Mothers Day Inspirational Quotes

A special collection of Mothers Day inspirational quotes straight from the heart of some of the most celebrated personalities and prolific writers of our times.

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

~ Mothers Day Inspirational Quote by: Honoré De Balzac

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.

~ Mothers Day Inspirational Quote by: Golda Meir

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.

~ Mothers Day Inspirational Quote by: Tenneva Jordan

“Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.”

~ Mothers Day Inspirational Quote by: Gail Tsukiyama, Dreaming Water

The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.

~ Mothers Day Inspirational Quote by: Henry Ward Beecher

“Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.”

~ Mothers Day Inspirational Quote by: George Eliot

“No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother’s love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.”

~ Mothers Day Inspirational Quote by: Edwin Hubbell Chapin

 

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

~ Mothers Day Inspirational Quote by: Dorothy Canfield Fisher

 

Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.

~ Mothers Day Inspirational Quote by: Anonymous

 

Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

~ Mothers Day Inspirational Quote by: Erich Fromm

 

“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.”

~ Mothers Day Inspirational Quote by: Meryl Streep

 

“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.”

~ Mothers Day Inspirational Quote by: George Washington

 

My mother is a walking miracle.

~ Mothers Day Inspirational Quote by: Leonardo DiCaprio

 

“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.”

~ Mothers Day Inspirational Quote by: Washington Irving

 

“Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.”

~ Mothers Day Inspirational Quote by: Harriet Beecher Stowe

 

 “Who ran to help me when I fell,

And would some pretty story tell,

Or kiss the place to make it well?

My Mother.”

~ Mothers Day Inspirational Quote by: Ann Taylor

 

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.

~ Mothers Day Inspirational Quote by: Michael Jordan

 

“The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.”

~ Mothers Day Inspirational Quote by:  Karl Lagerfeld