Inspirational Mother Quotes

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Washington Irving 1783-1859
American writer, essayist & historian
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us she will endeavour by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

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Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826
3rd President of USA
Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.

N. K. Jemisin 1972
American novelist
In a child’s eyes, a mother is a Goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the Universe.

Angelina Jolie 1975
American actress & filmmaker
I see myself as mom first. I’m so lucky to have that role in life. The world can like me, hate me or fall apart around me and at least I wake up with my kids and I’m happy.

Michael Jordan 1963
American basketball player
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.

Joseph Joubert 1754-1824
French moralist & essayist
Children need models rather than critics.

C. Joybell C.
I am first and foremost me, but right after that I am a mother. The best thing that I can ever be is me. But the best gift that I will ever have is being a mother.

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Abdul Kalam 1931-2015
Indian scientist & 11th President of India
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

When mother is happy, family is happy. When family is happy, nation is happy.

Mindy Kaling 1979
American actress, comedian & screenwriter
I would say that my mother is the single biggest role model in my life, but that term doesn’t seem to encompass enough when I use it about her. She was the love of my life.

Immanuel Kant 1724-1804
German philosopher
I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart to the lasting impressions of nature. She awakened my understanding and extended my horizon and her perceptions exerted an everlasting influence upon the course of my life.

Diane Keaton 1946
American actress
Motherhood is the most completely humbling experience I’ve ever had. It puts you in your place, because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in.

Caroline Kennedy 1957
American author, diplomat & attorney
It’s true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you’ll find you’ve created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.

Rose Kennedy 1890-1995
American matriarch of Kennedy family
I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty, but as a profession, that was fully interesting and challenging as any honourable profession in the world, and one that demanded the best I could bring to it.

Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence not only on him but on all whom he met, not only for a day or a month, or a year, but for all eternity. A very challenging and exciting thought for a mother.

Miranda Kerr 1983
Australian model
There are no words that could ever describe the happiness and the joy that you feel when you see your son smile in the morning. I just feel so lucky.

Barbara Kingsolver 1955
American novelist, essayist & poet
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Sophie Kinsella 1969
English author
Mothers are multi-taskers.

There’s nothing like your mother’s sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.

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Adrienne LaFrance
American journalist & editor
Just by staring at her baby, the reward centres of a mother’s brain will light up, scientists have found in several studies.

Motherhood really is like a secret space in a woman’s brain, waiting to be discovered.

Gopichand Lagadapati 1981
Indian actor, writer & director
The common language shared by everyone in this world is the cry which all mothers understand.

Charles Lamb 1775-1834
English essayist & poet
Mother’s love grows by giving.

Anne Lamott 1954
American novelist, speaker & activist
There really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.

Vicki Lansky 1942-2017
American author & publisher
You will always be your child’s favourite toy.

Kelly Le Brock 1960
American-English actress & model
Success for me is.. To raise happy, healthy human beings.

C. S. Lewis 1898-1963
British author & Anglican lay theologian
The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only and that is to support the ultimate career.

Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865
American 16th President of United States
No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

I remember my mothers prayers and they have followed me, they have clung to me all my life.

Shelley Long 1949
American actress, singer & comedian
I love being a mother.. I am more aware. I feel things on a deeper level. I have a kind of understanding about my body, about being a woman.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807-1882
American poet & educator
Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mother’s face.

Jennifer Lopez 1969
American singer, dancer & actress
Motherhood is such a fulfilling place to be. I kind of wish it would have happened to me earlier in my life.

Sophia Loren 1934
Italian actress
Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my mother, with a capital M; she’s something sacred to me. I love her dearly.. Yes, she is also a good friend, someone I can talk openly with if I want to.

My mother taught me to walk proud and tall.. As if the world were mine.

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.

Demi Lovato 1992
American singer-songwriter & actress
My mother is everything to me. She’s my anchor, she’s the person I go to when I need to talk to someone. She is an amazing woman.

James Russell Lowell 1819-1891
American poet, editor & diplomat
The best academy… a mother’s knee.

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Shirley MacLaine 1934
American actress, dancer & author
If we can genuinely honour our mother and father we are not only at peace with ourselves but we can then give birth to our future.

Then someone placed her in my arms. She looked up at me. The crying stopped. Her eyes melted through me, forging a connection in me with their soft heat.

