111 Mother’s Day Quotes to Express Love and Gratitude
Moms are our biggest supporters, our greatest teachers, and the heart of the family.
That’s why we’ve gathered all the best Mother’s Day quotes for your next post.
And if you’re looking for heartfelt, inspiring, or even funny sayings to celebrate the special moms in your life, we also have you covered.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.
Top 10 Mother’s Day Quotes
“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
“Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.” —Mabel Hale
“When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” —Charley Benetto
“Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.” —Barbara Walters
“Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.” —Susan Gale
“My mother always used to say, the older you get, the better you get. Unless you’re a banana.” —Betty White
“If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.” —Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
“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
“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’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” —Agatha Christie
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“Just because you became a parent doesn’t mean you grew up.” —Ali Wong
“Mothers are the necessity of invention.” —Bill Watterson
“Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I’ve really known for sure is something I wanted to do.” —Cynthia Nixon
“It’s the job that I take most seriously in my life and I think it’s the hardest job.” —Debra Messing
“We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.” —Cynthia Ozick
“[Motherhood] really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can’t stand up to those principles when you’re raising a child, forget it.” —Diane Keaton
“Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying.” —Fran Lebowitz
“There is nothing as sincere as a mother’s kiss.” —Saleem Sharma
“Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.” —Pearl S. Buck
“There’s all kinds of mothers, so to use the label ‘mother’ and to think you really understood all that a human being is because she’s a mother is a mistake.” —Phylicia Rashad
“I was asking my friend who has children, ‘What if I have a baby and I dedicate my life to it and it grows up to hate me. And it blames everything wrong with its life on me.’ And she said, ‘What do you mean, “if?”‘” —Rita Rudner
“Mothers can look through a child’s eyes and see tomorrow.” —Reed B. Markham
“My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.” —Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“If It’s five o’clock and my children are still alive, I’ve done my job.” —Roseanne Barr
“Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children!” —Sam Levenson
“A mother is a mother from the moment her baby is first placed in her arms until eternity.” —Sarah Strohmeyer
“I felt the wash of her love every day, pouring over me.” —Aimee Bender
“Once you’re a mom, you’re always a mom. It’s like riding a bike, you never forget.” —Taraji P. Henson
“As is the mother, so is her daughter.” —Ezekiel 16:44
“When someone asks you where you come from, the answer is your mother.” —Anna Quindlen
“Motherhood was the great equalizer for me; I started to identify with everybody.” —Annie Lennox
“Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.” —Bern Williams
“Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.” —Cheryl Lacey Donovan
“If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.” —Booker T. Washington
“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” —Honore de Balzac
“Motherhood brings you to your knees in a way that doesn’t leave room for you to judge others. It makes you see that there’s no ideal — a constant struggle, constantly compromising, but ultimate love.” —Maggie Gyllenhaal
“A mother’s love liberates.” —Maya Angelou
“A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” —Dorothy Canfield Fisher
“Mother’s love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.” —Marion C. Garretty
“To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.” —Dr. Seuss
“Having kids — the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings — is the biggest job anyone can embark on.” —Maria Shriver
“Because I feel that, in the Heavens above, The angels, whispering to one another, Can find, among their burning terms of love, None so devotional as that of ‘Mother.’” —Edgar Allen Poe
“No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.” —Edwin Chapin
“All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” —Abraham Lincoln
“The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.” —Elaine Heffner
“Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heart throb.” —Leroy Brownlow
“A mom is like a teabag. You can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.” —Meryl Streep
“Mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.” —Emily Dickinson
“There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.” —Elder M. Russell Ballard
“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
“If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” —Stevie Wonder
“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
“Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” —Erich Fromm
“For when a child is born the mother also is born again.” —Gilbert Parker
“A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.” —Irish Proverb
“The truth is that no matter how old we are, as long as our mothers are alive, we want our mother.” —Goldie Hawn
“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.” —Barbara Kingsolver
“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.” —James Joyce
“He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark.” —J.K. Rowling
“You can feel when your mom’s proud of you. You can feel the love.” —Jimmy Fallon
“A mother’s love is everything. It is what brings a child into this world. It is what molds their entire being.” —Jamie McGuire
“My mother is a walking miracle.” —Leonardo DiCaprio
“Motherhood is the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge and scary – it’s an act of infinite optimism.” —Gilda Radner
“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” —Robert Browning
“A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.” —Honore de Balzac
“There is nothing as sincere as a mother’s kiss.” —Saleem Sharma
“There is no velvet so soft as a mother’s lap, no rose as lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps.” —Archibald Thompson
