100+ Mother's Day Quotes to Express Your Love and Gratitude

Mothers Day Quotes help to glorify the love and devotion of motherhood, show your love and appreciation to your mother with these beautiful Mother's Day quotes.

by Menaga K | Updated Aug 17, 2023

Mothers Day Quotes

Mother's Day is a time to honor the amazing women who have raised us with love, care, and devotion. Expressing our gratitude and appreciation for these special women can be done in many ways, and one of the most meaningful ways is through Mother's Day quotes. On this page, you will find a collection of inspiring and heartfelt quotes that capture the essence of motherhood. From famous authors to personal messages from the heart, these quotes are sure to bring a smile to your mother's face and convey your love and appreciation. Whether you're looking for a quote to write in a card, share on social media, or simply to reflect upon, we hope this collection of Mother's Day quotes will inspire you to express your love and gratitude for the amazing women in your life.

Happy Mothers Day Quotes

"Thank you for being my mom, my mentor, and my role model. Happy Day to the woman I admire the most!"

  • “Mom is just a title above queen.” - Happy Mother's Day
  • Happy Mother's Day to the sweetest mom in the world! Your love and guidance have made me who I am today.
  • To the woman who always puts her family first, Happy Mother's Day! You are an inspiration to us all.
  • Thank you for being my rock, my confidant, and my best friend.
  • You are the heart and soul of our family. Happy Mother's Day to the most caring and loving mom!
  • Your love has been a constant source of strength and support in my life.
  • You have always been there for me, no matter what. Happy Mother's Day!
  • Your kindness, love, and generosity never cease to amaze me. Happy Mother's Day to the most wonderful mom!
  • Thank you for being my mom, my mentor, and my role model. Happy Day to the woman I admire the most!
  • Your unconditional love and unwavering support have shaped me into the person I am today. Happy Mother's Day!
  • I am so grateful for all the sacrifices you have made for our family.
  • Well, you were right about... absolutely everything. Thanks for being my mom!
  • Moms are like buttons—they hold everything in life together.

Best Mother's Day Quotes

  • My love for you is bigger than that overflowing pile of laundry in my room.
  • Thank you for all the hugs, words of encouragement, and patience through the years.
  • I'm so glad I didn't fall far from the tree.
  • I'm proud to be your kid.
  • You're the best mom in the world, and I'm thankful for you every day.
  • Mom, I hope you relax and enjoy today just like you deserve!
  • Thank you for being someone I could always look up to, Mom.
  • I wouldn't ask for any other person to be my mom!
  • I'm who I am today because of you, Mom.
  • Thank you for always taking care of us, even when it wasn't easy. We love you so much!
  • If I wrote down all the reasons I love you, it'd take up a whole book!
  • Thank you for always being right by my side. I love you, Mom!
  • I don't know what I'd do without you, Mom. Thank you for everything that you do!
  • Home is wherever you are, Mom.
  • I'm so grateful to call you my mom and my best friend!
  • Mom, you're the glue that holds us all together.
  • The best compliment anyone can give me is to say that I'm just like you.
  • Sending Mother's Day wishes today from the luckiest child in the world!

Heart Touching Mothers Day Quotes

“My mother is a walking miracle.” —Leonardo DiCaprio

  • “A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.” —Unknown
  • “When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” —Charley Benetto
  • “Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heartthrob.” —Leroy Brownlow
  • “Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.” —Susan Gale
  • “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
  • “Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” —William Makepeace Thackeray
  • “The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” —James E. Faust
  • “It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?” —Mahatma Gandhi
  • “There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.” —Elder M. Russell Ballard
  • “Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • “Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything.” —Unknown
  • “Only mothers can think of the future because they give birth to it in their children.” —Maxim Grosky
  • “My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.” —Lisa Leslie
  • “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.” —Maya Angelou
  • “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
  • “My mother is a walking miracle.” —Leonardo DiCaprio
  • “A mother understands what a child does not say.” —Jewish proverb
  • “The world needs our mothers.” —Liya Kebede
  • “A mother’s hug lasts long after she lets go.” —Unknown
  • “There is nothing as sincere as a mother’s kiss.” —Saleem Sharma
  • “Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” —George Eliot
  • “A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.” —Unknown
  • “We are born of love; love is our mother.” —Rumi
  • “Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.” —Kahil Gibran
  • “There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother.” —Sara Josepha Hale
  • “A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.” —Princess Diana

Mothers Day Quotes From Daughter

"To the person who has done more for me than anyone in this world! Love you, Mama!"