Maurice Maeterlinck 1862-1949
Belgian playwright, poet & essayist
All mothers are rich when they love their children. There are no poor mothers, no ugly ones, no old ones. Their love is always the most beautiful of joys.

Steve Maraboli 1975
American author & speaker
Appreciate your mom. She is wiser than you think and stronger than you know. Be thankful.

Reed Markham 1957
Great mothers build bridges instead of walls.

Mary Mason
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.

Olga Masters 1919-1986
Australian writer, journalist & novelist
Many people have said to me, “What a pity you had such a big family to raise, think of the novels and the short stories and the poems you never had time to write because of that.” And I looked at my children and I said, “These are my poems, these are my stories.”

Meg Matthew
I feel whole at last.

John Maxwell 1947
American author, speaker & pastor
If you want to make your mother happy, talk to her. If you want to make your father happy, listen.

Neal A. Maxwell 1926-2004
American scholar, educator & LDS Church leader
Some mothers in today’s world feel cumbered by home duties and are thus attracted by other more romantic challenges. Such women could make the same error of perspective that Martha made. The woman, for instance, who deserts the cradle in order to help defend civilization against the barbarians may well later meet, among the barbarians, her own neglected child.

You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today’s world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.

Mary McBride
What a difference it makes to come home to a child.

Tim McGraw 1967
American singer-songwriter, actor & producer
My mom is my hero. She inspired me to dream when I was a kid, so anytime anyone inspires you to dream, that’s gotta be your hero.

Debra Messing 1968
American actress
It’s the job that I take most seriously in my life and I think it’s the hardest job.

Emma Michaels
If you remember yourself, you will remember me. I am always a part of you. I am your mother.

Karen Maezen Miller 1956
Zen Buddhist priest & meditation teacher
The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.

Rebecca Miller
That’s one thing I find about having children - it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who’ve had children.

Liza Minnelli 1946
American actress, singer & dancer
My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams.

Ana Monnar 1954
Teacher & author
Think of your mother and smile for all of the good, precious moments.

Thomas S. Monson 1927-2018
American LDS Church leader & author
Raising children, be aware that the piles and piles of laundry will disappear all too soon and that you will, to your surprise, miss them profoundly.

Demi Moore 1962
American actress
I said I would get better with each baby.. And I have.

Christopher Morley 1890-1957
American journalist, novelist & poet
It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace.

Movie – Harry Potter (2001)
He didn’t realise that love as powerful as your mother’s for you, leaves its own mark.

Movie – I Don’t Know How She Does It (2011)
I love being the mother of a two year old. It’s like being a movie star with no critics.

Robert Muller 1923-2010
Belgian author & assistant secretary-general of United Nations
There is no greater love on this Earth than that of a mother for her child. The necessary science of love for this planet must therefore start with a right understanding of a mother’s love, the deepest, truest and most cosmic love.

Robert Muller 1923-2010
Belgian author & assistant secretary-general of United Nations
The same way as the Hopis sing to their corn to make it grow, so should we sing to our whole being, to our body, to our eyes, to our heart, to our mind, to all our helpers of life, the trillions of little cells who work together to make us life. A mother sings to her child. She as very good reason for doing that. A couple sings and dances when falling in love. The whole world must become a Paradise and learn to sing and dance together. World cooperation must take the form of a festival, of a joyous love event.

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Christiane Northrup 1949
American physician & author
The bond between mother and child is the most intimate one in human experience. Love, welcome, and receptivity at the beginning of life greatly enhance a child’s health and happiness throughout her lifetime.

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Conor Oberst 1980
American singer-songwriter
I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom’s the only reason I know it’s a real thing.

Soledad O’Brien 1966
American broadcast journalist & producer
My mother, a high school teacher, never paid that much attention to what anybody else thought about her. So today I feel comfortable making decisions even if other people don’t agree.

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Cornelia Paddock
A mother’s love perceives no impossibilities.

R. J. Palacio 1963
American author & graphic designer
My mom smiled at me. Her smile kind of hugged me.

Sarah Jessica Parker 1965
American actress & television producer
As a working mother high heels don’t really fit into my life anymore, but in a totally wonderful way.

Elia Parsons 1937-2011
Author
Nothing will ever make you as happy or sad, as proud or as tired as motherhood.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 1844-1911
American author
I can remember no time when I did not understand that my mother must write books because people would have and read them; but, I cannot remember one hour in which her children needed her and did not find her.

