Best Motherhood Quotes

#1. Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.

Paul Harris

#2. Each day we do the best we can, and then tomorrow we try again!

Alison Grace Johansen

#3. A mother has the best of all smiles; she is a wonderful friend, lover and adviser.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#4. Next to motherhood, I personally believe that being an author is the best job in the world.

Geraldine Solon

#5. The best part of having two babies at once, a son and a daughter, is mostly everything. You're just having that feeling of love inside you all the time and motherhood is such a fulfilling place to be. I kind of wish it would have happened to me earlier in my life.

Jennifer Lopez

#6. My rugrats give me gifts that say "#1 Mom" on them and I'm like, bwhahahahaha, joke's on you, I'm more like the #1,297,279 Mom. But they truly think I'm the best mom on earth. And that's all that matters.

Karen Alpert

#7. New motherhood gives you an opportunity to embrace the chaos and know that you are doing the best you ca - including in your sex life.

Sarah J. Swofford

#8. Nettie, it quickly developed, had no gift for mothering. Many women have no gift for it. They mimic the recalled gestures and mannerisms of the women they've been trained to become and hope for the best.

Vivian Gornick

#9. A wholesome mother knows the software to delete, download, upgrade and upload for the best results.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#10. That best academy, a mother's knee.

James Russell Lowell

#11. The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.

Nancy E. Turner

#12. This is one of the weird things about motherhood. You can predict that some of your best moments will happen around the toilet at six am while you're holding a pile of fingernail clipping like a Santeria priestess.

Tina Fey

#13. Motherhood is still the great unknown. For some, it brings incomparable happiness and enriches their identity. Others manage as best they can to reconcile contradictory demands.

Elisabeth Badinter

#14. There are things that mothers can manage best when they do their duty.

Louisa May Alcott

#15. I may not be the best mom. I may not even get back to being the average mother I once claimed to be. But I'm here. I'm getting back up. I'm not leaving. And I'm the mom God ordained for these fours souls, and therefore I am their best mom.

Gillian Marchenko

#16. There's no doubt that motherhood is the best thing in my life. It's all that really matters.

Courteney Cox

#17. Motherhood has been the best thing that has ever happened to me. It has taught me a lot about myself, about the things I'm great at, and the things I need to work on.

Tia Mowry

#18. Whatever life brings, we'll share," she says, and "I can do no more than the best I can.

Carol Emshwiller

#19. One has to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)

Ingmar Bergman

#20. You're only as happy as your least happy child,' is the best description of motherhood I have ever read.

Sarah Payne Stuart

#21. I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.

Emma Thompson

#22. The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

#23. In order for them to be the best they can be, my children need me to be the best version of me I can be. That means
taking charge of our lives, being strong even if I don't feel it,being brave and believing that I can make things better.

Charlotte Pearson

#24. The best thing she was, was her children.

Toni Morrison

#25. At first I had not understood Mama. But as I grew older, maybe not wiser, certainly more realistic, I realized she did the best she could. She loved me, in her own way. Not everyone is born to be a mother. It does not come naturally to some women.

Christie Watson

#26. People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood.

Imelda May

#27. The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.

Deborah Norville

#28. Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love.

Janet Goodfriend

#29. She never choose anything except her husband, her motherhood and her trust in God. The rest of it was put upon her and she bears it and does her best.

Susan Fletcher

#30. The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.

Victoria Billings

#31. I tried to do it all myself: be mommy and camp counselor and art teacher and prereading specialist (and somehow, in my off-hours, to do my own work). I tried my absolute best. And like so many of the moms around me, I started to go a little crazy.

Judith Warner

#32. Exposure to a two-year-old boy was probably the best possible object lesson in the dangers of motherhood,

Diana Gabaldon

#33. Motherhood is a blissful chain ... I have a mother - my precious gift ... I am a mother - the best of my kind!

Jaachynma N.E. Agu