Beautiful Quotes For Mother’s Day
Being a mother is more than just giving birth to a child. In honor of Mother’s Day, we’ve compiled some of our favorite quotes about motherhood to recognize all mothers, their love and sacrifices, and their roles in shaping the future generations.
Quotes About Motherhood
- “There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.”
— Jill Churchill - “A mother is she who can take the place of all others, but whose place no one else can take.”
— Cardinal Mermillod - “Successful mothers are not the ones that have never struggled. They are the ones that never give up, despite the struggles.”
— Sharon Jaynes - “Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.”
— Susan Gale - “Having kids — the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings — is the biggest job anyone can embark on.”
— Maria Shriver
Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn't know you had, and dealing with fears you didn't know existed.
Linda Wooten
- “A mother’s love endures through all.”
— Washington Irving - “Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.”
— Ricki Lake - “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity.”
— Agatha Christie - “No matter your age, you will always need your mom.”
— Author Unknown - “A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.”
— Author Unknown
Silence is golden. Unless you have kids, then silence is just suspicious
Author Unknown
- “All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
— Abraham Lincoln - “A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.”
— Irish Proverb - “Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.”
— Erich Fromm - “Sooner or later, we all quote our mothers.”
— Unknown - “A mother understands what a child does not say.”
— Jewish Proverb
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- “My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.”
— Lisa Leslie - “Making a decision to have a child—it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”
— Elizabeth Stone - “You don’t take a class; you’re thrown into motherhood and learn from experience.”
— Jennie Finch - “A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher - “Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.”
— Meryl Streep
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Honore de Balzac
- “Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.”
— Marion C. Garretty - “I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.”
— Mitch Albom - “A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.”
— Tenneva Jordan - “A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.”
— Princess Diana - “Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.”
— Author Unknown
Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
Barbara Walters
- “My daughter introduced me to myself.”
— Beyoncé Knowles - “If I had a single flower for every time I think of you, I could walk forever in my garden.”
— Claudia Ghandi - “Home is where your mom is.”
— Author Unknown - “I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”
— Abraham Lincoln - “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
- “Motherhood is wonderful, but it’s also hard work. It’s the logistics more than anything. You discover you have reserves of energy you didn’t know you had.”
— Deborah Mailman - “Great women raise great women who raise great women.”
— Jennifer Fujita - “God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.”
— Jewish Proverb - “The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.”
— James Faust - “Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.”
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham Lincoln
Funny Mother’s Day Quotes
- “Silence is golden. Unless you have kids, then silence is just suspicious.”
— Author Unknown - “Becoming a mom to me means you have accepted that for the next 16 years of your life, you will have a sticky purse.”
— Nia Vardalos - “Show me a messy house and I’ll show you a really fun mom.”
— Ellen Brenneman - “The majority of my diet is made up of foods that my kid didn’t finish.”
— Carrie Underwood - “The quickest way for a parent to get a child’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable.”
— Lane Olinghouse - “I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.”
— Phyllis Diller - “You know how once you have kids you never ever pee by yourself again? At least one of them is always in there with you at all times.”
— Jennifer Garner - “Motherhood: Powered by love. Fueled by coffee. Sustained by wine.”
— Author Unknown
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