Pablo Picasso 1881-1973
Spanish artist
My mother said to me, “If you are a soldier, you will become a General. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.” Instead, I was a painter and I became Picasso.

Jodi Picoult 1966
American author
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.

The best place to cry is in a mother’s arms.

Pink 1979
American singer-songwriter
You hear people say it all the time, how life changes so drastically, but you can’t possibly grasp how beautiful that is until you have your child.

Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849
American writer, poet & editor

In the heavens above
The angels, whispering to one another
Can find amid their burning terms of love
None so devotional as that of ‘Mother.’

Sidney Poitier 1927-2022
Bahamian-American actor, director & activist
My mother was the most amazing person. She taught me to be kind to other women. She believed in family. She was with my father from the first day they met. All that I am, she taught me.

Elvis Presley 1935-1977
American singer & actor
I was an only child, and mother was right with me all my life.

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Matthew Quick 1973
American author
Mom could make small things seem miraculous. That was her talent.

Jennifer Quinn
Until one becomes a mother, no one can ever tell you what it will feel like to love someone else so deeply and profoundly that you will rejoice when they rejoice, ache when they ache, feel what they feel - even without speaking a word.

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Isidor Isaac Rabi 1898-1988
American physicist
My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school: “So, Did you learn anything today?” But not my mother. “Izzy,” she would say, “Did you ask a good question today?”

Adabella Radici
I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine. She helps me grow, prosper and reach great heights.

Osho Rajneesh 1931-1990
Indian philosopher & guru
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.

Amit Ray 1960
Indian spiritual teacher & author
There is no teacher equal to mother.

Helen Steiner Rice 1900-1981
American Christian & inspirational poet

Memories to treasure are made of Christmas Day,
Made of family gatherings and children as they play…
And always it is mother who plays the leading part
In bringing joy and happiness to each expectant heart.

Fred Rogers 1928-2003
American television host, producer & Presbyterian minister
When I was a boy I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers, you will always find people who are helping.” To this day, especially in times of disaster, I remember my mother’s words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers, so many caring people in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962
American First lady of United States
I think at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

Giovanni Ruffini 1807-1881
Italian writer
Stories first heard at mother’s knee are never wholly forgotten.

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Kate Samperi 1929-2020
Agony aunt & author
Before becoming a mother I had a hundred theories on how to bring up children. Now I have seven children and only one theory.. Love them, especially when they least deserve to be loved.

Revathi Sankaran
Indian television personality & actress
If I were asked to define motherhood, I would have defined it as love in its purest from.. Unconditional love.

Barbara Schapira
Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometimes though, it’s just pure, unthinking delight.

Olive Schreiner 1855-1920
South African author & anti-war campaigner
There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

Victoria Secunda
Author, journalist & lecturer
Mothers are their daughters’ role model, their biological road map, the arbiter of all their relationships.

Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter’s mouth.

Saleem Sharma 1964
There is nothing as sincere as a mother’s kiss.

Lisa T. Shepherd
In raising my kids, I have lost my mind, but found my soul.

Florence Scovel Shinn 1871-1940
American writer, author & lecturer
Mothers often, unconsciously, attract illness and disaster to their children by continually holding them in thoughts of fear, and watching for symptoms.

Samuel Smiles 1812-1904
Scottish author & government reformer
I owe her much. I feel deeply that I am the son of woman. Every instant, in my ideas and words (not to mention features and gestures) I find again my mother in myself.

Sophocles 496BC-406BC
Ancient Greek tragedian
Children are the anchors that hold the mother to life.

Britney Spears 1981
American singer
Motherhood is mind-blowing.

Martha Stewart 1941
American retail business woman, writer & TV personality
Over the years I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. She also taught me that aging need not mean narrowing the scope of your activities and interests.

Alexandra Stoddard 1941
Author, interior designer & lifestyle writer
Being a mother and grandmother is the best of the best in my life. My grandchildren multiply the joy my daughters bring me.

Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811-1896
American author & abolitionist
Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Meryl Streep 1949
American actress
Motherhood has a very humanising effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

Taylor Swift 1989
American singer-songwriter
My mom and I have always been really close. She’s always been the friend that was always there.

