Mother’s Day is an annual occasion marked on the second Sunday in May. A time to celebrate everything that our moms mean to us and a great time to show your love for all the wonderful women who stood in the gap as a mom in your life.
If you’re looking for a way to show your mother, grandmothers, or any other mother figure in your life how special you think they are, these lovely quotes about mothers are just what you need. Tell them how much you appreciate their love and kindness in taking care of you. You can make these quotes stand out by adding them to a personalized gift for mom, leave it as a note with a bouquet of flower or card gift.
Short Mother’s Day Quotes
- “Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.” —Meryl Streep
- “Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.” —James Joyce
- “As my mom always said, ‘You’d rather have smile lines than frown lines.’” —Cindy Crawford
- “Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.” —P.J. O’Rourke
- “Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.” —Kahil Gibran
- “My mother always said I was beautiful and I finally believed her at some point.” —Lupita Nyong’o
- “A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.” —Unknown
- “We are born of love; love is our mother.” —Rumi
- “A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.” —Amy Tan
Short And Beautiful Mother’s Day Quotes
- “Motherhood is ‘heart-exploding, blissful hysteria.’” —Olivia Wilde
- “A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.” —Emily Dickinson
- “Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.” —Robert A. Heinlein
- “I unapologetically and unabashedly am deeply biased toward my mother.” —Chelsea Clinton
- “I tell my kids, ‘I am thinking about you every other minute of my day.’” —Michelle Obama
- “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
- “Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” —George Eliot
- “There’s no such thing as a supermom. We just do the best we can.” —Sarah Michelle Gellar
- “My mother is a walking miracle.” —Leonardo DiCaprio
- “A mother understands what a child does not say.” —Jewish proverb
- “A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.” —Debasish Mridha
Beautiful Quotes For Mum
- “My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.” —Lisa Leslie
- “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
- “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
- “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
- 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
- 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
- Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heartthrob.” —Leroy Brownlow
- Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything.” —Unknown
Mother’s Day Quotes From Son
- Only mothers can think of the future because they give birth to it in their children.” —Maxim Grosky
- Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.” —Susan Gale
- 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
- Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” —William Makepeace Thackeray
- She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great—but how to laugh through it.” —Liza Minnelli
- 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
- A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.” —Unknown
- When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” —Charley Benetto
- 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
- 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
Mother’s Day Quotes From Daughter
- My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was 6 and my brother was 8; I never forgot it.” —Stephen King
- 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
- Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. ” —Robert Browning
- 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
- 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
- Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” —Erich Fromm
- You instantly become less selfish. You can’t be the biggest person in the world anymore—they are. Motherhood really grounds you.” —Keri Russell
- Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs since the payment is pure love.” —Mildred B. Vermont
- 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
Caring Quotes For Mother’s Day
- 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
- 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
- The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.” —Elaine Heffner