world. Rather than trying to shelter our children from life’s inevitable difficulties, we can help them integrate those experiences into their understanding of the world and learn from them."

- Daniel J. Siegel

"As parents become more aware and emotionally healthy, their children reap the rewards and move toward health as well. That means that integrating and cultivating your own brain is one of the most loving and generous gifts you can give your children."

- Daniel J. Siegel

"Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting."

- Brene Brown

"It is not change that causes anxiety; it is the feeling that we are without defenses in the presence of what we see as danger that causes anxiety."

- Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey

"Raising children who are hopeful and who have the courage to be vulnerable means stepping back and letting them experience disappointment, deal with conflict, learn how to assert themselves, and have the opportunity to fail. If we’re always following our children into the arena, hushing the critics, and assuring their victory, they’ll never learn that they have the ability to dare greatly on their own."

- Brene Brown

"So often, when we feel lost, adrift in our lives, our first instinct is to look out into the distance to find the nearest shore. But that shore, that solid ground, is within us. The anchor we are searching for is connection, and it is internal."

- Brene Brown

"To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is."

- Fred Rogers

"So often, children are punished for being human. They are not allowed to have grumpy moods, bad days, disrespectful tones, or bad attitudes. Yet, we adults have them all the time. None of us are perfect. We must stop holding our children to a higher standard of perfection than we can attain ourselves."

- Rebecca Eanes

"By loving them for more than their abilities, we show our children that they are much more than the sum of their accomplishments."

- Eileen Kennedy-Moore

"Trust children. Nothing could be more simple, or more difficult. Difficult because to trust children we must learn to trust ourselves, and most of us were taught as children that we should not be trusted."

- John Holt

"Too much love never spoils our children. Children become spoiled when we substitute presents for presence."

- Anthony Withman

"When I had my children and I felt that type of love, which I know you understand and every mom out there understands, it made me understand that there was a purity to love. That there is an unconditional love."

- Jennifer Lopez

"My mother has always been my emotional barometer and my guidance. I was lucky enough to get to have one woman who truly helped me through everything."

- Emma Stone

"I try to call my mother with more regularity because I think, what if Hazel didn’t call me for two weeks? I’m able to see her mothering now from a different vantage point."

- Julia Roberts

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

- Princess Diana

"Usually, the triumph of my day is, you know, everybody making it to the potty."

- Julia Roberts

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

- Mindy Kaling

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"I’m not a good mom. I’m not a bad mom. I’m the mama I am, and I try very hard, and when I fail, that’s ok."

- Kristen Bell

"I don’t think empathy is something you can drill in someone’s head. You have to have faith that while your kids can seem to be selfish and concerned only about the word ‘mine’ sometimes, overall, they are watching you really carefully. And if you care about other people, they will too."

- Jennifer Garner

"Sometimes we try to protect our children so much that when something doesn’t go right in their lives, they’re unprepared to deal with adversity. I don’t think that does our kids any favors."

- Taraji P. Henson

"I have to keep reminding myself that I created life, and there’s no cooler thing than being able to create life inside of you. So if the repercussions of that are extra stretch marks, saggy skin and more weight on my body, so be it."

- Ashley Graham

"The one thing you’ve got to be prepared to do as a parent is not to be liked from time to time."

- Emma Thompson

"There is nothing as sincere as a mother’s kiss."

- Saleem Sharma

"What children take from us, they give… We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply."

- Sonia Taitz

"How I feel about myself is more important than how I look. Feeling confident. being comfortable in your skin—that’s what really makes you beautiful."

- Bobbi Brown

"To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth… is potentially to have everything."

- Joan Didion

"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother."

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

"As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong."

- Kristin Hannah

"Everyone loves their mom; everyone’s got an important mom, but for me, she’s really the guiding force."

- Taylor Swift

"I 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."

- Cynthia Rowley

"If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love."

- Stevie Wonder

"It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?"

- Mahatma Gandhi

"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

"Right in the difficult, we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"All those clichés—those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood—all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience."

- Penélope Cruz

"We are born of love; love is our mother."

- Rumi

"I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom’s the only reason I know it’s a real thing."

- Conor Oberst

"Your words as a parent have great power. Use them wisely and make sure they come from the heart."

- Carolina King

"To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today."

- Barbara Johnson

"My mother was the one constant in my life. When I think about my mom raising me alone when she was 20, and working and paying the bills, and, you know, trying to pursue your own dreams, I think is a feat that is unmatched."

- President Barack Obama

"A miracle is really the only way to describe motherhood and giving birth. It’s unbelievable how God has made us women and babies to endure and be able to do so much. A miracle indeed. Such an incredible blessing."

- Jennie Finch

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

- Maya Angelou

"Being a mom means choosing to show up day after day and love day after day and give day after day and try day after day and not having all the answers and not being perfect but simply doing your best."

