80 Mother’s Day Quotes

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

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

I’ve got her spirit. She’s always got my back. When I look at her. I think, I want to be just like that.
Lauren Alaina

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Happiness is seeing your mother smile.
Unknown

I do what I want, when I want, where I want…if my mom says it’s ok.
Unknown

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

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
Robert Browning

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

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

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

That strong mother doesn’t tell her cub, ‘Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you.’ She says, ‘Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.
Lauryn Hill

My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world.
Maya Angelou

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

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

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

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

I realized why I was born and more than anything all of the things I want to pass onto my child, and the best way of doing that is not by preaching or telling her but showing her by example.
Beyoncé

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

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

A child’s first teacher is its mother.
Peng Liyuan

Motherhood changes everything.
Adriana Trigiani

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

A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.
Princess Diana

I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then, I want to move in with them.
Phyllis Diller

The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.
James E. Faust

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

Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.
Ricki Lake

Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heart throb.
Leroy Brownlow

When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.
Charley Benetto

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

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness.
 Jessica Lange

Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.
Tina Fey

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

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

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

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.
Maya Angelou

There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood
Elder M. Russell Ballar

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

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

My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.
Lisa Leslie

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

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

Having kids—the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings—is the biggest job anyone can embark on.
Maria Shriver

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

Once you’re a mom, you’re always a mom. It’s like riding a bike, you never forget.
Taraji P. Henson

When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ It is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.
Erma Bombeck

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars
E. M. Forster

The most beautiful word on the lips of mankind is the word ‘Mother’, and the most beautiful call is the call of ‘My Mother’
Kahlil Gibran

There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.
Elder M. Russell Ballard

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

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
Rose Kennedy

A mother understands what a child does not say.
Jewish Proverb

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

“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

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

Sooner or later, we all quote our mothers.
Unknown

Nothing is really lost until your mom can’t find it.
Unknown

Don’t poets know it better than others? God can’t always be everywhere: and, so, invented mothers.
Sir Edwin Arnold

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

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

That’s the wonderful thing about mothers: You can because you must, and you just do.
Kate WInslet

A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.
Unknown

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

A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
Emily Dickinson

It’s not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.
Dorothy

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

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

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

If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
Stevie Wonder

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

A mother’s love endures through all.
Washington Irving