Mother’s Day will soon be here.
And finding the right words to help you express your love and gratitude can be hard.
So in today’s post I’d like to share 101 of the most powerful, heartfelt and funny short Mother’s Day quotes.
Ones you can use in a card to tell her how grateful you are. Ones that you can show her to get a few good laughs about motherhood.
And ones that you can give her in some way and she can save as a reminder of how much she means to you.
Short Inspirational Mother’s Day Quotes for Mom
“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.”
– Robert Browning
“Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had.”
– Linda Wooten
“There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.”
– Elder M. Russell Ballard
“The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.”
– James E. Faust
“We are born of love; love is our mother.”
– Rumi
“A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.”
– Debasish Mridha
“I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.”
– Lance Conrad
“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”
– Barbara Kingsolver
“Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.”
– Mabel Hale
“A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.”
– Princess Diana
“Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.”
– Lin Yutang
“The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“A mother is a mother still, the holiest thing alive.”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.”
– George Eliot
“Mothers can look through a child’s eyes and see tomorrow.”
– Reed Markham
“A mother understands what a child does not say.”
– Jewish Proverb
“The world needs our mothers.”
– Liya Kebede
“There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother.”
– Sara Josepha Hale
“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”
– William Makepeace Thackeray
“Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything.”
– Unknown
Short Happy Mothers Day Quotes from a Daughter or Son
“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.”
– Maya Angelou
“Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I’ve always looked up to.”
– Mike Krzyzewski
“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
“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“My mother is a walking miracle.”
– Leonardo DiCaprio
“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
“They are not kidding when they say that mothers are strong women. We need to be strong in more ways than our children will ever know.”
– M.B. Antevasin
“A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her.”
– Erin Kelly
“My mother sacrificed her dreams so I could dream.”
– Rupi Kaur
“I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.”
– E.M. Forster
“Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“I think, as mothers, we are all just trying our best.”
– Gisele Bündchen
“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
“But behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begins.”
– Mitch Albom
“My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.”
– Lisa Leslie
“My mother always said ‘Don’t bother other people.’ I think that’s good advice.”
– Amy Sedaris
“I can only hope to be 10% of the mom mine was to me.”
– Charlize Theron
“Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.”
– Susan Gale
“I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“Moms are as relentless as the tides. They just don’t drive us to practice; they drive us to greatness.”
– Steve Rushin
Cute and Short Happy Mother’s Day Quotes and Sayings
“To a child’s ear, ‘mother’ is magic in any language.”
– Arlene Benedict
“Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness.”
– Stevie Wonder
“Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.”
– Moroccan Proverb
“A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us.”
– Washington Irving
“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness, and children sleep soundly in them.”
– Victor Hugo
“A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.”
– Unknown
“Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.”
– Kahil Gibran
“There is nothing as sincere as a mother’s kiss.”
– Saleem Sharma
“The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.”
– Jodi Picoult
“Mother – that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.”
– T. Dewitt Talmage
“It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“My mother has always been my emotional barometer and my guidance.”
– Emma Stone
“A mother’s love liberates.”
– Maya Angelou
“There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.”
– Billy Sunday
“We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.”
– Emily Dickinson
“Motherhood is heart-exploding, blissful hysteria.”
– Olivia Wilde
“She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn’t take them along.”
– Margaret Culkin Banning
“Hugs can do great amounts of good – especially for children.”
– Princess Diana
“A mother’s hug lasts long after she lets go.”
– Unknown
Short Funny Mother’s Day Quotes
“Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.”
– Lisa Alther
“I’m amazed when I see mothers wearing high heels. If your kids run off, you can’t run after them.”
– Claudia Schiffer
“If evolution really works, how come mothers have only two hands?”
– Milton Berle
“There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.”
– Chinese Proverb
“Mom, I love you, even though I’ll never accept your friend request.”
– Unknown
“A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.”
– Peter De Vries
“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.”
– Franklin P. Adams
“It’s not easy being a mother. If it were, fathers would do it.”
– The Golden Girls
“The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant.”
– Jane Sellman
“I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then, I want to move in with them.”
– Phyllis Diller
“Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.”
– Tina Fey
“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we’ve ever met.”
– Marguerite Duras
“My mother’s menu consists of two choices: Take it or leave it.”
– Buddy Hackett
“I do what I want, when I want, where I want… if my mom says it’s OK.”
– Unknown
“When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.”
– Nora Ephron
“If at first you don’t succeed, try doing it the way your mom told you to do it from the start.”
– Unknown
“Mothers are all slightly insane.”
– J.D. Salinger
“A mother takes 20 years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in 20 minutes.”
– Robert Frost
“Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.”
– Sam Levenson
“Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.”
– Ambrose Bierce
Short Happy Mother’s Day Quotes for Friends and Everyone Else
“Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.”
– Cheryl Lacey Donovan
“There are friends, there is family, and then there are friends that become family.”
– Unknown
“Moms just know… How to help. How to heal. How to listen. How to love.”
– Bill Gray
“It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.”
– Unknown
“M-O-M is just another way of spelling LOVE.”
– Keely Chace
“It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds.”
– Gina Barreca
“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“A mom teaches love by living it.”
– R. Tankersley
“By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.”
– Edwin Elliot
“You are far more precious than jewels.”
– Proverbs
“There will be so many times you feel like you failed. But in the eyes, heart, and mind of your child you are super mom.”
– Stephanie Precourt
“The love and compassion you’ve always carried in your heart makes you a wonderful mother and a beloved friend.”
– Unknown
“Amazing women make amazing moms.”
– Diana Manning
“Good moms grow great kids.”
– Dean Walley
“It takes a lifetime to truly appreciate all the ways a good mom makes all the difference.”
– Ellen Brenneman
“Motherhood is tough. Moms are tougher.”
– Keion Jackson
“When I grow up, I want to be just like my mom… beautiful.”
– Amy Trowbridge Yates
“Of all the people who pour sunshine into our days, moms are the best.”
– Keely Chace
“Smiles and hugs, joy and love… that’s what great moms are made of.”
– Paige DeRuyscher
“A mom loves you first. Then forever.”
– Katherine Stano
Want more inspiration for Mother’s Day and spring? Then check out the inspirational Mother’s Day quotes in this post, these short May quotes, the uplifting May quotes here and also this one with positive spring quotes and this one with short spring quotes.