100+ Inspiring Quotes for Mothers: Celebrate the Strength and Love of Motherhood

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"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

"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

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

- M. Russell Ballard

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

- Jill Churchill

"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

"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual, and physical education I received from her."

- George Washington

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

- Elder M. Russell Ballard

"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

"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

"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

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Jill Churchill

"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

"We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong."

- Laura Stavoe Harm

"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

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

- Mitch Albom

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

- Victor Hugo

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Riney Jordan

"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

"Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing."

- Ricki Lake

"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

"Motherhood changes everything."

- Adriana Trigiani

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

- Rosie Pope

"I think a lot about teaching my kids to work hard. I’ve learned something about kids — they don’t do what you say; they do what you do."

- Jennifer Lopez

"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

"There will be so many time you feel like you failed. But in the eyes, ears, and mind of your child, you are a supermom."

- Stephanie Precourt

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

- Jill Churchill

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

- Naomi Aldort

"You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That’s how I’ve done it. There’s no other way."

- Elizabeth Taylor

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

- Amanda Morgan

"Self-care is giving the world the best of you instead of what’s left of you."

- Katie Reed

"Children are not a distraction from more important work, they are the most important work."

- C.S. Lewis

"To be a good parent, you need to take care of yourself so that you can have the physical and emotional energy to take care of your family."

- Michelle Obama

"The attitude you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from more that what you tell them. They don’t remember what you try to teach them, They remember what you are."

- Jim Henson

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

- Linda Wooten

"Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"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

"If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"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

"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

"Mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled."

- Emily Dickinson

"A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place."

- Amy Tan

"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

"Only mothers can think of the future because they give birth to it in their children."

- Maxim Grosky

"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’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

"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

"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 influence so powerful as that of the mother."

- Sara Josepha Hale

"Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind."

- Kahil Gibran

"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

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

- Kelly Clarkson

"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."

- Kristin Hannah

"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

"There is eternal influence and power in motherhood."

- Julie B. Beck

"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

"Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face."

- George Eliot

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

- Debasish Mridha

"The world needs our mothers."

- Liya Kebede

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

- Anthony Withman

"A mother understands what a child does not say."

- Jewish Proverb

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

- Princess Diana

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

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

"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

"Real motherhood is different. It’s better and it’s messier and it’s more complicated. It will break your heart and make you laugh harder than you ever imagined."

- Melanie Shankle

"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

"To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power."

- Maya Angelou

"My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was."

- Lisa Leslie

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

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

- James E. Faust

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

- Revathi Sankaran

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

- Stevie Wonder

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

- Lady Gaga

"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

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

- Rumi

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

- Barbara Kingsolver

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

- Elaine Heffner

"In the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child reads the message: ‘You are there!’"

- Adrienne Rich

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

- Erich Fromm

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

- Mildred B. Vermont

"(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that’s the only shift they offer."

- Jodi Picoult

"I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood."

- Lance Conrad

"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."

- Donna Ball

"Be a full person. Motherhood is a glorious gift, but do not define yourself solely by motherhood. Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that."

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"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

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

- Maria Shriver

"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there."

- Robert Browning

"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

"A mother is clothed with strength and dignity, laughs without fear of the future. When she speaks her words are wise and she gives instructions with kindness."

- Proverbs

"God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers."

- Rudyard Kipling

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

- St. Therese of Lisieux

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

- Marion C. Garretty

"To a child’s ear, ‘mother’ is magic in any language."

- Arlene Benedict

"A mother is a mother still, the holiest thing alive."

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

- Lin Yutang

"Mothers can look through a child’s eyes and see tomorrow."

- Reed Markham

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

- T. Dewitt Talmage

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

- Linda Wooten

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

- Mabel Hale

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

- Edwin Chapin

"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. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine life without her."

- Kristin Hannah

"I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother."

- Andre Leon Talley

"A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary."

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

"I have so much of you in my heart."

- John Keats

"An older sister is a friend and defender — a listener, conspirator, a counselor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too."

