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