30 Inspirational Quotes About Motherhood

Your daily dose of motherhood inspiration.

These beautiful quotes about motherhood are sure to remind you of how important your job as a mother is, while also encouraging you to continue working so hard. It will pay off.

Each day we wake up and there are tasks already awaiting us, yet we get up with a smile and do them cheerfully.

Mother’s should be celebrated, and often. Not just on Mother’s Day.

Enjoy these quotes about motherhood, and share them with a mom in your life!

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30 Inspiring Quotes About Motherhood

“Our children are the greatest gifts God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you’ve done will have mattered as much.”-Lisa Wingate

“Having kids—the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings—is the biggest job anyone can embark on.” – Maria Shriver

“In giving birth to our babies, we may find that we give birth to new possibilities within ourselves.” – Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn

"I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A great rush of love flooded out of me." -Madeleine L’Engle — “I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A great rush of love flooded out of me.” -Madeleine L’Engle

“Before you were conceived, I wanted you.
Before you were born, I loved you.
Before you were an hour, I would die for you.
This is the miracle of life.” -Maureen Hawkins

“The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.” -St. Therese of Lisieux

“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.” – George Washington

“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.” – Barbara Kingsolver

“A child’s hand in yours – what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and STRENGTH.” -Marjorie Holmes

“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 who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken 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.” – Washington Irving

“The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness and industry.” Billy Graham

“The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.” – Henry Ward Beecher

“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” -Victor Hugo

“What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God.” -Martin Luther

“What is a godly mother? A godly mother is one who loves the Lord her God with all her heart, soul, mind and strength and then passionately, consistently and unrelentingly teaches her child to do the same.” Elizabeth George

“A mother asks God to grant her patience. Her little child then comes in, and as soon as she has the table set for dinner, he pulls on the table cloth and everything spills on the floor. At such times it’s as if the child is saying to his mother: “Mama, be patient!” ” -St. Paisios

“Our children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you’ve done will have mattered as much.”-Lisa Wingate

“Motherhood is a million little moments that God weaves together with grace, redemption, laughter, tears and, most of all, love.” Lysa TerKeurst

“The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies. A true mother is one of the holiest secrets of home happiness. God sends many beautiful things to this world, many noble gifts; but no blessing is richer than that which He bestows in a mother who has learned love’s lessons well, and has realized something of the meaning of her sacred calling.” -J.R. Miller

“Your greatest contribution to the kingdom of God may not be something you do, but someone you raise.”-Andy Stanely

“A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.” – Unknown

“Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.” CS Lewis

“Homemaking is surely in reality the most important job in the world. What do ships, railways, mines, cars, government, etc. exist for, except that people may be fed, warmed and safe in their own homes? The homemaker’s job is one for which all others exist.” CS Lewis

“I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” Abraham Lincoln“

“There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.”-Jill Churchill

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’” – Mr. Fred Rogers

“The most important work you will ever do will be within the walls of your own home.”-Harold B. Lee

“The work of a mother is hard, too often unheralded work. Please know that it is worth it then, now, and forever.”-Jeffrey R. Holland

“No nobler work in this world can be performed by any mother than to rear and love the children with whom God has blessed her. That is her duty.”-David O. McKay