Whether you’re up in the middle of the night for a feeding, or trying to relax as your tiny little sidekick soaks up some sleep, browsing quotes for new moms will help you pass the time. Maybe you’re having trouble sleeping in the weeks leading up to the arrival of your new baby and are looking for new mom quotes and sayings that you can store in your phone for when the time comes to share your happy news with the world on social media. Whatever your reason may be, look no further than below for first-time mom quotes!
150 New Mom Quotes
- “A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past is forgotten and the future worth living for.” — Unknown
- Whenever you feel like you are failing, look in the eyes of your child, and know your value.” — Unknown
- “Sometimes, when you pick up your child, you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood – finding a piece of yourself separate and apart, that all the same, you could not live without.” – Jodi Picoult
- “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
- “Being a mother is the most rewarding blessing in the world, just knowing you can love someone so much, and get that same love in return is wonderful." — Unknown
- “It’s ok to be grumpy sometimes, to have bad days to struggle, to make mistakes, to say the wrong thing, feel overwhelmed and under-appreciated, to be out-of-sorts and sort-of-over-it all. It’s ok for us big humans, and it’s ok for our little humans, too. After all, we’re all humans, right? How else will our little humans learn that it’s okay to be human? Remember, we’re imperfect humans growing imperfect humans in an imperfect world, and that’s perfectly okay.” – L.R. Knost
- “The choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.” – Oprah
- “Just as there is no warning for childbirth, there is no preparation for the sight of a first child. There should be a song for women to sing at this moment or a prayer to recite. But perhaps there is none because there are no words strong enough to name the moment.” – Anita Diamant
- “You’re always going to wonder if you’re doing things wrong, but that’s what it means to be a mom, to care so much about someone else that you just want to be perfect as possible.” – Naya Rivera
- “Motherhood – It is a choice you make every day to put someone else’s happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you’re not sure what the right thing is, and to forgive yourself, over and over again for doing everything wrong.” — Unknown
- “Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be.” – Carrie Fisher
- “Having kids – the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings is the biggest job anyone can embark on.” – Maria Shriver
- “No one else will ever know the strength of my love for you. After all, you’re the only one who knows what my heart sounds like from the inside.” — Unknown
- “A baby fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty.” — Unknown
- “Before you were conceived, I wanted you. Before you were born, I loved you. Before you were here, I would die for you. This is the miracle of Mother’s love.” – Maureen Hawkins
- “A baby arrives, and just like that everything changes. The world gets bigger, heart grows fuller, and life means more.” — Unknown
- “Being a mother is the most rewarding blessing in the world, just knowing you can love someone so much, and get that same love in return is wonderful.” — Unknown
- “A baby is something you carry inside you for nine months, in your arms for three years and in your heart till the day you die.” – Mary Mason
- “A miracle is the only way to describe motherhood and giving birth. It’s unbelievable how God has made us women and babies to endure and be able to do so much. A miracle, indeed. Such an incredible blessing.” – Jennie Finch
- “You’ll learn to lower your expectations about what you can accomplish in a day. Some days, it will be all you can do to keep a baby safe, warm, and fed, and that will be enough.” — Unknown
- “You will never have this day with your children again tomorrow. They will be a little older than they were today. This day is a gift just breathe and notice, smell and touch them, study their faces and little feet, pay attention, relish the charm of the present. Enjoy today.” — Unknown
- “Be patient with yourself. You and your baby are both learning new things each day.” — Unknown
- “There are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.” – Anne Lamott
- “Motherhood is messy and challenging, and crazy, and sleepless, and giving, and unbelievably beautiful.” — Unknown
- “You’re doing a great job, mom, even when you don’t feel like it.” — Unknown
- “There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” – Jill Churchill
- “What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.” – Benjamin Spock
- “Birth takes a woman’s deepest fears about herself and show her that she is stronger than them.” – Unknown
- “The best thing about being a new mom is the lower tolerance from not drinking for nine months.” – Anonymous
- “Hold on to the tiny moments and cherish the little snuggles. They grow up so fast.” — Unknown
- “A mother does not become pregnant in order to provide employment to medical people. Giving birth is an ecstatic jubilant adventure not available to males. It is a woman’s crowning creative experience of a lifetime.” — Unknown
- “Sleep is like the unicorn—it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any.” – Unknown
- “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” — Unknown
- “When life gets hard and you feel alone, remember, you mean the world to somebody and that somebody calls you mom.” — Unknown
- “There are hard days in motherhood. But looking at your sleeping baby reminds you why it’s all worth it.” — Unknown
- “To be motherly means to be both strong and nurturing.” — Unknown
- “Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders where ever your children go.” — Unknown
- “A child is the most beautiful gift this world has to give.” — Unknown
- “To be pregnant is to be vitally alive, thoroughly woman, and distressingly inhabited. Soul and spirit are stretched – along with body – making pregnancy a time of transition, growth, and profound beginnings.” – Anne Christian Buchanan
- “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
- “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 mother continues to labor long after the baby is born.” – Lisa Jo Baker
- “Whether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain – your life will never be the same.” – Catherine Jones
- “Hey, mama. I see you stressed out, tired, touched out, stretched thin, irritable, snappy, imperfect, short-tempered, grumpy, crying, it’s okay. Everybody has been there; it sucks, but you are good. You are a good mom, say it, believe it.” — Unknown
- “We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.” – Laura Stavoe Harm
- “Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” – Elizabeth Stone
- “Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.” – Barbara Kingsolver
- “Birth is the epicenter of women’s power.” – Ani DiFranco
- “I like to think of motherhood as a great big adventure. You set off on a journey, you don’t really know how to navigate things, and you don’t exactly know where you’re going or how you’re going to get there.” – Cynthia Rowley
- “Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.” – Tina Fey
- “Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.” – Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- “A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.” – Princess Diana
- “A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” – Cardinal Mermillod
- “My favorite thing about being a mom is just what a better person it makes you on a daily basis.” – Drew Barrymore
- “No matter your age, you will always need your mom.” – Unknown
- “A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.” – 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 Loren
- “A mother’s love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible” – Marion C. Garretty.
