Some days you just need some inspiration. Motherhood is a tough gig. So enjoy these 25 inspirational mom quotes, and remember you’re an awesome mom.
Being a mom is an experience you can’t really understand until you’ve been there and done that. It’s the hardest job in the world, but the most rewarding too. These 25 inspirational mom quotes capture what it’s like to live the momlife.
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25 Inspirational Mom Quotes You’ll Love
1.The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. –Honore de Balzac
2. One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad. -Jim DeMint
3. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves. -Charles Stanley
4. 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
5. Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing. -Ricki Lake
6. 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
7. What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter? -Rose Kennedy
8. I love cleaning up messes I didn’t make. So I became a Mom. -All moms ever
9. There is no perfect way to be a mother and a million ways to be a good one. -Jill Churchill
10. Giving grace to yourself is never more important than when you become a mother. -Whitney Meade
Inspirational quotes for struggling moms
11. 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 way she can! -Catherine Pulsifer
12. Motherhood is more awesome than I ever thought it could be and harder than I ever would have imagined. -Sarah Williams
13. I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is. -Oprah Winfrey
14. I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list. -Michelle Obama
15. The strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter: how to be who he wishes to be for himself…rather than… what the world wants him to be. -Audre Lourde
16. 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
17. Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. -Oprah Winfrey
18. It’s about leaving something better for our kids. That’s how we’ve always moved this country forward, by all of us coming together on behalf of our children, folks who volunteer to coach that team, to teach that Sunday school class, because they know it takes a village. -Michelle Obama
19. Right now, after giving birth, I really understand the power of my body… I just feel my body means something completely different. I feel a lot more confident about it. Even being heavier, thinner, whatever. I feel a lot more like a woman. More feminine, more sensual. And no shame. -Beyoncé
20. There is an unspoken pact that women are supposed to follow. I am supposed to act like I constantly feel guilty about being away from my kids. (I don’t. I love my job.) Mothers who stay at home are supposed to pretend they are bored and wish they were doing more corporate things. (They don’t. They love their job.) -Amy Poehler
Short Inspirational Mom Quotes about Motherhood
21. Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. -Meryl Streep
22. The best place to cry is in a mother’s arms. -Jodi Picoult
23. 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. -Penelope Cruz
24. 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
25. As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew. -Rachel Cusk
