40 Beautiful Mother’s Day Quotes to Show Mom How Much You Love Her

Mother’s Day will be a bit tougher this year since most of us won’t be able to hug our mothers or take her out to her favorite brunch restaurant due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. While there are still ways to remind mom of your love, words are especially important this year. I mean, how can you truly express your gratitude appropriately to someone who is on-call 365 days a year, someone who has selflessly put your needs above their own without question and someone who loves you the most in this world? This list of Mother’s Day quotes will certainly warm your mother’s heart and maybe even spark some inspiration for your own words. Also, check out these Mother’s Day ideas that don’t require a trip to the store.

Stevie Wonder

“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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Tenneva Jordan

“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

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Unknown

“Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.” —Unknown

Ezekiel 16:4

“As is the mother, so is her daughter.” —Ezekiel 16:4

Lin Yutang

“Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.” —Lin Yutang

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Spanish Proverbs

“An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.” —Spanish Proverbs

Robert Browning

“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” —Robert Browning

Jodi Picoult

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

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Michael Jordan

“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

Tina Fey

“Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.” —Tina Fey

Lady Gaga

“Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.” —Lady Gaga

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Lupita Nyong’o

“[My mother] always said I was beautiful and I finally believed her at some point.” —Lupita Nyong’o

Tim McGraw

“My mom is my hero. [She] inspired me to dream when I was a kid, so anytime anyone inspires you to dream, that’s gotta be your hero.” —Tim McGraw

Maggie Gyllenhaal

“If I’ve learned anything as a mom with a daughter who’s 3, I’ve learned that you cannot judge the way another person is raising their kid. Everybody is just doing the best they can. It’s hard to be a mom.” —Maggie Gyllenhaal

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Mindy Kaling

“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

Emma Stone

“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

Mark Twain

“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

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Gilda Radner

“[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

Amy Sedaris

“My mother always said ‘Don’t bother other people.’ I think that’s good advice.” —Amy Sedaris

Shannon Alder

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

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Richelle Goodrich

“Mothers were meant to love us unconditionally, to understand our moments of stupidity, to reprimand us for lame excuses while yet acknowledging our point of view, to weep over our pain and failures as well as cry at our joy and successes, and to cheer us on despite countless start-overs. Heaven knows, no one else will.” —Richelle Goodrich

M.B. Antevasin

“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

Randy Susan Meyers

“In the end, mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.” —Randy Susan Meyers

Agatha Christie

“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

Erin Kelly

“A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her.” —Erin Kelly

Mitch Albom

“But behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begins.” —Mitch Albom

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Marguerite Duras

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we’ve ever met.” —Marguerite Duras

Shannon Alder

“Clarity and focus doesn’t always come from God or inspirational quotes. Usually, it takes your mother to slap the reality back into you.” —Shannon Alder

J.K. Rowling

“He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark.” —J.K. Rowling

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Lisa Leslie

“My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.” —Lisa Leslie

George Washington

“All I am I owe to my mother.” —George Washington

Charlize Theron

“I can only hope to be 10% of the mom mine was to me.” —Charlize Theron

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Milton Berle

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

Susan Gale

“Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.” —Susan Gale

Maya Angelou

“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

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Jill Churchill

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

Kate Winslet

“That’s the wonderful thing about mothers: You can because you must, and you just do.” —Kate Winslet

Rupi Kaur

“My mother sacrificed her dreams so I could dream.” —Rupi Kaur

Princess Diana

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

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