- “There is nothing as powerful as mother’s love, and nothing as healing as a child’s soul.” – Unknown
- “I’ve never had more appreciation for anyone in my entire life until I became a mom.” – Chrissy Teigen
- “Moms are the people who know us the best and love us the most.” – Unknown
- “My daughter introduced me to myself.” – Beyoncé Knowles
- “Of all the things my hands have held, the best, by far, is you.” – Unknown
- “A mother’s love endures through all.” – Washington Irving
- “Just when you think you know love, something little comes along and reminds you just how big it is.” – Unknown
- “Becoming a mother makes you realize you can do almost anything one-handed.” – Unknown
- “Motherhood: if you think my hands are full, you should see my heart.” – Unknown
- “The most magical day of my life was the day I became a mother.” — Unknown
- “If you’re worried about being a good mother, it means you already are one.” — Unknown
- “Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.” – Kate Winslet
- “I’ve carried a child within my body. I’ve slept with them on my chest. I’ve kissed toes and wiped away tears. I’ve been vomited on, peed on, and spent sleepless nights cradling my child. But I wouldn’t have it any other way. My body isn’t magazine perfect but when I look in the mirror, I see a mama. And there is no greater honor, love or blessing.” — Unknown
- “I’m proud of many things in life but nothing beats being a mother.” – Unknown
- “Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.” – Ricki Lake
- “Everything has changed, and yet, I’m more me than I’ve ever been.” – Iain Thomas
- “Being a mama can be tough, but always remember in the eyes of your child, no one does it better than you.” — Unknown
- “The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.” — Jodi Picoult
- “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” — Victor Hugo
- “Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.” — Unknown
- “Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” — Erich Fromm
- “Motherhood changes everything.” — Adriana Trigiani
- “For when a child is born the mother also is born again.” — Gilbert Parker
- “We are born of love; love is our mother.” — Rumi
- “You don’t take a class; you’re thrown into motherhood and learn from experience.” — Jennie Finch
- “Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” — William Makepeace Thackeray
- “When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.” — Mitch Albom
- “Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.” — Meryl Streep
- “I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.” — E.M. Forster
- “That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don’t know the language, where land is in sight for such a long time that after a while it’s just the horizon – and then one day birds wheel over that dark shape and it’s suddenly close, and all you can do is hope like hell that you’ve had the right shots.” — Emily Perkins
- “Feeling fat lasts nine months, but the joy of becoming a mom lasts forever.” – Nikki Dalton
- “Be patient with yourself. You and your baby are both learning new things each day.” — Unknown
- “Motherhood is wonderful, but it’s also hard work. It’s the logistics more than anything. You discover you have reserves of energy you didn’t know you had.” – Deborah Mailman
- “Being a mother is the highest paid job in the world. Since the payment is in pure love.” – Amina Sambo
- “God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” — Rudyard Kipling
- “Your most valuable parenting skill is learning to manage yourself first.” —Dr. Laura Markham
- “Finding balance as a mother means accepting your imperfections.” — Mary Organizes
- “It’s not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.” — Ann Landers
- “The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will find forgiveness.” —Honore de Balzac
- “All mothers are working mothers.” — Unknown
- “Live in the moment and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.” —Fanny Crosby
- “A sleeping baby is the new happy hour.” – Unknown
- “Mother – that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.” — T. DeWitt Talmage
- “No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.” — Edwin Chapin
- “Behind every great child is a mom who’s pretty sure she’s screwing it all up.” — Unknown
- “The days are long but the years are short.” — Gretchen Rubin
- “Parenting is the easiest thing in the world to have an opinion about, but the hardest thing in the world to do.” —Matt Walsh
- “You never know how much your parents loved you until you have a child to love.” — Jennifer Hudson
- “Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “There will never be a day, like a day your baby was born.” — Anonymous
- “Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.” — Harold Hulbert
- “The sweet smell of a baby must be one of the best smells in the whole world.” — Anonymous
- “Having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most sweetest and peaceful feelings in the world.” — Unknown
