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Top 500 Mother Quotes (2026 Update)

Mother Quotes: “A Mother’s love is something that no one can explain, It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain, It is endless and unselfish and enduring come what may For nothing can destroy it or take that love away.” — Helen Steiner Rice

1. “A Mother’s love is something that no one can explain, It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain, It is endless and unselfish and enduring come what may For nothing can destroy it or take that love away.”

— Helen Steiner Rice

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Unconditional Love Quotes, Sacrifice Quotes, Family Quotes

Mother Quotes: “Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized, educated nation.” — Napoleon

2. “Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized, educated nation.”

Mother Quotes: “Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.” — Khalil Gibran

3. “Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.”

— Khalil Gibran

Also featured in: Emotion Quotes, Caring Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Family Quotes

Mother Quotes: “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world.” — Agatha Christie

4. “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world.”

— Agatha Christie

Mother Quotes: “Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.” — Oprah Winfrey

5. “Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Mother Quotes: “When mother is happy, family is happy. When family is happy, nation is happy.” — Abdul Kalam

6. “When mother is happy, family is happy. When family is happy, nation is happy.”

— Abdul Kalam

Mother Quotes: “We are born of love. Love is our mother.” — Rumi

7. “We are born of love. Love is our mother.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Care Quotes, Meaningful Quotes

Mother Quotes: “My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.” — Pablo Picasso

8. “My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.”

— Pablo Picasso

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Creativity Quotes, Inspiring Quotes, Genius Quotes

Mother Quotes: “Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do.” — George Bernard Shaw

9. “Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Mother Quotes: “The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother’s care, shall be in state institutions.” — Karl Marx

10. “The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother’s care, shall be in state institutions.”

Mother Quotes: “I’ve inherited the worst of each parent. I have my father’s hypochondria and lack of concentration. I have his amorality. I have everything bad that he had. Then I have my mother’s surly, pill-like, complaining, whining attitude.” — Woody Allen

11. “I’ve inherited the worst of each parent. I have my father’s hypochondria and lack of concentration. I have his amorality. I have everything bad that he had. Then I have my mother’s surly, pill-like, complaining, whining attitude.”

— Woody Allen

Mother Quotes: “Life doesn’t give you the people you want, it gives you the people you need: to love you, to hate you, to make you, to break you, and to make you the person you were meant to be.” — Walt Whitman

12. “Life doesn’t give you the people you want, it gives you the people you need: to love you, to hate you, to make you, to break you, and to make you the person you were meant to be.”

— Walt Whitman

Mother Quotes: “The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.” — Malcolm X

13. “The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.”

Also featured in: Teaching Quotes, Quotes About Children, Motherhood Quotes, Mother and Son Quotes

Mother Quotes: “If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.” — Walt Disney

14. “If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.”

— Walt Disney

Mother Quotes: “Kosovo is Serbian, only if my mother is a Virgin.” — Zlatan Ibrahimovic

15. “Kosovo is Serbian, only if my mother is a Virgin.”

— Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Mother Quotes: “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.” — Khalil Gibran

16. “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.”

— Khalil Gibran

Also featured in: Meaning Quotes, Deep Quotes, Quotes About Children, Parenting Quotes

Mother Quotes: “As a mother you are only as happy as your saddest child.” — Beth Moore

17. “As a mother you are only as happy as your saddest child.”

Mother Quotes: “My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.” — Nikola Tesla

18. “My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.”

— Nikola Tesla

Mother Quotes: “Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.” — Thomas A. Edison

19. “Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.”

— Thomas A. Edison

Mother Quotes: “My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody’s joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.” — Mark Twain

20. “My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody’s joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.”

Mother Quotes: “Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.” — Thomas Aquinas

21. “Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.”

— Thomas Aquinas

Mother Quotes: “Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country.” — Chanakya

22. “Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country.”

Mother Quotes: “Laziness is the mother of all evils.” — Sophocles

23. “Laziness is the mother of all evils.”

Mother Quotes: “My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian.” — Mark Twain

24. “My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian.”

Mother Quotes: “Necessity is the mother of all invention.” — Albert Einstein

25. “Necessity is the mother of all invention.”

— Albert Einstein

Mother Quotes: “There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart.” — Washington Irving

26. “There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart.”

— Washington Irving

Mother Quotes: “Hinduism is the mother of all religions.” — Swami Vivekananda

27. “Hinduism is the mother of all religions.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Mother Quotes: “My mother taught me to always be strong and always work hard. She’s been working hard her whole life for me and my brother. I’m a lot like her in that I work hard for what I want. She taught me that.” — Kevin Durant

28. “My mother taught me to always be strong and always work hard. She’s been working hard her whole life for me and my brother. I’m a lot like her in that I work hard for what I want. She taught me that.”

