30 Meaningful Mother’s Day Quotes

It’s that time of year again! Mother’s Day is right around the corner, and if you’re looking for some meaningful mother’s day quotes to share with your mom, you have come to the right place!

Mother’s Day quotes are a way to show your mom how much you love her and appreciate everything she does for you throughout the year. Don’t forget to show love to the other mothers in your life – an aunt or grandparent would also appreciate hearing how much she means to you on this special day.

So without further ado, these 30 meaningful mother’s day quotes are perfect to share with your mom on Mother’s Day or any day throughout the year!

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1. “If I were asked to define Motherhood. I would have defined it as Love in its purest form. Unconditional Love.”― Revathi Sankaran
2. “No man is poor who has a Godly mother.” ― Abraham Lincoln
3. “A child’s first teacher is its mother.” – Peng Liyuan
4. “I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” ― Mitch Albom
5. “You don’t take a class; you’re thrown into motherhood and learn from experience.” – Jennie Finch
6. “For a mother is the only person on earth who can divide her love among 10 children and each child still have all her love.” – Unknown
7. “A mother’s body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it’s own entreaties to body and soul.”― Barbara Kingsolver
8. “A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” – Cardinal Meymillod
9. “I ask you, what good is a big picture window and the lavish appointments and a priceless decor in a home if there is no mother there?”― Spencer W. Kimball
10. “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
11. “Compassion is like a mother giving love to her children. Mother’s ways are higher than others, even when everyone rejects, mother accepts with her arms open and wide.”― Amit Ray
12. “There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.” —Jill Churchill
13. “God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul.”― Phyllis McGinley
14. “If you’re a mom, you’re a superhero. Period.” – Rosie Pope
15. “A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.” – Unknown
16. “My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.” ― George Washington
17. “Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.” –Ricki Lake
18. “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” —Robert Browning
19. “A mother’s love endures through all.” – Washington Irving
20. “Behind all your stories is always your mother’s story. Because hers is where yours begin.” ― Mitch Albom
21. “Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.” – Dorothy Canfield Fisher
22. “The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” —James E. Faust
23. “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” —Victor Hugo
24. “Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark … to have been loved so deeply .. will give us some protection forever.” —J.K. Rowling
25. “Thank you, Mom, for the way you managed yourself during the childish, mean, selfish, insensitive, irresponsible, unreasonable, hateful moments I put you through. From your example, I learned to be patient, positive, kind, selfless, sympathetic, reliable, sensible, and loving. You have my endless appreciation.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich
26. “Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
27. “There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.” —Elder M. Russell Ballard
28. “A mother understands what a child does not say.” —Jewish proverb
29. “The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.” —Elaine Heffner
30. “Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.” —Lin Yutang