Mother’s Day will be here before you know it. Honor your mother this year by making your own card, or keepsake incorporating one or more of these great quotes about mothers.
Quotes to honor Mother
Mother’s Day is in honor of the best mother who ever lived – the Mother of your heart. ~Anna Jarvis
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. ~ Spanish Proverb
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. ~W.S. Ross
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. ~Honor’re de Balzac
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother’s secret hope outlives them all. ~Oliver Wendall Holmes
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother. ~Abraham Lincoln
Mother is the name for god on the lips and hearts of all children. ~Brandon Lee
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. ~Lin Yutang
A man’s work is from sun to sun, but a mother’s work is never done. ~Ancient Proverb
A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, what sort of house I lived in, or the make of car I drove. But the world may be different, because I was important in the life of a child. ~Author Unknown
Quotes about a Mother’s Love
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world, a mother’s love is not. ~Joyce James
Your arms were always open when I needed a hug. Your heart understood when I needed a friend. Your gentle eyes were stern when I needed a lesson. Your strength and love has guided me and gave me wings to fly. ~Sarah Malin
No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism of a mother’s love. ~Edwin H. Chapin
A woman’s love is mighty, but a mother’s heart is weak, and by its weakness overcomes. ~Lowell
The mother loves the child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his every want, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best. ~Hamilton Wright Mabie
Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. ~Marion C. Garrety
We never know our parent’s love for us until we become parents. ~Henry Ward Beecher
A mother’s love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails nor falters, even though the heart is breaking. ~Helen Rice
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mother’s kiss and scold together. ~Pearl S. Buck
Humorous Quotes about Motherhood
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. ~Mark Twain
Mother’s all want their sons to grow up and become President, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Never loan your car to anyone to whom you’ve given birth. ~Erma Bombeck
The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old. ~Jean Kerr
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his. ~Oscar Wilde
Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you are festive? ~Roseanne
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. ~Maya Angelou
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served us leftovers. The original meal has never been found. ~Calvin Trillan
My mother loved children – but she would have given anything if I had been one. ~Groucho Marx
Cleaning your house while your children are still growing is like shoveling snow while it is still snowing. ~Phyllis Diller
Thoughtful Quotes about Mother
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 she will 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
The best academy, a mother’s knee. ~James Russell Lowell
Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. ~Harriet Beecher Stowe
I affirm my profound belief that God’s greatest creation is womanhood. I also believe that there is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation. ~James E. Faust
I looked upon child-rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best I could bring. ~Rose Kennedy
It is not what you do for your children, but what you taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings. ~Ann Landers
Mother – the essence of loveliness,
The beauty of a rose,
The sparkle of a dewdrop
And sunset’s sweet repose. ~Lydia M. Johnson
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: one is roots, the other is wings. ~Hodding Carter, Jr.
My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said, ‘achivement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that’s nice, too, but not nearly as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success. ~Helen Hayes
What you teach your own children is what you really believe in. ~ Cathy Warner Weatherford
