Top 500 Mother Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “I have my mother’s mouth and my father’s eyes; on my face they are still together.”

— Warsan Shire

52. “It takes a Mother’s Love to make a house a home, a place to be remembered, no matter where we roam.”

— Helen Steiner Rice

53. “If you ever feel distressed during your day – call upon our Lady – just say this simple prayer: ‘Mary, Mother of Jesus, please be a mother to me now.’ I must admit – this prayer has never failed me.”

— Mother Teresa

54. “Freud: If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.”

— Robin Williams

55. “Every success is the mother of countless others.”

— Henry Ford

56. “A mother’s love is like an island, In life’s ocean vast and wide, A peaceful, quiet shelter, From the restless, rising tide.”

— Helen Steiner Rice

57. “A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.”

— Princess Diana

58. “The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is life-long. Perhaps when you are dead and gone your prayer will be answered.”

— D.L. Moody

59. “When I was young, every time I criticized someone, my mother would stand me in front of the mirror and say: ‘The flaws you see in others are actually a reflection of yourself.’ That taught me to pay close attention when I looked at others.”

— Richard Branson

60. “We are all pencils in the hand of God.”

— Mother Teresa

61. “But there’s a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begin.”

— Mitch Albom

Also featured in: Quotes About Stories

62. “When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.”

— Cormac McCarthy

63. “The mother’s love is not given to us to spoil us with indulgence, but to soften our hearts, that we may in turn soften others with kindness.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

64. “What good is it to me that Mary gave birth to the son of God fourteen hundred years ago, and I do not also give birth to the Son of God in my time and in my culture? We are all meant to be mothers of God. God is always needing to be born.”

— Meister Eckhart

65. “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

66. “Being a mother is the hardest job on earth. Women everywhere must declare it so.”

— Oprah Winfrey

67. “Mother Mother Ocean, I have heard your call.”

— Jimmy Buffett

68. “For I am my mother’s daughter, and...”

— Mary McLeod Bethune

69. “I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper’s wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?”

— Mother Teresa

70. “Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Doubt is a foundling unhappy and astray, and though his own mother who gave him birth should find him and enfold him, he would withdraw in caution and in fear.”

— Khalil Gibran

71. “There is only one God and He is God to all; therefore it is important that everyone is seen as equal before God. I’ve always said we should help a Hindu become a better Hindu, a Muslim become a better Muslim, a Catholic become a better Catholic.”

— Mother Teresa

72. “He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.”

— Saint Augustine

73. “Even as the unborn babe is in the womb of his mother, these five are fixed as his life destiny: his life span, his activities, his acquisition of wealth and knowledge, and his time of death.”

— Chanakya

74. “Poverty is the mother of crime.”

— Marcus Aurelius

75. “Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father.”

— Mitch Albom

Also featured in: Regret Quotes

76. “So if you don’t like your life, change it. How would you change it? You decide. There’s no action without first decision. Decision is the mother or the father of action, and action is what changes your life.”

— Tony Robbins

77. “Grown don’t mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don’t mean a thing.”

— Toni Morrison

78. “Without self-awareness, we are as babies in the cradle.”

— Virginia Woolf

79. “The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother.”

— Napoleon

80. “The Divine has loved me as mother, as father, and as friend, behind all friends. I searched for that one Friend behind all friends, that one lover whom I now see glimmering in all your faces. And that friend never fails me.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

81. “Humility is the mother of giants.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

82. “My mother was the making of me.”

— Thomas A. Edison

83. “When your mother dies, it really hurts. But with time, you get used to it. That’s nature’s way.”

— Muhammad Ali

84. “I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.”

— Mitch Albom

85. “I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.”

— Sophocles

86. “Our Mother Mary is full of beauty because she is full of grace.”

— Pope Francis

87. “The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother’s side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.”

— Erich Fromm

88. “The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

89. “I am a Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Poet Mother, stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.”

— Audre Lorde

90. “Silence is the mother of truth.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

91. “A mother’s love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking.”

— Helen Steiner Rice

92. “It is not enough for us to say: “I love God,” but I also have to love my neighbor. St. John says that you are a liar if you say you love God and you don’t love your neighbor. How can you love God whom you do not see, if you do not love your neighbor whom you see, whom you touch, with whom you live?”

— Mother Teresa

93. “Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.”

— Mother Teresa

94. “The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: “I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth.””

— Rabindranath Tagore

95. “My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world.”

— Maya Angelou

96. “A sick child is always the mother’s property; her own feelings generally make it so.”

— Jane Austen

97. “Infinite, and an infant. Eternal, and yet born of a woman. Almighty, and yet hanging on a woman’s breast. Supporting a universe, and yet needing to be carried in a mother’s arms. King of angels, and yet the reputed son of Joseph. Heir of all things, and yet the carpenter’s despised son.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

98. “My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.”

— Erica Jong

99. “Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mother of great deeds.”

— Swami Vivekananda

100. “I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hopethat it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson