What are some best happy mothers day quotes? Here is top 50 quotes on mother's day to wish or say your mom. Your mother has been with you your whole life. She loves you more than you will probably ever realize. Share some of these Mother’s Day quotes with her to brighten her day and let her know how much you appreciate her.

50 Top Mothers Day Quotes

1. A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary. ---Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Dorothy Canfield Fisher

2. If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been. ~Robert Brault

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

4. Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you. ---Inspirational Mothers Day Quotes by: Jill Bennett

5. 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, Women and Beauty

6. 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. ---Inspirational Mothers Day Quotes by: Golda Meir

7. If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family. ---Happy mothers day quotes by Lawrence Housman

8. Men are what their mothers made them. ---Inspirational Mothers Day Quotes by: Ralph Waldo Emerson

9. There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.  ~ Chinese Proverb

10. By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacation-less class. ---Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author

11. Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons

12. Making a decision to have a child--it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ---Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Elizabeth Stone

13. Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. ~William Feather, The Business of Life, 1949

14. Few misfortunes can befall a boy which brings worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother. ---Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: W. Somerset Maugham 


15. All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defense. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health. ---Inspirational quotes on mothers day by: Germaine Greer

16. God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. — Jewish Proverb

17. 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

18. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.— Abraham Lincoln

19. 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

20. Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate. — Happy mothers day quotes by Charlotte Gray

[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

21. Woman in the home has not yet lost her dignity, in spite of Mother's Day, with its offensive implication that our love needs an annual nudging, like our enthusiasm for the battle of Bunker Hill. ---Inspirational mother's day quotes: John Erskine

22. She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great - but how to laugh through it. — Liza Minellie

23. The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. — Henry Ward Beecher 

24. No gift to your mother can ever equal her gift to you - life Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Anonymous quotes

25. Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children. — Happy mothers day quotes by Maxim Gorky

26. I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me. — Martina Hingis

27. And remember that behind every successful woman......is a basket of dirty laundry. Inspirational quotes on mothers day by: Unknown

28. “All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” —Abraham Lincoln

29. “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.” —George Washington

30. And remember that behind every successful woman is a basket of dirty laundry. — Unknown

31. 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

32. 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

33. Kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run. — happy mothers day quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

34. My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice. — Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence

35. The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms. —Jodi Picoult

36. There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one. —Jill Churchill

37. 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. — happy mothers day quotes by Kate Samperi

38. Blessed is a mother that would give up part of her soul for her children's happiness. — Shannon L. Alder

39. Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.” —Robert A. Heinlein
 

40. Mothers were meant to love us unconditionally, to understand our moments of stupidity, to reprimand us for lame excuses while yet acknowledging our point of view, to weep over our pain and failures as well as cry at our joy and successes, and to cheer us on despite countless start-overs. Heaven knows, no one else will. — Richelle E. Goodrich

41. “The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant.” —Jane Sellman

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

43. "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

44. They are not kidding when they say that mothers are strong women. We need to be strong in more ways than our children will ever know. — M.B. Antevasin

45. My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time. — Linda Sunshine

46. "I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me." – Martina Hingis

47."Any mother could do the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease." — Lisa Alther

48. “As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.” ―Kristin Hannah, Summer Island

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

50. “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.” ―Jodi Picoult