Beautiful quotes to honour the woman who gave you the world — and never asked for anything in return.
Some loves are too vast for ordinary words. These are the ones brave enough to try — gathered from poets, philosophers, and the quiet hearts of those who know what a mother truly means.
Featured Quote
A mother is she who can take the place of all others, but whose place no one else can take.
Cardinal Mermillod
Timeless Words
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Honoré de Balzac
A mother’s love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
Marion C. Garretty
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
Robert Browning
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
Lin Yutang
Mothers hold their children’s hands for a while, but their hearts forever.
Unknown
Life doesn’t come with a manual. It comes with a mother.
Unknown
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
My mother was my first country; the first place I ever lived.
Nayyirah Waheed
A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.
Unknown
When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.
Mitch Albom
Modern Voices
I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
E.M. Forster
To the world you are a mother, but to your family you are the world.
Unknown
A mother’s love is a circle — it has no beginning and no end.
Art Urban
No one in this world can love a girl more than her mother.
Michael Levy
The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.
James E. Faust
Home is where your mother is.
Unknown
Happy Mother’s Day
To every mother reading this — and to every child who carries a mother’s love within them — may today be as gentle and radiant as the love you give so freely.
