Mother’s Day Quotes

Showing your love for your mother waits for no occasion, but there’s no sweeter time than expressing it wholeheartedly on mother’s day. Make this day extra special and show your mom just how loved she is! The world may stumble and fall, but the love of a mother remains untroubled. Don’t let the day pass without letting her know how treasured she is with these quotes we’ve bundled in one. Through our list, we’ll help you make your mother’s day more memorable. These endearing string of words will simply remind her of the irreplaceable part she fills in your heart!

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I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood. ―Lance Conrad

Lance Conrad

The daughter prays; the mother listens. ―Amanda Downum

Amanda Downum

I think, Womanliness means only motherhood. ―Robert Browning

Robert Browning

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not. —James Joyce

James Joyce

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We are born of love; Love is our mother. ―Rumi

Rumi

[Mother] stood, always prepared in herself to challenge the world in our place. ―Eudora Welty

Eudora Welty

She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great – but how to laugh through it. ―Liza Minellie

Liza Minellie

I tell my kids, ‘I am thinking about you every other minute of my day. —Michelle Obama

Michelle Obama

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… since the payment is pure love. —Mildred Vermont

Mildred Vermont

A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s. —Diana, Princess of Wales

Princess Diana

Blessed is a mother that would give up part of her soul for her children’s happiness. — Shannon L. Alder

Shannon L. Alder

There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one. —Jill Churchill

Jill Churchill

Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you. ―Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott

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

Angelina Jolie

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood. ―Isadora Duncan

Isadora Duncan

Motherhood: All love begins there. —Robert Browning

Robert Browning

I learned more about Christianity from my mother than from all the theologians in England. ―John Wesley

John Wesley

She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great—but how to laugh through it. —Liza Minnelli

Liza Minnelli

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ―Irish Proverb

Irish Proverb

For when a child is born the mother also is born again. ―Gilbert Parker

Gilbert Parker

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother. —Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. ―Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou

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

Emma Stone

Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we’ve ever met. —Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. —Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. ―Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

And remember that behind every successful woman is a basket of dirty laundry. —Unknown

Unknown

Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne. — Mabel Hale

Mabel Hale

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful? ―Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi

He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. ―J.K. Rowling

J.K. Rowling

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation. —Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she’d just make enough for 16 and only serve half. —Gracie Allen

Gracie Allen

The mother, more than the father, is the one who molds and shapes those little lives from day one. ―John MacArthur

John MacArthur

My mother was the one constant in my life. When I think about my mom raising me alone when she was 20, and working and paying the bills, and, you know, trying to pursue your own dreams, I think is a feat that is unmatched. —Barack Obama

Barack Obama

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? —Milton Berle

Milton Berle

If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much. ―Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

As my mom always said, ‘You’d rather have smile lines than frown lines. —Cindy Crawford

Cindy Crawford

She drove me to ballet class…and she took me to every audition. She’d be proud of me if I was still sitting in that seat or if I was watching from home. She believes in me and that’s why this [award] is for her. She’s a wonderful mother. — Elisabeth Moss

Elisabeth Moss

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take. ―Cardinal Meymillod

Cardinal Meymillod

I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me. ―Martina Hingis

Martina Hingis

My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind. ―Michael Jordan

Michael Jordan

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

Stevie Wonder

Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me. —Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga

My mother is a walking miracle. —Leonardo Dicaprio

Leonardo Dicaprio

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. ―Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver

Kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run. — Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver

Clarity and focus doesn’t always come from God or inspirational quotes. Usually, it takes your mother to slap the reality back into you. —Shannon L. Alder

Shannon L. Alder

A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. —Peter De Vries

Peter De Vries

There’s nothing like your mother’s sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears. ―Sophie Kinsella

Sophie Kinsella

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart—a heart so large that everybody’s joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. —Mark Twain

Mark Twain

A mom’s hug lasts long after she lets go. —Unknown

Unknown

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his. ―Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

The films I’ve made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best. —Emma Thompson

