There’s solace and strength that comes from uttering the word ‘mom’. How can it not when moms comfort you when you’re feeling down, encourage when you doubt yourself, and know all your favorite things, from ice cream flavor to pizza toppings.
Moms strive every day of their life to provide, to nurture, and to love. They give it their all just so you can live a good life. With a touch of ‘mom’, things are not as hard as they seem. Even if they are, she’ll be there every step of the way.
That’s why we don’t need special occasions to show our mothers that we love them and that we’re grateful for all their support and sacrifices. Here are 80 inspiring mom quotes to make your mother feel special and greatly appreciated.
Inspiring Mom Quotes
No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother’s love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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
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
A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. – Victor Hugo
We are born of love; love is our mother. – Rumi
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. – Barbara Kingsolver
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
Motherhood: if you think my hands are full, you should see my heart.
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. – Irish Proverb
The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you are one. – Jodi Picoult
A man’s work is from sun to sun, but a mother’s work is never done.
A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take. – Cardinal Mermillod
He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. – J.K. Rowling
Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. – Erich Fromm
Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond stronger in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving. – Gail Tsukiyama
When you look into your mother’s eyes, you have known that is the purest love you can find on this earth. – Mitch Albom
A mom’s hug lasts long after she lets go.
Successful mothers are not the ones that never struggled. They are the ones that never give up, despite the struggles. – Sharon Jaynes
For a mother is the only person on earth who can divide her love among ten children and each child still have all her love.
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will find forgiveness. –Honore de Balzac
Mom — the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself. – Robert Brault
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. – Terri Guillemets
A mothers’ joy begins when new life is stirring inside…when a tiny heartbeat is heard for the first time, and a playful kick reminds her that she is never alone.
All I know is that when I’m a parent I want to be just like my mom. I can talk to my mom more than any of my friends could talk to their parents. – Nikki Reed
Men are what their mothers made them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. – Chinese Proverb
I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know. – Mitch Albom
There’s a reason some people think they can achieve anything. They listened to their mother.
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. – Meryl Streep
You don’t take a class; you’re thrown into motherhood and learn from experience. – Jennie Finch
Whether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain—your life will never be the same. – Catherine Jones
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary. – Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Making the decision to have a baby is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside of your body. – Elizabeth Stone
Mothers never retire, no matter how old her children are she is always a Mom, always willing to encourage and help her children in any ways she can. – Catherine Pulsifer
Being a mother is not about what you gave up to have a child, but what you gained by having one. – Sunny Gupta
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. – Oprah Winfrey
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing. – Billy Sunday
You never appreciate all of the things your mother did for you until you find yourself doing the same things for your kids. – Linda Poindexter
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
Pregnancy and childbirth make a woman an instant mother. But, all the days that follow thereafter with the love, caring, nurturing, cuddling, and worry is what makes her mom.
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. – Irish Proverb
Motherlove is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. – Marion C. Garretty
The most important thing she’d learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a great one. – Jill Churchill
Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together. – Susan Gale
Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. – Erich Fromm
In a child’s eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe. – N.K. Jemisin
Being a mother is not a matter of running through a succession of chores. – Naomi Stadlen
Mother – that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. – T. DeWitt Talmage
The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children. – Karl Lagerfeld
Call your mother. Tell her you love her. Remember, you’re the only person who knows what her heart sounds like from the inside. – Rachel Wolchin
Mothers hold their children’s hands for a while, their hearts forever.
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
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 can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool mom.
Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children. – Maxim Gorky
No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother’s love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother’s secret hope outlives them all. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
I think my mother is my biggest influence. There are so many things I hate about her but at the same time I’m thankful for her. All I know is that when I’m a parent I want to be just like my mom. I can talk to my mom more than any of my friends could talk to their parents. – Nikki Reed
Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there’s a bond that’s unbreakable. – Tyler Perry
My mother is a walking miracle. – Leonardo DiCaprio
Mother can never be compared with anyone in life for her sacrifice, love and care.
Mother is the bank where we deposit all our hurts and worries.
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 who rejoice with us in our sunshine 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
Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face. – George Eliot
“M” is for the million things she gave me,
“O” means only that she’s growing old,
“T” is for the tears she shed to save me,
“H” is for her heart of purest gold,
“E” is for her eyes, with love-light shining,
“R” means right, and right she’ll always be.
There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one. – Jill Churchill
Put them all together, they spell “MOTHER,” A word that means the world to me.
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. – Rajneesh
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. – Godfrey Winn
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary. – Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. – Aristotle
Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation. – Robert A. Heinlein
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
I love my mom. No matter what we go through, and no matter how much we argue, I know in the end, she’ll always be there for me.
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. – Honore de Balzac
A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. – Victor Hugo
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. – Meryl Streep
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
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