Mother Quotes

Welcome to our page dedicated to heartwarming and inspirational mother quotes! Motherhood is a profound and beautiful journey, filled with love, sacrifice, and unwavering support. It’s a role that encompasses boundless strength, compassion, and selflessness. Whether you’re a mother looking for words that resonate with your own experiences or someone seeking the perfect quote to express your appreciation for the incredible mothers in your life, you’ve come to the right place.

On this page, you’ll find a curated collection of touching and meaningful quotes about mothers. These quotes capture the essence of motherhood, from the joyous moments of laughter and tenderness to the challenges and sacrifices that come with raising children. Whether you want to use these quotes to create a heartfelt greeting card, add them to a special gift, or simply draw inspiration from them, we invite you to explore the profound wisdom and love encapsulated in these mother quotes. So, without further ado, let’s delve into this treasure trove of motherly wisdom and affection. Copy them, place them on an image, or enhance them with stylish fonts to celebrate the incredible women who shape our lives. Enjoy!

My biological dad was Armenian. My last name is Lopez, and I have a darker complexion, which throws people for a loop. My mother’s first husband is Mexican. That’s where I got Lopez. Seth Rollins

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry. Billy Graham

Mother Nature is the great equalizer. You can’t get away from it. Christopher Heyerdahl

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 became Picasso. Pablo Picasso

My mother, Laura Sumner, had cerebral palsy. She was born absolutely fine, but after about three days, she started having convulsions that left her with a condition that would confine her to a wheelchair her entire life. Bernard Sumner

A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you’re writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don’t have to do it over. Gary Oldman

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between. Mother Teresa

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. Petrarch

Whatever you do, do with determination. You have one life to live; do your work with passion and give your best. Whether you want to be a chef, doctor, actor, or a mother, be passionate to get the best result. Alia Bhatt

Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you! George M. Cohan

When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there’s no way you could be a good winner. Halle Berry

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli. George H. W. Bush

Diligence is the mother of good luck. Benjamin Franklin

I never smoked in my life. Neither did my mother. And so many women I meet whose mothers or aunts or whoever who have gotten lung cancer were no-time smokers. Valerie Harper

The mob is the mother of tyrants. Diogenes

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse. Sitting Bull

A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship – and you know what, a father does, too. It’s time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a ‘Mad Men’ episode. Barack Obama

Be patient. Patience is the mother of all virtues. Hrithik Roshan

Memory is the mother of all wisdom. Aeschylus

When I was a young man, my mother said to me, ‘You can’t be a communist without being a militant atheist.’ So I had to be a militant atheist because I wanted to be a communist. Norman Finkelstein

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

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life. Sophocles

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist. Kurt Cobain

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels. Francisco Goya

All the riches in the world do not come close to the happiness of having children and being a mother. Jocelyn Wildenstein

When I look back on my life, I wonder how I survived – my mother said I had a guardian angel. Micky Dolenz

Yes, it’s true I once knocked out a horse. It was at a fiesta in my mother’s home town of Guarare. Someone bet me a bottle of whiskey that I couldn’t do it. Roberto Duran

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Theodore Hesburgh

When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother. Rodney Dangerfield

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. Chief Joseph

Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans. Evo Morales

My first injury ever was a broken toe, and my mother made me run laps around the mat for the rest of the night. She said she wanted me to know that even if I was hurt, I was still fine. Ronda Rousey

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God’s gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences. Freeman Dyson

I am Dominican American. My father was born and raised in the U.S. and his heritage is German and Eastern European, and my mother hails from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Monica Raymund

That strong mother doesn’t tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in. Lauryn Hill

I am a nice human, but I’ve also got Italian in my family. My mom’s side is Italian and my mom is a very scary human being. I get a lot of that intensity and snap straight into it from her. She’s legit terrifying. Lovely girl. Lovely mother but when she gets angry, she’s absolutely terrifying. She’s a damn monster. Rhea Ripley

