Top 500 Mother Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “The process of shaping the child, shapes also the mother herself. Reverence for her sacred burden calls her to all that is pure and good, that she may teach primarily by her own humble, daily example.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

102. “If you’re a single mother with two children, which is the toughest job in America as far as I’m concerned, and you’re working hard to put food on your family...”

— George W. Bush

103. “Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can’t be sure.”

— Albert Camus

104. “When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly – so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

105. “I blame my mother for nothing, but forgive her for everything.”

— Mary J. Blige

106. “The bond between mothers and their children is one defined by love. As a mother’s prayers for her children are unending, so are the wisdom, grace, and strength they provide to their children.”

— George W. Bush

107. “If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up – lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.”

— Maya Angelou

108. “A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship – and you know what, a father does, too. It’s time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a ‘Mad Men’ episode.”

— Barack Obama

109. “I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of a man.”

— Walt Whitman

110. “The love of a mother is never exhausted. It never changes – it never tires – it endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute. In the face of the world’s condemnation, a mother’s love still lives on.”

— Washington Irving

111. “Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength – in search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.”

— Alice Walker

112. “With my mother’s death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security. It was sea and islands now; the great continent had sunk like Atlantis.”

— C. S. Lewis

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113. “If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.”

— Abdul Kalam

114. “Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.”

— Jodi Picoult

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115. “I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.”

— E. M. Forster

116. “Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.”

— John Milton

117. “I am a woman phenomenally, phenomenal woman that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you and that is me.”

— Maya Angelou

118. “When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.”

— Mitch Albom

119. “Friends or foes, they are all instruments in Her hands to help us work out our own karma, through pleasure or pain. As such, ‘Mother’ blesses all.”

— Swami Vivekananda

120. “A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.”

— Banksy

121. “The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut up.”

— Charles Bukowski

122. “Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

123. “War is the mother of everything.”

— Heraclitus

124. “Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

125. “Women opened the windows of my eyes and the doors of my spirit. Had it not been for the woman-mother, the woman-sister, and the woman-friend, I would have been sleeping among those who seek the tranquility of the world with their snoring.”

— Khalil Gibran

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

127. “To be a mother is a great treasure. Mothers, in their unconditional and sacrificial love for their children, are the antidote to individualism; they are the greatest enemies against war.”

— Pope Francis

128. “You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.”

— Nhat Hanh

129. “Men are what their mothers made them.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

130. “Necessity is the mother of taking chances.”

— Mark Twain

131. “The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.”

— Benjamin Franklin

132. “I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.”

— Maya Angelou

133. “There’s so many things going on in the world, Babies dying. Mothers crying. How much oil is one human life worth. And what ever happened to peace on earth.”

— Willie Nelson

134. “The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

135. “My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother.”

— Napoleon

136. “A Mother is the heart of the home.”

— Mother Teresa

137. “A mother’s love liberates.”

— Maya Angelou

138. “For a mother’s love is fashioned, After God’s enduring love, It is endless and unfailing, Like the love of Him above.”

— Helen Steiner Rice

139. “When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.”

— Mitch Albom

140. “Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.”

— Victor Hugo

141. “Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.”

— Winston Churchill

142. “It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother’s milk.”

— Al-Ghazali

143. “India is the mother of religion. In her are combined science and religion in perfect harmony, and that is the Hindu religion, and it is India that shall be again the spiritual mother of the world.”

— Annie Besant

144. “An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.”

— Rudyard Kipling

145. “Mother Teresa was brilliant. She said, “I will never attend an anti-war rally. If you have a peace rally, invite me.” She knew. She understood the secret. Look what she manifested in the world.”

— Jack Canfield

146. “My mother always taught us that if people don’t agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you’ve listened to them carefully and you still think that you’re right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.”

— Jane Goodall

147. “The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

148. “The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother’s milk. Darkness will make you strong.”

— George R.R. Martin

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149. “My mother told me if I work hard and I really believed in American principles and I believed in God, anything is possible. That’s why I’m not anxious to give away American values and principles for the sake of political correctness.”

— Ben Carson

150. “I am a reflection of my mother’s secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers.”

— Audre Lorde