“My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.” —Lisa Leslie
“Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.” —Lady Gaga
“We are born of love; love is our mother.” —Rumi
“We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.” —Laura Stavoe Harm
“A mother is a mother still, the holiest thing alive.” —Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“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
“Mother—that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.” —T. Dewitt Talmage
“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
“There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother.” —Sara Josepha Hale
“The world needs our mothers.” —Liya Kebede
“In the end, mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.” —Randy Susan Meyers
“Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs since the payment is pure love.” —Mildred B. Vermont
“When you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” —Mitch Albom
“Only mothers can think of the future because they give birth to it in their children.” —Maxim Grosky
“The mother’s heart is the child’s school-room.” —Henry Ward Beecher
“There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.” —Jill Churchill
“The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” —James E. Faust
“To a child’s ear, ‘mother’ is magic in any language.” —Arlene Benedict
“No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.” —Edwin Chapin
“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.” —Maya Angelou
“If evolution really works, how come mothers have only two hands?” —Milton Berle
“A mother understands what a child does not say.” —Jewish proverb
“A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.” —Debasish Mridha
“It’s not easy being a mother. If it were, fathers would do it.” —The Golden Girls
“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” —Victor Hugo
“The phrase ’working mother’ is redundant.” —Jane Sellman
“A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don’t even have.” —Robert Brault
“Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.” —Marion C. Garretty
“It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?” —Mahatma Gandhi
“A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” —Cardinal Mermillod
“Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” —Erich Fromm
“There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.” —Chinese Proverb
“A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.” —Princess Diana
“An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.” —Spanish Proverb
“Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.” —Kahil Gibran
“Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” —George Eliot
“Any mother could do the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease.” —Lisa Alther
“In the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child reads the message: ‘You are there!’” —Adrienne Rich
“I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.” —Lance Conrad
“Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had.” —Linda Wooten
“A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.” —Amy Tan
Mother’s Day Messages
Mom, today is all about celebrating you and everything you do. Relax, enjoy, and know how much you’re appreciated!
Thank you for being my rock, my guide, and my constant source of love. You make life so much brighter!
You’ve taught me so much about kindness, strength, and love. Today, it’s all about celebrating YOU—because you’re the real MVP!
I got my heart from you, Mom, and I couldn’t be more grateful. You’re the reason I know what love looks like!
Thanks for being my biggest cheerleader, my voice of reason, and my forever friend. You’re the best mom anyone could ask for!
Happy Mother’s Day to the woman who taught me how to live, laugh, and love with all my heart. I’m so lucky to have you!
You survived my messy room, my endless questions, and my dramatic phases—thank you for being so patient and understanding!
I got my smile from you, Mom, and so much more. Thanks for being such an amazing role model and an incredible mom!
You’ve always been there for me, no matter what, and I can’t thank you enough. Today is your day to shine—enjoy every moment!
There’s no way to say it enough: thank you for being my mom. You’re truly one of a kind, and I love you more than words can say!
Mom, I hope you relax and enjoy today just like you deserve!
Thank you for all the hugs, words of encouragement, and patience through the years.
Thanks for always helping me to remember what is important in life… and today it is you! You are the best!
I got all my good qualities from you, Mom! Isn’t it lucky you had more than enough for both of us?
Thanks for everything Mom, you really are one in a million! Love you!
Thanks for bringing me into this world and always seeing the best in me. Happy Mother’s Day, Mom!
Happy Mother’s Day to the woman who put up with my teenage mood swings!
Mom, you’re the sunshine that brightens every day—thank you for being my forever light!
To the most selfless, loving, and incredible mom—today is all about you!
Thanks for being my hero, my teacher, and my best friend. Happy Mother’s Day!
You’re the glue that holds our family together—thank you for everything!
Mom, you’re the reason I know what love, strength, and kindness look like.
Here’s to the woman who gave me life, wisdom, and so much love—cheers to you!
You’re not just my mom, you’re my role model, my inspiration, and my everything!
Thanks for being my safe haven, my guiding star, and my forever home.
Mom, you’ve taught me that love can be fierce, patient, and unconditional.
You’re the reason I believe in miracles—because you’re mine!
To the most amazing mom in the world—thank you for making my life so beautiful!
You’ve given me so much, Mom, and I’m forever grateful. Happy Mother’s Day!
You’re the melody that fills my heart with joy and love—thank you for being you!
Mom, you’re the reason I know what it means to love without limits.
Thanks for being my rock, my voice of reason, and my biggest fan!
You’ve shaped me into who I am today, and I couldn’t be prouder to call you my mom!
Here’s to the woman who makes every day brighter just by being in it—Happy Mother’s Day!
Mom, you’re the definition of love, care, and strength. Thank you for everything!
You’ve taught me that home is where the heart is, and mine is always with you.
To the most incredible mom in the universe—thank you for being my everything!
