These Mother’s Day Quotes Will Warm Your Mom’s Heart
It's almost that special day of the year when you can celebrate your first best friend and rock: Mother's Day! Although moms deserve to be honored every day of the year, it's so much fun to go all out for them with a thoughtful Mother's Day gift, a Mother's Day brunch complete with her favorite foods, and lots of love. But for a mother, the best thing you can give her is a few heartfelt words to express your gratitude, admiration, and love for her in a card or simply through word of mouth. If you're looking for something as special as your mom to write in her Mother's Day card, you've come to the right place. Here are the best Mother's Day quotes to help you put your feelings into words!
Of course, these sweet Mother's Day messages aren't just for cards. Use them as this year's Mother's Day Instagram caption and inspire your friends just as much as your mom—or simply read one aloud over dinner. We have mother-daughter quotes and mother-son quotes that capture your bond perfectly. Balance things out with a hilarious mom joke, and you've got yourself a winning toast! Your mom does deserve the extra attention on this special day. As Gilda Radner said, "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." ❤️
Elaine Heffner
“The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“A mom is like a teabag. You can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.”
Bern Williams
“Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.”
Maya Angelou
“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.”
Saleem Sharma
“There is nothing as sincere as a mother’s kiss.”
Rudyard Kipling
“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.”
Oscar Wilde
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.”
Meryl Streep
“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.”
Betty White
“My mother always used to say, the older you get, the better you get. Unless you’re a banana.”
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
“If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.”
Charley Benetto
“When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.”
Liya Kebede
“The world needs our mothers.”
Susan Gale
“Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.”
Sara Josepha Hale
“There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother.”
Charlie Chaplin
“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.”
Jewish Proverb
“A mother understands what a child does not say.”
James E. Faust
“The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.”
Cardinal Mermillod
“A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.”
Jill Churchill
“There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.”
Leonardo DiCaprio
“My mother is a walking miracle.”
Robert Browning
“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.”
Debasish Mridha
“A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.”
Honore de Balzac
"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."
Victor Hugo
"A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them."
Princess Diana
"A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's."
Washington Irving
"There is an endearing tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that transcends all other affections of the heart."
Miranda Kerr
"To wake up to the sound of my son saying, 'Mama, mama!' It's the best sound ever."
Anne Lamott
"One thing about having a baby is that each step of the way you simply cannot imagine loving him any more than you already do... And then you do, you love him even more."
Abraham Lincoln
"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."
Sarah Shahi
"The most important mark I will leave on this world is my son."
Stephanie Precourt
"There will be many times you will feel like you have failed. But in the eyes, heart and mind of your child, you are supermom."
Mitch Albom
"When you look into your mother's eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this Earth."
Gilda Radner
"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."
Stevie Wonder
"If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love."
Lisa Leslie
"My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was."
Irish Proverb
"A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest."
Rumi
"We are born of love; love is our mother."
Elder M. Russell Ballard
"There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood."
Lance Conrad
"I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood."
Erich Fromm
"Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved."
Jessica Lange
"The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness."
J.K. Rowling
"He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark."
Washington Irving
"A mother's love endures through all."
Barbara Kingsolver
"Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws."
Leroy Brownlow
"Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heart throb."
George Eliot
"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face."
Abraham Lincoln
"All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."
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