In this post, we’ll read the best Mother’s day quotes which is a holiday celebrated in many countries around the world to honor and appreciate mothers and motherhood.
Mother’s Day is typically celebrated on the second Sunday in May in the United States and in various other countries so the holiday falls on different dates each year.
It was first officially celebrated in 1908 and the holiday includes giving gifts, cards, and flowers to mothers, as well as spending quality time with them.
Let’s read some of the best Mother’s Day quotes and wishes to express our appreciation for the most beloved woman in our lives!
Mother’s Day Quotes 2024
1. “A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” — Cardinal Mermillod
2. “Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes
3. “Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.” — Susan Gale
4. “When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” — Charley Benetto
5. “An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.” —Spanish Proverb
6. “Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs since the payment is pure love.” — Mildred B. Vermont
7. “Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.” — Marion C. Garretty
8. “The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” — James E. Faust
9. “There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother.” — Sara Josepha Hale
10. “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” — Victor Hugo
Heart Touching Mother’s Day Quotes
1. “Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.” – Unknown
2. “It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?” — Mahatma Gandhi
3. “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
4. “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
5. “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
6. “We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.” — Cynthia Ozick
7. “The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” — Honore de Balzac
8. “Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.” — Pearl S. Buck
9. “No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.” — Edwin Chapin
Short Mother’s Day Quotes
1. “A mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” — Erich Fromm
2. “Life doesn’t come with a manual, it comes with a mother.” — Unknown
3. “A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.” — Princess Diana
4. “A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.” — Unknown
5. “A mother understands what a child does not say.” — Jewish proverb
6. “A mother’s hug lasts long after she lets go.” — Unknown
7. “There is nothing as sincere as a mother’s kiss.” — Saleem Sharma
8. “A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.” — Unknown
9. “We are born of love; love is our mother.” — Rumi
10. “Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.” — Kahlil Gibran
11. Mothers are the necessity of invention.” — Bill Watterson
12. “Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.” — Mabel Hale
13. “The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.” — Jodi Picoult
14. “Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.” — Tina Fey
15. “Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.” — Robert A.
16. “To a child’s ear, ‘mother’ is magic in any language.” — Arlene Benedict
17. “A mother is a mother still, the holiest thing alive.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
18. “Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.” — Lin Yutang
19. “Mothers can look through a child’s eyes and see tomorrow.” — Reed B. Markham
20. “For when a child is born the mother also is born again.” — Gilbert Parker
21. “A mother’s love liberates.” — Maya Angelou
22. “You can feel when your mom’s proud of you. You can feel the love.” — Jimmy Fallon
23. “Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.” — Bern Williams
24. “As is the mother, so is her daughter.” — Ezekiel 16:44
25. “The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.” — Elaine Heffner
26. “Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.” — Oprah Winfrey
27. “As my mom always said, ‘You’d rather have smile lines than frown lines.’” — Cindy Crawford
Mother’s Day Quotes on Motherhood
1. “Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.” — Ricki Lake
2. “Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything.” — Unknown
3. “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
4. “There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.” — Elder M. Russell Ballard
5. “Motherhood was the great equalizer for me; I started to identify with everybody.” — Annie Lennox
6. “Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I’ve really known for sure is something I wanted to do.” — Cynthia Nixon
7. “Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.” — Barbara Walters
8. “[Motherhood] really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can’t stand up to those principles when you’re raising a child, forget it.” — Diane Keaton
9. “[Motherhood is] ‘heart-exploding, blissful hysteria.'” — Olivia Wilde
10. “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” — Robert Browning
11. “I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.” — Lance Conrad
12. “Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. — Barbara Kingsolver
Mother’s Day Quotes from Daughters
1. “My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.” — Lisa Leslie
2. “Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.” — Lady Gaga
3. “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.” — Maya Angelou
4. “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
5. “I unapologetically and unabashedly am deeply biased toward my mother.” — Chelsea Clinton
6. “I tell my kids, ‘I am thinking about you every other minute of my day.’” — Michelle Obama
7. “I’m still amazed at how my mother emerged from her lonely early life as such an affectionate and levelheaded woman.” — Hillary Clinton
8. “My mom had four kids, one with special needs. She had a full-time job, and she still came home and made dinner for us every night, from scratch. It was amazing.” — Eva Longoria
9. “My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.” — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
10. “I like my body so much better after I had kids. Is that a crazy thing to say? I’m more womanly. I feel sexier.” — Reese Witherspoon