  • A mother is a daughter’s first best friend.
  • All that I am, or home to be, I owe to my angel mother -Abraham Lincoln
  • I love my mother as trees loves water and sunshine. She helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights. -Terry Guillemets
  • No matter your age, you always need your mom.
  • "To the person who has done more for me than anyone in this world! Love you, Mama!"
  • 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
  • Home is where your mom is.
  • I do what I want, when I want, where I want… if my mom says it’s ok.
  • I believe in love at first sight because I loved my mom since I opened my eyes.
  • The worst sight in the world is seeing your mom cry.
  • Happiness is seeing your mother smile.
  • I love my mom because she gave me everything: she gave me love, she gave me her soul, and she gave me her time.
  • First my mother, forever my friend
  • No matter how old you get, sometimes, you still just need a hug from mom to make everything better.
  • There will be so many times you feel like you’ve failed. But in the eyes, heart, and mind of your child, you are super mom.
  • Every day I become a bit more like my mother… and I couldn’t be any prouder!
  • My mother is my best critic, and yet my strongest supporter.
  • We laugh, we cry. We make time fly. We are best friends, my mother and I.
  • Words cannot express the gratitude that you deserve for all that you have done for us throughout the years.
  • One of the most important relationship we’ll have is the relationship we have with our mothers. -Iyanla Vanzant
  • If I didn’t have you as a mom, I’d choose you as a friend.
  • No matter what we go through. No matter how much we argue. In the end, you are there for me always, and I love you for that.
  • I couldn’t ask for a better mom. Even in your flaws, I saw perfection.
  • 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 desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she 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
  • Mom, I cannot thank you enough for what you have done me. You were always there when I needed you the most.

Wishing Mothers Day Quotes

"When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know. -Charley Benetto"

  • I’m glad that you’re my mother because I’m not sure anyone else could have put up with me this long! Love you, Mom.
  • Your smile brightens each day and makes it better than the last. Happy Mother's Day, Mom!
  • I feel so lucky to have you as my mom. Thanks for always believing in me and doing so much for me each day. Have a great Mother’s Day, you deserve to be spoiled!
  • It’s my time to tell you how fortunate and special I am to be blessed with a mother as caring, loving as you. Wish you a happy Mother’s Day, Mom!
  • Mom, thank you for being my anchor in this stormy sea of life. I love you and don’t know where I’d be without you. Have a great day today.
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  • Mother Goose, Ma Barker, Mother Theresa—of all the mothers that ever lived, you’re the “Motheriest.” Have a great Mother’s Day!
  • Happy Mother’s Day to my very own superhero and the No. 1 problem-solver in my life. I hope you have a great day!
  • In your arms, you held us. Little did we know but you have given us the greatest treasure that will never fade in our hearts and that’s your love.
  • Thanks for everything Mom, you really are one in a million! Love you!
  • Thanks for always helping me to remember what is important in life… and today it is you! You are the best!
  • Mom, you are the most outstanding woman in my life, and you’ll always be my number one. Have a very happy Mother’s Day!
  • In my life, I haven’t met a lady as elegant, beautiful, and lovely as you. I love you lots, mommy!
  • Thank you for always being there, Mom. Happy Mother’s Day!
  • There’s never been a minute I wasn’t glad you were my Mom.
  • Happy Mother’s Day Mom! Although we’re far apart you are always in my heart. I love you and miss you more than words can say.
  • Best friends and the best mother ever; you are seriously a gift to me! I love you. Happy Mother’s day!
  • Growing up I don’t think I realized just how much you did to keep our day-to-day life running so smoothly. Now that I’m grown up, I am in awe of everything you did for us, and I admire you all the more. Thank you for making my childhood such a special one! I love you, Mom!
  • Thanks for bringing me into this world and always seeing the best in me. Happy Mother’s Day, Mom!
  • Mom, I honestly don’t know how I’d get through each day without you by my side. Thank you for being such a supportive mother to me, and a fantastic grandmother to my children. We all love you so much! Happy Mother’s Day!
  • When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know. -Charley Benetto

