25 Quotes for Mother’s Day 2025

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Are you getting ready to celebrate Mother’s Day? Do you want to add inspirational words to your texts, posts, or cards? If you are searching for ideas, consider the following quotes for Mother’s Day.

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  1. “Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything.” —Unknown
  2. “All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” —Abraham Lincoln
  3. “A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.” —Unknown
  4. “I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” —Abraham Lincoln
  5. “I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.” —Phyllis Diller
  6. “There is nothing as sincere as a mother’s kiss.” —Saleem Sharma
  7. “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
  8. “When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” —Charley Benetto
  9. “When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ It is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.” —Erma Bombeck
  10. “We are born of love; love is our mother.” —Rumi
  11. “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
  12. “Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heartthrob.” —Leroy Brownlow
  13. “The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.” —Jodi Picoult
  14. “A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.” —Debasish Mridha
  15. “Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” —George Eliot
  16. “Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.” —Susan Gale
  17. “The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.” —Karl Lagerfeld
  18. “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” —Robert Browning
  19. “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
  20. “The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” —James E. Faust
  21. “An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.” —Spanish proverb
  22. “If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.” —Booker T. Washington
  23. “Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes
  24. “There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” —Jill Churchill
  25. “God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” —Rudyard Kipling

Happy Mother’s Day!

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