First Mother’s Day Quotes

These cheering quotes are exactly what to write in a first Mother’s Day card for any first moms. Whether she’s your wife, daughter, friend, or sister, this is her first Mother’s Day as a mom! And this day will be her most thrilling but also exhausted and poop-filled Mother’s Day ever!

So let’s acknowledge this huge milestone with the messages that say how much supportive and proud of her you are. These sentiments give her some encouragement and inspiration to be a tender and caring mother.

• “Having kids feels like that first seventh-grade crush that overwhelms every molecule in your body, but it’s permanent.” – Kristen Bell
• “Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate.” – Charlotte Gray
• “Be patient with yourself. You and your baby are both learning new things each day.” – Unknown
• “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” – Victor Hugo
• “Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
• “Being a mother is not about what you gave up to have a child, but what you’ve gained from having one.” – Sunny Gupta
• “Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.” – Ricki Lake
• “As you become more clear about who you really are, you’ll be better able to decide what is best for you – the first time around.” – Oprah Winfrey
• “A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.” – Honoré de Balzac
• “Motherhood is messy and challenging, and crazy, and sleepless, and giving, and unbelievably beautiful.” – Unknown
• “The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.” – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
• “A baby fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty.” – Unknown
• “I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.” – Oprah Winfrey
• “Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.” – Robin Lim
• “There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” – Jill Churchill

• “Being a mother is discovering strengths you didn’t know you had, and dealing with fears you never knew existed.” – Sherene Simon
• “A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.” – Anonymous
• “Sleep is like the unicorn—it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any.” – Unknown
• “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 Laren
• “Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.” – Susan Gale
• “The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” – James E. Faust
• “A mother understands what a child does not say.” – Jewish Proverb
• “A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” – Cardinal Meymillod
• “When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” – Charley Benento
• “Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.” – Marion C. Garretty
• “The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.” – Jessica Lange
• “A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.” – Amy Tan
• “A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” – Dorothy Canfield Fisher
• “Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
• “Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.” – Barbara Kingsolver
• “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” – Agatha Christie
• “Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.” – Unknown
• “The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” – Honore de Balzac
• “Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” – Erich Fromm
• “I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.” – E. M. Forster