Emotional Mothers Day Quotes

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

  • “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” —Victor Hugo
  • “A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” —Cardinal Mermillod
  • “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
  • “The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.” —Elaine Heffner
  • “In the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child reads the message: ‘You are there!’” —Adrienne Rich
  • “If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” —Stevie Wonder
  • “Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.” —Unknown
  • “Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” —Erich Fromm
  • “Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs since the payment is pure love.” —Mildred B. Vermont
  • “When you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” —Mitch Albom
  • “There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.” —Jill Churchill
  • “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
  • “A mother’s love is everything. It is what brings a child into this world. It is what molds their entire being. When a mother sees her child in danger, she is literally capable of anything. Mothers have lifted cars off of their children and destroyed entire dynasties. A mother’s love is the strongest energy known to man.” —Jamie McGuire
  • “A mother is clothed with strength and dignity, laughs without fear of the future. When she speaks her words are wise and she gives instructions with kindness.” —Proverbs
  • “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. ” —Robert Browning

Short Mothers Day Quotes

"Because of you, I am me. Happy Mother's Day!"

  • May all the love you gave to us come back to you a hundredfold on this special day!
  • Thanks for giving me the best things in life: your love, your care, and your cooking. Happy Mother's Day!
  • Here's to a very special Mother's Day. Thank you for always being there for me!
  • Wishing you all the love and happiness you so richly deserve... happy Mother's Day!
  • May your Mother's Day be filled with as much happiness as you brought to my childhood.
  • Mom... You're the best! Thanks for all you do. Happy Mother's Day!
  • Thank you for always being there, Mom. Happy Mother's Day!
  • Because of you, I am me. Happy Mother's Day!
  • Have a fabulous Mother's Day! You're the best mom I could have asked for.
  • Happy Mother's Day to the greatest mom I could have ever asked for.
  • To the most amazing mom in the entire universe... you! Happy Mother's Day. Thanks for being so awesome!
  • Happy Mother's Day to one *super* mommy - we're so lucky to have you! Thanks for everything!
  • To the best mom in the world, Happy Mother's Day! Thank you for being chief cook, counselor, taxi driver, cheerleader, and best all-round mom in the world.
  • Happy Mother's Day to the greatest mom! We don't say it enough, but we really appreciate all that you do for us every day. You truly are the glue that holds our family together!
  • We hope you have an amazing Mother's Day, Mom, and that you feel truly appreciated on your special day.
  • Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you! Happy Mother's Day to the sweetest mother in the world. We love you!
  • Mom, you taught me all about hard work, patience, humility, kindness, perseverance, tolerance, forgiveness, and understanding.
  • Not to mention, how to have a lot of fun along the way! You've given me a strong foundation on which to live my life, and for that, I'm so thankful. Love you Mom!
  • Although we're far apart, you're forever in my heart. Happy Mother's Day, Mom. I miss you and can't wait to see you.
  • Sorry we can't be together today, Mom. I hope it's a very special one. Thank you for all that you have done and continue to do for me, even though we are far apart. I love you!

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Mothers Day Quotes - FAQs

1. When is Mothers Day in 2023?

It falls on Sunday, May 14, 2023.

2. Why is Mother's Day celebrated?

It is celebrated to pay tribute to all the mothers around the globe.