165 Mothers Day Inspirational Quotes

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A mother's love is like a beacon, Burning bright with Faith and Prayer, And through the changing scenes of life, We can find a haven there. — Helen Steiner Rice

For a mother's love is fashioned, After God's enduring love, It is endless and unfailing, Like the love of Him above. — Helen Steiner Rice

My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters. — Michelle Obama

God couldn't be everywhere, so he created mothers — Yiddish Proverbs

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

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

The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother. - Therese of Lisieux

The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother. — Therese of Lisieux

MOTHER (a word that means the world to me) — Eddy Arnold

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also leave treasured lessons that can guide us along our journeys even when they are no longer with us. — Maria Shriver

A country's greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice that inspire the mothers of the race. — Sarojini Naidu

There ought to be a hall of fame for mamas / Creation's most unique and precious pearl / And heaven help us always to remember / That the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world — Glen Campbell

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. — Agatha Christie

Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength — Barbara Katz Rothman

Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos — Alice Randall

Short Mothers Day Inspirational Quotes

  • All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. — Abraham Lincoln
  • The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me. — Thomas A. Edison
  • God cannot be everywhere at once, that’s why He created mothers. — Jewish Proverbs
  • An ounce of mother is worth a pound of priests. — Danish Proverbs
  • An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. — Proverbs
  • There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother. — Boyd K. Packer
  • God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. — Rudyard Kipling
  • The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. — Henry Ward Beecher
  • Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children. — Maxim Gorky
  • No man is poor who has a Godly mother. — Abraham Lincoln

Mothers Day Inspirational Image Quotes

Mothers day inspirational quote I knew when I met you an adventure is going to happen.
I knew when I met you an adventure is going to happen.

Happy Mothers Day Inspirational Quotes

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. — Osho

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

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. — George Washington

Mothers day inspirational quote Just because my path is different doesn't mean I'm lost.
Just because my path is different doesn't mean I'm lost.

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

You sacrificed for us - you're the real MVP. - Kevin Durant

You sacrificed for us - you're the real MVP. — Kevin Durant

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. — Phyllis Diller

Mothers day inspirational quote Fear has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.
Fear has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.

When you're in the thick of raising your kids by yourself, you tend to keep a running list of everything you think you're doing wrong. I recommend taking a lot of family pictures as evidence to the contrary. — Connie Schultz

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

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it. — Barry Commoner

A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity. — Washington Irving

Inspirational Mothers Day Quotes

There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness... The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way. — Andrew Jackson

The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share. — Lady Bird Johnson

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out. — Erma Bombeck

Mothers day inspirational quote Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.

Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth. — Richard Codey

I want to say a little something that's long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end. — Adam Yauch

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax. — Mike Royko

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take. — Gaspard Mermillod

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. — Osho

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

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. — Norman Schwarzkopf

Mothers Day Quotes

One day, through the Rosary and the Scapular, Our Lady will save the world. - Saint Dominic

One day, through the Rosary and the Scapular, Our Lady will save the world. — Saint Dominic

The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face. - Donald Woods Winnicott

The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face. — Donald Woods Winnicott

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. — John Muir

I still hear you humming, Mama. The colour of your song calls me home. The colour of your words saying, Let her be. She got a right to be different. She gonna stumble on herself one of these days. Just let the child be. And I be, Mama. — Sonia Sanchez

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

A newborn baby has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge of her presence. Breastfeeding satisfies all three. — Grantly Dick-Read

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do. — Lois Wyse

You have the exact qualities God knew your kids would need in a mother. Each day, hold up your willingness and ask God to make you the best version of you that you can possibly be. — Lysa TerKeurst

My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother’s voice and smile. — Jennifer Garner

[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

Inspirational Motherhood Quotes

There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one. — Jill Churchill

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen. — Mother Teresa

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother. - Sarah Josepha Hale

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother. — Sarah Josepha Hale

However motherhood comes to you, it's a miracle. — Valerie Harper

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. — Albert Einstein

Motherhood is not a hobby, it is a calling. You do not collect children because you find them cuter than stamps. It is not something to do if you can squeeze the time in. It is what God gave you time for. — Neil L. Andersen

There is eternal influence and power in motherhood. — Julie B. Beck

Children and mothers never truly part--Bound in the beating of each other's hearts. — Charlotte Gray

Motherhood is given the brush-off in our society. 'Oh, I'm just a mom,' you hear women say. 'Just' a mom? Please! Being a mom is everything. It's mentorship, it's inspirational, it's our hope for the future. — Sally Field

Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears. — Kate Winslet

Inspirational Mothers Quotes

Go forth in peace, for you have followed the good road. Go forth without fear, for he who created you has made you holy, has always protected you, and loves you as a mother. Blessed be you, my God, for having created me. — Clare of Assisi