- Pam Brown

"The best thing about having a sister was that I always had a friend."

- Cali Rae Turner

"Time passes quickly but one thing always lasts – the love and support found in you."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"Your sisters are the only people in the world who know what it’s like to have been brought up the way you were."

- Betsy Cohen

"To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or a confident – it is to have a soulmate for life."

- Victoria Secunda

"A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life."

- Isadora James

"By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before."

- Edwin Elliot

"You are far more precious than jewels."

- Proverbs

"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."

- Stephanie Precourt

"It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds."

- Gina Barreca

"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother."

- Boyd K. Packer

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

- Jeffrey R. Holland

"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."

- M. Russell Ballard

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

"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

"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

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

- Emily Dickinson

"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

"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

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

- Victor Hugo

"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

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

- Bradley D. Foster

"A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world."

- John 16:21

"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

"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

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

- Russell M. Nelson

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Lisa Alther

"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

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

- Joan Ryan

"The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that — a parent’s heart bared, beating forever outside its chest."

- Debra Ginsberg

"The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness."

- Jessica Lange

"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 mom has made me so tired. And so happy."

- Tina Fey

"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

"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

"This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. ‘Going through life with your heart outside your body.'"

- Jennifer Weiner

"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

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

- Rumi

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

- Chinese Proverb

"In the end, mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth."

- Randy Susan Meyers

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

- Robert Brault

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

- William Makepeace Thackeray

"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."

- Jane Seymour

"Motherhood is hard enough without judgement from others who don’t know the whole story."

- Sarah Addison Allen

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

- Jennie Finch

"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

"Chosen motherhood is the real liberation. The choice to have a child makes the whole experience of motherhood different, and the choice to be generative in other ways can at last be made, and is being made by many women now, without guilt."

- Betty Friedan

"It’s the curse of motherhood. You’re required to love us even when we vex you."

- Julia Quinn

"Such a mysterious business, motherhood. How brave a woman must be to embark on it."

- M.L. Stedman

"Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I’m wearing will never really fit."

- Jodi Picoult

"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

"'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

"Motherhood seems to be a no-win battle: however you decide to do (or not do) it, someone’s going to be criticizing you."

- Celeste Ng

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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’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

"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

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

- Bette Davis

"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

"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

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

- Oprah

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

- Barbara Johnson

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

- Robert Brault

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

- Matthew L. Jacobson

"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

"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

"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

"Parents are not perfect, nor are they saints. Dads and moms make mistakes all the time. How you handle these situations will be an important life lesson for your children."

- Bethany Bridges

"One generation of deeply loving parents would change the brain of the next generation, and with that, the world."

- Charles Raison

"Discipline is helping a child solve a problem. Punishment is making a child suffer for having a problem. To raise problem-solvers, focus on solutions not retribution."

- L.R. Knost

"Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love."

- Brené Brown

"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

"But 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

"Your most valuable parenting skill is learning to manage yourself first."

- Dr. Laura Markham

"Let’s prove to ourselves that the judgement of others does not define us, that we are strong, brave, capable women who can do whatever the heck we set our minds to! Let us also remind each other when we forget."

- Julie Maida

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don’t feel it, you have to pretend."

- Sade Adu

"We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. the amount of work is the same."

- Carlos Castenada

"Never give up hope. All things are working for your good. One day, you’ll look back on everything you’ve been through and thank God for it."

- Germany Kent

"As a mother, my job is to take care of the possible and trust God with the impossible."

- Ruth Bell Graham

"Perhaps it takes courage to raise children."

- John Steinbeck

"Be patient with yourself. The journey between practice and perfect is mistakes."

- Toloupe Dyewole

"My mother is a walking miracle."

- Leonardo DiCaprio

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

- Saleem Sharma

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

- Taylor Swift

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

- Helen Keller

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

- T. DeWitt Talmage

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

- Gretchen Rubin

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you."

- Anne Lamott

"None of us are perfect. We must stop holding our children to a higher standard of perfection than we can attain ourselves."

