22 Of The Best Mother’s Day Quotes

Whether you are writing them on a card or via text, make sure you share these Mother’s Day quotes with your mum on May 13.

So let’s begin.

ONE

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

LADY GAGA

TWO

“Over the years, I learned so much from Mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. She also taught me that aging need not mean narrowing the scope of your activities and interests or a diminution of the great pleasures to be had in the everyday.”

MARTHA STEWART

THREE

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

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

FOUR

“My mother taught me to be nice to everybody. And she said something before I left home. She said, ‘I want you to always remember that the person you are in this world is a reflection of the job I did as a mother.'”

JASON SEGEL

FIVE

“A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”

VICTOR HUGO

SIX

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

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

SEVEN

“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

EIGHT

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.”

MAYA ANGELOU

NINE

“My mother is a walking miracle.”

LEONARDO DICAPRIO

TEN

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

A JEWISH PROVERB

ELEVEN

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

GRACIE ALLEN

TWELVE

“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

THIRTEEN

In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.”

N.K. JEMISIN, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

FOURTEEN

“He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mothers for you leaves its own mark…to have been loved so deeply…will give us some protection forever.”

J.K. ROWLING (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone)

FIFTEEN

“I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom’s the only reason I know it’s a real thing.”

CONOR OBERST

SIXTEEN

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

GEORGE WASHINGTON

SEVENTEEN

“The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.”

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

EIGHTEEN

“Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.”

UNKNOWN

NINETEEN

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

HONORE DE BALZAC

TWENTY

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

TWENTY-ONE

My mom is a hard worker. She puts her head down and she gets it done. And she finds a way to have fun. She always says, 'Happiness is your own responsibility.'

JENNIFER GARNER

TWENTY-TWO

“I know that [my mother] was the kindest, most generous spirit I have ever known and that what is best in me I owe to her.”

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA