54 Being a Mom Quotes That Say What Words Rarely Do

Nobody tells you that being a mom will rewrite you completely.

Not just your schedule or your priorities. You. Your whole heart shifts.

And yet, most moms will tell you they wouldn’t trade it. Not for anything.

Maybe these being a mom quotes can put that feeling into words for you.

Being a Mom Quotes

“A mother’s love liberates.” — Maya Angelou

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

“Making a decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” — Elizabeth Stone

“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” — Robert Browning

“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

“The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness.” — Jessica Lange

“There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” — James E. Faust

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

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

“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.” — Oprah Winfrey

“Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had, and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed.” — Linda Wooten

“A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.” — Amy Tan

“Motherhood was the great equalizer for me; I started to identify with everybody.” — Annie Lennox

“Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall. A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.” — Maya Angelou

“I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.” — Oprah Winfrey

“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

“Motherhood is a choice you make every day, to put someone else’s happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you’re not sure what the right thing is, and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.” — Donna Ball

“Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.” — Tina Fey

“A mom is like a teabag. You can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.” — George Washington

“My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.” — Michael Jordan

“Behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begins.” — Mitch Albom

“A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.” — Emily Dickinson

“I am a mother and mothers don’t have the luxury of falling apart in front of their children, even when they are afraid, even when their children are adults.” — Kristin Hannah

“Motherhood brings as much joy as ever, but it still brings boredom, exhaustion, and sorrow too. Nothing else will ever make you as happy or as sad, as proud or as tired.” — Marguerite Kelly

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

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

“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

“We are born of love; love is our mother.” — Rumi

“Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child.” — Buddha

“Men are what their mothers made them.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?” — Milton Berle

“It’s not easy being a mom. If it were easy, fathers would do it.” — Betty White

“My favorite thing about being a mom is just what a better person it makes you on a daily basis.” — Drew Barrymore

“Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.” — Kate Winslet

“The truth is that no matter how old we are, as long as our mothers are alive, we want our mother.” — Goldie Hawn

“Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world, no love so instantaneous and forgiving.” — Gail Tsukiyama

“Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe

“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials fall upon us, when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us and endeavor to dissipate the clouds of darkness.” — Washington Irving

“It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.” — Barbara Kingsolver

“Kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.” — Barbara Kingsolver

“Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” — Erich Fromm

“No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.” — Florida Scott-Maxwell

“A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.” — Tenneva Jordan

“At the end of the day my most important job is still mom-in-chief.” — Michelle Obama

“Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.” — Lady Gaga

“When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this Earth.” — Mitch Albom

“The way we talk to children becomes their inner voice.” — Peggy O’Mara

“It’s not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.” — Ann Landers

“Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.” — Nitya Prakash

“Sons are the anchors of a mother’s life.” — Sophocles

“Call your mother. Tell her you love her. Remember, you’re the only person who knows what her heart sounds like from the inside.” — Rachel Wolchin