100 Heartfelt Mother's Day Quotes

I felt the wash of her love every day, pouring over me.

As is the mother, so is her daughter.

When someone asks you where you come from, the answer is your mother.

Motherhood was the great equalizer for me; I started to identify with everybody.

Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.

Mother is a verb. It's something you do. Not just who you are.

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

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.

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.

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.

A mother's love liberates.

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Mother's love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.

To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.

Having kids — the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings — is the biggest job anyone can embark on.

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."

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.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.

All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.

Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heart throb.

A mom is like a teabag. You can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

Mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.

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.

If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

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.

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

For when a child is born the mother also is born again.

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.

The truth is that no matter how old we are, as long as our mothers are alive, we want our mother.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.

He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.

You can feel when your mom’s proud of you. You can feel the love.

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

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.

We are born of love; Love is our mother.

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.

My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.

Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.

I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.

Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness.

The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

My mother is a walking miracle.

My mom is definitely my rock.

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

A mother's love endures through all.

I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world.

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.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

All I am I owe to my mother.

Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart—a heart so large that everybody’s joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

Nothing is really lost until your mom can't find it.

Only mothers can think of the future because they give birth to it in their children.

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

The mother’s heart is the child’s school-room.

Life doesn't come with a manual. It comes with a mother.

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.

A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.

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.

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

When you look into your mother's eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find.

A mother throws her heart over the fence and then climbs after it.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.

Moms are like buttons — they hold everything together.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.

My mother has a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

There’s no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.

All those clichés, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood—all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience.

I can only hope to be 10% of the mom mine was to me.

In the end, mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.

A mother understands what a child does not say.

Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.

Mothers don't sleep. They just worry with their eyes closed.

My mother was the one constant in my life.

It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

Over the years I have learned that motherhood is much like an austere religious order, the joining of which obligates one to relinquish all claims to personal possessions.

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

If you’re a mom, you’re a superhero. Period.

A mother is a mother still, the holiest thing alive.

There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother.

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.

An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.

The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother.

Mother — that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

The most beautiful part of your body if wherever your mother's shadow falls.