Motivate Those Entering Motherhood for the First Time With These New Mom Quotes
Motherhood can be a lovely experience, but that doesn't mean it will look the same for everyone. So, for those new to this journey (or those celebrating Mother's Day as a first time mom), just remember to take a breath and feel the love this new life brings on. If you're in search for some motivation right now, this is definitely the right place. If you keep reading, you'll find a list of the best new mom quotes that truly inspire those who are still figuring this whole thing out. Some might say that sending this list to those who you know will need it can be the best Mother's Day gift around!
Whether you're celebrating a boy mom, a girl mom, or a mom of both (just like Ree Drummond), there's a universal feeling of everything seemingly falling into place once a new family begins. This quote by Kate Winslet says it all: “Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.” These new mom quotes and family quotes act as a perfect Mother's Day Instagram caption, too! But in all, they get the feeling right. And though no one can know exactly what motherhood feels like until it happens to them, these quotes act as a motivation for those expecting or those who are recently new to the role.
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Rosie Pope
“If you're a mom, you're a superhero. Period.”
Jessica Lange
“When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.”
Taraji. P. Henson
“Once you're a mom, you're always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.”
Amy Tan
“A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.”
Simone De Beauvoir
“There is a wondrous curiosity in every young mother. It is a strange miracle to see, to hold a living being formed in and coming out of one’s self.”
Amy Poehler
“When your children arrive, the best you can hope for is that they break open everything about you.”
Elizabeth Stone
“Making the decision to have a child — it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”
Virginia Kelley
“There is nothing like a new born baby to renew your spirit and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.”
Sophia Loren
“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.”
Rumi
“We are born of love; love is our mother.”
Victor Hugo
“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”
Anne Lamott
“There are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.”
Eda LeShan
“A new baby is like the beginning of all things — wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.”
Jennifer Hudson
“You never know how much your parents loved you until you have a child to love.”
Charles Osgood
“Babies are always more trouble than you thought — and more wonderful.”
Robert Browning
“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.”
Leo J. Burke
“People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.”
Tina Fey
“Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.”
Linda Wooten
“Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had, and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother’s secret hope outlives them all.”
Jill Churchill
“There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.”
Washington Irving
“A mother’s love endures through all.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born.”
Kate Winslet
“Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.”
Elizabeth Bard
“A baby is a wishing well. Everyone puts their hopes, their fears, their pasts, their two cents in.”
Kara Ferwerda
“There are hard days in motherhood, but looking at your baby sleeping reminds you why it’s all worth it.”
Oprah
“The choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.”
Charles Dickens
“Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.”
Barbara Kingsolver
“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”
Karen Maezen Miller
“The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.”
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