Being a mother isn’t an easy role in the family and on a special day for honoring motherhood, you can reach out to your mom and other mother figures you know, to make them feel special using quotes.
Mother’s Day gifts and cards can light up the moment, but Mother’s Day quotes from daughter, son, husband, or a friend when paired with a gift, will make it forever treasured because these special words are heart touching and do not wither.
Whether you are looking for the most beautiful and meaningful Mother’s Day quotes or just want to make your mom happy and give her strength a boost, we’ve put together the best inspirational Mother’s Day quotes to help you celebrate this year’s Mother’s Day with a difference. Feel free to incorporate them with a gift, in your best message for Mother’s Day and your lovely wishes for her today.
Best Mother’s Day Quotes For Mom In 2021
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- “A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.” —Unknown
- “A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” —Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- “A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.” —Unknown
- “A mother understands what a child does not say.” —Jewish proverb
- “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” —Victor Hugo
- “A mother’s hug lasts long after she lets go.” —Unknown
- “All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” —Abraham Lincoln
- “Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.” —Robert A. Heinlein
- “Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.” —P.J. O’Rourke
- “I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” —Mitch Albom
- “I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” —Abraham Lincoln
- “If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?” —Milton Berle
- “If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.” —Booker T. Washington
- “It has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. My mom says some days are like that.” —Judith Viorst in Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
- “It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?” —Mahatma Gandhi
- “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
- “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
- “Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” —George Eliot
- “Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark … to have been loved so deeply .. will give us some protection forever.” —J.K. Rowling
- “Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.” —Harriet Beecher Stowe
- “Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heartthrob.” —Leroy Brownlow
- “Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” —William Makepeace Thackeray
- “Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.” —Kahil Gibran
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.” —Susan Gale
- “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.” —Mark Twain
- “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
- “My mother is a walking miracle.” —Leonardo DiCaprio
- “My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was 6 and my brother was 8; I never forgot it.” —Stephen King
- “My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.” —Lisa Leslie
- “My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.” —George Washington
- “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
- “Only mothers can think of the future because they give birth to it in their children.” —Maxim Grosky
- “The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.” —Jodi Picoult
- “The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” —James E. Faust
- “The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant.” —Jane Sellman
- “The world needs our mothers.” —Liya Kebede
- “There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother.” —Sara Josepha Hale
- “There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.” —Elder M. Russell Ballard
- “There is nothing as sincere as a mother’s kiss.” —Saleem Sharma
- “There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” —Jill Churchill
- “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
- “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.” —Maya Angelou
- “We are born of love; love is our mother.” —Rumi
- “Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.” —James Joyce
- “When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” —Charley Benetto
- “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
- “Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes