The Joys of Motherhood

It might be physically impossible to count the ways a mother expresses her love. Where loving warmth meets a teachable moment, that’s where you’ll find a mother, confidently wielding her superhuman ability to be everything you’ll ever need. With a knack for adapting, she goes from teacher to comforter to selfless giver in a matter of minutes—an awesome thing to witness.

1. I may not be perfect, but when I look at my children, I know that I got something in my life perfectly right.

2. A Mother understands what a child cannot say

3. Successful mothers are not the ones that have never struggled. They are the ones that never give up, despite the struggles – Sharon Jaynes

4. Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work. -C.S. Lewis

5. Being a mom might mean that my hands are full, but so is my heart.

6. A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. -Agatha Christie

7. Life doesn’t come with a manual. It comes with a mother.

8. I’ll love you. I’ll like you forever. As long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be. -Robert Munsch

9. Being a mom is a tough job but it’s the best job anyone could ever ask for.

10. Behind every young child who believes in himself is a parent who believed first. -Matthew L Jacobson

11. To a child’s ear, “mother” is magic in any language. -Arlene Benedict

12. The most precious jewels you’ll ever have around your neck are the arms of your children.

13. I didn’t lose myself when I became a mother. I discovered an even better version.

14. There is no one perfect way to be a good mother. Each mother has different challenges, different skills and abilities, and certainly different children. The choice is different and unique for each mother and each family -Elder M. Russell Ballard

15. “Mother” Definition: One person who does the work of twenty. For free.

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

17. Be the Mom you want them to remember

18. The art of mothering is teaching the art of living to children. -Elaine Heffner

19. Being a mother is learning about the strengths you didn’t know you had… and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed -Linda Wooten

20. I’m a mother. Life can be tough. But I am tougher.

21. Still the most magical day of my life is the day I became a mom. -Linda Becker

22. Moms are the ones who truly know the meaning of 24/7.

23. In the end, I am the only one who can give my children a happy mother who loves life. -Janene Wolsey Baadsgaard

24. Being a mother is not about what you gave up to have a child but what you’ve gained from having one.Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. -Meryl Streep

25. Enjoy every moment, Mama, they grow up before you know it.

26. It is within the journey of motherhood that a woman will discover how strong she really is.

27. Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears. -Kate Winslet

28. The loveliest masterpiece is the love of God in the heart of a mother.

29. No one will ever know the strength of my love for you. After all, you’re the only one who know what my heart sounds like from the inside.

30. To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. -Maya Angelou

31. I see myself as mom first. I’m so lucky to have that role in life. The world can like me, hate me or fall apart around me and at least I wake up with my kids and I’m happy.” -Angelina Jolie

32. I will protect you until you are grown and then I will let you fly free. But loving you, that is for always.en 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

33. Good moms have sticky floors, messy kitchens, laundry piles, dirty ovens, and happy kids.

34. A mother’s love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking -Helen Rice

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

36. Your child will follow your example, not your advice.

37. 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. -Stevie Wonder

38. No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother’s love. -Edwin Hubbell Chapin

39. Motherhood has the greatest potential influence for human life.

40. Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark … to have been loved so deeply .. will give us some protection forever. —J.K. Rowling

41. Mothers hold their children’s hand for a short while, but their hearts for a lifetime.

42. God could not be everywhere, therefore he made mothers -Jewish Proverb

43. My greatest blessings call me mom.Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. -Robert Browning

44. Being a mother is about learning strengths didn’t know you had and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed. -Linda Wooten

45. 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. -Rajneesh

46. The strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. -Barbara Kingsolver

47. It takes someone brave to be a mother, someone strong to raise a child, and someone special to love someone more than herself.