Mother’s Day is a beautiful day to celebrate the incredible women who have raised us and loved us unconditionally. Finding the perfect words to express our gratitude and love can be a challenge, but thankfully, there are so many touching Mother’s Day quotes to choose from. Whether you’re looking for something from a daughter’s perspective, a funny and lighthearted message, or even a way to honor those mothers who have passed away, there is a Mother’s Day quote that will fit the bill. So take some time this year to show your mom just how much she means to you, and let a heartwarming Mother’s Day quote do the talking.
- “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
- “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
- “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 Grosky
- “My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.” —Lisa Leslie
- “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
- “My mother is a walking miracle.” —Leonardo DiCaprio
- “A mother understands what a child does not say.” —Jewish proverb
- “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
- “Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” —George Eliot
- “A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.” —Unknown
- “We are born of love; love is our mother.” —Rumi
- “Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.” —Kahil Gibran
- “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
- “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
- “A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.” —Debasish Mridha
- “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” —Victor Hugo
- “A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” —Cardinal Mermillod
- “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
- “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
- “Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.” —Unknown
- “Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” —Erich Fromm
- “Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs since the payment is pure love.” —Mildred B. Vermont
- “When you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” —Mitch Albom
- “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
- “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 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
- “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. ” —Robert Browning
- “Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.” —Cheryl Lacey Donovan
- “By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.” —Edwin Elliot
- “You are far more precious than jewels.” —Proverbs
- “You are a gift from God a friend that I can count on and a wonderful model of a mother.” —Unknown
- “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
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- “It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds.” —Gina Barreca
- “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
- “There are friends, there is family, and then there are friends that become family.” —Unknown
- “The love and compassion you’ve always carried in your heart makes you a wonderful mother and a beloved friend.” —Unknown
- “It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.” —Unknown
- “A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” —Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- “Nothing is really lost until your mom can’t find it.” —Unknown
- “Mom: a title just above queen.” —Unknown
- “I have so much of you in my heart.” —John Keats
- “An older sister is a friend and defender — a listener, conspirator, a counselor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.” —Pam Brown
- “The best thing about having a sister was that I always had a friend.” —Cali Rae Turner
- “Time passes quickly but one thing always lasts – the love and support found in you. ” —Catherine Pulsifer
- “Your sisters are the only people in the world who know what it’s like to have been brought up the way you were.” —Betsy Cohen
- “To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or a confident – it is to have a soulmate for life.” —Victoria Secunda
- “A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life. ” —Isadora James
- “Only an aunt can give hugs like a mother, can keep secrets like a sister and share love like a friend.” —Unknown
- “An aunt is someone special to remember with warmth, think of with pride, and cherish with love.” —Unknown
- “Aunt: A cherished friend and personal cheerleader who will always see you through rose-colored glasses.” —Unknown
- “Aunt; like a mom only cooler.” —Unknown
- “The best aunts aren’t substitute parents, they’re co-conspirators. ” —Daryl Gregory
- “Aunt ― a double blessing. You love like a parent and act like a friend.” —Unknown
- “I smile because you’re my aunt. I laugh because there’s nothing you can do about it.” —Unknown
- “An aunt makes life a little sweeter.” —Unknown
- “An aunt grows more treasured as time goes by.” —Unknown
- “An aunt is always there for all the times when you need a second mom.” —Unknown
- “God couldn’t be everywhere so he created aunts.” —Unknown
- “An aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side.” —Sara Sheridan
- “Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.” —Oprah Winfrey
- “Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.” —Barbara Kingsolver
- “Great sisters get promoted to aunt.” —Unknown
- “It’s such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother—that’s why the world calls her grandmother.” —Unknown
- “Life doesn’t come with a manual, it comes with a grandmother.” —Unknown
- “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 life without her.” —Kristin Hannah
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- “Everything I am, you helped me to be.” —Unknown
- “Grandmothers are the people who take delight in hearing babies breathing into the telephone.” —Unknown
- “Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love.” —Unknown
- “A grandmother is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend.” —Unknown
- “Grandmothers always have time to talk and make you feel special. ” —Catherine Pulsifer
- “Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while…but our hearts forever. ” —Unknown
- “If nothing is going well, call your grandmother.” —Italian Proverb
- “My grandmother is my angel on earth. ” —Catherine Pulsifer
- “Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete.” —Marcy DeMaree
- “I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.” —Andre Leon Talley
- “There’s no place like home except Grandma’s.” —Unknown
- “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
- “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
- “Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had.” —Linda Wooten
- “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
- “An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.” —Spanish Proverb
- “A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don’t even have.” —Robert Brault
- “We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.” —Laura Stavoe Harm
- “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.” —Erma Bombeck
- “The phrase ’working mother’ is redundant.” —Jane Sellman
- “I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then, I want to move in with them.” —Phyllis Diller
- “If evolution really works, how come mothers have only two hands?” —Milton Berle
- “There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.” —Chinese Proverb
“Mom, I love you, even though I’ll never accept your *follow* request.” —Unknown