- Rebecca Eanes

"Motherhood was the great equalizer for me; I started to identify with everybody."

- Annie Lennox

"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

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

- Barbara Walters

"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

"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

"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

"Feeling heard and understood allows children to release the feelings, let go, and move on."

- Janet Lansbury

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

- Rumi

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

- Carolina King

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Burnt toast is actually fairly symbolic of Motherhood. If you are the one who burned the toast, you scrape if off and eat it yourself. If they burned it, you eat it because the burned it specially for you."

- Emily Watts

"The phrase ’working mother’ is redundant."

- Jane Sellman

"An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest."

- Spanish Proverb

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

- Howard W. Hunter

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

- The Golden Girls

"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."

- Erma Bombeck

"If evolution really works, how come mothers have only two hands?"

- Milton Berle

"Grandmothers always have time to talk and make you feel special."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"My grandmother is my angel on earth."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete."

- Marcy DeMaree

"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

"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

"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

"Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, and hold our breath, and hope we’ve set aside enough money to pay for our kids’ therapy."

- Michelle Pfeiffer

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

- Reese Witherspoon

"You know how once you have kids you never ever pee by yourself again? At least one of them is always in there with you at all times."

- Jennifer Garner

"Twelve years later the memories of those nights, of that sleep deprivation, still make me rock back and forth a little bit. You want to torture someone? Hand them an adorable baby they love who doesn’t sleep."

- Shonda Rhimes

"An aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side."

- Sara Sheridan

"The best aunts aren’t substitute parents, they’re co-conspirators."

- Daryl Gregory

"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

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

- Phyllis Diller

"If nothing is going well, call your grandmother."

- Italian Proverb

"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."

- Will Rogers

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

- unknown

"Life is tough, but so are you."

- Carmi Grau

"To the world, you are a mother, but to your family, you are the world."

- Unknown

"You can’t pour from an empty cup."

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

"Many people talk about having kids like it’s a bad thing. You want to know what true love is? Have some kids. They don’t care how much money you have, what car you drive, or how you look. They just truly love you for you. The unconditional love between you and your children is priceless."

"Don’t let a bad day make you feel like you have a bad life."

"Parenting is hard. Especially when you’re doing it right."

"The kids who need the most love will ask for it in the most unloving of ways."

"Some days the only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy."

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

- Unknown

"The love and compassion you’ve always carried in your heart makes you a wonderful mother and a beloved friend."

"It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters."

"An aunt is someone special to remember with warmth, think of with pride, and cherish with love."

- Unknown

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

- Unknown

"You are a gift from God a friend that I can count on and a wonderful model of a mother."

"Mom: a title just above queen."

- Unknown

"There are friends, there is family, and then there are friends that become family."

"A grandmother is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend."

- Unknown

"I smile because you’re my aunt. I laugh because there’s nothing you can do about it."

- Unknown

"Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while…but our hearts forever."

- Unknown

"An aunt makes life a little sweeter."

- Unknown

"An aunt grows more treasured as time goes by."

- Unknown

"God couldn’t be everywhere so he created aunts."

- Unknown

"There’s no place like home except Grandma’s."

- Unknown

"Only an aunt can give hugs like a mother, can keep secrets like a sister and share love like a friend."

- Unknown

"An aunt is always there for all the times when you need a second mom."

- Unknown

"Aunt: A cherished friend and personal cheerleader who will always see you through rose-colored glasses."

- Unknown

"Aunt; like a mom only cooler."

- Unknown

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

"Great sisters get promoted to aunt."

- Unknown

"It’s such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother—that’s why the world calls her grandmother."

- Unknown

"Life doesn’t come with a manual, it comes with a grandmother."

- Unknown

"Grandmothers are the people who take delight in hearing babies breathing into the telephone."

- Unknown

"Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love."

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

"Mom, I love you, even though I’ll never accept your friend request."

- Unknown

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

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

"Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything."

- Unknown

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

"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.’"

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

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

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

"You’ve Got This"

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

"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."

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

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

"You always have the choice to pause."

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

"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."