79 Best Short & Famous Inspirational Quotes for Happy Mothers Day

Mothers are always there for us – to support us whenever we need them. In addition, to tell you: being a mother is never an easy task! Be it making breakfast, doing the laundry, or washing the dishes, mothers always have the best ways do these chores easier and faster.

Just imagine how hard it is to live life without your mother’s guidance. While it is possible to live alone, it will not be as easy and fulfilling without the support of our mother. In addition, they provide unconditional love that makes us feel comfortable, satisfied, and loved in their arms.

We want our mothers to feel happy and loved too, and that is what we are going to do today. It’s the perfect time for us to thank our mothers for taking care of us and loving us unconditionally.

79 Inspirational Quotes for Mothers

So, for all the hard work, care, and love mothers provides, here are inspirational quotes to keep every mother happy and inspired every day.

1. 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

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

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

4. 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

5. The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms. — Jodi Picoult

6. A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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

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

9. Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation. — Robert A. Heinlein

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

11. If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? — Milton Berle

12. Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

13. 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

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

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

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

17. 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 way she can! — Catherine Pulsifer

18. 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

19. 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

20. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. — Emily Dickinson

21. 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

22. Love as powerful as your mothers for you leaves its own mark … to have been loved so deeply… will give us some protection forever. — J.K. Rowling

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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. My mother is a walking miracle. —Leonardo DiCaprio

28. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn’t have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always. —Taylor Swift

29. A mother is the one who is still there when everyone else has deserted you. ― Unknown

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

31. 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

32. Sometimes being a good mother gets in the way of being a good person. ― Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

33. Compassion is like mother giving love to her children. Mother’s ways are higher than others, even when everyone rejects, mother accepts with her arms open and wide. ― Amit Ray

34. One of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive. ― Audrey Niffenegger

35. Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them until the blood flows. ― Joanne Harris

36. I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile. ― Adriana Trigiani

37. My mother is pure radiance. She is the sun i can touch and kiss and hold without getting burnt. ― Sanober Khan

38. God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. ― Phyllis McGinley

39. I couldn’t imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn’t dare. ― Janet Fitch

40. My mother’s life was way too heavy for me. ― Sue Monk Kidd

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

42. This mothering role will teach you more about yourself than you ever expected. ― Tricia Goyer

43. 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

44. Ofcourse mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view. ― Katherine Howe

45. Even though my father was very strict with us, my dear mother was exactly the opposite. Maybe it was because I was the baby of the family that she treated me specially – but, whatever the reason, whenever I thought about my mother, I envisioned an angel. ― Ludvik Wieder

46. My gratitude to my dear mother . . . whom I love very much. I will forever be grateful to you for instilling wisdom and Godly values in me. Thank you for being a strong woman of God and never giving up. This has been a very valuable lesson to me as I live and learn. ― Irell Wallace

47. I can truly say how wonderful, I feel my mother is. She knows exactly when I’m in need, not to mention all the things she does. ― Julie Hebert

48. A mother understands what a child does not say. ― Proverb

49. Simply having children does not make mothers. ― John A. Shedd

50. Many of us who are mothers already know that being a mother is the toughest job there is. In a single day you can travel from the depths of frustration to the pinnacle of elation! ― June Cotner,

51. Being a mother has been the most challenging and the most rewarding position I will ever hold. ― Cathy Shaffer

52. I learned from my mother that there is a greatness in all of us, and that all of us are delivered to this world with a mission. ― Les Brown

53. A mother understands what a child does not say. ― Les Brown Jewish Proverb

54. A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. ― Les Brown Victor Hugo

55. 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

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

57. Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. ― William MakepeaceThackeray

58. A mother’s love liberates. ― Maya Angelou

59. A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take. ― Cardinal Meymillod

60. Life doesn’t come with a manual, it comes with a mother. ― Unknown

61. A mother, There to support you, And hold you up whenever you need her. ― Laurel Stephens

62. There’s nothing like your mother’s sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears. ― Sophie Kinsella

63. Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. ― Robert Browning

64. Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. ― Erich Fromm

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

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

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

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

69. My mother is a strong woman. Her strength comes from being tested by life’s unpredictability. It comes from soldiering on for her children, even when she might rather have given up. I know it hasn’t always come easily, but I also know it’s her greatest gift. ― Matt Lauer

70. My mother’s wonderful. To me she’s perfection. ― Michael Jackson

71. The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom. ― Henry Ward Beecher

72. I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.” ― Antonio Villaraigosa

73. 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

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

75. 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

76. No gift to your mother can ever equal her gift to you–life. — Unknown

77. There’s no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids. — Stephen King

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

79. Mother – that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. ― DeWitt Talmage

Final Thought

When was the last time you said ‘I love you’ to your mother? Do you still remember it? If not, then do it as soon as possible! It’s never too late to show your love to your mom. Make them feel special and loved not only today, but every day.

Their unconditional love and care are what makes you a better individual today – don’t ever forget that! Of course, we want the best for our mother, and for that to happen, you can begin by simply thanking them and showing them love – this will make them feel happy, inspired, and loved.