Emma Thompson

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all. ―Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. ―William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray

My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean. ―Lana Del Rey

Lana Del Rey

I believe in the strength and intelligence and sensitivity of women. My mother, my sisters [they] are strong. My mum is a strong woman and I love her for it. —Tom Hiddleston

Tom Hiddleston

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ―Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

The babe at first feeds upon the mother’s bosom, but it is always on her heart. ―Henry Ward Beecher

Henry Ward Beecher

A child’s hand in yours – what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength. — Marjorie Holmes

Marjorie Holmes

If I’ve learned anything as a mom with a daughter who’s three, I’ve learned that you cannot judge the way another person is raising their kid. Everybody is just doing the best they can. It’s hard to be a mom.

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. —Marion C. Garretty

Marion C. Garretty

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. — Lin Yutang

Lin Yutang

Right, except I’m not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of (man) lies to his own mother?— John Green

John Green

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. —Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey

I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me. ―Antonio Villaraigosa

Antonio Villaraigosa

I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother. ―Charles H. Spurgeon

Charles H. Spurgeon

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life. ―Sophocles

Sophocles

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. ―Alice Walker

Alice Walker

We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong. ―Laura Stavoe Harm

Laura Stavoe Harm

Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears. —Kate Winslet

Kate Winslet

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. —Jessica Lange

Jessica Lange

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. —Tenneva Jordan

Tenneva Jordan

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at de sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground. ―Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston

I’m still amazed at how my mother emerged from her lonely early life as such an affectionate and levelheaded woman. —Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton

Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are. —Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

If at first you don’t succeed, try doing it the way mom told you to in the beginning. ―Unknown

Unknown

My mother always said ‘Don’t bother other people.’ I think that’s good advice. — Amy Sedaris

Amy Sedaris

I would say that my mother is the single biggest role model in my life… She was the love of my life. —Mindy Kaling

Mindy Kaling

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face. ―George Eliot

George Eliot

Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes. —P.J. O’Rourke

P. J. ORourke

My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was 6 and my brother was 8; I never forgot it. —Stephen King

Stephen King

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. ―Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing. ―Billy Sunday

Billy Sunday

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

Sophia Loren

You sacrificed for us. You’re the real MVP.—Kevin Durant

Kevin Durant

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father. ―Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted. ―Walker Percy

Walker Percy

Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving. —Gail Tsukiyama

Gail Tsukiyama

Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together. —Susan Gale

Susan Gale

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. ―Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children. ―Karl Lagerfeld

Karl Lagerfeld

It’s the job that I take most seriously in my life and I think it’s the hardest job.—Debra Messing

Debra Messing

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning necessary. —Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Life doesn’t come with a manual, it comes with a mother. ―Unknown

Unknown

[Motherhood is] heart-exploding, blissful hysteria. — Olivia Wilde

Olivia Wilde

A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her. — Erin Kelly

Erin Kelly

When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth. ―Mitch Albom

Mitch Albom

The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms. ―Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult

There is nothing as sincere as a mother’s kiss. ―Saleem Sharma

Saleem Sharma

Birth is a mystery. Words are not enough. ―Marie O’Connor

Marie O’Connor

All mothers are working mothers. —Unknown

Unknown

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her. ―George Washington

George Washington

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

Charlotte Gray

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. ―Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. ―Erich Fromm

Erich Fromm

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

Agatha Christie

My mother] always said I was beautiful and I finally believed her at some point. — Lupita Nyong’o

Lupita Nyong'o

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. ―Theodore Hesburgh

Theodore Hesburgh

My dear Mama, you are definitely the hen who hatched a famous duck. ―Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Grown don’t mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don’t mean a thing. ―Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

A thoughtful son or daughter warms every mother’s heart. Cherish this day like no other by bringing back the timeless and heartwarming tradition of writing letters. They say it’s hard to fully express one’s overflowing love for one’s mother. But sometimes, a single quote or two is enough to encapsulate this. A sweet, precious line is never too old or corny for a mother’s pure and enduring love.

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