A Mother's love is something that no one can explain, It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain, It is endless and unselfish and enduring come what may For nothing can destroy it or take that love away — Helen Steiner Rice

God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves. — Saint John Chrysostom

Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless, remain that way. Say nothing, and listen as Heaven whispers, "Do you like it? I did it just for you." — Max Lucado

Experiences have clearly shown that an approach which 'de-medicalizes' birth, restores dignity and humanity to the process of childbirth, and returns control to the mother is also the safest approach. — Michel Odent

If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation — Dalai Lama

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. — John Lennon

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. — Mother Teresa

Just being a woman is God's gift. The origin of a child is a mother, a woman. She shows a man what sharing, caring, and loving is all about. That is the essence of a woman. — Sushmita Sen

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher. — Abdul Kalam

Happy Mothers Day Quotes

Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development. — David Gottesman

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters. - George Herbert

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters. — George Herbert

Motherhood is a choice you make every day, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is... and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong. — Donna Ball

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

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

I love you more than anything in the world combined. — Stephenie Meyer

The earth is what we all have in common. — Wendell Berry

An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly. — Gene Perret

Before a day was over, Home comes the rover, For mother's kiss - sweeter this Than any other thing! — William Allingham

My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel. — Gene Perret

Mothers Day Love Quotes

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night. — Chanakya

I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day. — R. Kelly

Create each day anew by clothing yourself with heaven and earth, bathing yourself with wisdom and love, and placing yourself in the heart of Mother Nature. — Morihei Ueshiba

When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth. — Mitch Albom

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. — James F. Cooper

What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children. — Bill Cosby

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

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. — Bob Hope

A mother's nurturing love arouses in children, from their earliest days on earth, an awakening of the memories of love and goodness they experience in their premortal existence, Because our mothers love us, we learn, or more accurately remember, that God also loves us — M. Russell Ballard

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

Good Happy Mothers Day Quotes

I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. — Judith Viorst

Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them. — Gene Perret

Don't poets know it Better than others? God can't be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers — Edwin Arnold

Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital 'M'; she's something sacred to me. I love her dearly...yes, she is also a good friend, someone I can talk openly with if I want to. — Sophia Loren

Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity. — Alice Hoffman

Self Inspirational Quotes

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. - Henry David Thoreau

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. — Henry David Thoreau

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. — Sigmund Freud

You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks. — Deepak Chopra

Facials are my biggest beauty indulgence. Looking good is about having a good base. It's about taking care of your skin. — Halle Berry

The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do. This self-denial is the unique way to usher in God's kingdom and to realize the kingdom life. — Witness Lee

The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised. — Norman Vincent Peale

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. — Rabindranath Tagore

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. — Albert Einstein

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. - Kahlil Gibran

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. — Kahlil Gibran

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs. - Zig Ziglar

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs. — Zig Ziglar

Marriage And Love Inspirational Quotes

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed. — Albert Einstein

The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. — Nhat Hanh

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy. - Edgar Allan Poe

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy. — Edgar Allan Poe

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. — Amy Bloom

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. — Dalai Lama

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you. — Rumi

As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me." — Jon Bon Jovi

Come out of the circle of time
And into the circle of love. - Rumi

Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love. — Rumi

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. — Friedrich Koenig

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More Mothers Day Inspirational Quotes

I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a combination of noble and striking sounds, our dream of artistic achievement, a pen name grand enough to compensate for my own feeling of insecurity and helplessness at the idea of everything my mother expected from me. — Romain Gary

One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals. — Ayelet Waldman

To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry. — Malcolm Turnbull

I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere. — Melinda Gates

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent. — Golda Meir

A free race cannot be born of slave mothers. — Margaret Sanger

As my mom always said, 'You'd rather have smile lines than frown lines.' — Cindy Crawford

In the Heaven's above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of 'Mother. — Edgar Allan Poe

Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother? — Donald E. Westlake

I married your mother because I wanted children, imagine my disappointment when you came along. — Groucho Marx

I have found being a mother has made me emotionally raw in many situations. You heart is beating outside your body when you have a baby. — Kate Beckinsale

I'm amazed when I see mothers wearing high heels. If your kids run off you can't run after them. — Claudia Schiffer

Heard about the young deaf boy who used sign language-One day he told his mother a dirty joke and she washed his hands out with soap — Red Skelton

Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes. — P. J. O'Rourke

Richer than I you can never be, I had a mother who read to me. — Strickland Gillilan

Few of us will reach our potential without the nurturing of both the mother who bore us and the mothers who bear with us. — Sheri L. Dew

Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me? — Nancy Thayer

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

Mama, you taught me to do the right things / So now you have to let your baby fly / You've given me everything that I will need / To make it through this crazy thing called life — Carrie Underwood

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