— Kevin Durant

Also featured in: Strong Quotes

Mother Quotes: “Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons. Like a mother, it feeds you on your journey. Therefore learning is a hidden treasure.” — Chanakya

29. “Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons. Like a mother, it feeds you on your journey. Therefore learning is a hidden treasure.”

Also featured in: Encouraging Quotes for Students, Lifelong Learning Quotes

Mother Quotes: “To completely trust in Allah is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the mother is totally aware of his condition and is looking after him.” — Al-Ghazali

30. “To completely trust in Allah is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the mother is totally aware of his condition and is looking after him.”

Mother Quotes: “Re-examine all you have been told in school or in church, or in any book; dismiss what insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem.” — Walt Whitman

31. “Re-examine all you have been told in school or in church, or in any book; dismiss what insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem.”

— Walt Whitman

Also featured in: Book Quotes

Mother Quotes: “A father who is a chronic debtor, an adulterous mother, a beautiful wife, and an unlearned son are enemies in one’s own home.” — Chanakya

32. “A father who is a chronic debtor, an adulterous mother, a beautiful wife, and an unlearned son are enemies in one’s own home.”

Mother Quotes: “My mother understood human nature better and never chided. She knew that a man cannot be saved from his own foolishness or vice by someone else’s efforts or protests, but only by the use of his own will.” — Nikola Tesla

33. “My mother understood human nature better and never chided. She knew that a man cannot be saved from his own foolishness or vice by someone else’s efforts or protests, but only by the use of his own will.”

— Nikola Tesla

Mother Quotes: “We take the star from Heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity representing liberty.” — George Washington

34. “We take the star from Heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity representing liberty.”

— George Washington

Also featured in: Country Quotes

Mother Quotes: “The ground is the symbol for the poor people; the poor people is gonna open up this whole world and swallow up the rich people. It’s gonna be like – there might be some cannibalism out this mother. They might eat the rich.” — Tupac Shakur

35. “The ground is the symbol for the poor people; the poor people is gonna open up this whole world and swallow up the rich people. It’s gonna be like – there might be some cannibalism out this mother. They might eat the rich.”

— Tupac Shakur

Mother Quotes: “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

36. “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

Mother Quotes: “Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.” — Francis Bacon

37. “Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.”

— Francis Bacon

Also featured in: Truth Quotes

Mother Quotes: “Adversity is the mother of progress.” — Mahatma Gandhi

38. “Adversity is the mother of progress.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Mother Quotes: “A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.” — Chanakya

39. “A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.”

Mother Quotes: “India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grandmother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.” — Mark Twain

40. “India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grandmother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.”

Mother Quotes: “Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.” — Stephen R. Covey

41. “Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Mother Quotes: “No man is poor who has a Godly mother.” — Abraham Lincoln

42. “No man is poor who has a Godly mother.”

— Abraham Lincoln

Mother Quotes: “A man’s heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn’t like a mother’s womb. It won’t bleed. It won’t stretch to make room for you.” — Khaled Hosseini

43. “A man’s heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn’t like a mother’s womb. It won’t bleed. It won’t stretch to make room for you.”

— Khaled Hosseini

Mother Quotes: “If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.” — Mother Teresa

44. “If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.”

— Mother Teresa

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Mother Quotes: “I was asked for years about being a Republican, probably because most black people are Democrats. My mother heard it once and called me and said ‘Charles, Republicans are for the rich people.’ And I said, ‘Mom, I’m rich.’” — Charles Barkley

45. “I was asked for years about being a Republican, probably because most black people are Democrats. My mother heard it once and called me and said ‘Charles, Republicans are for the rich people.’ And I said, ‘Mom, I’m rich.’”

— Charles Barkley

Mother Quotes: “If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.” — Sigmund Freud

46. “If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.”

— Sigmund Freud

Mother Quotes: “The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist.” — Theodore Roosevelt

47. “The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Also featured in: Artist Quotes

Mother Quotes: “If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.” — Maya Angelou

48. “If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.”

— Maya Angelou

Mother Quotes: “He who does not have the church as his mother, does not have God as his father.” — Saint Augustine

49. “He who does not have the church as his mother, does not have God as his father.”

— Saint Augustine

Mother Quotes: “Abortion kills twice. It kills the body of the baby and it kills the conscience of the mother. Abortion is profoundly anti-women. Three quarters of its victims are women: Half the babies and all the mothers.” — Mother Teresa

50. “Abortion kills twice. It kills the body of the baby and it kills the conscience of the mother. Abortion is profoundly anti-women. Three quarters of its victims are women: Half the babies and all the mothers.”

— Mother Teresa

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