Hers is the first face we all see as a baby. Her voice is so familiar, so reassuring it calms us down and lulls us to sleep. Mothers, we would not be on this earth without them, literally.
Mother’s Day is celebrated around the world to honor the best lady in our lives. The tradition dates back to 1914 when President Woodrow proclaimed it as the national holiday for acclaiming all mothers in the U.S. Since then, we have always observed it on the second Sunday of May.
Mother’s Day is popular in the United States and is prevalent in other countries around the world as well. Although some countries celebrate it during different months of the year, the spirit of the occasion is fervent everywhere.
Some say that the practice was influenced and introduced by enterprising companies that have enjoyed commercial success with the tradition here. One such company is Hallmark, the maker of the popular greeting cards.
The various countries adopted the custom and integrated it with some of their traditions to fit their culture. Today, it can even be considered an offense for not celebrating Mother’s Day in some countries. Such is the power and impact this tradition has had throughout the world.
We celebrate Mother’s Day in different ways as well, but some traditions are enduring. Flowers are the popular gifts, greeting cards (commercial and personally made), and other endearing trinkets. Some prefer to give non-material offerings such as going to church, doing chores, and cooking while letting the mom rest the whole day.
Some consider doing favors and granting requests that have remained unaccomplished for a long time. Many people honor their mothers by going on picnics, hosting parties, and family gatherings. A practice that has been gaining popularity is posting pictures and honorariums on social media to honor their moms. Others lavish their mothers with holiday trips or cruises, and other luxuries.
Mostly, a simple visit, a hug, and a kiss are worth all the wealth in the world for our dear moms.
We take this opportunity to thank our moms for all their love, care, and sacrifice. Mothers have always been our guiding light in times of trouble. Hers are the hands that pick us up when we fall. She is always there to comfort us, take care of us when we are sick.
People say that mothers run the house, managing it perfectly for the fathers, which could not be farther from the truth. Think of those working mothers who have to juggle household chores and contend with work. Those single mothers who endure challenging situations alone, but still cope.
Much can be said about the strength and courage of mothers wherever they live. Surely, they all deserve this honor we bestow on them during one of the most celebrated holidays in the world.
To pay homage to our dear mothers, we have gathered some of the most inspiring and endearing Mother’s Day quotes. We are quite sure you will enjoy them and hope that you share them with your moms.
Happy Mother’s Day to all the great Moms out there!
Happy Mother’s Day Quotes
A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.
Unknown
Everything I am, you helped me to be.
Author Unknown
When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.
Charley Benetto
To the world you are a mother, but to your family you are the world.
Author Unknown
Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heartthrob.
Leroy Brownlow
Life doesn’t come with a manual. It comes with a mother.
Author Unknown
Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.
Susan Gale
Mothers are like buttons. They hold everything together.
Author Unknown
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
There’s a reason some people think they can achieve anything. They listened to their mother.
Author Unknown
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
William Makepeace Thackeray
An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.
Spanish Proverb
The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.
James E. Faust
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.
Jewish Proverb
It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
Mahatma Gandhi
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
There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.
Elder M. Russell Ballard
A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor Hugo
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The most precious jewels you’ll ever have around your neck are the arms of your children.
Author Unknown
Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything.
Unknown
Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
George Eliot
Only mothers can think of the future because they give birth to it in their children.
Maxim Grosky
The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.
Elaine Heffner
My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.
Lisa Leslie
To a child’s ear, “mother” is magic in any language.
Arlene Benedict
Mother’s Day Blessing Quotes
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.
Maya Angelou
The older I grow, the more I realize that my mother is the best “best friend” that I ever had.
Author Unknown
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
As is the mother, so is her daughter.
Ezekiel 16:44
My mother is a walking miracle.
Leonardo DiCaprio
A mother is a daughter’s first best friend.
Author Unknown
A mother understands what a child does not say.
Jewish proverb
As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.
Kristin Hannah
The world needs our mothers.
Liya Kebede
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
A mother’s hug lasts long after she lets go.
Unknown
My mom is a hard worker. She puts her head down and she gets it done. And she finds a way to have fun. She always says, “Happiness is your own responsibility.
Jennifer Garner
There is nothing as sincere as a mother’s kiss.
Saleem Sharma
By the time a woman realizes her mother was right, she has a daughter who thinks she’s wrong.
Author Unknown
A daughter is someone you laugh with, dream with, and love with all your heart.
Author Unknown
A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.
Unknown
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
We are born of love; love is our mother.
Rumi
Teach your daughter to worry less about fitting into the glass slippers and more about shattering the glass ceilings.
Author Unknown
Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.
Kahil Gibran
She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great – but how to laugh through it.
Liza Minnelli
There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother.
Sara Josepha Hale
Mother’s Day Special Quotes
Lucky is the Woman whose first child is a daughter.
Prophet Mohammed
A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.
Princess Diana
As my mom always said, “You’d rather have smile lines than frown lines.
Cindy Crawford
All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham Lincoln
Moms are as relentless as the tides. They don’t just drive us to practice, they drive us to greatness.
Steve Rushin
A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.
Amy Tan
Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
Emily Dickinson
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
A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.
Debasish Mridha
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
Irish Proverb
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Mark Twain
A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.
Cardinal Mermillod
Mother – that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.
T. Dewitt Talmage
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
There is an endearing tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that transcends all other affections of the heart.
Washington Irving
Sons are the anchors of a mother’s life.
Sophocles
In the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child reads the message: ‘You are there!’
Adrienne Rich
A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it’s too late to let her know that he sees it.
W. D. Howells
If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
Stevie Wonder
There has never been, nor will there ever be, anything quite so special as the love between a mother and a son.
Author Unknown
Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.
Unknown
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
Oscar Wilde
Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
Erich Fromm
My mother told me a million times not to exaggerate.
Author Unknown
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs since the payment is pure love.
Mildred B. Vermont
He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark.
J.K. Rowling
When you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.
Mitch Albom
Your arms were always open when I needed a hug. Your heart understood when I needed a friend. Your gentle eyes were stern when I needed a lesson. Your strength and love has guided me and gave me wings to fly.
Sarah Malin
There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.
Jill Churchill
Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
Marion C. Garretty
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
Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.
Lady Gaga
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
If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.
Robert Brault
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
I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
Abraham Lincoln
Mother’s love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there, it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life.
Erich Fromm
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.
Lisa Alther
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
A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don’t even have.
Robert Brault
In the end, mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.
Randy Susan Meyers
To pay homage to our dear mothers, we have gathered some of the most inspiring and endearing Mother’s Day quotes. We are quite sure you will enjoy them and hope that you share them with your moms.
Happy Mother’s Day to all the great Moms out there!