Category: Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day is just around the corner. Did you forget? Are you trying to find the right words to say to your mom? Perhaps, you want to express your feelings in a social media post or a card. If you are searching for inspiration, check out the following quotes for Mother’s Day.

1. “A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.” —Unknown
2. “It’s not easy being a mother. If it were, fathers would do it.” – The Golden Girls
3. “Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.” – Lady Gaga
4. “A mother is the truest friend we have.” – Washington Irving
5. “Everything good in me, I got it from my mama.” – Honey Country
6. “When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” —Charley Benetto
7. “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.” – Maya Angelou
8. “Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heartthrob.” —Leroy Brownlow
9. “Moms are like buttons. They hold it all together.” – Unknown
10. “One of the most important relationships we’ll have is the relationship we have with our mothers.” – Iyanla Vanzant
11. “My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.” – Michelle Obama
12. “My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.” – Lisa Leslie
13. “Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.” – Unknown
14. “When someone asks you where you come from, the answer is your mother.” – Anna Quindlen
15. “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” —Victor Hugo
16. “Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.” – Bern Williams
17. “All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” – Abraham Lincoln
18. “There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother.” – Saara Josepha Hale
19. “If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.” Booker T. Washington
20. “It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?” —Mahatma Gandhi
21. “If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” —Stevie Wonder
22. “There is nothing as sincere as a mother’s kiss.” —Saleem Sharma
23. “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
24. “Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” —George Eliot
25. “Life doesn’t come with a manual; it comes with a mother.” – Unknown
26. “Call your mother. Tell her you love her. Remember you’re the only person who knows what her heart sounds like from the inside.” – Rachel Wolchin
27. “Moms are magic.” – Carissa Potter Carlson
28. “Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes
29. “A mother’s hug lasts long after she lets go.” – Unknown
30. A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.” —Debasish Mridha
31. “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
32. “A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” –  Dorothy Canfield Fisher
33. “The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” —James E. Faust
34. “There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.” —Jill Churchill
35. “Mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.” —Emily Dickinson
36. “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
37. “God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” —Rudyard Kipling
38. “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
39. “The phrase ’working mother’ is redundant.” —Jane Sellman
40. “There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.” —Chinese Proverb

Happy Mother’s Day!