79 Mother Quotes That Honor Her Love And Sacrifice

Mothers give everything.

Their time. Their energy. Pieces of themselves they’ll never get back. And they do it without keeping score.

We don’t always see it when we’re young. How much they carry. How much they sacrifice. How their love shapes everything we become.

But as we get older, we understand. We see her differently. We appreciate her more deeply.

These mother quotes capture what she means. They’re for all the things we sometimes forget to say.

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“Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.” — Anonymous

“Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.” — Kahlil Gibran

“A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” — Cardinal Mermillod

“Only mothers can think of the future because they give birth to it in their children.” — Maxim Gorky

“There is more power in a mother’s hand than in a king’s scepter.” — Billy Sunday

“Mother that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.” — T. DeWitt Talmage

“Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs – since the payment is pure love.” — Mildred B. Vermont

“Mothers are the necessity of invention.” — Bill Watterson

“A mother’s love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking.” — Helen Steiner Rice

“The patience of a mother might be likened to a tube of toothpaste – it’s never quite all gone.” — Unknown

“Men are what their mothers made them.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A mother understands what a child does not say.” — Jewish Proverb

“Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heart throb.” — Leroy Brownlow

“Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.” — Amos Bronson Alcott

“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

“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us…” — Washington Irving

“Mothers give up so much, so that their children can have so much.” — Catherine Pulsifer

“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

“When a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.” — Erica Jong

“A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.” — Princess Diana

“No one worries about you like your mother.” — Adriana Trigiani

“There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.” — Billy Sunday

“No one in this world can take the place of your mother.” — Harry Truman

“Mother is the one we count on for the things that matter most of all.” — Katharine Butler Hathaway

“Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark…” — J.K. Rowling

“A mother’s love perceives no impossibilities.” — Jena Pincott

“A mother’s joy begins when new life is stirring inside…” — Jena Pincott

“Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.” — Cheryl Lacey Donovan

“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.” — Brandi Snyder

“There is no velvet so soft as a mother’s lap, no rose as lovely as her smile…” — Archibald Thompson

“The mother is everything… She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness.” — Kahlil Gibran

“To a child’s ear, ‘mother’ is magic in any language.” — Arlene Benedict

“Mother’s intuition can tell you everything with kids. Mothers have a sixth sense…” — Jane Seymour

“When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ It’s a mere formality…” — Erma Bombeck

“You count the hours you could have spent with your mother, it’s a lifetime in itself.” — Mitch Albom

“There’s nothing like your mother’s sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.” — Sophie Kinsella

“Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don’t want their kids… but they’re doing those kids a favor.” — Jodi Picoult

“Mothers were the only ones you could depend on to tell the whole, unvarnished truth.” — Margaret Dilloway

“My mother is a walking miracle.” — Leonardo DiCaprio

“Life doesn’t come with a manual, it comes with a mother.” — Unknown

“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” — Abraham Lincoln

“My mom is my best critic, and yet my strongest supporter.” — Unknown

“The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.” — Sharon Olds

“A daughter may outgrow your lap, but she will never outgrow your heart.” — Unknown

“My mother taught me that fear is not an option.” — Diane Von Furstenberg

“I am a strong woman because a strong woman raised me.” — Unknown

“Behind every great daughter is a truly amazing mom.” — Unknown

“My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on.” — Michael Jordan

“A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” — Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“No matter how old she may be, sometimes a girl just needs her mom.” — Cardinal Mermillod

“The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.” — Jodi Picoult

“My mom smiled at me. Her smile kind of hugged me.” — R.J. Palacio

“A daughter is just a little girl who grows up to be your best friend.” — Unknown

“Mom: a title just above queen.” — Unknown

“I got it from my mama.” — Will.i.am

“A mother’s treasure is her daughter.” — Catherine Pulsifer

“My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true.” — Kristin Hannah

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.” — Maya Angelou

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