25 Mother’s Day Quotes to Express Your Love and Appreciation

UPDATED: April 30, 2024
PUBLISHED: May 8, 2020

Mom. She’s our confidant, our best friend, a boo-boo kisser, an advice giver, and so much more. And although we love and appreciate her, we don’t always give her the credit she deserves, and moms, they deserve a lot of credit. After all, they are the ones who made us, us.

So this Mother’s Day, show her how much you care. Celebrate your special mom, or the motherly figure in your life, with these 25 quotes that express the beauty and magic of motherhood.

To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.”  - Dr. Suess

“The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness.” - Jessica Lange

“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 Christy

“Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.” - Harriet Beecher Stow

“Once you're a mom, you're always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.” - Taraji P. Henson

“I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.” - Maya Angelou

“My mom is definitely my rock.” - Alicia Keys

“A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.” - Princess Diana

“The truth is that no matter how old we are, as long as our mothers are alive, we want our mother.” - Goldie Hawn

“That's the wonderful thing about mothers: You can because you must, and you just do.” - Kate Winslet

“If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” - Stevie Wonder

“We are born of love; love is our mother.” - Rumi

“The moment he wakes up from a nap... Just a gummy mouth, no teeth, just a big smile, happy that you're alive and you're just looking at him. That's probably the most magical.” - Jessica Biel

“Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” - George Eliot” - Jessica Biel

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

“God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.” - Rudyard Kipling

“We should no longer allow a mother to be defined as 'just a mom.' It is on her back that great nations are built.

“He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.” - J.K. Rowling

“If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.” - Booker T. Washington

“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

“Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition.” - Martha Stewart

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

“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” - Elizabeth Stone

“My mother was my role model before I even knew what that was.” - Lisa Leslie

“Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Madison Pieper is the Multimedia Content Producer for SUCCESS. With a degree in journalism from Southern Methodist University, she has a passion for creative storytelling both on and off the camera. Outside of work, Madison loves figure skating, fashion and spending time with her friends and family.