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Mr T. (Laurence Tureaud) 1952
American wrestler & actor
When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told mama, “One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.” That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

Thomas De Witt Talmage 1832-1902
American preacher & clergyman
Mother.. That was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.

Amy Tan 1952
American author
A mother enables you to realize that there are different levels of beauty and therein lie the sources of pleasure, some of which are popular and ordinary, and thus of brief value, and others of which are difficult and rare, and hence worth pursuing.

A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.

Ann Van Tassells
Children are like sponges; they absorb all your strength and leave you limp.. But give them a squeeze and you get it all back.

Ann Taylor
Who ran to help me when I fell, and would some pretty story tell, or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.

Nancy Thayer
American author
Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?

Archibald Thompson
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.

Uma Thurman 1970
American actress
Before I had a child I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It’s extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.

Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910
Russian writer
Beautiful as seemed mama’s face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her.

Adriana Trigiani 1969
American author, playwright & television writer/producer
A good mother is irreplaceable.

I like it when my mother smiles, and I especially like it when I make her smile.

Mark Twain 1835-1910
American writer, humorist & essayist
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me.. But I think she enjoyed it.

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Ama H. Vanniarachchy
Sri Lankan writer, journalist & illustrator
She is the creature of life, the giver of life, and the giver of abundant love, care and protection. Such are the great qualities of a mother.

The bond between a mother and her child is the only real and purest bond in the world, the only true love we can ever find in our lifetime.

Mildred B. Vermont
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… the payment is pure love.

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Mark Wahlberg 1971
American actor
There’s no job more important on the planet than being a mom.

Alice Walker 1944
American novelist, writer & social activist
Our mothers and grandmothers.. Moving to music not yet written.

Sarah Walker
Becoming a mother is like discovering the existence of a strange new room in the house where you already live.

William Ross Wallace 1819-1881
American poet

Blessings on the hand of women!
Angels guard its strength and grace,
In the palace, cottage, hovel,
Oh, no matter where the place’
Would that storms assailed it,
Rainbows ever gently curled;
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.

Infancy’s the tender fountain,
Power may with beauty flow,
Mother’s first to guide the streamlets,
From the souls unresting grow -
Grow on for the good or evil,
Sunshine streamed or evil hurled;
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.

Women, how divine your mission
Here upon our natal sod!
Keep, oh, keep the young heart open
Always to the breath of God!
All true trophies of the ages
Are from the mother-love impearled;
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.

Blessings on the hand of women!
Fathers. Sons, and daughters cry,
And the sacred song is mingled
With the worships in the sky -
Mingles where no tempest darkens,
Rainbows evermore are hurled;
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.

Booker T. Washington 1856-1915
American educator, author & orator
If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

Denzel Washington 1954
American actor, producer & director
My mother never gave up on me.

George Washington 1732-1799
American founding father & 1st President of United States
My mother was the most beautiful woman. All I am, I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

Raquel Welch 1940-2023
American actress
I was not a classic mother.. I didn’t bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can’t buy love.

Emmeline B. Wells 1828-1921
American journalist, editor & poet
None but mothers know each other’s feeling when we give up our daughters whom we love and cherish so tenderly to the mercies of a man and perhaps a stranger.

John Wesley 1703-1791
English cleric, theologian & evangelist
My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.

Mae West 1893-1980
American actress, singer, comedian & screenwriter
After my mother.. I never needed anyone else.

She tried in every way to understand me, and she succeeded. It was this deep, loving understanding as long as she lived that more than anything else helped and sustained me on my way to success.

Azelene Williams
Social worker & counsellor
The children we bring into the world are small replicas of ourselves and our husbands, the pride and joy of grandfathers and grandmothers. We dream of being mothers, and for most of us, those dreams are realized naturally. For this is the miracle of life.

Bern Williams
Sooner or later, we all quote our mothers.

Rachel Wolchin
Author
Call your mother. Tell her you love her. Remember, you’re the only person who knows what her heart sounds like from the inside.

Stevie Wonder 1950
American singer-songwriter, musician & record producer
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.

Tristan Wood
No one can take the place of a perfect mother who gives you the world as you know it, and makes you believe that it is yours to take.

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Mitta Xinindlu
Author, lawyer & researcher
Hold your newborn as much as you want to. Show affection to your newborn. Reassure your newborn. Do not listen to those who tell you not to.

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Lin Yutang 1895-1976
Chinese inventor, novelist & philosopher
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.

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