Being a mom is the most wonderful, impossible, thrilling, difficult thing to do. Motherhood makes you laugh until you cry, scream with rage, smile so big your cheeks hurt, fall on the couch exhausted, and is simply a great adventure every single day. We have collected 100 great quotes from great moms that will inspire you, make you laugh, give you and extra boost, and help you to know you are not alone in motherhood.
As mothers it is so easy to feel alone and like you are screwing your child up, but that is not the case. Mothers everywhere are doing the best they can every single day. Being a good mom looks different for each of us – some mothers work outside the home, some moms stay home, some mothers are single mothers, and some moms have disabled children, obviously this does not cover every experience of motherhood, but Jill Churchill said it best about motherhood,
“There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.” Jill Churchill
“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
“A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.” —Princess Diana
“Mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.” —Emily Dickinson
“Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.” —Lisa Alther
“Your most valuable parenting skill is learning to manage yourself first.” –Dr. Laura Markham
“Finding balance as a mother means accepting your imperfections.” –Mary Organizes
“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
“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
“The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.” — Jodi Picoult
“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
“Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.” – Kate Winslet
“Bad moments don’t make bad moms.” — Lisa Terkeurst
“Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had, and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed.” – Linda Wooten
“Having kids – the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings – is the biggest job anyone can embark on.” -Maria Shriver
“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
“The days are long but the years are short.”– Gretchen Robin
“Successful mothers are not the ones that never struggled. They are the ones that never give up, despite the struggles.” – Sharon Jaynes
“Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.” –Bréne Brown
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” –Ann Lamont
“Self-care is giving the world the best of you instead of what’s left of you.” – Katie Reed
“As moms, we have a unique opportunity to keep changing this attitude that ambition is an ugly quality in women.” — Reese Witherspoon
“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
“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
“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
“Be patient with yourself. The journey between practice and perfect is mistakes.” – Toloupe Dyewole
“However motherhood comes to you, it is a miracle.” -Valerie Harper
“Motherhood is messy. And challenging. And crazy. And sleepless. And giving. And still unbelievably beautiful.” – Rachel Martin
“I never knew how much love my heart could hold until someone called me ‘Mommy.’” – Heather Stillufsen
“While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.” – Angela Schwindt
“Thus far the mighty mystery of motherhood is this: How is it that doing it all feels like nothing ever gets done?”– Rebecca Woolf
“There is no such thing as a perfect parent. So just be a real one.” – Sue Atkins
“Let motherhood be more about what you do with your children instead of what you do for them.” – Mamie L. Pack
“Having a parent who listens creates a child who believes he or she has a voice that matters in this world.” – Rachel Macy Stafford
“A Real Mom: Emotional, yet the rock. Tired, but keeps going. Worried, but full of hope. Impatient, yet patient. Overwhelmed, but never quits. Amazing, even though doubted. Wonderful, even in the chaos. Life changer, every single day.” — Rachel Martin
“Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence not only on him, but on all whom he met, not only for a day, a month, or a year – but for an eternity – a very challenging and exciting thought for a mother.” – Rose Kennedy
“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
“Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my savior. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what’s important.” – Elle Macpherson
“Mothers never retire, no matter how old her children are she is always a Mom, always willing to encourage and help her children in any ways she can.” – Catherine Pulsifer
“Motherhood is more awesome than I ever thought it could be and harder than I ever would have imagined.” – Sarah Williams
“If you’re a mom, you’re a superhero. Period.” – Rosei Pope
“There is such a special sweetness in being able to participate in creation.” — Pamela S. Nadav
“In giving birth to our babies, we may find that we give birth to new possibilities within ourselves.” — Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn
“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
“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
“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.” — Meryl Streep
“The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.” — Jessica Lange
“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 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
“Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.” – Barbara Walters
“Motherhood was the great equalizer for me; I started to identify with everybody.” — Annie Lennox
“Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.” — Cheryl Lacey Donovan
“The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.” —Elaine Heffner
“Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.” — Louisa May Alcott
“A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
“I know how to do anything—I’m a mom.” — Roseanne Barr
“Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy.” — Danielle Steel
“She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn’t take them along.” — Margaret Culkin Banning
“Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women’s opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering.” — Elaine Heffner
“The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly—indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.” — Arianna Huffington
“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
“In the end…I am the only one who can give my children a happy mother who loves life.” — Janene Wolsey Baadsgaard
“I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.” — Phyllis Diller
“Only mothers can think of the future because they give birth to it in their children.”— Maxim Gorky
“My favorite thing about being a mom is just what a better person it makes you on a daily basis.”— Drew Barrymore
“There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother.”— Sara Josepha Hale
“My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.”— Michelle Obama
“Being a full-time mother is one of the highest-salaried jobs since the payment is pure love.” — Mildred B. Vermont
“At the end of the day my most important job is still mom-in-chief.”— Michelle Obama
“The world needs our mothers.”— Liya Kebede
“The phrase ’working mother’ is redundant.”— Jane Sellman
“Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.” — Susan Gale
“It just occurred to me that the majority of my diet is made up of food that my kid didn’t finish…” — Carrie Underwood
“My sister said once: ‘Anything I don’t want Mother to know, I don’t even think of if she’s in the room.’”— Agatha Christie
“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
“Motherhood changes everything.”— Adriana Trigiani
“Why don’t kids understand that their nap is not for them but for us?”— Alyson Hannigan
“You don’t take a class; you’re thrown into motherhood and learn from experience.”— Jennie Finch
“Sleep at this point is just a concept, something I’m looking forward to investigating in the future.”— Amy Schumer
“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 perfect as possible.”— Naya Rivera
“I think it’s really important for every mother to find their own way.”— Solange Knowles
“Instead of perfection, we should aim for sustainable and fulfilling.” – Sheryl Sandberg
“Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices.” – Betsy Jacobsen
“The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don’t think I’ll ever perfect, but I love the challenge of it.” – Kerri Walsh Jennings
“I love my mother as trees love water and sunshine. She helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights.” – Terry Guillemets
“Little souls find their way to you whether they’re from your womb or someone else’s.” – Sheryl Crow
“I’ve never had more appreciation for anyone in my entire life until I became a mom.” – Chrissy Teigen
“It’s not easy being a mother. If it were, fathers would do it.” – Golden Girls
“I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less” – Anna Quindler
“In raising my children, I have lost my mind but found my soul.” – Lisa T. Shepherd
“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
“The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means you already are one.” – Jodi Picoult
“You may have tangible wealth untold; caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than you can never be. I had a mother who read to me.” – Gillian Strickland
“It’s ok to be grumpy sometimes, to have bad days to struggle, to make mistakes, to say the wrong thing, feel overwhelmed and under-appreciated, to be out-of-sorts and sort-of-over-it all. It’s ok for us big humans, and it’s ok for our little humans, too. After all, we’re all humans, right? How else will our little humans learn that it’s okay to be human? Remember, we’re imperfect humans growing imperfect humans in an imperfect world, and that’s perfectly okay.” – L.R. Knost
“A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.” – Amy Tan
“The choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.” – Oprah
“When someone asks you where you come from, the answer is your mother.”– Anna Quindlen
“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
“Motherhood brings you to your knees in a way that doesn’t leave room for you to judge others. It makes you see that there’s no ideal — a constant struggle, constantly compromising, but ultimate love.” – Maggie Gyllenhaal
“A mom is like a teabag. You can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
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