250+ Mother Quotes – Short And Sweet Mother’s Day Quotes

When words fall short of expressing our immense love and gratitude for our moms, “Best Mother Quotes” come to our rescue. On Mother’s Day, these quotations express our appreciation for moms’ selflessness, advice, and unconditional love.

These short and sweet best mother quotes hold the power to encapsulate emotions in just a few words, making them perfect for expressing feelings that often run too deep for long paragraphs.

In the following sections, we’ll explore a collection of such best mother quotes that beautifully capture the essence of this extraordinary bond

Best Mother Quotes

A mother understands what a child does not say. – Jewish Proverb

 

I love my mother as trees love water and sunshine. She helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights. -Terry Guillemets

 

A Mother’s love is something that no one can explain, It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain, It is endless and unselfish and enduring come what may For nothing can destroy it or take that love away. – Helen Steiner Rice

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

You are evidence of your mother’s strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.  – Criss Jami

 

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. – Robert Browning

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

 

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

 

Whatever you do in this life, it’s not legendary unless your friends are there to see it. — Barney Stinson

 

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.  – Rudyard Kipling

 

A printed card means nothing except that you are too lazy to write to the woman who has done more for you than anyone in the world. And candy! You take a box to Mother – and then eat most of it yourself. A pretty sentiment. — Anna Jarvis

 

As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.―Kristin Hannah

 

Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears. —Kate Winslet

 

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. – Barbara Kingsolver

A mother is a woman who shows you the light when you just see the dark. – Grimaldos Robin

 

There has never been, nor will there ever be, anything quite so special as the love between the mother and a son. – Anonymous

 

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

 

A boy’s best friend is his mother. – Joseph Stefano

 

My mom was always my friend. Always. —Taylor Swift

 

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

A mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart a heart so large that everybody’s grief and everybody’s joy found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. – Mark Twain

 

If evolution works, how come mothers still have only two hands? – CROFT M. PENTZ

 

To all mothers in every circumstance, including those who struggle, I say, ‘Be peaceful. Believe in God and yourself. You are doing better than you think you are. — Jeffrey R. Holland

 

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

 

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. – Abraham Lincoln

 

My daughter is my biggest achievement. She is a little star and my life has changed so much for the better since she came along.  – Denise Van Outen

 

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

When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.  —Charley Benetto

 

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 is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. ― Washington Irving

 

Mothers give up so much so that their children can have so much. – Catherine Pulsifer

 

Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. – Eric Fromm

 

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. – Maya Angelou

 

My mother has always been my emotional barometer and my guidance. I was lucky enough to get to have one woman who truly helped me through everything. —Emma Stone

 

The hand of a bride becomes the hand of a mother. Ever so gently she cares for her precious child. Bathing, dressing, feeding, comforting—there is no hand like mothers. Nor does its tender care diminish through the years. —Thomas S. Monson

The best place to cry is in a mother’s arms. – Jodi Picoult

 

Your most valuable parenting skill is learning to manage yourself first. —Dr. Laura Markham

 

One is a mother in order to understand the inexplicable. One is a mother to lighten the darkness. One is a mother to shield when lightning streaks the night, when thunder shakes the earth when mud bogs one down. One is a mother in order to love without beginning or end. – Mariama Bâ

 

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field since the payment is pure love. – Mildred B. Vermont

 

Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don’t want their kids … but when you look more closely, you realize that they’re doing those kids a favor. They’re just trying to give them a better life. ―Jodi Picoult

 

Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me. – Lady Gaga

 

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

 

He that the daughter win must with the mother first begin. – English Proverb

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

 

To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. – Bill Wilson

 

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

 

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face. – George Eliot

 

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

 

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

 

There is no teacher equal to mother and there’s nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father.  – Amit Ray

 

All I am I owe to my mother. – George Washington 

 

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

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

 

If you’re not scared, you’re not taking a chance, and if you’re not taking a chance, then what the hell are you doing? — Ted Mosby

 

Arise then, women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts! … We, the women of one country, will be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs…. — Julia Ward Howe

 

Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes. —P.J. O’Rourke

 

[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

 

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother mine o mother mine. – Rudyard Kipling

