Best Mothers Day Quotes: Give Your Mom These Thoughtful Messages

No matter how far away your mother lives, Mother's Day is still the perfect time to express your gratitude to her. She will feel special when she receives cards, gifts, phone calls, and visits. 

Try to include one of these best Mothers Day quotes in your cards or gifts, though, to cheer her up and make her day even more joyful and loving.

Quotes Happy Mothers Day to all types of moms

Short Mother's Day Quotes

One of the best Mothers Day celebration ideas is to give her a gift with a short but sincere message written in your own handwriting. For some reason, words have the capacity to immediately touch a mother's heart. 

• “A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.” - Amy Tan

• “A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.” - Debasish Mridha

• “A mother’s love liberates.” - Maya Angelou

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

• “There is nothing as sincere as a mother’s kiss.” - Saleem Sharma

• “In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” - Maya Angelou

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

Short quotes for Mother's Day

• “Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.” - Kahil Gibran

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

• “A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” - Dorothy Canfield Fisher

• “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness, and children sleep soundly in them.” - Victor Hugo

• “Motherhood: all love begins and ends there.” - Robert Browning

• “A mother’s love is the sun for growing, the moon for dreaming, the stars for guiding the way.” - Barbara Loots

• “She’s the only reason I’m able to do what I do.” - Leonardo DiCaprio

• “She’s a woman of purpose, compassion, and strength… my hero, my mom.” - Suzanne Berry

• “They go beyond. They go above. Mothers have mastered how to love.” - Keion Jackson

Funny Mother’s Day Quotes

Are others aware of your mother's humor? Mother's Day cards or personalized gifts for Mothers Day this year will brighten her day and make her smile.

These amusing Mother's Day quotes will appeal to all parents since they highlight everyday situations from real life and make lighthearted observations on a mother's strength.

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

• “Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.” - Lisa Alther

• “My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.” - Mark Twain

Funny quote about mothers

• “Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.” - Bern Williams

• “Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.” - P.J. O’Rourke

• “As I learned from growing up, you don’t mess with your grandmother.” - Prince William

• “Sign you’re a mom: You know there’s no greater sign of trouble than silence.” - Melissa Woo

• “How does a mom do it? With patience. With deep, cleansing breaths. With imagination. With caffeine. With all the help she can get!” - Keely Chace

• “The phrase ’working mother’ is redundant.” - Jane Sellman

• “Show me a messy house and I’ll show you a really fun mom.” - Ellen Brenneman

• “If evolution really works, how come mothers have only two hands?” - Milton Berle

• “When a mom loses her mind, she can be pretty sure her teen took it.” - Suzanne Heins

• “A mom holds it together. Some days with tape and glue and safety pins, but she holds it together.” - Keely Chace

• “Being a mom has made me really tired and so happy.” - Tina Fey

Your Mother's Day will be even more memorable if you give her a humorous present with a humorous message. Not sure which one to get your mother? Check out our picks for the funniest Mother's Day gifts:

Inspirational Mother’s Day Quotes

We've put up a compilation of inspirational Mother's Day quotes to celebrate the tenacity and unwavering love of mothers everywhere. 

These quotes are a powerful reminder of the incredible influence mothers have on shaping our personalities, encouraging our goals, and supporting us through life's challenges.

• “When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.” - Mitch Albom

• “Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.” - Lin Yutang

• “To a child’s ear, ‘mother’ is magic in any language.” - Arlene Benedict

• “The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother.” - St. Therese of Lisieux

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

• “A mother's love liberates.” - Maya Angelou

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

• “The mother’s heart is the child’s school-room.” - Henry Ward Beecher

Emotional mother quotes in English

• “Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.” - Lady Gaga

• “My favorite thing about being a mom is just what a better person it makes you on a daily basis.” – Drew Barrymore

• “No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.” - Edwin Chapin

• Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.” - Mabel Hale

• “Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.” – Marion C. Garretty

• “Mother—that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.” - T. Dewitt Talmage

• “Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had.” - Linda Wooten

• “Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.” - Barbara Kingsolver

Mother’s Day Quotes for Grandmothers

On Mother's Day, we get the opportunity to thank the important women in our lives. Among these cherished individuals are our grandmothers, whose wisdom and warmth keep our families together. 

On Mother's Day, let's say a few good words to show these amazing ladies how much we appreciate and value them.

• “Grandmas are the very best at making us feel loved and blessed.” - Keely Chace

• “Grandmothers see the best in us, think the best of us, and bring out the best in us.” - Cheryl Hawkinson

• “A grandma is the extra hug, the bonus blessing, the love on top of more love, all your life.” - Keely Chace

• “Graceful and wise with a smile in her eyes… Grandma.” - Jeannie Hund

Quotes for grandmoms

• “Being a grandmother provides you with an opportunity to help your grandchild gain a sense of who he or she really is.” - Deborah Williams and Linda A. Johnson

• “Every house needs a grandmother in it.” - Louisa May Alcott

• “Grandmother. The true power behind the power.” - Lisa Birnbach

• “Grandmothers are a gift not to be taken lightly.” - Nikita Gill

• “I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.” - Andre Leon Talley

• “Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete.” - Marcy DeMaree

• “If nothing is going well, call your grandmother.” - Italian Proverb

• “My grandmother is my angel on earth. ” - Catherine Pulsifer

• “A grandmother is a mom with all the worries worn off.” - Barbara Loots

• “There’s nothing sweeter than being with Grandma.” - Melvina Young

Shop for the best Mother's Day gifts for first time grandma if you want to make that special day more memorable:

Mother’s Day Quotes for New Moms and Moms-to-Be

Being a new mother may be challenging and draining, even though it can also be an incredible and life-changing experience. It's normal to feel alone and overwhelmed, especially in the early years of motherhood.

For these reasons, we have put up a list of motivational sayings and wise words for soon-to-be mothers and new moms to help and inspire them as they start this wonderful new chapter in their lives.

• “You never understand life until it grows inside of you.” – Sandra C. Kassis

• “Nothing says “new mom” like a baby in a dry-clean only sweater.” - Jennifer Fujita

• “I thought I had it all, then I became a mom.” - Lee Franklin

• “Make a rule that anyone who touches your stomach has to rub your feet as well.” - Jennifer Fujita

• “Being a mom has made me so tired, and so happy.” – Tina Fey

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

Mother’s Day quotes for new moms

• “There’s something miraculous about becoming a mama. The more your baby grows, the bigger your heart gets.” - Dierdra Zollar

• “Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.” – Taylor Hanson

• “The world’s a warm and happy place where kids can play and grow— a place full up with snacks and hugs, ’cause mommies make it so.” - Keely Chace

• "There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” – Jill Churchill

• “There are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.” – Anne Lamott

• "A baby is something you carry inside you for nine months, in your arms for three years, and in your heart till the day you die.” – Mary Mason

• “The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.” – Jessica Lange

• “The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.” – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

• “Babies are the ultimate life force. They remind us that there is always hope, and that there is always a reason to smile.” – Emily Watts

• “Being a mom is discovering strengths you didn’t know you had, and dealing with fears you never knew existed.” – Sherene Simon

It's challenging to be a mother, especially if it's the first time. However, you may help her in some way by giving her one of the following Mother's Day gifts for pregnant moms or the following gifts for new moms for Mother's Day: