Category: Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day weekend is right around the corner! Are you ready to celebrate Mom? Do you plan to give her a card or post on social media? If you are searching for the right words, consider the following quotes for Mother’s Day.

1. “A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend” – Unknown
2. “When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” —Charley Benetto
3. “Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” — Michael J. Fox
4. “Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.” –  Susan Gale

5. “Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.” —Meryl Streep
6. “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
7. “All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” — Abraham Lincoln
8. “Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.” — Oprah Winfrey
9. “My mother is a walking miracle.” — Leonardo DiCaprio
10. “Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.” — Lady Gaga
11. “The best place to cry is in a mother’s arms” – Jodi Picoult
12. “A mother’s love liberates” – Maya Angelou
13. “Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heartthrob.” LeRoy Brownlow
14. “He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark.” — J.K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”
15. “Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” —William Makepeace Thackeray
16. “It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?” —Mahatma Gandhi
17. “There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.” – Elder M. Russell Ballard
18. “Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything” – Unknown
19. “Moms are like buttons. They hold it all together.” – Unknown
20. “One of the most important relationships we’ll have is the relationship we have with our mothers.” – Iyanla Vanzant
21. “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
22. “My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.” – Lisa Leslie
23. “Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.” – Unknown
24. “When someone asks you where you come from, the answer is your mother.” – Anna Quindlen
25. “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” —Victor Hugo
26. “There is nothing as sincere as a mother’s kiss.” —Saleem Sharma
27. “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
28. “Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” —George Eliot
29. “Life doesn’t come with a manual; it comes with a mother.” – Unknown
30. “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
31. “Moms are magic.” – Carissa Potter Carlson
32. “Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes
33. “A mother’s hug lasts long after she lets go.” – Unknown
34. A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.” —Debasish Mridha
35. “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
36. “A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” –  Dorothy Canfield Fisher
37. “The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” —James E. Faust
38. “There is no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” —Jill Churchill
39. “Mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.” —Emily Dickinson
40. “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
41. “God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” —Rudyard Kipling
42. “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
43. “The phrase ’working mother’ is redundant.” —Jane Sellman
44. “There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.” —Chinese Proverb
45. “Such a mysterious business, motherhood. How brave a woman must be to embark on it.” ― M.L. Stedman, “The Light Between Oceans”

Happy Mother’s Day!