11. “My mother is everything to me. She’s my anchor, she’s the person I go to when I need to talk to someone. She is an amazing woman.” — Demi Lovato
12. “There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn’t have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.” — Taylor Swift
13. My mother always used to say, the older you get, the better you get. Unless you’re a banana.” — Betty White
14. “I don’t think of myself as a terribly confident person. But I have a survival mechanism that was instilled in me by my mother.” — Naomi Watts
15. “I felt the wash of her love every day, pouring over me.” — Aimee Bender
Mother’s Day Quotes from Sons
1. “All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” —Abraham Lincoln
2. “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
3. “I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” — Abraham Lincoln
4. “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
5. “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
6. “My mother was the one constant in my life. When I think about my mom raising me alone when she was 20, and working and paying the bills, and, you know, trying to pursue your own dreams, I think is a feat that is unmatched.” — Barack Obama
7. “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
8. “If I were hanged on the highest hill / Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! / I know whose love would follow me still / Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!” — Rudyard Kipling
9. “My mother taught me to be nice to everybody. And she said something before I left home. She said, ‘I want you to always remember that the person you are in this world is a reflection of the job I did as a mother.'” — Jason Segel
10. “I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom’s the only reason I know it’s a real thing.” — Conor Oberst
11. “If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” — Stevie Wonder
12. “My mother is a walking miracle.” —Leonardo DiCaprio
13. “My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.” – Mark Twain
Mother’s Day Quotes from Famous Moms
1. “Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had.” — Linda Wooten
2. “I don’t know if I feel like a bad mom, but at the end of the day I’m always plagued with, did I do enough? Should I go in a different direction? But I also know that my entire life revolves around [my son] Louis.” — Sandra Bullock
3. “It’s the job that I take most seriously in my life and I think it’s the hardest job.” — Debra Messing
4. “There’s something that just happens to you when you have a baby, and you look at their little eyes for the first time when you’re holding them. They’ve been safe inside your belly for almost 10 months, and now they’re in your arms. Intuition kicks in, where you will do anything for them and you have all the tools inside of you to take care of them.” — Hilary Duff
5. “Don’t listen to anyone’s advice. Listen to your baby … There are so many books, doctors, and well-meaning friends and family. We like to say, ‘You don’t need a book. Your baby is a book. Just pick it up and read it.’” — Mayim Bialik
6. “Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.” — Kate Winslet
7. “[When] you’re dying laughing because your three-year-old made a fart joke, it doesn’t matter what else is going on. That’s real happiness.” — Gwyneth Paltrow
8. “If I’ve learned anything as a mom with a daughter who’s three, 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
9. “I see myself as mom first. I’m so lucky to have that role in life. The world can like me, hate me or fall apart around me and at least I wake up with my kids and I’m happy.” — Angelina Jolie
10. “There’s no such thing as a supermom. We just do the best we can.” —Sarah Michelle Gellar
11. “It’s been a huge joy, this experience of being a mom … I don’t know how to articulate it yet, because it is so fresh.” — Claire Danes
12. “Just because you became a parent doesn’t mean you grew up.” – Ali Wong
13. “I have found being a mother has made me emotionally raw in many situations. You heart is beating outside your body when you have a baby.” — Kate Beckinsale
14. “Becoming a mom to me means you have accepted that for the next 16 years of your life, you will have a sticky purse.” — Nia Vardalos
15. “Having kids — the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings — is the biggest job anyone can embark on.” — Maria Shriver
16. “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
17. “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
Funny Mother’s Day Quotes
1. “Mom, I love you, even though I’ll never accept your friend request.” — Unknown
2. “If It’s five o’clock and my children are still alive, I’ve done my job.” — Roseanne Barr
3. “Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children!” — Sam Levenson
4. “Once you’re a mom, you’re always a mom. It’s like riding a bike, you never forget. — Taraji P. Henson
5. “A mom is like a teabag. You can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. — Eleanor Roosevelt
6. “Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.” — P.J. O’Rourke
7. “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
8. “The phrase ’working mother’ is redundant.” — Jane Sellman
9. “I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then, I want to move in with them.” — Phyllis Diller
10. “It’s not easy being a mother. If it were, fathers would do it.” — The Golden Girls
11. “Any mother could do the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease” — Lisa Alther
12. “If evolution really works, how come mothers have only two hands?” — Milton Berle
13. “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
14. “Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.” — James Joyce
15. “I was asking my friend who has children, ‘What if I have a baby and I dedicate my life to it and it grows up to hate me. And it blames everything wrong with its life on me.’ And she said, ‘What do you mean, “if?”’ — Rita Rudner
16. “A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don’t even have.” — Robert Brault
17. “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
Happy Mother’s Day Wishes
1. “To the world, you are a mother. To our family, you are the world. Happy Mother’s Day!”