 

Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy. – Tina Fey

 

We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong. – Laura Stavoe Harm

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. – Godfrey Winn

 

A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, where the mother is. — Keith L. Brooks

 

Loving you the way I do/I know we’re gonna make it through/And I would go to the ends of the earth/’Cause darling, to me that’s what you’re worth. —Carole King

 

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

 

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive. –  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 

Moms. Because not all superheroes wear capes. – ANONYMOUS

 

Love as powerful as your mothers leaves its own mark…To have been loved so deeply… Will give us some protection forever. — J.K. Rowling

 

No one else can be what you have been to me… You will always be the girl in my life…” – No one else can be what you have been to me… You will always be the girl in my life… –  Edmonds

 

There will be so many times you feel like you’ve failed. But in the eyes, heart, and mind of your child, you are super mom. – Stephanie Precourt

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary. – Dorothy C. Fisher

 

Call your mother. Tell her you to love her. Remember, you’re the only person who knows what her heart sounds like from the inside. — Rachel Wolchin

 

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

 

A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s. – Princess Diana

 

But there’s a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begin. ― Mitch Albom

 

Despite the fact that we ought to show adoration to you mother each and every day, Mother’s Day is that one day when we demonstrate the most love for you and make you feel like a Queen. – Sheila Sage

 

We are born of love; Love is our mother. — Rumi

 

My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter and became Picasso. – Pablo Picasso

I believe in the strength and intelligence and sensitivity of women. My mother, my sisters [they] are strong. My mum is a strong woman and I love her for it. —Tom Hiddleston

 

We help God’s children best by providing ways to build faith in Jesus Christ and in His restored gospel when they are young. —Henry B. Eyring

 

My mother was the one constant in my life. When I think about my mom raising me alone when she was 20, and working and paying the bills, and, you know, trying to pursue your own dreams, I think it is a feat that is unmatched. –  BARACK OBAMA

 

My childhood may be over, but that doesn’t mean playtime is. —Ron Olson

 

I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.- Mitch Albom

 

The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant. – Jane Sellman

 

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

 

Over the years, I learned so much from Mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. She also taught me that aging need not mean narrowing the scope of your activities and interests or a diminution of the great pleasures to be had in the everyday. – Martha Stewart

Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. – Pearl S. Buck

 

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

 

Her mother would tell her she was beautiful and that everything was all right. – Sarah Addison Allen

 

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. – Theodore Hesburgh

 

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

 

The mother is everything – she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness. – Kahlil Gibran

 

Any mother could do the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease. — Lisa Alther

 

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.  – Osho

Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn? all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience. – Julia Ward Howe

 

Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always. – A.E. Coppard

 

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

 

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. – Phyllis Diller

 

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder, and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. – Phyllis Diller

 

I know it’s a mistake, but there are certain things in life where you know it’s a mistake, but you don’t really know it’s a mistake, because the only way to really know it’s a mistake is to make the mistake, and look back and say, ‘Yep, that was a mistake.’ So, really, the bigger mistake would be to not make the mistake because then you’d go your whole life not really knowing if something is a mistake or not. — Lily Aldrin

 

No one who traces the history of motherhood, of the home, of child-rearing practices will ever assume the eternal permanence of our own way of institutionalizing them. — Jessie Bernard

 

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

 

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

Birth is the epicenter of women’s power. – Ani DiFranco

 

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it, nothing great was ever achieved. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.  -Robert Brault

 

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. – Aristotle

 

There are no rules in this house; I’m not like a regular mom, I’m a cool mom! —Mrs. George

 

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall. A mother’s secret hope outlives them all. —Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

A man’s work is from the sun to sun, but a mother’s work is never done. – Anonymous

 

There is no occupancy limit on a mother’s heart. It expands with each child, whether you gave birth to that child or not–you just add another room. – HEATHER LENDE

 

Mothers are a special gift sent from God above. They bless us with their nurturing and fill us with their love. –   Faye Diane Kilday

 

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

 

The more a daughter knows the details of her mother’s life the stronger the daughter. – Anita Diamant

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love. —Stevie Wonder

 

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

 