- Rachel Martin

"Kids don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care."

- Riney Jordan

"Love as powerful as your mother’s leaves its own mark…To have been loved so deeply… Will give us some protection forever."

- J.K. Rowling

"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there."

- Robert Browning

"Motherhood is a choice you make every day 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."

- Donna Ball

"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

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

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

"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

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

- Oprah

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

- Lady Gaga

"Motherhood is about raising and celebrating the child you have, not the child you thought you would have."

- Joan Ryan

"Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder."

- Rumi

"Behind every young child who believes in himself is a parent who believed first."

- Matthew L. Jacobson

"It’s not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can’t tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it myself."

- Joyce Maynard

"There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children."

- Marianne Williamson

"One day, your child will make a mistake or a bad choice and run to you instead of away from you, and in that moment, you will know the immense value of peaceful, positive, respectful parenting."

- L.R. Knost

"The golden rule of parenting is to always show your children the kind of person you want them to be."

- Elizabeth Roxas

"Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frustrating all at once. It’s everything."

- Jill Smokler

"Motherhood is hard. Motherhood is glorious. Motherhood is hard."

- Lisa-Jo Baker

"Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy."

- Danielle Steel

"Motherhood is wonderful, but it’s also hard work. It’s the logistics more than anything. You discover you have reserves of energy you didn’t know you had."

- Deborah Mailman

"Perhaps it takes courage to raise children."

- John Steinbeck

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

- Marion C. Garretty

"Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had."

- Linda Wooten

"Sometimes even grown women need their mother’s comfort so we can just take a break from having to be strong all the time."

- Colleen Hoover

"We don’t lose ourselves in parenthood. We find parts of ourselves we never knew existed."

- L.R. Knost

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."

- Maya Angelou

"Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are."

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Emily Dickinson

"There is eternal influence and power in motherhood."

- Julie B. Beck

"Motherhood is not a hobby, it is a calling. It is not something to do if you can squeeze the time in, it is what God gave you time for."

- Rachel JanKovic

"Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate."

- Charlotte Gray

"Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother’s secret hope outlives them all."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"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."

- Jessalyn Gilsig

"I have found being a mother has made me emotionally raw in many situations. Your heart is beating outside your body when you have a baby."

- Kate Beckinsale

"Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had, and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed."

- Linda Wooten

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

- Stephanie Precourt

"I feel that in the heavens above, the angels whispering to one another can find among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of ‘mother.’"

- Edgar Allan Poe

"If you try your best to be the best parent you can be, you will have done all that a human being can do and all that God expects you to do."

- Jeffrey R. Holland

"The bond between mothers and their children is one defined by love. As a mother’s prayers for her children are unending, so are the wisdom, grace, and strength they provide to their children."

- George W. Bush

"Having kids – the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings – is the biggest job anyone can embark on."

- Maria Shriver

"It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding."

- Erma Bombeck

"Birth is the epicentre of women’s power."

- Ani Di Franco

"There is such a special sweetness in being able to participate in creation."

- Pamela S. Nadav

"Motherhood...is an act of infinite optimism."

- Gilda Radner

"To all mothers in every circumstance, including those who struggle, I say, ‘Be peaceful. Believe in God and yourself. You are doing better than you think you are.’"

- Jeffrey R. Holland

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

- Honore de Balzac

"Women have always been the strong ones of the world."

- Coco Chanel

"I can only hope to be 10% of the mom mine was to me."

- Charlize Theron

"I look back on my childhood and thank the stars above. For everything you gave me, but mostly for your love."

- Wayne F. Winters

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

- Honoré de Balzac

"My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled."

- Carly Fiorina

"The phrase “working mother” is redundant."

- Jane Sellman

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation of all abundance."

- Eckhart Tolle

"No society will long survive without mothers who care for their young and provide that nurturing care so essential for their normal development."

- Ezra Taft Benson

"If you’ve ever retreated behind your bedroom door and cried in overwhelm, you might be an introverted mother."

- Jamie C. Martin

"Cultivate calm and stillness."

- Brené Brown

"The days are long, but the years are short."

- Gretchen Rubin

"People very often say to me, ‘How did you do it, how did you raise a baby and write a book?’ And the answer is – I didn’t do housework for four years. I am not Superwoman. And um, living in squalor, that was the answer."

- J.K. Rowling

"Mothers talk about sleep the way someone who is starving talks about food."

- Kathleen Kendall-Tackett Ph.D

"Perhaps the reason we respond so universally to our mothers’ love is because it typifies the love of our Savior."

- Bradley D. Foster

"Motherhood means I’m always a little bit awake, a little bit alert at all times."

- Shonda Rhimes

"A child seldom needs a good talking to as much as a good listening to."

- Robert Brault

"When we practice loving-kindness and compassion, we are the first ones to profit."

- Rumi

"A mother need only step into the shower to be instantly reassured she is indispensable to every member of her family."

