100+ Best Mother’s Day Quotes For Mom In 2023

Mother’s Day is the special time of year when you get to celebrate your first best friend and the person you always turn to when you need advice. Mother’s Day is also a great time to show your love for all the other wonderful women in your life. If you’re looking for a way to show your mother, grandmother, or any other mother figure in your life how special you think they are, these lovely quotes about mothers are just what you need.

We’ve collected 125 funny, caring, and sweet Mothers Day quotes that are perfect for all the women who inspire you. Whether you want to make your mom—or an expectant mom-to-be in your life—laugh with funny Mother’s Day quotes or show her how much you care with a sweet saying, there’s sure to be a quote or message here that is perfect for you. Make your Mother’s Day message even more special by adding your quote to a Mother’s Day card, a personalized mug, or custom photo book so she can hold onto and display your gesture long after Mother’s Day is over.

Quotes for Mom

Our moms are our superheroes and biggest supporters, but we usually don’t tell them enough how much they’re appreciated. Now’s the time—with a personalized Mother’s Day card or gift. On her special day, tell your mom how much she means to you with these heartwarming messages about motherhood, whether she’s new to the role or has a lifetime of memories raising children.

• "It's not easy being a mother. If it were, fathers would do it."
• "A mother is the truest friend we have."
• “Everything good in me, I got it from my mama.”
• "She’s the only reason I’m able to do what I do."
• “Moms are like buttons. They hold it all together.”
• “If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
• “One of the most important relationships we’ll have is the relationship we have with our mothers.”
• “Her nickname is Mom but her full name is Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom.”
• “My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.”
• “Life doesn’t come with a manual, it comes with a mother.”
• "Where you lead, I will follow."
• "Call your mother. Tell her you love her. Remember you're the only person who knows what her heart sounds like from the inside."
• “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.”
• “No one in your life will ever love you as your mother does. There is no love as pure, unconditional and strong as a mother’s love.”
• “Her children rise up and call her blessed.”
• “She’s the sky that holds the clouds.”
• “But only a mother can walk with the weight of a second beating heart.”
• “I love my mother as trees love water and sunshine. She helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights.”
• “I find the backbone of a mother to be the strongest, yet most pliable of them all; to bend over backward and still be a pillar—some call it magic.”
• "To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow."
• “My mother never gave me any idea that I couldn’t do whatever I wanted to do or be whomever I wanted to be. ... I don’t know if she ever realized that the person I most wanted to be was her.”

• “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”
• “I think every working mom probably feels the same thing: You go through big chunks of time where you’re just thinking, ‘This is impossible—oh, this is impossible.’ And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.”
• "The woman who is my best friend, my teacher, my everything: Mom."
• “A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.” —Unknown
• “When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” —Charley Benetto
• “Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heartthrob.” —Leroy Brownlow
• “Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.” —Susan Gale
• “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
• “Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” —William Makepeace Thackeray
• “The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” —James E. Faust
• “It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?” —Mahatma Gandhi
• “There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.” —Elder M. Russell Ballard
• “Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes
• “Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything.” —Unknown
• “Only mothers can think of the future because they give birth to it in their children.” —Maxim Grosky
• “My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.” —Lisa Leslie
• “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.” —Maya Angelou
• “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

• “My mother is a walking miracle.” —Leonardo DiCaprio
• “A mother understands what a child does not say.” —Jewish proverb
• “The world needs our mothers.” —Liya Kebede
• “A mother’s hug lasts long after she lets go.” —Unknown
• “There is nothing as sincere as a mother’s kiss.” —Saleem Sharma
• “Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” —George Eliot
• “A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.” —Unknown
• “We are born of love; love is our mother.” —Rumi
• “Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.” —Kahil Gibran
• “There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother.” —Sara Josepha Hale
• “A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.” —Princess Diana
• “All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” —Abraham Lincoln
• “A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.” —Amy Tan
• “Mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.” —Emily Dickinson
• “A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.” —Debasish Mridha
• “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” —Victor Hugo
• “A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” —Cardinal Mermillod
• “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
• “The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.” —Elaine Heffner
• “In the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child reads the message: ‘You are there!’” —Adrienne Rich
• “If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” —Stevie Wonder
• “Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.” —Unknown
• “Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” —Erich Fromm
• “Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs since the payment is pure love.” —Mildred B. Vermont
• “When you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” —Mitch Albom
• “There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.” —Jill Churchill
• “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.” —Archibald Thompson
• “A mother’s love is everything. It is what brings a child into this world. It is what molds their entire being. When a mother sees her child in danger, she is literally capable of anything. Mothers have lifted cars off of their children and destroyed entire dynasties. A mother’s love is the strongest energy known to man.” —Jamie McGuire
• “A mother is clothed with strength and dignity, laughs without fear of the future. When she speaks her words are wise and she gives instructions with kindness.” —Proverbs
• “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. ” —Robert Browning