If you can’t go back to your mother’s womb, you’d better learn to be a good fighter. ― Anchee Min

 

Roses are red violets are blue There is no one dearer than a Mom like you! – Kate Summers

 

That strong mother doesn’t tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughens up, this is the reality we are living in. – Lauryn Hill

 

Love matches, so-called, have an illusion for their father and need for their mother. – Friedrich Nietzsche

 

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

 

My mother never gave up on me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back. – Denzel Washington

A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past is forgotten, and the future worth living for. —Anonymous

 

Surely a mother who has chosen to sacrifice her sleep deserves respect and admiration for her generous mothering. – Naomi Stadlen

 

It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace. – Christopher Morley

 

Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, — that divine gift which comforts, purifies and strengthens all who seek it. ―Louisa May Alcot

 

Sooner or later we all quote our mothers. – Bern Williams

 

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

 

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

 

Mother-daughter disagreements were, in hindsight, basically mother stating the truth and daughter taking her own sweet time coming around. – Barbara Delinsky

It doesn’t matter how old you are, or what you do in your life, you never stop needing your mom. – Kate Winslet

 

Mothers love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. – Marion C. Garretty

 

The word’s out: I’m a woman, and I’m going to have trouble backing off on that. I am what I am. I’ll go out and talk to people about what’s happening to their families, and when I do that, I’m a mother. I’m a grandmother. — Elizabeth Warren

 

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

 

If a man has been his mother’s undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it. ― Sigmund Freud

 

We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. – Phyllis Diller

 

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. – Mark Twain

It’s only once you’ve stopped that you realize how hard it is to start again. — Ted Mosby

 

To nourish children and raise them against odds is any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons. — Marilyn French

 

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor. – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

 

Mama took me in her arms and held me tight. Her embrace was hot and she smelled like sweat, dust, and grease, but I wanted her. I wanted to crawl inside her mind to find that place that let her smile and sing through the worst dust storms. If I had to be crazy, I wanted my mama’s kind of crazy, because she was never afraid. ―Sarah Zettel

 

You’re always going to wonder if you’re doing things wrong, but that’s what it means to be a mom, to care so much about someone else that you just want to be as perfect as possible. —Naya Rivera

 

There is such a special sweetness in being able to participate in creation. – Pamela S. Nadav

 

My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn’t talk; she sang. She was a tower of strength.  – Jayne Meadows

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

 

You’re doing amazing, sweetie. —Kris Jenner

 

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. —Charles R. Swindoll

 

And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong to my mother. And in return I wanted my mother to belong to me. –  Gloria Vanderbilt

 

One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands – bare hands – and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage. To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon. Bare hands – a kind of mad courage. – ROBERT FULGHUM

 

For the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. – W. R. Wallace

 

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. – Florida Scott- Maxwell

 

My mom taught me a woman’s mind should be the most beautiful part of her.  – Sonya Teclai

 

Blessed is a mother that would give up part of her soul for her children’s happiness. – Shannon L. Alder

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. —William Makepeace Thackeray

 

I was always an unusual girl. My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean. ― Lana Del Rey

 

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. – Chinese Proverbs

 

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

 

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

 

When you’re in the thick of raising your kids by yourself, you tend to keep a running list of everything you think you’re doing wrong. I recommend taking a lot of family pictures as evidence to the contrary. — Connie Schultz

 

My most important title is ‘mom-in-chief’. My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.  – Michelle Obama

A mother continues to labor long after the baby is born. —Lisa Jo Baker

 

However motherhood comes to you, it’s a miracle. – Valerie Harper

 

I wondered if my smile was as big as hers. Maybe as big. But not as beautiful. ―Benjamin Alire Sáenz

 

My mother is a walking miracle. – Leonardo DiCaprio

 

In all my efforts to learn to read, my mother shared fully my ambition and sympathized with me and aided me in every way she could. If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition of my mother. – Booker T. Washington

 

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night. – Margaret Mead

 

Mother and daughter got on very well indeed, with a deep affection founded on an almost complete misunderstanding. – Mary Stewart

 

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

Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind. – Kahlil Gibran

 