As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others. Zig Ziglar

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. Sophia Loren

I think that’s the most beautiful thing about being confident – just loving yourself, not caring what everybody else thinks. Because you could be Mother Theresa, and people are still going to try to find some imperfection. Joanna Krupa

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty. Narendra Modi

Fear is the mother of foresight. Thomas Hardy

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary. Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes. Miguel de Cervantes

At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I’m Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim. Michael Caine

Fear is the mother of morality. Friedrich Nietzsche

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long. Marie Antoinette

I applaud my mother now for getting me through that time and making me believe in myself. Leah Remini

Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth. Menachem Begin

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. Voltaire

I was born and brought up in South Mumbai. My father, Jagdeep, is a businessman and a Sindhi. My mother is half Brit and half Muslim. I am thus a cocktail of mixed blood. From the time I remember, I wanted to be an actress. Kiara Advani

I can always tell when the mother in law’s coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps. Les Dawson

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away. Laurence J. Peter

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line. Ziggy Marley

Every daughter is a shadow of her mum. I respect that, but there’s a limit. There’s a certain line that needs to be drawn, which every mother and daughter understands. Pulkit Samrat

Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills. Radhanath Swami

My father Baldev Pathak was a Punjabi, and mother, Dina Pathak, a Kathiawadi Gujarati. Supriya Pathak

Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all the deadly sins. Edith Wharton

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother. Margaret Sanger

I’m 23 years old. I might just be my mother’s child, but in all reality, I’m everybody’s child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society. Tupac Shakur

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me. Diego Maradona

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. Frank Lloyd Wright

We are born of love; Love is our mother. Rumi

I credit my success to my mother. Her prayers and support are everything to me. I know all she does for me, and I know nothing I do can ever pay back the amount of support she has given me. Dimitar Berbatov

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer. Thich Nhat Hanh

At the end of the day, I mean, I love my father, but I was always a mama’s girl growing up. I’m from the South, so there’s always something about me when I’m just with my girls or even my mother. There’s just a strong connection there. Britney Spears

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao. Lao Tzu

I did meet ‘The Everly Brothers’ once, and we talked for awhile. Then we figured out we were first cousins! My late mother was the sister of Don and Phil’s father, Ike Everly. James Best

My mother’s wonderful. To me she’s perfection. Michael Jackson

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. Honore de Balzac

The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom. Henry Ward Beecher

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 should be curiosity. Eleanor Roosevelt

Being a mother adds an enormous amount of stress to your life. You need to make sure you’re there for everything. Kate Spade

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face. George Eliot

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own. Alice Walker

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night. Chanakya

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. Maya Angelou

My mother had a saying: ‘Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.’ Kamala Harris

If you can’t be in awe of Mother Nature, there’s something wrong with you. Alex Trebek

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. Albert Ellis

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. Thomas Hobbes

Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother. Anne Lamott

If a man has been his mother’s undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it. Sigmund Freud

Expectation is the mother of all frustration. Antonio Banderas

I have six brothers and sisters. My mother has six kids from two different marriages. And we would just sit around making fun of each other’s dad, and all our dads had real problems. Michael Che

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. William Makepeace Thackeray

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. Godfrey Winn

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms. Khalil Gibran

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque. Denzel Washington

I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. I am a friend of women and I am their advocate. Carre Otis

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. Stevie Wonder

‘The Exorcist’ is absolutely my favorite horror film, and I watched it when I was, like, seven years old with my mother for the first time. I don’t know why my mom let me watch that. I couldn’t go to the bathroom by myself. I couldn’t go upstairs by myself. I couldn’t sleep. Odette Annable

I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose. Clarence Darrow

A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. Victor Hugo

My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn’t until I started hanging with the upperclassmen black actors at my high school that I really got my roots in being a black American, which is a distinctly different identity and experience. Amanda Seales

My mother made me truly appreciate women. Drake

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. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Anton Usov
Anton Usov
I am Anton Usov, an educator with a passion for quotes that resonate with the human experience. Over many years, I have curated a collection that reflects wisdom and emotions across time. Join me in exploring the power of words to inspire and enlighten our paths.
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