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50+ Best Quotes for Mother's Day

50+ Best Quotes for Mother's Day

2017/05/03 | By AmoLink | Design Inspiration, Design Trends

Summary: If you've found a perfect Mother's Day gift for you mom, but can't figure out the right words to express exactly how much you love her, this collection of 50+ Mother's Day quotes is a good start.


Mother’s Day is approaching. Have you figured out what to say to show appreciation to your mom this year? When your own words don’t feel like enough, Mother’s Day quotes from the greatest minds and wittiest of wordsmiths can help.

We've sorted 50+ Mother's Day quotes into four categories by mood, and you can click on the tags below to the one that you're interested in.

SWEET & CARING

Mother is the one who are willing to love us unconditionally, to understand our moments of stupidity, to reprimand us for lame excuses while yet acknowledging our point of view, to weep over our pain and failures as well as cry at our joy and successes, and to cheer us on despite countless start-overs. Heaven knows, no one else will.

Sweet Mother’s Day Quotes

A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.

— PRINCESS DIANA

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

— VICTOR HUGO

The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.

— JODI PICOULT

Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.

— KAHIL GIBRAN

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

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

— ERICH FROMM

Blessed is a mother that would give up part of her soul for her children's happiness.

— SHANNON L. ALDER

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

— HONORE DE BALZAC

A mother’s hug lasts long after she lets go.

— HONORE DE BALZAC

Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.

— SOPHOCLES

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

— OPRAH WINFREY

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

— MITCH ALBOM

There is nothing as sincere as a mother's kiss.

— SALEEM SHARMA

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

— MILDRED VERMONT

All mothers are working mothers.

— UNKNOWN

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

— ROBERT BROWNING

A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.

— AMY TAN

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

— UNKNOWN

But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.

— MITCH ALBOM

A mother understands what a child does not say.

— JEWISH PROVERB

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

— FLORIDA SCOTT-MAXWELL

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

— WASHINGTON IRVING

A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

— AGATHA CHRISTIE

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

— OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don’t even have.

— ROBERT BRAULT

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

INSPIRING

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. As for courage and strength, a mother’s love is the strongest energy known to man.

Inspiring Mother’s Day Quotes

I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.

— LANCE CONRAD

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

— THE GOLDEN GIRLS

Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had.

— LINDA WOOTEN

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

— MABEL HALE

My mother is a walking miracle.

— LEONARDO DICAPRIO

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.

— EDWIN CHAPIN

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

— LISA ALTHER

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

— BARBARA KINGSOLVER

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

— JEWISH PROVERB

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

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

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

There will be so many times you feel like you failed. But in the eyes, heart and mind of your child you are super mom.

— STEPHANIE PRECOURT

A mother is clothed with strength and dignity, laughs without fear of the future. When she speaks her words are wise and she gives instructions with kindness.

— PROVERBS

INFLUENTIAL

Life doesn’t come with a manual, it comes with a mother. The influence of a mother lasts forever. Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it's a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.

Influential Mother’s Day Quotes

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

— JAMES E. FAUST

There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.

— ELDER M. RUSSELL BALLARD

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

— UNKNOWN

There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother.

— SARA JOSEPHA HALE

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

— DOROTHY CANFIELD FISHER

Men are what their mothers made them.

— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.

— SPANISH PROVERB

Mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

— EMILY DICKINSON

Mother—that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.

— T. DEWITT TALMAGE

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

— MARION C. GARRETTY

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

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

— ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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

— LISA LESLIE

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

— ABRAHAM LINCOLN

My mom is my hero. She inspired me to dream when I was a kid.

— TIM MCGRAW

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

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

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

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

— ERIN KELLY

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

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

As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.

— KRISTIN HANNAH

FAMILY

Every relationship has the highs and lows, the same goes for mom, who supposed to be the closest people in life. However, no matter what you’ve been through, no matter how many arguments you’ve had, you can’t deny that she’s irreplaceable. The mother is the “heart” of the home. She is the one who always keep with the devotion she has for family and kids, prioritizes them above all. It seems like she can handle all kinds of troubles. There’s no role in a family more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood.

Mother’s Day Quotes about Family

Moms are like buttons—they hold everything together.

— UNKNOWN

To the world you are a mother, but to your family you are the world.

— UNKNOWN

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

— LEROY BROWNLOW

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

— SUSAN GALE

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

— CARDINAL MERMILLOD

Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, comrades and friends—but only one mother in the whole world.

— KATE DOUGLAS WIGGINS



With so many Mother’s Day quotes, do you have any idea what to say to mom? Believe or not, some sweet words that come from the heart can make people smile. It surely works for your mom. To make your appreciation even more special, you can personalize a Mother’s Day card with your favorite quotes for mom.

Anyway, the best Mother’s Day gift can be felling loved every single day through your words and your actions. Mother should get a life time of appreciation, not just one day a year.