Motherhood Joy Quotes

#1. For me, this baby was the most precious thing I had ever had. He was my treasure, my joy, my world, my everything now.

Preeti Shenoy

#2. This is the way of love, I find; one longs so fervently for the beloved to achieve the best ends that he is spared nothing.

Mary Stewart

#3. My greatest hope is to be a mother who loves Jesus with a deep and abiding affection that joyfully overflows to my children.

Melissa B. Kruger

#4. A thing that was difficult to determine was the attitude of the pigs towards Moses. They all declared contemptuously that his stories about Sugarcandy Mountain were lies, and yet they allowed him to remain on the farm, not working, with an allowance of a gill of beer a day.

George Orwell

#5. 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

#6. A good mother does not live only for her children. She always has some bond with other mothers, no matter what class, nationality or race they may be. All mothers have the same joys, the same sorrows, the same anxieties. All mothers think first of their child and of children.

Werenfried Von Straaten

#7. The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.

Horace Mann

#8. I had a lot of romantic notions about what it would mean to cross Asia by foot.

Rory Stewart

#9. Oh, it's a terrible, cruel thing - first you're young, and that takes up such a long time you think it's forever, then suddenly you're not young, and you never get used to it - and, oh dear, there's just the one way out.

Joyce Carol Oates

#10. The joy of motherhood comes in moments ... Families need unstructured time when relationships can deepen and real parenting can take place. Take time to listen, to laugh, and to play together.

M. Russell Ballard

#11. Let go of your daughter with grace and you'll find her calling on you with joy.

Cheryl Barker

#12. The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life.

Vera Brittain

#13. It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

Honore De Balzac

#14. Everybody works the same, but the preparation very often may be different. You cannot work differently. You have to say the words that were written on the page, and you have to make your marks. That's the work.

Morgan Freeman

#15. Motherhood is a joy! I have dreamed about being a mother since I was 12 years old, and there's nothing disappointing about it.

Evangeline Lilly

#16. I prayed in silence that perhaps even now, the queen might have a son and might know joy like this, such a strange, unexpected joy- the happiness of caring for a child whose whole life was in my hands.

Philippa Gregory

#17. The symphony of motherhood, it's about loving with absolute abandon, loving without regard for self, loving with a near totality of being. It's about a passion that could outburn the sun with its brightness. About a depthless hope and a fierce, rending joy.

Cody McFadyen

#18. The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed

Barbara Johnson

#19. Tell me everything it explains, he said when he could remember how to speak. Being forced to move moist flaps of meat in order to form the words felt sensual and obscene.

James S.A. Corey

#20. It was writing about music for NPR - connecting with music fans and experiencing a sense of community - that made me want to write songs again. I began to feel I was in my head too much about music, too analytical.

Carrie Brownstein

#21. that came over his face when he was

Rose Gordon

#22. The joy in 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

#23. I looked down at the little pink face in the bundle. A newborn. The child had been alive only minutes but was already considered a criminal by the Soviets.

Ruta Sepetys