Celebrating Mother’s Day goes beyond flowers and gifts; it’s about honoring the heart and soul of our families—our mothers. Whether she’s a guiding light, a source of strength, or your first best friend, the words we share can touch her heart profoundly.
Here’s a collection of 100+ touching, inspiring, and thoughtful quotes that beautifully capture the essence of what it means to celebrate the most special woman in our lives.
Use these quotes to make your Mother’s Day wishes truly memorable and express your love and appreciation in ways that words alone can seldom do.
- “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” – Robert Browning
- “A mother’s love endures through all.” – Washington Irving
- “The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.” – Elaine Heffner
- “Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.” – Unknown
- “The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” – James E. Faust
- “To the world, you are a mother, but to your family, you are the world.” – Unknown
- “A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.” – Princess Diana
- “Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.” – Kahil Gibran
- “A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” – Cardinal Mermillod
- “Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” – George Eliot
- “A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.” – Unknown
- “Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.” – Susan Gale
- “Everything I am, you helped me to be.” – Unknown
- “A mother’s love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.” – Marion C. Garretty
- “The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.” – Jodi Picoult
- “Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” – Erich Fromm
- “A mother’s hug lasts long after she lets go.” – Unknown
- “My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.” – Lisa Leslie
- “There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” – Jill Churchill
- “Moms are the people who know us the best and love us the most.” – Unknown
- “The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” – Honoré de Balzac
- “Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had.” – Linda Wooten
- “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world.” – Agatha Christie
- “A mother understands what a child does not say.” – Jewish proverb
- “The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother.” – St. Therese of Lisieux
- “Mothers are like buttons. They hold everything together.” – Unknown
- “There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.” – Elder M. Russell Ballard
- “The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.” – Henry Ward Beecher
- “For when a child is born the mother also is born again.” – Gilbert Parker
- “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” – Victor Hugo
- “Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything.” – Unknown
- “Only mothers can think of the future because they give birth to it in their children.” – Maxim Gorky
- “A mom’s hug lasts long after she lets go.” – Unknown
- “A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” – Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- “We are born of love; Love is our mother.” – Rumi
- “Mom: a title just above queen.” – Unknown
- “Motherhood: where all love begins and ends.” – Robert Browning
- “My mother is a walking miracle.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
- “A mother’s love liberates.” – Maya Angelou
- “If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” – Stevie Wonder
- “Mothers can look through a child’s eyes and see tomorrow.” – Reed Markham
- “A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.” – Debasish Mridha
- “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.” – Maya Angelou
- “The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” – Theodore Hesburgh
- “Mothers are all slightly insane.” – J.D. Salinger
- “All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “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
- “A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.” – Amy Tan
- “Mom, when thoughts of you are in our hearts, we are never far from home.” – Unknown
- “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
- “A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don’t even have.” – Robert Brault
- “In the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child reads the message: ‘You are there!’” – Adrienne Rich
- “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Hermann Hesse
- “Moms: They are strength, wisdom, and love, personified.” – Unknown
- “Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.” – Amos Bronson Alcott
- “Mothers hold their children’s hands for a while, but their hearts forever.” – Unknown
- “I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.” – Antonio Villaraigosa
- “A mother’s love doesn’t make her son more dependent and timid; it actually makes him stronger and more independent.” – Cheri Fuller
- “We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.” – Laura Stavoe Harm
- “The days are long, but the years are short.” – Gretchen Rubin
- “Mom, because of you, I am what I am today. Thank you.” – Unknown
- “Moms are people who know us the best and love us the most.” – Unknown
- “A mother’s example sketches the outline of her child’s character.” – Unknown
- “Loads of thanks to my dearest mom for being my angel and my star.” – Unknown
- “Home is where your mom is.” – Unknown
- “A mother’s love is the heart of a family.” – Unknown
- “Mom, you are the artist that painted my life’s background.” – Unknown
- “Thanks for giving me the best things in life: Your time, your care, and your love. Happy Mothers Day.” – Unknown
- “Mothers are like buttons, they hold everything together!” – Unknown
- “For all you do and all you are, we love you…” – Unknown
- “As is the mother, so is her daughter.” – Ezekiel 16:44
- “Men are what their mothers made them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
- “Who ran to help me when I fell, or kissed the place to make it well? My mother.” – Ann Taylor
- “A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.” – Princess Diana
- “You raised me with love, and I appreciate everything you have done for me.” – Unknown
- “I believe in love at first sight because I loved my mom since I opened my eyes.” – Unknown
- “The world needs our mothers.” – Liya Kebede
- “A mother’s hug lasts long after she lets go.” – Unknown
- “There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother.” – Sara Josepha Hale
- “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
- “Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs since the payment is pure love.” – Mildred B. Vermont
- “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” – Victor Hugo
- “My mother is a never-ending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune.” – Graycie Harmon
- “The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant.” – Jane Sellman
- “A mother’s love perceives no impossibilities.” – Paddock
- “My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.” – Lisa Leslie
- “To a child’s ear, ‘mother’ is magic in any language.” – Arlene Benedict
- “All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Mom, when thoughts of you are in our hearts, we are never far from home.” – Unknown
- “A mother’s love is everything. It is what brings a child into this world. It is what molds their entire being. When a mother sees her child in danger, she is literally capable of anything. Mothers have lifted cars off of their children and destroyed entire dynasties. A mother’s love is the strongest energy known to man.” – Jamie McGuire
- “A mother understands what a child does not say.” – Jewish Proverb
- “The magic of motherhood is that the very person who taught you to speak their name will also instigate a revolution in your heart regarding what love really is.” – Unknown
- “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
- “A mother’s spell remains the strongest and the healthiest, for in it we have learnt how to love and care.” – Faye Diane Kilday
- “You are my friend, my spirit, my influence towards success. There is no replacement of you. You are the best and will be best forever. I love you my dearest mom.” – Unknown
- “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
- “Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.” – Barbara Kingsolver
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