It’s Mother’s Day (or it will be soon, depending on when you read this).
It’s a day when we pause for a bit and show the moms in our lives love and gratitude for all they do.
And to help you with that I’d like to share 110 of the best and most powerful Happy Mother’s Day quotes and wishes.
I hope you’ll find something heartwarming, funny or meaningful here to share in real life, in a card or a text or on social media like Facebook or Instagram to make this day an extra love-filled and memorable day for your mom.
The Best Happy Mother’s Day Quotes to Show Love
“Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it’s the most exquisite love of all.”
– Maggie Gallagher
“A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.”
– Princess Diana
“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”
– Agatha Christie
“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
“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”
– Maya Angelou
“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.”
– Robert Browning
“A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.”
– Debasish Mridha
“We are born of love; love is our mother.”
– Rumi
“All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”
– William Makepeace Thackeray
“No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.”
– Edwin Hubbell Chapin
“Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.”
– Erich Fromm
“The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother.”
– St. Therese of Lisieux
“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.”
– Rudyard Kipling
“A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.”
– Cardinal Mermillod
“There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that transcends all other affections of the heart.”
– Washington Irving
“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness, and children sleep soundly in them.”
– Victor Hugo
“When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.”
– Charley Benetto
“The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.”
– Karl Lagerfeld
“I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom’s the only reason I know it’s a real thing.”
– Conor Oberst
“Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heartthrob.”
– Leroy Brownlow
“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world, a mother’s love is not.”
– James Joyce
“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
– Honore de Balzac
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
– Hermann Hesse
“A mother’s love is everything. It is what brings a child into this world.”
– Jamie McGuire
The Best Short Mother’s Day Quotes and Wishes
“A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.”
– Amy Tan
“Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
“All I am I owe to my mother.”
– George Washington
“There is nothing as sincere as a mother’s kiss.”
– Saleem Sharma
“My mother is a walking miracle.”
– Leonardo DiCaprio
“I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.”
– Lance Conrad
“The world needs our mothers.”
– Liya Kebede
“A mother understands what a child does not say.”
– Jewish Proverb
“Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.”
– George Eliot
“A mother’s love liberates.”
– Maya Angelou
“Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.”
– Kahlil Gibran
“There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother.”
– Sara Josepha Hale
“Sons are the anchors of a mother’s life.”
– Sophocles
“Men are what their mothers made them.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I really learned it all from mothers.”
– Benjamin Spock
“The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.”
– Jodi Picoult
“Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.”
– Bern Williams
“Mothers are the necessity of invention.”
– Bill Watterson
“Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.”
– Ricki Lake
“Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.”
– Mabel Hale
The Best Funny Mother’s Day Quotes for Moms
“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.”
– Franklin P. Adams
“A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children.”
– Dave Barry
“It’s not easy being a mother. If it were, fathers would do it.”
– Dorothy (from the TV-show The Golden Girls)
“Having children is like living in a frat house. Nobody sleeps, everything’s broken, and there’s a lot of throwing up.”
– Ray Romano
“Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.”
– Tina Fey
“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
“The quickest way for a parent to get a child’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable.”
– Lane Olinghouse
“The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant.”
– Jane Sellman
“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?”
– Milton Berle
“I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.”
– Phyllis Diller
“My mother’s menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.”
– Buddy Hackett
“Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.”
– Sam Levenson
“A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.”
– Robert Frost
“Don’t forget Mother’s Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad’s Third Wife Day.”
– Jay Leno
“A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.”
– Peter De Vries
“When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.”
– Erma Bombeck
“Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.”
– Ambrose Bierce
“If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says, ‘Keep away from children.’”
– Susan Savannah
“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.”
– Calvin Trillin
“A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.”
– Jerry Seinfeld
“Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying.”
– Fran Lebowitz
“Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.”
– William Feather
“Mama does everything for the baby, who responds by saying ‘Da-da’ first.”
– Mignon McLaughlin
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Children are like crazy, drunken small people in your house.”
– Julie Bowen
Cute and Deep Mother’s Day Quotes
“There are no perfect parents, and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.”
– Dave Willis
“For when a child is born, the mother also is born again.”
– Gilbert Parker
“My mom smiled at me. Her smile kind of hugged me.”
– R.J. Palacio
“Mother – that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.”
– T. Dewitt Talmage
“To a child’s ear, ‘mother’ is magic in any language.”
– Arlene Benedict
“It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“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
“But behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begins.”
– Mitch Albom
“Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.”
– Susan Gale
“As is the mother, so is her daughter.”
– Ezekiel 16:44
“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
“Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother’s secret hope outlives them all.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
“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
“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
“She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn’t take them along.”
– Margaret Culkin Banning
“A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.”
– Amit Kalantri
“Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.”
– Zelda Fitzgerald
“The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness.”
– Jessica Lange
“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
“A mother is a mother still, the holiest thing alive.”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“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
“Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I’ve always looked up to.”
– Mike Krzyzewski
“My mother was the one constant in my life.”
– Barack Obama
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
– David Viscott
The Best Happy Mother’s Day Quotes from a Daughter
“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
“My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.”
– Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“My mom is definitely my rock.”
– Alicia Keys
“As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart.”
– Kristin Hannah
“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 was my role model before I even knew what that word was.”
– Lisa Leslie
“I can only hope to be 10% of the mom mine was to me.”
– Charlize Theron
“Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.”
– Lady Gaga
“She always said I was beautiful, and I finally believed her at some point.”
– Lupita Nyong’o
“My mother sacrificed her dreams so I could dream.”
– Rupi Kaur
“I would say that my mother is the single biggest role model in my life, but that term doesn’t seem to encompass enough when I use it about her. She was the love of my life.”
– Mindy Kaling
“Great women raise great women who raise great women.”
– Jennifer Fujita
“When someone asks you where you come from, the answer is your mother.”
– Anna Quindlen
“My mother always used to say, the older you get, the better you get. Unless you’re a banana.”
– Betty White
“She taught me that fear is not an option.”
– Diane Von Furstenberg
“So much of who I am is because of who you are.”
– Mary Miro
Want more heartfelt inspiration for Mother’s Day? Then have a look at these short Mother’s Day quotes, the uplifting and inspirational Mother’s Day quotes and sayings here and also this one with plenty of positive and funny Mother’s Day quotes.