Inspirational Motherhood Quotes

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

There is eternal influence and power in motherhood.

I thought my mom's whole purpose was to be my mom. That's how she made me feel.

Children and mothers never truly part--Bound in the beating of each other's hearts.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness... The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way.

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.

Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

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

Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

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

Most mothers kiss and scold together.

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

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

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

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

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

Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.

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

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

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

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

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

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.

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

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

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.

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

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.

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

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

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

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

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

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.

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.

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

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.

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defence. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

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.