These encouraging motherhood quotes are ones that I have found inspiring in my life as a current mom of four. Motherhood has taught me so many things from patience to better rhythms. I hope these quotes can be uplifting to you.
Encouraging motherhood quotes can be used in your daily life. Write them on a notecard and put it on your mirror, repeat them on a hard day or give them as a note for another momma friend.
Encouraging Motherhood Quotes
“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
“The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly – indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.” – Arianna Huffington
“A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” – Cardinal Mermillod
“Having kids – the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings – is the biggest job anyone can embark on.” – Maria Schriver
“Mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.” —Emily Dickinson
“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
“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual, and physical education I received from her.” – George Washington
“The joy of motherhood comes in moments. There will be hard times and frustrating times. But amid the challenges, there are shining moments of joy and satisfaction.” – M. Russell Ballard
“There is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood.” – M. Russell Ballard
“No society will long survive without mothers who care for their young and provide that nurturing care so essential for their normal development.” – Ezra Taft Benson
“All those clichés—those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood—all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience.” – Penélope Cruz
“Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had, and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed.” – Linda Wooten
“Motherly love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.” —Marion C. Garretty
Religious Quotes & Bible Verses for Motherhood
“Perhaps the reason we respond so universally to our mothers’ love is because it typifies the love of our Savior.” – Bradley D. Foster
“A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world.” – John 16:21
“Who can justly measure the righteous influence of a mother’s love? What enduring fruits result from the seeds of truth that a mother carefully plants and lovingly cultivates in the fertile soil of a child’s trusting mind and heart? As a mother, you have been given divine instincts to help you sense your child’s special talents and unique capacities.” – Richard G. Scott
“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
“This job [of motherhood] has been given to me to do. Therefore, it is a gift. It is a privilege. Therefore, it is an offering I may make to God. Therefore, it is to be done gladly, if it is done for Him. Here, not somewhere else, I may learn God’s way. In this job, not in some other, God looks for faithfulness.” Elisabeth Elliot
“If our calling is to be mothers, let’s be mothers with all our hearts—gladly, simply, and humbly.” – Elisabeth Elliot
“I often must sacrifice my own needs and desires for the purpose of giving my children what they need and modeling for them the depths of Christ’s love.” – Sally Clarkson
“Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: ‘Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.” – Proverbs 31:28-29
“All days are worth the effort because we have been granted this work at this time with these humans as a way of serving and loving God and His people well.” – Abbie Halberstadt – You Bet Your Stretch Marks
“Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life” – Proverbs 4:23
“Those who think that a woman detained at home by her little family is doing nothing, think the reverse of what is true…. she is doing the best possible service for her Lord”. – Charles Spurgeon
“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
“No man is poor who has a Godly mother.” —Abraham Lincoln
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