Thoughtful Mother’s Day Quotes

Most of us wouldn’t be who we are today without the love and special care provided to us by our mothers. Mother’s Day is an opportunity to give back to the wonderful, inspiring, and strong, mothers in our lives to let them know just how much they’re appreciated. If you’re at a loss for words, here are 20 moving, caring, thoughtful, and funny quotes to share with all the mothers in your life this Mother’s day. Make your message even more special by accompanying it with one of our special Mother’s day gifts, cards, and flowers.

• “All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” – Abraham Lincoln

• “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

• “God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” – Rudyard Kipling

• "We are born of love; Love is our mother.” – Rumi

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

• "Life doesn't come with a manual, it comes with a mother." – Unknown

• "If at first you don't succeed, try doing it the way mom told you to in the beginning." – Unknown

• "Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved." - Erich Fromm

• “There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.” —Chinese Proverb

• “It’s not easy being a mother. If it were, fathers would do it.” —The Golden Girls

• “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

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

• “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'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

• “Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.” — Maxim Gorky

• “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

• “Men are what their mothers made them.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson

• “The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” — Honore De Balzac

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