Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.
The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.
Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything.
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Motherhood is the greatest thing in the world when you're doing it right. And it is the hardest thing in the world when you're doing it wrong.

The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother.
A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking.
A mother’s love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.

Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn't know you had, and dealing with fears you didn't know existed.
A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.