Here are some of my favorites, as well as a few personal ones from my mom & grandmother…
“Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” – George Eliot
“Mothers are like buttons. They hold everything together.” – Unknown
“A mom’s hug lasts long after she has let go.” – Unknown
“A child’s first teacher is its mother.” – Peng Liyuan
“Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.” – Unknown
“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.” – Oscar Wilde
“A mother’s work is never done.” – Unknown
“Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.” – Susan Gale
“A mother’s love is the purest love on this earth.” – Unknown
“By the time a woman realizes her mother was right, she has a daughter who thinks that she’s wrong.” – Unknown
“A baby fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty.” – Unknown
“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” – Rudyard Kipling
“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 crushers down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” – Agatha Christie
“Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great love.” – Mother Theresa
“Make sure you always have your own ‘mad money.’” – My Mom
“If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” – Unknown
“Never take a bath or a shower during a thunderstorm.” – My Grandmother
“It is just as easy to love a rich man as it is a poor man.” – Unknown
“Success mothers are not the ones who have never struggled. They are the ones that never give up, despite the struggles.” – Sharon Jaynes
“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. – Barbara Kingsolver
“It is 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
“Being a mother is not about what you gave up to have a child, but what you gained from having one.” – Unknown
“Teach your daughter to worry less about fitting into the glass slippers and more about shattering the glass ceilings.” – Unknown
“A mother’s love doesn’t make her son more dependent and timid; it actually makes him stronger and more independent. – Cheri Fuller
“When you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” – Charley Benetto
“You never understand life until it grows inside you.” – Sandra C. Kassis
“Being a full-time mother is one of the highest paying jobs, since the payment is pure love.” – Mildred Vermont
“There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.” – Jill Churchill
“If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.” – Bette Davis
“The days are long, but the years are short.” – Gretchen Rubin
“Pick your battles wisely.” – My Mom
“Behind every great kid is a mom who is pretty sure she is screwing it up.” – Unknown
“The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant.” – Jane Sellman
“Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” – Rumi
“Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing. – Ricki Lake
“Here is to strong women, may we know them, may we be them, may we raise them.” – Unknown
“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything.” – Unknown
“A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.” – Unknown
“Doing your best is always good enough.” – My Mom
“If at first you don’t succeed, try doing it the way mom told you to in the beginning.” – Unknown
“Sometimes I open my mouth, and my mother comes out.” – Unknown
“No one prepares you for the transition from Mama, to Mommy, to Mom. – Unknown
“The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness.” – Jessica Lange
“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
“I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom’s the only reason I know it’s the real thing.” – Conor Oberst
“All I am, I owe to my mother.” – George Washington
“My mother, myself.” – My Mom
“Put God first.” – My Mom
“Just keep livin’.” – My Grandmother
Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there!
-Chintz 💄
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