Mother’s Day is an annual occasion marked on the second Sunday in May. A time to celebrate everything that our moms mean to us and a great time to show your love for all the wonderful women who stood in the gap as a mom in your life.
If you’re looking for a way to show your mother, grandmothers, or any other mother figure in your life how special you think they are, these lovely quotes about mothers are just what you need. Tell them how much you appreciate their love and kindness in taking care of you. You can make these quotes stand out by adding them to a personalized gift for mom, leave it as a note with a bouquet of flower or card gift.
Short Mother’s Day Quotes
“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.” —Meryl Streep
“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.” —James Joyce
“As my mom always said, ‘You’d rather have smile lines than frown lines.’” —Cindy Crawford
“Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.” —P.J. O’Rourke
“Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.” —Kahil Gibran
“My mother always said I was beautiful and I finally believed her at some point.” —Lupita Nyong’o
“A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.” —Unknown
“We are born of love; love is our mother.” —Rumi
“A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.” —Amy Tan
“Mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.” —Emily Dickinson
“The world needs our mothers.” —Liya Kebede
“A mother’s hug lasts long after she lets go.” —Unknown
“There is nothing as sincere as a mother’s kiss.” —Saleem Sharma
“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” —Abraham Lincoln
“You sacrificed for us. You’re the real MVP.” —Kevin Durant
“Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.” —Tina Fey
“The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.” —Jodi Picoult
“Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.” —Harriet Beecher Stowe
Short And Beautiful Mother’s Day Quotes
“Motherhood is ‘heart-exploding, blissful hysteria.’” —Olivia Wilde
“A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.” —Emily Dickinson
“Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.” —Robert A. Heinlein
“I unapologetically and unabashedly am deeply biased toward my mother.” —Chelsea Clinton
“I tell my kids, ‘I am thinking about you every other minute of my day.’” —Michelle Obama
“There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother.” —Sara Josepha Hale
“A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.” —Princess Diana
“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” —Abraham Lincoln
“Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” —George Eliot
“There’s no such thing as a supermom. We just do the best we can.” —Sarah Michelle Gellar
“My mother is a walking miracle.” —Leonardo DiCaprio
“A mother understands what a child does not say.” —Jewish proverb
“A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.” —Debasish Mridha
Beautiful Quotes For Mum
“My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.” —Lisa Leslie
“The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” —James E. Faust
“It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?” —Mahatma Gandhi
“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
“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.” —Maya Angelou
“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
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
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
Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heartthrob.” —Leroy Brownlow
Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything.” —Unknown
Mother’s Day Quotes From Son
Only mothers can think of the future because they give birth to it in their children.” —Maxim Grosky
Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.” —Susan Gale
My Mother: She is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her. ” —Jodi Picoult
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” —William Makepeace Thackeray
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
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
A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.” —Unknown
When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” —Charley Benetto
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
There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.” —Elder M. Russell Ballard
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes
Mother’s Day Quotes From Daughter
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
There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.” —Jill Churchill
There is no velvet so soft as a mother’s lap, no rose as lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps.” —Archibald Thompson
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. ” —Robert Browning
My mom is my hero. She inspired me to dream when I was a kid, so anytime anyone inspires you to dream, that’s gotta be your hero.” —Tim McGraw
There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn’t have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.” —Taylor Swift
Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” —Erich Fromm
You instantly become less selfish. You can’t be the biggest person in the world anymore—they are. Motherhood really grounds you.” —Keri Russell
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs since the payment is pure love.” —Mildred B. Vermont
A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.” —Honore de Balzac
Caring Quotes For Mother’s Day
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
I have found being a mother has made me emotionally raw in many situations. You heart is beating outside your body when you have a baby.” —Kate Beckinsale
The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.” —Elaine Heffner
In the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child reads the message: ‘You are there!’” —Adrienne Rich
If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” —Stevie Wonder
I’m still amazed at how my mother emerged from her lonely early life as such an affectionate and levelheaded woman.” —Hillary Clinton
I don’t think of myself as a terribly confident person. But I have a survival mechanism that was instilled in me by my mother.” —Naomi Watts
My mother is everything to me. She’s my anchor, she’s the person I go to when I need to talk to someone. She is an amazing woman.” —Demi Lovato
A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” —Victor Hugo
My favorite thing about motherhood is that it’s made me grow into a woman finally, and I finally grew up, thank God.” —Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi
When you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” —Mitch Albom
Heart Touching Mother’s Day Quotes
The mother’s heart is the child’s school-room.” —Henry Ward Beecher
To the world, you are a mother, but to your family, you are the world.” —Unknown
The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother.” —St. Therese of Lisieux
Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.” —Marion C. Garretty
Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.” —Lady Gaga
To a child’s ear, ‘mother’ is magic in any language.” —Arlene Benedict
A mother is a mother still, the holiest thing alive.” —Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.” —Lance Conrad
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.” —Lin Yutang
Mothers can look through a child’s eyes and see tomorrow.” —Reed Markham
Mother—that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.”—T. Dewitt Talmage
Inspiring Quotes For Mother’s Day
“Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had.” —Linda Wooten
“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
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
It has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. My mom says some days are like that.” —Judith Viorst
“Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.” —Mabel Hale
“No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.” —Edwin Chapin
Inspirational Mother’s Day Quotes
I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” —Abraham Lincoln
It’s been a huge joy, this experience of being a mom … I don’t know how to articulate it yet, because it is so fresh.” —Unknown
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes
Never gonna go a day without you / Fills me up just thinking about you / I’ll never go a day without my mama” —Boyz II Men
My mom had this amazing attitude in the face of everything, including when she got cancer.” —Bill Clinton
My mom is the greatest mom in the whole wide world. She’s done everything for me to make my dreams come true.” —Josh Hutcherson
My mom had four kids, one with special needs. She had a full-time job, and she still came home and made dinner for us every night, from scratch. It was amazing.” —Eva Longoria
Sometimes, when I want to take on the world, I try to remember that it’s just as important to sit down and ask my son how he’s feeling or talk to him about life.” —Angelina Jolie
What’s beautiful about my mother is her compassion, how much she gives, whether it be to her kids and grandkids or out in the world. She’s got a sparkle.” —Kate Hudson
My mom has always been my hero. Watching her experience something like breast cancer was pivotal, I think in my whole family’s life and experience. She is one strong lady.” —Emma Stone
I would say that my mother is the single biggest role model in my life, but that term doesn’t seem to encompass enough when I use it about her. She was the love of my life.” —Mindy Kaling
Special Mother’s Day Quotes
It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.” —Roald Dahl
My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year and I always won. I’m an only child, and I could count on my mother’s vote.” —Condoleezza Rice
Mama, you taught me to do the right things / So now you have to let your baby fly / You’ve given me everything that I will need / To make it through this crazy thing called life” —Carrie Underwood
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.” —George Washington
Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark … to have been loved so deeply .. will give us some protection forever.” —J.K. Rowling
When you’re dying laughing because your three-year-old made a fart joke, it doesn’t matter what else is going on. That’s real happiness.” —Gwyneth Paltrow
Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.” —Unknown
A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” —Cardinal Mermillod