2. “There isn’t a card big enough to list all the things I love about you. Love you lots and lots!”
3. “Happy Mother’s Day to the woman who taught me what it means to be strong, compassionate, and kind. I’m forever grateful for you, Mom.”
4. “Thanks for loving me and being patient with me no matter what. I love you, Mom, and I’m wishing you a happy Mother’s Day!”
5. “You might be far away, but you’re always in my heart. I’m so lucky to have a mum that’s as amazing as you.”
6. “It’s hard to be apart; please know you’re in my heart! Happy Mother’s Day, Mom!”
7. To the queen of our hearts, Happy Mother’s Day! Your strength, wisdom, and unwavering love inspire me every day.”
8. “Behind every great person is a great mom. Happy Mother’s Day to the woman who shaped me into who I am today.”
9. It’s no coincidence that “MOM” upside down is “WOW”—you’re impressive, Mom! I love you so much!”
10. “Sending love and gratitude to the woman who gave me everything. Happy Mother’s Day, Mom!”
11. “Wishing a Happy Mother’s Day to the woman who has been my rock, my confidante, and my biggest cheerleader. I love you more than words can say, Mom.”
12. “To the world’s best mom: thank you for your unconditional love and endless sacrifices. You’re truly one of a kind. Happy Mother’s Day!”
13. “Thanks for everything this year, and well, every year! You’re a mum in a million.”
14. “Happy Mother’s Day. I hope you know just how much I love you.”
15. “I wish we were able to be together on Mother’s Day, Mom. Please know I’m thinking of you today, and every day I am thankful for all you’ve done for me. I love you!”
16. “I cannot imagine what it was like to put up with all my escapades throughout the years, but you’ve done it with grace and patience. Thank you for loving me and putting up with me! Wishing you a Happy Mother’s Day, Mom!”
17. “Roses are red, violets are blue, don’t know how I was so lucky to get a mom like you!”
18. “Mother’s Day greetings! I love you, Mom! You deserve everything we could ever do for you and more!”
19. “I look at our family, and I am so thankful — you made that happen. You were always there for us, supporting us and loving us. Happy Mother’s Day, Mama!”
20. “We might be apart, but you’re still in my thoughts every day. I love you, Mum. Happy Mother’s Day!”
21. “Today, we celebrate the superhero without a cape: Mom. Happy Mother’s Day!”
22. “To the world, you may just be one person. But to me, you are the world. Happy Mother’s Day, Mom!”
23. “Happy Mother’s Day to the most amazing woman in my life! Your love, guidance, and support mean everything to me.”
24. “Wishing you a day filled with love, joy, and all the happiness you deserve, Mom. Happy Mother’s Day!”
25. “Sending you all my love and gratitude on Mother’s Day. You’re not just my mom, you’re my hero. Happy Mother’s Day!”
These Mother’s Day quotes serve as a reminder to express gratitude and affection for the women who play such an important role in our lives.
This is a special occasion to honor and celebrate mothers, grandmothers, and maternal figures for their love, sacrifice, and contributions to the family and society.
Share these Mother’s Day quotes to express your love!
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