Top 20 Mother's Day Quotes (2025 Update)

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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Khalil Gibran

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4. “Ain’t a woman alive that could take my mama’s place.”

— Tupac Shakur

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5. “Where there is love there is life.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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6. “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”

— Mother Teresa

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7. “Aim high, work hard, and love your family.”

— Deborah Roberts

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8. “Do small things, with great love.”

— Mother Teresa

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9. “It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”

— Mother Teresa

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

— Rumi

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11. “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”

— Agatha Christie

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12. “Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.”

— Mother Teresa

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13. “In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”

— Maya Angelou

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14. “The love of a family is life’s greatest blessing.”

— Eva Burrows

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15. “My mom said there’s a sunrise and a sunset every day and you can choose to be there or not. You can put yourself in the way of beauty.”

— Cheryl Strayed

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16. “I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, As long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be.”

— Robert Munsch

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17. “Smile at each other. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other – it doesn’t matter who it is – and that will help to grow up in greater love for each other.”

— Mother Teresa

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18. “I miss my mother very, very much.”

— Paul Haggis

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19. “It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.”

— Mother Teresa

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

— Rudyard Kipling

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21. “The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.”

— William Ross Wallace

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22. “Never forget, your family should always have priority over your work.”

— Mary Kay Ash

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