Let’s face it. After a life spent dealing with our daily whims and struggles, moms deserve a little pampering from their kids. Whether it’s a fancy vacation to Hawaii or a new pair of slippers (see what better fits your wallet), mom deserves it all. Not everyone can say they have been blessed enough to enjoy the love of a good mother, that person who cherishes you despite all your flaws. If, like me, you’re among the lucky ones, Mother’s Day is the perfect occasion to honor the special bond shared with our moms, grandmothers, stepmoms, and mother figures.
While you think about the gift (sorry, we cannot help you with that), it is also nice to express in words how much your mother means to you. Below you can find some of our favorite great quotes about mothers that are perfect for Mother’s Day. Famous authors, writers, philosophers, celebrities, and even characters in movies have had their own way of expressing how much they appreciated the woman that made them the person they are. You can write down one of these quotes about motherhood in your message or use them for inspiration to create your own. Up to you!
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“I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then, I want to move in with them.” — Phyllis Diller
“There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” — Jill Churchill
“Nothing is really lost until your mom can’t find it.”
“Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.” — Cheryl Lacey Donovan
“A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her.” — Erin Kelly
“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
“The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.” — Elaine Heffner
Yes and that's why it's so important to try to stay happy in life too. Obviously not all the time, it's human to have a range of emotions but find something to make you generally happy. Children notice if you are miserable (from a bad marriage or lack of own interest outside parenthood etc) and will have an idea that that's what life is about. Make yourself happy so you can show happiness to your kids.
“A mother’s hug lasts long after she lets go.”
“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
“Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had.” — Linda Wooten
“Life doesn’t come with a manual, it comes with a grandmother.”
My grandmother died unexpectedly in 1989; I’m now 66 years old and I’ve never stopped missing her. Were she still alive she would be 113 years old…that said, her Aunt Carrie lived to be 105. My grandfather lived 11 more miserable years, just waiting to die.
“Mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.” — Emily Dickinson
“Blessed is a mother that would give up part of her soul for her children’s happiness.” — Shannon Alder
“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?” — Milton Berle
“Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything.”
“They are not kidding when they say that mothers are strong women. We need to be strong in more ways than our children will ever know.” — M.B. Antevasin
So... no hope for the progeny? This is martyrdom. "You'll never know of my sacrifices!" Until we have kids of our own.
“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 a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.” — Tenneva Jordan
Another mother sees four pieces of pie and slices them in halves to make 8 small pieces so that everyone gets a piece and learns to share.
“Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.”
We cannot let go, unfortunately. Sometimes, I wish I was mama bear who's saying goodbye again and again, not looking back
“My mother always said I was beautiful and I finally believed her at some point.” — Lupita Nyong’o
“Mothers were meant 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.” — Richelle Goodrich
“A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.” — Princess Diana
“My mother sacrificed her dreams so I could dream.” — Rupi Kaur
“We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.” — Laura Stavoe Harm
“A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
My only child is over 40 and there are so many moments when I wish he would lean on me a little but I try to remember he is not a little boy anymore.
“I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.” — Lance Conrad
“When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” — Charley Benetto
Wish that were true... In many cases, yes. In far too many other cases, that love is tainted & for some, toxic to the core.
“A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” — Cardinal Mermillod
“No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.” — Edwin Chapin
It's an instinct. All animals' females are mothers and do great jobs because that's what mothers should do
“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
“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
“Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.” — Susan Gale
“There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.” — Elder M. Russell Ballard
I guess that means I’m a 💩. Just kidding…I’m happy that I decided that animals can be one’s children.
“Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.” — Kahil Gibran
"The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness." — Jessica Lange
The natural state of any mother with more than one child at the same time is craziness.
"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
"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness." — Honore de Balzac
“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
“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
“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
“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” — Rudyard Kipling
"Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws." — Barbara Kingsolver
“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
“I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” — Abraham Lincoln
Just knowing my mom is praying for me makes me feel better & strong enough to keep it pushing.
“Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.” — Lady Gaga
“If I’ve learned anything as a mom with a daughter who’s 3, I’ve learned that you cannot judge the way another person is raising their kid. Everybody is just doing the best they can. It’s hard to be a mom.” — Maggie Gyllenhaal
“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
“My mother always said ‘Don’t bother other people.’ I think that’s good advice.” — Amy Sedaris
“In the end, mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.” — Randy Susan Meyers
Not all mothers tell the truth, but my friends do…I can count on them to help me when I wander off into the poison oak.
“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we’ve ever met.” — Marguerite Duras
“Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes
“A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.” — Amy Tan
“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
"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars." — E. M. Forster
“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
“Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs since the payment is pure love.” — Mildred B. Vermont
“A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don’t even have.” — Robert Brault
“It’s such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother — that’s why the world calls her grandmother.”
I miss my Grandma (and Grandpa) Jett so intensely deeply…although if they were still alive they would be 113 and 112, respectively. If I could have one more week with them both, I would willingly and happily die the next day.
"A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take." — Cardinal Meymillod
“If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.” — Booker T. Washington
"A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest." — Irish Proverb
“An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.” — Spanish Proverb
There are some mothers that will make you fear her more than both God & Satan.
“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” — William Makepeace Thackeray
“It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?” — Mahatma Gandhi
"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
“Personally, I’ve always known that I wanted to go back to work because I’m confident, and I’m certain that my daughter will have a better mother in me if I’m doing the things that I’m excited about and that I’m passionate about.” — Lisa Ling
“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
“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
“The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” — James E. Faust
“When you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” — Mitch Albom
“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
“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
“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
“Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. She also taught me that aging need not mean narrowing the scope of your activities and interests or a diminution of the great pleasures to be had in the everyday.” — Martha Stewart
“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
“As is the mother, so is her daughter.” — Ezekiel 16:4
“But behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begins.” — Mitch Albom
"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
“That’s the wonderful thing about mothers: you can because you must, and you just do.” — Kate Winslet
“Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heartthrob.” — Leroy Brownlow
“Only mothers can think of the future because they give birth to it in their children.” — Maxim Grosky
“Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.” — Lisa Alther
“The love and compassion you’ve always carried in your heart makes you a wonderful mother and a beloved friend.”
“Mother — that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.” — T. Dewitt Talmage
“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 Alder
“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
“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
“If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” — Stevie Wonder
“In the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child reads the message: ‘You are there!’” — Adrienne Rich
I must admit I have a hard time with the quotes that implies that the most beautiful thing you could do as a mother is to fully sacrifice yourself for the sake of your kids. I know it's a sad reality in many ways but sad mothers don't make happy children. I think we need to re-think that one. I know I, for one, felt like motherhood was a trap (and it sort of is) until I learned the importance to show my kids that being an adult doesn't mean just being sad and to sacrifice. You need to fill YOUR cup with energy so you can bring joy to your kids. Your life should not be over once you have kids.
This is a hard time for those whose mothers are no longer around, however that manifests itself.
I must admit I have a hard time with the quotes that implies that the most beautiful thing you could do as a mother is to fully sacrifice yourself for the sake of your kids. I know it's a sad reality in many ways but sad mothers don't make happy children. I think we need to re-think that one. I know I, for one, felt like motherhood was a trap (and it sort of is) until I learned the importance to show my kids that being an adult doesn't mean just being sad and to sacrifice. You need to fill YOUR cup with energy so you can bring joy to your kids. Your life should not be over once you have kids.
This is a hard time for those whose mothers are no longer around, however that manifests itself.
