Motherhood is a rollercoaster that we never want to get off, but wow those ups and downs can be a little jarring at times!
That’s why these inspirational quotes can be the perfect way to get through those tough days. They’re relatable and inspiring, perfect for when you feel like it’s all got a bit too much.
You could also use these motherhood quotes in your social media captions, or send them in a messages to a special mother to show her how wonderful you think she is!
Inspiring quotes about motherhood
These special words about what it’s like to be a mother are intended to lift you up on the harder days and make you smile.
None of us are perfect, but these inspiring words show us just how important a mother is!
- The way that we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.
- Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.
- The very fact that you worry about being a good mama means that you are one.
- A mother continues to labor long after the baby is born. –Lisa Jo Baker
- Your children don’t want a perfect mother, they want a happy one.
- Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than the strength of natural laws.
- I love my babies enough to know that sometimes I need a break from them and that’s OK.
- Bad moments don’t make bad mamas.
- Your most valuable parenting skill is learning to manage yourself first. –Dr. Laura Markham
- A mother’s love endures through all. – Washington Irving
- A mother’s joy begins when new life is stirring inside…when a tiny heartbeat is heard for the first time, and a playful kick reminds her that she is never alone. –Author unknown.
- Live in the moment and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering. –Fanny Crosby
- My childhood may be over, but that doesn’t mean playtime is. –Ron Olson
- A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for. –Anonymous.
- Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. — Barbara Kingsolver
- Motherhood: All love begins and ends here.
- To the world, you are a mother, but to your family, you are the world.
- My heart walks outside my body in the form of my child.
- Mother was comfort. Mother was home — Ruta Sepetys
- The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will find forgiveness. –Honore de Balzac
- Love at first sight? More like love at first baby kick.
- Parenting is the easiest thing in the world to have an opinion about, but the hardest thing in the world to do. —Matt Walsh
Funniest quotes about motherhood
Some days, with kids, you just have to laugh! Here are some hilariously funny quotes about being a mama that we think you’ll nod along to.
- When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you. – Nora Ephron
- No one told me I would be coming home in diapers too. – Chrissy Teigen
- Sleep at this point is just a concept, something I’m looking forward to investigating in the future. – Amy Poehler
- My kid is turning out just like me. Well played, karma. Well-played.
- It just occurred to me that the majority of my diet is made up of food that my kid didn’t finish. – Carrie Underwood
- If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says keep away from children. – Susan Savannah
- I always say if you aren’t yelling at your kids, you’re not spending enough time with them. – Reese Witherspoon
- Becoming a mom to me means you have accepted that for the next 16 years of your life, you will have a sticky purse. Nia Vardalos
- Motherhood is basically finding activities for children in three-hour pockets of time for the rest of your life. – Mindy Kaling
- I’ve conquered a lot of things … blood clots in my lungs – twice … knee and foot surgeries … winning Grand Slams being down match point … to name just a few, but I found out by far the hardest is figuring out a stroller! – Serena Willaims
Emotional quotes about motherhood
Being a mother is such a privilege and so full of emotions. We think these gorgeous quotes about raising kids will make you laugh and cry.
- Motherhood is about raising and celebrating the child you have, not the child you thought you would have. —Joan Ryan, The Water Giver: The Story of a Mother, a Son, and Their Second Chance
- I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood. —Lance Conrad, The Price of Creation
- 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, At Home On Ladybug Farm
- Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. —Howard W. Hunter
- This is motherhood for you, said my own mother. Going through life with your heart outside your body. —Jennifer Weiner
- 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, The Four Winds
- (24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that’s the only shift they offer. —Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
- I’m blessed and I couldn’t be more grateful. Do you want to know why? Because I’m a mother, but that’s only half of it. I’m blessed because, when I need to, I can still just be a daughter. I get the feeling that there is nothing more precious than to have both of these roles, simultaneously. —Adrianna Stepiano
- I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood. —Lance Conrad
- Having kids—the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings—is the biggest job anyone can embark on. – Maria Shriver
- Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. —Barbara Kingsolver, Homeland and Other Stories
- The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. — Jessica Lange
- 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
- Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody. —Annie Lennox
- There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one. – Jill Churchill
- 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, The Nightingale
- 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
- 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
- Becoming a mother has made me next-level confident. I’ve never felt more empowered. —Kelly Clarkson
- There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood. —Elder M. Russell Ballard
- Motherhood is hard enough without judgement from others who don’t know the whole story. —Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost
- There is eternal influence and power in motherhood. —Julie B. Beck
- Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world, a mother’s love is not. – James Joyce
- If I were asked to define Motherhood. I would have defined it as Love in its purest form. Unconditional love. —Revathi Sankaran
- You don’t take a class; you’re thrown into motherhood and learn from experience. —Jennie Finch
- Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy. —Barbara Walters
- Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. —Barbara Kingsolver
- Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing. —Ricki Lake
- Motherhood changes everything. —Adriana Trigiani
- 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 realisation of affection; her sympathy and tenderness, the first assurance that there is love in the world. —David O. McKay
- 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, The Feminine Mystique
- It’s the curse of motherhood. You’re required to love us even when we vex you. —Julia Quinn, The Duke and I
- Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. —Oprah Winfrey
- 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
- 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
- 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, Sparkly Green Earrings: Catching the Light at Every Turn
- ‘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 criticising you. —Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere
- There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. —Chinese Proverb
Final thoughts
I hope you loved these beautiful motherhood quotes. You may also love these I love my kid quotes, these quotes about baby boys and these quotes about baby girls.
