21 Most Inspiring Motherhood Quotes Every Mom Needs to Hear

There’s something about motherhood quotes that stops you in your tracks. A strong pull inward that emanates from your heart. A quick tug at each string and a warm embrace that you experience from within.

I am always fascinated by quotes about motherhood that I read everywhere. It brings my day assured and leaves me with a specific emotion as I go through my day. They’re a constant reminder to me – I’m not alone in my journey, and somehow someone understands.

Close to my heart are motherhood quotes. Each quote leaves a trace of awe and inspiration. Those words dance like the waves in the vast ocean; you’ll always know that it’ll come to touch the sand. The same thing with those inspirational quotes; they’ll be burrowing at your heart.

Here are the 21 most inspiring Motherhood quotes I’d like to share with you, coming from different people from all walks of life.

May you find at least one that brings calmness to your being, joy in your heart, or rest to your burdens.

“Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you are already one.” ~ Jodi Picoult

“There’s no way to be a perfect mother, but a million ways to be a great one.” ~ Jill Churchill

“The most important work you and I will do will be within the walls of our homes”. ~ Harold B. Lee

“A mother continues to labor long after the baby is born.” ~ Lisa Jo Baker

“Successful mothers are not the ones that never struggled. They are the ones that never give up, despite the struggles.” ~ Sharon Jaynes

“The best place to cry is in a mother’s arms.” ~ Jodi Picoult

“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.” ~ Meryl Streep

“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.” ~ Toni Morrison

“As a mother, my job is to take care of the possible and trust God with the impossible.” ~ Ruth Bell Graham

“Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.“ ~ Ricki Lake

“I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” ~ Mitch Albom

“Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight.” ~ 1 Peter 3:4

“And his mother treasure up all these things in her heart.” ~ Luke 2:51

“She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.” ~ Proverbs 31:25

“The love of a mother is never exhausted. It never changes – it never tires – it endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute.” ~ Washington Irving

“A mother understands what a child does not say.” ~ Jewish Proverbs

“As you grow up, you think that you have learnt everything and then you became a parent.” ~ Ganga Rishi Sharma

“The moment a baby rocks your world, he knocks your brain to unravel a new world of learning.” ~Ganga Rishi Sharma

“A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her. They must be the most important thing in her life, but if she is the most important thing in theirs, she has failed.” ~ Erin Kelly

“The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.” ~ Osho

“To honor the holy, hard, heartbreaking truth that we will always be a mother of the child we lost, even if no one else knows their name.” ~ Laura Kelly Fanucci

Making the most of what these words meant to you…

Every day is a chance we keep opening, a moment of discernment, and a time to celebrate the purest love. We seek out ways to experience motherhood in a rewarding, bearable, and inspiring voyage; motherhood quotes in your pocket are one of them.

We walk through this significant experience like never before. Wherever you may be in your motherhood journey at this moment, seek the quotes that move your heart and the words that stir your unspoken truth.

Let us be reminded that Mothers have the deepest hearts of all. Mothers reveal every day her willingness to sacrifice and the immense grace to endure everything. We aren’t superheroes, yet we are the closest our children, and families can get.

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Also, you can check out a mom blog that got me through my difficult third pregnancy by the author’s inspiring words and motherhood quotes/prayers. Mothering Spirit by Laura Kelly Fanucci.

Which quote spoke to you the most? What inspirational quotes on motherhood from a favorite book or person you’d like to share? I’d love to hear from you. Share in the comments.