Inspiring Happy Mother's Day Quotes to Celebrate Mom

"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children."

- William Makepeace Thackeray

"The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother."

- St. Therese of Lisieux

"All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."

- Abraham Lincoln

"When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know."

- Charley Benetto

"To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power."

- Maya Angelou

"Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heartthrob."

- Leroy Brownlow

"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

"The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation."

- James E. Faust

"There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood."

- Elder M. Russell Ballard

"My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was."

- Lisa Leslie

"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

"A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take."

- Cardinal Mermillod

"If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love."

- Stevie Wonder

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

- George Eliot

"There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother."

- Sara Josepha Hale

"A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place."

- Amy Tan

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible."

- Marion C. Garretty

"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

"Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother."

- Lin Yutang

"Mothers can look through a child’s eyes and see tomorrow."

- Reed Markham

"The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children."

- Elaine Heffner

"There is nothing as sincere as a mother’s kiss."

- Saleem Sharma

"We are born of love; love is our mother."

- Rumi

"Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind."

- Kahil Gibran

"Mother—that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries."

- T. Dewitt Talmage

"A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s."

- Princess Diana

"It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?"

- Mahatma Gandhi

"No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love."

- Edwin Chapin

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

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

"A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."

- Debasish Mridha

"The mother’s heart is the child’s school-room."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had."

- Linda Wooten

"Only mothers can think of the future because they give birth to it in their children."

- Maxim Grosky

"Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together."

- Susan Gale

"Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne."

- Mabel Hale

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

- Victor Hugo

"Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me."

- Lady Gaga

"A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories."

- Honore de Balzac

"A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend."

- Unknown

"To the world, you are a mother, but to your family, you are the world."

- Unknown

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

- Unknown

"Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything."

- Unknown