Mothering is one of the most important jobs there are. There is no bigger influence on a child’s life, mind, and heart than his mother. Mothers are selfless people who always put their children first. Their maternal instinct is strong, and they would fight to the death to protect their children. Mothers make so many sacrifices for their children, and yet so often is their hard work overlooked. Mothers deserve recognition year-round, not just on Mother’s Day, for all that they do and all that they are. Are you an overworked and overstressed mom? Take a few minutes out of your day to freshen up and be inspired. Remember why you do it all.
Selflessness and Sacrifice
“Oh what a power is motherhood, possessing
A potent spell
All women alike
Fight fiercely for a child.”
— Euripides
“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
“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, Women and Beauty
SAHMs
“Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love.” –Mildred B. Vermon
“The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant.” — Jane Sellman
“Every mother is a working woman.” — A bumper sticker on my car
Humor
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.” — Ambrose Bierce
“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.” — Aristotle
“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?” — Milton Berle
Unconditional Love
“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness” — Honoré de Balzac
“She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn’t take them along.” — Margaret Culkin Banning
“What are Raphael’s Madonnas but the shadow of a mother’s love, fixed in permanent outline forever?” — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother’s love endures through all.” — Washington Irving
“Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” — Erich Fromm
Mother’s Value
“I never thought that you should be rewarded for the greatest privilege of life.”
— Mary Roper Coker, Mother of the Year in 1958
“Motherhood is priced
Of God, at price no man may dare
To lessen or misunderstand.”
— Helen Hunt Jackson
“No painter’s brush, nor poet’s pen
In justice to her fame
Has ever reached half high enough
To write a mother’s name.”
— Anonymous
“God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.” — Jewish Proverb
“The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother.”
— Ellen Key
“He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men’s mothers.” — Harry Emerson Fosdick
“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” — William Makepeace Thackeray
“I miss thee, my Mother! Thy image is still
The deepest impressed on my heart.”
— Eliza Cook
These are some of the most beautiful quotes that can be found. Many more can be found across the web and in those long forgotten treasures called books. Now that you have taken the time to reflect on what being a mother means to you, why not give someone else a moment of peace was well by sharing this? If I have done my job well then you have not only been reminded of what mothering means to you but of what your own mother means to you. Instead of thinking of your sacrifices, your value, your love…think of hers. Spread some love to all mothers. Have you been inspired? If so, I hope I have inspired you to inspire someone else with these universal truths.
