110 Insanely Beautiful Mother’s Day Quotes

I would be nothing without my mom—zip, zilch, nada. She was the best. She was a wife, a mother, a teacher, and a humble child of God. Indeed, to be her daughter was a gift. The world was a better place because she was in it, and we are better people because we had her in our lives. My mom left this earth six years ago, and my world has never been quite the same. Mother’s Day can be quite an emotional day, but my mom deserves to be celebrated. Therefore, I will be sharing some Mother’s Day quotes to celebrate my mom and the moms and mother figures in your lives.

My mom was a force to be reckoned with

My mom hailed from humble beginnings, but she didn’t let that define who she was or limit what she could become. She aspired to be the best, and, dare I say, she certainly achieved that in all aspects of her life.

She touched the lives of the children she taught at school and is certainly remembered by many of them today. Indeed, her contribution to education is undeniable.

Also, my mom was a wonderful, loving companion to my father, and the life they built together was a glowing example of what a marriage could and should be.

My mom, with my dad by her side, led our family with a quiet strength. Undoubtedly, they were equals and shared the responsibility of raising children and creating a loving home environment. From time to time, I look back on my childhood and smile. It was indeed my happy place, and it always will be.

I never really grasped what motherhood was until I became a mother myself. No doubt, when it comes to motherhood, my mom was a rockstar! She made it look so easy. Somehow, she knew me before I even knew myself. She saw my potential, even when I didn’t. My mom was always cheering me on to do better, to be better and she guided me in all walks of life, even when I didn’t think I needed guidance.

Indeed, the love that I have for her knows no limits, and the memories we created together are etched in my heart forever. Now, even though she is gone, I am sad but not heartbroken. I was lucky to have her, I was lucky to learn from her and I am the mother that I am today because of her.

Short Mother’s Day Quotes

“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.“ -Robert Browning

“A mother’s love liberates.” -Maya Angelou

“Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.” -Ricki Lake

“A mother is the truest friend we have.” – Washington Irving

“I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.” -Lance Conrad

“Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.” -Lin Yutang

“Home is where your mom is.” -Anonymous

“God couldn’t be everywhere, so that is why he invented mothers.” -Daphne Wilder

“Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.” -Robert A. Heinlein

“Motherhood is heart-exploding, blissful hysteria.” -Olivia Wilde

“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.” -Oprah Winfrey

“Mom, because of you, I am what I am today. Thank you.” -Unknown

“The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.” -Elaine Heffner

“Moms are magic.” -Carissa Potter Carlson

“A mother’s hug lasts long after she lets go.” -Unknown

“We are born of love; love is our mother.” -Rumi

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

“Life doesn’t come with a manual; it comes with a mother.” -Unknown

“There is nothing as sincere as a mother’s kiss.” -Saleem Sharma

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

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

“Mothers can look through a child’s eyes and see tomorrow.” -Reed Markham

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

“A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.” -Amy Tan

“If you’re a mom, you’re a superhero. Period.” -Rosie Pope

“The best place to cry is in a mother’s arms.” – Jodie Picoult

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

“The phrase “working mother” is redundant.” -Jane Sellman

“Once you sign on to be a mother, 24/7 is the only shift they offer.” -Jodi Picoult

“A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.” -Emily Dickinson

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

“A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.” -Amit Kalantri

“There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” -Jill Churchill

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

“Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.” -Marion C. Garretty

“A mother throws her heart over the fence and then climbs after it.” -Miranda July

“A mother knows what her child has gone through, even if she didn’t see it herself.” – Pramoedya Ananta Yoer

“Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.” -Susan Gale

“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” -Honore de Balzac

“The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.” -Jodi Picoult

“To the world you are a mother, but to your family you are the world.” -Unknown

“Moms are relentless as the tides. They just don’t drive us to practice, they drive us to greatness.” -Steve Rushin

“She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn’t take them along.” -Margaret Culkin Banning

“Mother (n): One person who does the work of 20. For free. See also: saint, Wonder Woman.” -Unknown

“Behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begins.” -Mitch Albom

“Such a mysterious business, motherhood. How brave a woman must be to embark on it.” -M.L Stedman (The Light Between Oceans)

“No matter how old you get, sometimes, you still just need a hug from mom to make everything better.” -Unknown

“Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

“A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her.” -Erin Kelly

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

“The truth is that no matter how old we are, as long as our mothers are alive, we want our mother.” -Goldie Hawn

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

Long, heartfelt Mother’s Day Quotes

“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.” -Stephanie Precourt

“Kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.” -Barbara Kingsolver

“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.” -Nancy Stahl

“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

“Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed.” – Linda Wooten

“Being a mother is like being a gardener of souls. You tend your children, make sure the light always touches them; you nourish them.” -Karen White

“My mom is a never-ending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words, but I always remember the tune.” -Graycie Harmon

“Motherhood is a choice you make every day, to put someone else’s happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you’re not sure what the right thing is…and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.” -Donna Ball

“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.” -Sophia Loren

“Mothers were meant to love us unconditionally, to understand our moments of stupidity, to reprimand us for lame excuses while yet acknowledging our point of view, to weep over our pain and failures as well as cry at our joy and successes and to cheer us on despite countless start-overs. Heaven knows, no one else will.” -Richelle Goodrich

