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Say It Perfectly: 60+ Quotes for The World's Best Mom

Motherhood. It's a journey of endless love, nights without sleep, endless joy and strength that never wavers. Sometimes, the whole experience feels impossible to describe. That's where the knowledge of others can help.
We've put together a list of great Mother's Day quotes that beautifully capture the essence of being a mum, the gratitude of a child, and the wonderful world of motherhood itself. From heartwarming quotes that will make her cry happy tears, to funny one-liners that show off her great sense of humour, these quotes will touch your mom's heart – and if you're a parent, you'll probably feel the same.
If you are planning to write a Mother's Day card, attach it to a gift, or use it for Instagram, then these wise and enlightening words will inspire you.

Inspirational and Emotional.

These quotes show how kind, helpful and supportive mothers are. It is the perfect way to show your loved ones how much you care.
  1. "A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them." - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
  1. "A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take." - Cardinal Mermillod
  1. "The best place to cry is in a mother's arms." - Jodi Picoult, House Rules
  1. "All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." - Abraham Lincoln
  1. "A mother's love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible." - Marion C. Garretty
  1. "A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary." - Dorothy Canfield Fisher
  1. "The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother." - St. Thérèse of Lisieux
  1. "Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved." - Erich Fromm
  1. "A mother understands what a child does not say." - Jewish Proverb
  1. "The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation." - James E. Faust
  1. "My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was." - Lisa Leslie
  1. "A mother’s hug lasts long after she lets go." - Unknown
  1. "There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother." - Sarah Josepha Hale
  1. "A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place." - Amy Tan
  1. "We are born of love; love is our mother." - Rumi
  1. "Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind." - Kahlil Gibran
  1. "A mother’s love is everything. It is what brings a child into this world. It is what molds their entire being." - Tia Mowry
  1. "There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood." - Elder M. Russell Ballard
  1. "Mothers can look through a child’s eyes and see tomorrow." - Reed Markham
  1. "My mother is a walking miracle." - Leonardo DiCaprio
  1. "The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children." - Elaine Heffner
  1. "If I know what love is, it is because of you." - Hermann Hesse
  1. "To the world, you are a mother, but to your family, you are the world." - Unknown

Funny and Witty

These quotes are for mums who like a good laugh. They celebrate the funny side of being a mum.
  1. "Life doesn't come with a manual, it comes with a mother." - Unknown
  1. "If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?" - Milton Berle
  1. "When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ it’s a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway." - Erma Bombeck
  1. "Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease." - Lisa Alther
  1. "It’s a funny thing about mothers... 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, Matilda
  1. "The phrase 'working mother' is redundant." - Jane Sellman
  1. "I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them." - Phyllis Diller
  1. "My mother’s menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it." - Buddy Hackett
  1. "A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it." - Jerry Seinfeld
  1. "Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children." - Sam Levenson
  1. "If you aren't yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them." - Reese Witherspoon
  1. "Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy." - Tina Fey
  1. "Why don’t kids understand that their nap is not for them but for us?" - Alyson Hannigan
  1. "Sooner or later, we all quote our mothers." - Bern Williams
  1. "My kids call me 'Mom,' but I'm thinking of changing it to 'Hey, You With the Snacks.'" - Unknown
  1. "Sleep at this point is just a concept, something I'm looking forward to investigating in the future." - Amy Poehler
  1. "Silence is golden. Unless you have kids. Then silence is just suspicious." - Unknown
  1. "The majority of my diet is made up of foods that my kids didn't finish." - Carrie Underwood
  1. "I used to have functioning brain cells, but I traded them for children." - Unknown

On the strength of a mother's love

These quotes show how strong and powerful a mother's love is.
  1. "To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow." - Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
  1. "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, The Last Seance
  1. "Motherhood: All love begins and ends there." - Robert Browning
  1. "God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers." - Rudyard Kipling
  1. "There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one." - Jill Churchill
  1. "A mother's love is something that no one can explain — it is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain." - Helen Steiner Rice
  1. "Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws." - Barbara Kingsolver
  1. "Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not." - James Joyce
  1. "Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together." - Susan Gale
  1. "When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child." - Sophia Loren
  1. "The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness." - Honoré de Balzac
  1. "A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's." - Princess Diana
  1. "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
  1. "The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness." - Jessica Lange
  1. "There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing." - Billy Sunday
  1. "A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie." - Tenneva Jordan
  1. "Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had." - Linda Wooten
  1. "Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything." - Unknown
  1. "Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother." - Oprah Winfrey
  1. "My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it." - Mark Twain
  1. "Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother." - Lin Yutang