51 Happy Mother’s Day Quotes
As Novelist Rudyard Kipling once said, “God could not be everywhere, therefore he made mothers.” Let’s take a look at some of the best Happy Mother’s Day quotes below!
Best Mother’s Day Quotes
1. “To a child’s ear, ‘mother’ is magic in any language.” — Arlene Benedict
2. “I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.” — Lance Conrad
3. “No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.” — Edwin Chapin
4. “Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had.” — Linda Wooten
5. “Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.” — Mabel Hale
6. “Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.” — Lin Yutang
7. “Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.” — Marion C. Garretty
8. “To the world, you are a mother, but to your family, you are the world.” — Unknown
9. “The mother’s heart is the child’s school-room.” — Henry Ward Beecher
10. “The phrase ’working mother’ is redundant.” — Jane Sellman
11. “I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.” ― Martina Hingis
12. “In the end, mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.” —Randy Susan Meyers
13. “I can only hope to be 10% of the mom mine was to me.” ― Charlize Theron
14. “No man is poor who has a Godly mother.” ― Abraham Lincoln
15. “Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” ― George Eliot
16. “Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.” — Lady Gaga
17. “Mom, I love you, even though I’ll never accept your friend request.” — Unknown
18. “If evolution really works, how come mothers have only two hands?” — Milton Berle
19. “I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then, I want to move in with them.” — Phyllis Diller
20. “It’s not easy being a mother. If it were, fathers would do it.” — The Golden Girls
21. “We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.” — Laura Stavoe Harm
22. “A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don’t even have.” — Robert Brault
23. “My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.” — Michael Jordan
24. “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
25. “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” — Robert Browning
26. “A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.” ― Amy Tan
27. “Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.” — Robert A. Heinlein
28. “Mother’s love is infinite. A child can’t outgrow it and a mother can’t conceal it.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson
29. “A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.” ― Princess Diana
30. “Moms are like buttons — they hold everything together.” ― Unknown
31.“By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.” ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
32. “The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.” ― Jodi Picoult, House Rules
33. “There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.” —Jill Churchill
34. “My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up.” ― Donald E. Westlake
35. “If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?” ― Milton Berle
36. “Show me a messy house and I’ll show you a really fun mom.” — Ellen Brenneman
37. “You don’t have favorites among your children, but you do have allies.” ― Zadie Smith, On Beauty
38. “When you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” — Mitch Albom
39. “Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs since the payment is pure love.” — Mildred B. Vermont
40. “Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” — Erich Fromm
41. “Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.” — Unknown
42. “If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” — Stevie Wonder
43. “The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.” — Elaine Heffner
44. “A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” — Cardinal Mermillod
45. “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” — Victor Hugo
46. “The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” — James E. Faust
47. “The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.” ― Karl Lagerfeld
48. “Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.” ― Cheryl Lacey Donovan
49. “A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.” — Unknown
50. “We all long for a guardian angel in our lives. The luckiest among us call that angel mother.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich
51. “A mother’s love liberates.” ― Maya Angelou
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