- Lynne Williams

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

- Elaine Heffner

"Sleep at this point is just a concept, something I’m looking forward to investigating in the future."

- Amy Poehler

"What seems insignificant when you have it is important when you need it."

- Franz Grillparzer

"It is never easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it."

- Betty White

"A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don’t even have."

- Robert Brault

"When you’re in the thick of raising your kids by yourself, you tend to keep a running list of everything you think you’re doing wrong. I recommend taking a lot of family pictures as evidence to the contrary."

- Connie Schultz

"The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant."

- Jane Sellman

"Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming."

- Robert Tew

"Having children is like living in a frat house. Nobody sleeps, everything’s broken, and there’s a lot of throwing up."

- Ray Romano

"The best medicine in the world is a mother’s kiss."

- Anonymous

"You are not responsible for other people’s opinions, feelings, or perceptions of you. They own that, not you."

- Shane Parrish

"Mothers are all slightly insane."

- J. D. Salinger

"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."

- Anonymous

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

- Phyllis Diller

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

- Buddy Hackett

"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."

- Robert J. Quillen

"There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it."

- Chinese Proverb

"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance."

- Franklin P. Jones

"Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first."

- Mignon McLaughlin

"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found."

- Calvin Trillin

"Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly."

- Ambrose Bierce

"The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents."

- John J. Plomp

"Children are great comfort in your old age — and they help you reach it faster, too."

- Lionel Kauffman

"I always say if you aren’t yelling at your kids, you’re not spending enough time with them."

- Reese Witherspoon

"Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children!"

- Sam Levenson

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

- William Feather

"Mothers don’t sleep. They just worry with their eyes closed."

- unknown

"Mothers of teens know why some animals eat their young."

- unknown

"Everything I am, you helped me to be."

- unknown

"Motherhood: Feeding them as a baby and then throughout most of their twenties."

- unknown

"A mother continues to labor long after the baby is born."

"Behind every great child is a mom who’s pretty sure she’s screwing it all up."

"Remember, Mama, you’re doing an amazing job. You deserve to take a few moments for yourself each day. You are so worth it."

"When we look back, we can feel gratitude for the most challenging experiences because we have learned more about ourselves through the process. We can consciously find the gems in the struggles."

"Beautiful Mama, you are enough. You are so much MORE than enough."

"Those little people didn’t grow themselves. You were there every step of the way. Your house was empty when you moved in, and look at how much beauty and comfort you’ve created in it."

"You, Mama, are filled up from head to toe. You are grateful. You are here. You matter."

"You embody a wonderful quality that will support you and others throughout the day. You are bright and radiant and ready. Have a beautiful day, Mama."

"Take some time to everything you’ve done, everything you’re working for, and everything you will achieve. Your accomplishments deserve to be celebrated."

"Be patient and kind with yourself, mama. You are already doing so much."

"It’s time for you to reclaim your mistakes as arrows pointing you toward a different way."

"Deep within your heart and soul lives the truth of your worth. Learn to look within at the gifts you innately possess. Value the person you are. You are worthy."

"A goal is what we want the end result to be. An intention is the way of being on our journey to get there."

"Make the most of today because it is right here. Play that game, sing that song, read one more book, and enjoy those cuddles. Treasure all those precious little moments. Because at the end of your life, you’ll never look back and think, ‘I spent too much time with my kids.’"

"You’ve Got This"

"Mama, your body is beautiful. It’s doing, and has done, miraculous work."

"You are here right now. There is no other place that is more perfect for you. You are here. At this moment, your lungs are breathing, your heart is beating, and your blood is flowing. This moment is meant just for you."

"Within each one of us is a reservoir of peace and wisdom. Within us we have everything we need to navigate life and motherhood."

"Keep seeking the many moments for gratitude in your life. Even if these moments might seem small at first. A lot of little grateful moments really add up."

"In this moment, you are safe. In this moment, you have everything you need. Ultimately, all is well."

"There is only one you, so why not spend the rest of your life being in love with yourself."

"May your coffee be stronger than your toddler."

- Unknown

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

- Unknown

"Nothing is really lost until your mom can’t find it."

"Whenever you feel like you are failing, look in the eyes of your child and know your value."

"You always have the choice to pause."

"A mother’s hug lasts long after she lets go."

"Motherhood is not for us to plan, but for us to discover."

"Silence is golden. Unless you have kids. Then silence is just suspicious."

- Unknown

"A mother is the person you can always call to see how long chicken lasts in the fridge."

"I am not a bad mom because I work, and I am not a bad employee because I am a mom."

"It’s not where you are in life, it’s who you have by your side that matters."

"Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever."

"Never limit yourself. You can be a mom and pursue your dream simultaneously."

"I am brave and courageous for even trying, when I think I can’t do it."

"Aunt — a double blessing. You love like a parent and act like a friend."