21 Motherhood Quotes that Nail Being a Mom

A list of 21 heart-warming, laughable, and truly relatable motherhood quotes that show what its really like to be a mom these days.

Being a mom is a sweet privilege! After your first baby is born, you enter a new life and in many ways become a ‘new you’. No longer is your life just about you and your spouse, but you have a new little life to care for 24/7.

Enjoy these motherhood quotes that simply nail what its really like to be a mom!

1. You never know how much your parents loved you until you have a child to love. – Jennifer Hudson

2. Life doesn’t come with a manual, it comes with a mother. – Unknown

3. A baby is something you carry inside you for nine months, in your arms for three years and in your heart till the day you die. – Mary Manson

4. Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever. – Unknown

5. Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy. – Tina Fey

6. Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing. – Ricki Lake

7. Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears. – Kate Winslet

8. The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. – Theodore Hesburgh

9. You’re always going to wonder if you’re doing things wrong, but that’s what it means to be a mom, to care so much about someone else that you just want to be as perfect as possible. – Naya Rivera

10. There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one. – Jill Churchill

11. People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one. – Leo J. Burke

12. 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

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

14. 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

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

16. The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children. – Jessica Lange

17. Motherhood is more awesome than I ever thought it could be and harder than I ever would have imagined. – Sarah Williams

18. Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy. – Barbara Walters

19. Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. – Oprah Winfrey

20. Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are. – Cheryl Lacey Donovan

21. Parenting is one of the easiest things in the world to have an opinion about, but the hardest thing in the world to do. – Matt Walsh

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