“A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.” -Washington Irving

“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.” -Roald Dahl

“Mother’s love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there, it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life.” -Erich Fromm

“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” -Agatha Christie

“You know every story, every wound, every memory. Their whole life’s happiness is wrapped up in you…every single second.” -Isabel Kelly

“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

“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” -Elizabeth Stone

“The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.” -Jessica Lange

“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

“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

“Thus far, the mighty mystery of motherhood is this: How is it that doing it all feels like nothing is ever getting done.” -Rebecca Woolf

“No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever.” -Adriana Trigiani

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.” -Maya Angelou

“Mothers have the ability to liberate by love or, by neglect, to imprison. They’re our first teachers; they are our first loves.” -Maya Angelou

“If I were asked to define motherhood, I would have defined it as love in its purest form. Unconditional love.” -Revathi Sankaran

“Mothers and 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

“Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it’s the most exquisite love of all.” -Maggie Gallagher

“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

Funny Mother’s Day Quotes

“Motherhood: feeding them as a baby and then through most of their twenties.” -Unknown

“If at first you don’t succeed, try doing it the way your mom told you to do it from the start.” -Unknown

“In the end, mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.” -Randy Susan Meyers

“Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.” -Barbara Walters

“If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says, keep away from children.” -Susan Savannah

“Sometimes I open my mouth, and my mother comes out.” -Anonymous

“My housekeeping style is best described as, ‘There appears to have been a struggle.'” -Unknown

“A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.” -Peter de Vries

“You know your life has changed when… going to the grocery store is a vacation.” -Anonymous

“Nothing is really lost until your mom can’t find it.” -Anonymous

“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years, she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.” -Calvin Trillin

“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

“Clarity and focus don’t always come from God or inspirational quotes. Usually, it takes your mother to slap the reality back into you.” -Shannon Alder

“Motherhood: Powered by love, fueled by coffee, sustained by wine.” -Unknown

“A mother need only step into the shower to be instantly reassured she is indispensable to every member of her family.” -Lynne Williams

“Motherhood is like a game show: you never know what prize you’ll win – a diaper blowout, a tantrum, or an ‘I love you Mom’ that melts your heart.” -Kathy Lette

“My nickname is ‘Mom.’ But my full name is ‘Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom.'” -Unknown

“The quickest way for a parent to get a child’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable.” -Lane

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“Children are a great comfort in your old age – and they help you reach it faster too.” -Lionel Kauffman

“A mother is the person you can always call to see how long chicken lasts in the fridge.” -Anonymous

“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

“To be honest, I’m just winging it. Life, motherhood, my eyeliner. Everything.” -Unknown

“I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then, I want to move in with them.” -Phyllis Diller

“Sooner or later, we all quote our mothers.” -Bern Williams

“When someone asks you where you came from, the answer is your mother.” -Anna Quindlen

“I brought you into this world, and I can take you right out of it – but don’t worry, I’ll wait until after Mother’s Day!” -Phyllis Diller

“My sister said once: Anything I don’t want Mother to know, I don’t even think of if she’s in the room.” -Agatha Christie

“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?” -Milton Berle

“My mother’s menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.” -Buddy Hackett

“When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.” -Nora Ephron

“A mother’s job is never truly done until the laundry is folded, the dishes are washed, and the kids are finally asleep…by that time, it’s Mother’s Day again!” -Unknown

In conclusion

So there we have it! You made it through all 110 Mother’s Day quotes! And surely, if you’re a mom, you were probably shaking your head in agreement with A LOT of them!

A mother’s job isn’t easy, and it’s not for the faint of heart. But it is undoubtedly one of the most rewarding things in life. There were times when my kids were younger that I wanted to pull my hair out and run for the hills, but finding ways to push through, even when you feel you don’t have it in you, is just one talent that moms possess.

And now that I’m an empty nester, I get to sit back and see the fruits of my labor. And it’s a beautiful thing. I have an amazing husband by my side, and I have learned how to parent from the best (my parents). I didn’t get it right many times, but motherhood is like being in school till you take your last breath; you are constantly learning. And even though my kids are adults, the job is never done. However, I wouldn’t want it any other way!

So to you, my dear readers, I say thank you. Thank you for stopping by my blog and spending some time with me and my thoughts. I hope you will come back soon! And, of course, whenever you visit, feel free to leave a comment!

And to my mom in heaven, you have indeed touched my heart and life by just being you. Not a day goes by that I don’t wish I could hear your voice just one more time. You left some big shoes to fill, but all I can do is try to fill them. Past Mother’s Days have been really difficult. In fact, two years ago, I wrote a blog post entitled Mother’s Day Is Hard After Losing Your Mom.

Until now, my emotions would get the better of me, and I would be in tears… a lot. But somehow, this year, I feel the need to celebrate you more. Time has a way of making the hurt better. And even though I miss you like crazy, joy is washing over me more and more as the years go by.

I was extremely lucky to have you as my mom, and as long as I live, I will never take that blessing for granted. Thank you for being the best mom a girl could ask for and for leading by example. Your passion for life, God, your family, and your job was evident in everything you said and did.

I LOVE YOU, MOM.

I miss you every single day.