Most people’s mothers are the most influential person in their life. But my mother survived the camps, and she was very strong. She made me strong, but she wanted me to be strong. That’s more important.  — Diane von Furstenberg

 

One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. – George Herbert

 

Every mother hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did, and is convinced that her son will never find a wife as good as his father did.  – Martin Andersen Nexo

 

Poverty is hereditary – you get it from your children.  – Phyllis Diller

 

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. – Albert Ellis

 

It’s not about proof; it’s about faith. Faith is what gives life shape and meaning. — Marshall Eriksen

 

I’ll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.  – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

 

Women’s rights, in essence, is really a movement for freedom, a movement for equality, for the dignity of all women, for those who work outside the home and those who dedicate themselves with more altruism than any profession I know to be wives and mothers, cooks and chauffeurs, and child psychologists and loving human beings.  — Jill Ruckelshaus

 

I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother. ― Maya Angelou

The moment he wakes up from a nap.… Just a gummy mouth, no teeth, just a big smile, happy that you’re alive and you’re just looking at him. That’s probably the most magical.  — Jessica Biel

 

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. – Edgar Allen Poe

 

She (mother) pushed us to always try harder, to want the best out of our lives, and to always be strong – a lesson she was forced to learn herself when we were all still young.  – Willie Davis

 

Don’t f*ck with my freedom/I came back to get me some/I’m nasty, I’m evil/Must be something in the water or that I’m my mother’s daughter.  — Miley Cyrus

 

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. –  John Wilmot

 

My mom smiled at me. Her smile kind of hugged me. – R. J. PALACIO

 

The angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of Mother…  –  Edgar Allan Poe

 

Good daughters make good mothers. – Abigail G. Whittlesey

 

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

Mom could make small things seem miraculous. That was her talent. – Matthew Quick

 

The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.  — James E. Faust

 

No man is poor who has a Godly mother. ― Abraham Lincoln

 

So I just want to stress to you the importance of mothers, because class, you’re going to have your October 22nd – and you just always remember that your mother is there who loves you, who will protect you, always stand with you. –  Kevin Vickers

 

When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, ‘Don’t worry, next time you will have a son. – Malala Yousafzai

 

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

 

[Having children] made me understand that there was a purity to love. That there is unconditional love. – Jennifer Lopez

 

Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did — that everything involving our children was painful in some way. The emotions, whether they were joy, sorrow, love, or pride, were so deep and sharp that in the end they left you raw, exposed, and yes, in pain. The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that — a parent’s heart bared, beating forever outside its chest. —Debra Ginsberg

 

My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled. – Carly Fiorina

Grown don’t mean anything to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What’s that supposed to mean? In my heart, it doesn’t mean a thing. -Toni Morrison

 

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. – W.R. Wallace

 

No daughter and mother ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them. – Christie Watson

 

Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else. – MOTHER TERESA

 

[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. — Emily Dickinson

 

Raising boys has made me a more generous woman than I really am. Undoubtedly, there are other routes to learning the wishes and dreams of the presumably opposite sex, but I know of none more direct, or more highly motivating, than being the mother of sons. – Mary Kay Blakely

 

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

 

My mother always told me I wouldn’t amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said ‘Just wait’.- Judy Tenuta

 

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent. — Golda Meir

 

My mom is literally a part of me. You can’t say that about many people except relatives, and organ donors. – CARRIE LATEST

 

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between. – Mother Teresa

 

Giving birth and being born brings us into the essence of creation, where the human spirit is courageous and bold and the body, a miracle of wisdom.  – Harriette Hartigan

 

Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn, Hundreds of bees in the purple clover, Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn, but only one mother the wide world over.  – GEORGE COOPER

 

Always know that you’ve got a daughter that’s so, so proud you took the high road.  — Beyoncé

These “Best Mother Quotes” distill mothers’ boundless love and impact into short yet impactful phrases. With a few words, they reflect the wisdom, warmth, and nurturing care our mothers provide. Use these quotations to let your mother know that her love is cherished and her influence is bottomless.

Embrace the simplicity and depth of these words as you celebrate the incredible woman who embodies the essence of motherhood. Celebrate your mom with the best mother quotes. Express your love concisely on Mother’s Day with these short and sweet quotes.