35+ Best Mother’s Day Quotes To Surprise Your Mom In 2023

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Funny Mother’s Day Quotes

Inspirational Mother’s Day Quotes

Sweet and Short Mother’s Day Quotes

Heart-touching Mother’s Day Quotes

 

Funny Mother’s Day Quotes

• “Thank you for not telling my sisters that I’m your favorite.”
• “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
• “My mom is a genius, and not just because she thinks I’m one.”
• “Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.” —Lisa Alther
• “Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.” – Unknown
• “When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.” – Erma Bombeck
• “A mother is the person you can always call to see how long chicken lasts in the fridge.”
• “Any mother could do the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease” —Lisa Alther

 

• “A mother’s love is unconditional, her temper is another story.”
• “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
• “The most expensive part of having kids is all the wine you have to drink.”
• “I smile because you’re my mother. I laugh because there’s nothing you can do about it.”
  “We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.” —Laura Stavoe Harm
• “In the end, mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.” —Randy Susan Meyers
• “Nothing is lost until your mother can’t find it.”
• “If evolution really works, how come, mothers, have only two hands?” —Milton Berle

 

• “Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life.” – Unknown
• “Dear Mom, thank you for keeping all the bad stuff I did from Dad.”
• “A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don’t even have.” —Robert Brault
• “Mom, I love you, even though I’ll never accept your friend request.” —Unknown
• “Mirror, mirror, on the wall, I am my mother after all!” – Unknown
• “Raising a kid is part joy and part guerilla warfare.”
• “A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.” – Amy Tan
• “The mother’s heart is the child’s school-room.” —Henry Ward Beecher
• “To a child’s ear, ‘mother’ is magic in any language.” —Arlene Benedict

 

Inspirational Mother’s Day Quotes

• “Successful mothers are not the ones that have never struggled, they are the ones that never give up, despite the struggles.” – Sharon Jaynes
• “The mother’s heart is the child’s school-room.” —Henry Ward Beecher
• “Mother—that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.” —T. Dewitt Talmage
• “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
• “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
• “No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.” —Edwin Chapin

 

 

• “A mother is the truest friend we have when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.” – Washington Irving
• “Mothers can look through a child’s eyes and see tomorrow.” —Reed Markham
• “A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” – Cardinal Meymillod
• “To the world, you are a mother, but to your family, you are the world.” —Unknown
• “Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face. A mother’s yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man. Mighty is the force of motherhood!” – George Eliot
• “Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
• “Mother—that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.” —T. Dewitt Talmage

• “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
• “Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.” —Lady Gaga
• “My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for–someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.” Thomas A. Edison
• “As moms, we have a unique opportunity to keep changing this attitude that ambition is an ugly quality in women.” – Reese Witherspoo

 

Sweet and Short Mother’s Day Quotes

A mother is not only a parent but also a lifelong friend. Therefore, expressing your love and gratitude on Mother’s Day through a few heartfelt words can mean the world to her. Short and sweet quotes can also convey your appreciation for her. You can use these thoughtful and concise quotes to write a beautiful letter for your mother or any woman who holds a special place in your heart. Receiving a heartfelt message on Mother’s Day is a touching gesture that is sure to surprise and delight her.

• “The world needs our mothers.” – Liya Kebede
• “The art of mothering is to teach the art of living.” – Elaine Heffne
• “Mother’s love is peace.” – Eric Fromm
• “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.” – Maya Angelou
• “We are born of love; love is our mother.” – Rumi
• “My mother is a walking miracle.” —Leonardo DiCaprio
• “An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.” – Maya Angelou
• “I felt the wash of her love every day, pouring over me.” – Aimee Bender
• “A mother understands what a child does not say.” —Jewish proverb
• “A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.” – Emily Dickinson
• “The world needs our mothers.” —Liya Kebede
• “A mother’s hug lasts long after she lets go.” —Unknown
• “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” – Robert Browning

 

• “There is nothing as sincere as a mother’s kiss.” —Saleem Sharma
• “Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” —George Eliot
• “A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.” —Unknown
• “A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.” – Princess Diana
• “We are born of love; love is our mother.” —Rumi
• “Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.” —Kahil Gibran
• “There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother.” —Sara Josepha Hale
• “Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”

• “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
• “A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.” —Princess Diana
• “All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” —Abraham Lincoln
• “A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.” —Amy Tan
• “Mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.” —Emily Dickinson
• “There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.” – Jill Churchill
• “A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.” —Debasish Mridh

 

Heart-touching Mother’s Day Quotes

• “When you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” —Mitch Albom
• “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” —Robert Browning
• “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
• “A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.” – Washington Irving

• “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
• “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
• It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?” – Mahatma Gandhi
• “When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” – Mitch Albom
• “No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.” – Edwin Chapin

• “The one constant, faithful, inviolable, holy love of loves—the love of your life—is not your wife or lover, it is your mother.” – Sandra Cisneros.
• “Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.” —Robert A. Heinlein
• “A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.” – Peter De Vries
• “Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.” – Barbara Kingsolver