1. Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom.-Richelle E. Goodrich
2. 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
3. Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.-Robert A. Heinlein
4. 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
5. Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.-unknown
6. There will be so many times you feel like you failed. But in the eyes, heart, and mind of your child you are super mom.-Stephanie Precourt
7. Mothers were meant to love us unconditionally, to understand our moments of stupidity, to reprimand us for lame excuses while yet acknowledging our point of view, to weep over our pain and failures as well as cry at our joy and successes, and to cheer us on despite countless start-overs. Heaven knows, no one else will.-Richelle E. Goodrich
8. A mother’s love! O holy, boundless thing! Fountain whose waters never cease to spring!-Marguerite Gardiner
9. Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.-Meryl Streep
10. 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 trouble thickens 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
11. A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.-Amy Tan
12. Successful mothers are not the ones that have never struggled, they are the ones that never give up, despite the struggles.-Sharon Jaynes
13. There is no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.-Jill Churchill
14. Mothers, I believe, intoxicate us. We idolize them and take them for granted. We hate them and blame them and exalt them more thoroughly than anyone else in our lives. We sift through the evidence of their love, reassure ourselves of their affection and its biological genesis. We can steal and lie and leave and they will love us.-Megan Mayhew Bergman
15. A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.-Dorothy Canfield Fisher
16. Motherhood brings as much joy as ever, but it still brings boredom, exhaustion, and sorrow too. Nothing else ever will make you as happy or as sad, as proud or as tired, for nothing is quite as hard as helping a person develop his own individuality especially while you struggle to keep your own.-Marguerite Kelly and Elia Parsons
17. [Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge and scary – it’s an act of infinite optimism.-Gilda Radner
18. Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.-Marion C. Garretty
19. My mother has always been my emotional barometer and my guidance. I was lucky enough to get to have one woman who truly helped me through everything.-Emma Stone
20. [Motherhood is] heart-exploding, blissful hysteria.-Olivia Wilde
21. Only mothers can think of the future because they give birth to it in their children.-Maxim Gorky
22. By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
23. Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.-Mabel Hale
24. Mother – that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.-T. DeWitt Talmage
25. Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it’s the most exquisite love of all.-Maggie Gallagher
26. The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.-Honoré de Balzac
27. A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.-Agatha Christie
28. Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.-Maxim Gorky
29. Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.-Erich Fromm