The most beautiful woman

1. “Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.

Unknown

2. “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 Loren

3. “Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love, and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

Stevie Wonder

4. “Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it’s the most exquisite love of all.

Maggie Gallagher

5. “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

Agatha Christie

6. “Mothers were meant to love us unconditionally, to understand our moments of stupidity, to reprimand us for lame excuses while yet acknowledging our point of view, to weep over our pain and failures as well as cry at our joy and successes, and to cheer us on despite countless start-overs. Heaven knows, no one else will.

Richelle E. Goodrich

7. “The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Honore de Balzac

8. “Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

Robert A. Heinlein

9. “There will be so many times you feel like you failed. But in the eyes, heart, and mind of your child, you are super mom.

Stephanie Precourt

10. “Successful mothers are not the ones that have never struggled, they are the ones that never give up, despite the struggles.

Sharon Jaynes

11. “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 and Elia Parsons

12. “My mother has always been my emotional barometer and my guidance. I was lucky enough to get to have one woman who truly helped me through everything.

Emma Stone

13. “Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

Erich Fromm

14. “A mother’s love! O holy, boundless thing! Fountain whose waters never cease to spring!

Marguerite Gardiner

15. “Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom.

Richelle E. Goodrich

16. “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.

Rajneesh

17. “Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

Meryl Streep

18. “A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

Washington Irving

19. “A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.

Amy Tan

20. “There is no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

Jill Churchill

21. “A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

22. “[Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge and scary – it’s an act of infinite optimism.

Gilda Radner

23. “Motherlove is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.

Marion C. Garretty

24. “Mothers possess power beyond that of a king on his throne.

Mabel Hale

25. “Mother – that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.

T. DeWitt Talmage