- “Motherhood: The only place you can experience Heaven and Hell at the same time.” — Anonymous
- “There are many things in life that I have taken for granted, but the opportunity and ability to be a mama will never be one of them.” — Unknown
- “Successful mothers are not the ones that have never struggled. They are the ones that never give up, despite the struggles.” – Sharon Jaynes
- “From the moment I became a mother, my purpose has been to love and protect my children with everything I have.” — Anonymous
- “Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.” — C.S. Lewis
- “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
- “The most precious jewels you’ll ever have around your neck are the arms of your children.” — Unknown 119.“I’m a mother. Life can be tough. But I am tougher.” — Unknown
- “In the end, I am the only one who can give my children a happy mother who loves life.” — Janene Wolsey Baadsgaard
- “Being a mother is not about what you gave up to have a child but what you’ve gained from having one.” — Unknown
- “Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.” — Meryl Streep
- “Enjoy every moment, Mama, they grow up before you know it.” — Unknown
- “It is within the journey of motherhood that a woman will discover how strong she really is.” — Unknown
- “I see myself as mom first. I’m so lucky to have that role in life. The world can like me, hate me or fall apart around me and at least I wake up with my kids and I’m happy.” — Angelina Jolie
- “For this child, I prayed and the Lord has granted the desires of my heart.” – 1 Samuel 1:27
- “Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.” – Penelope Leach
- “Babies are bits of stardust blown from the hand of God. Lucky the woman who knows the pangs of birth for she has held a star.” – Larry Barretto
- “Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.” – Kate Douglas Wiggin
- “With every newborn baby, a little sun rises.” – Irmgard Erath
- “Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy.” – Jayne Mansfield
- “Think of stretch marks as pregnancy service stripes.” – Joyce Armor
- “Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child.” – Tina Brown
- “Having kids feel like that first seventh-grade crush that overwhelms every molecule in your body, but it’s permanent.” – Kristen Bell
- “Part of being a parent is rolling with the punches, so consider an unexpected pregnancy the universe’s way of helping you to learn to do that.” ― Heather Wittenberg
- “In giving birth to our babies, we may find that we give birth to new possibilities within ourselves.”– Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn
- “Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born.”– George Bernard Shaw
- “My body has given me the greatest gift of my life.” —Hilary Duff
- “You just have to be gentle with yourself.” —Reese Witherspoon
- “Nothing in life will ever make you as happy, as sad, as exhausted, or as incredibly proud as motherhood.” — Unknown
- “While we try to teach our children all about life, they teach us what life is all about.” — Angela Schwindt
- “Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.” — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- “Remember when you found out you were pregnant and thought, ‘How am I going to do this?’ You did. Remember when you had a crying newborn and thought, ‘How am I going to get through this?’ You did. Remember when you had a strong-willed, defiant toddler and thought, ‘How am I going to make it through? You did. When days are hard, just remember…You have. You can. You will” — Unknown
- “As a mama, I’m not perfect. I make mistakes. I forget things. I lose my cool. And somedays I go a little crazy. But, it’s okay because in the end, no one could ever love my child the way I do.” — Unknown
- “During labor, let your voice be strong and unhindered. Women have been silenced in the birth room for too long.” — Lauralyn Curtis
- “Birth matters. It brings us into being, on many levels.” – Ananda Lowe
- “In this way, every birth is a natural birth: each of us is part of nature, not separate from it, and nature is always stunning in its variety. Your birth, then, is part of the natural world, however it unfolds.” — Lauralyn Curtis
- “Imagine what might happen if women emerged from their labor beds with a renewed sense of the strength and power of their bodies, and of their capacity for ecstasy through giving birth” — Dr. Christiane Northrup
- “A baby is like the beginning of all things: wonder, hope a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its earth to concrete, babies are almost the only remaining link in nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring.” – Eda J. Leshan
- “Birth is as safe as life gets.” — Harriette Hartigan Want more great quotes? Check out…50 Thinking of You Quotes150 Good Morning Quotes100 Wedding and Marriage Quotes50 Friday Quotes100 Quotes about Change101 Anxiety Quotes
