Best Mother Quotes:

The best mother is the mother who adapts, and the best children are the children who adapt as well.

- Juliette Binoche

source: "Juliette Binoche On ‘Sils Maria,’ The Career/Life Balance & Finally Going Hollywood In ‘Godzilla’" by Jessica Kiang, www.indiewire.com. December 11, 2013.

topic: Mother, Children, Best Mother

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

- Gaspard Mermillod

topic: Relationship, Mother, Joys Of Motherhood, Just A Mom, Being A Mother

God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Success, God, Moving Forward, Hunger For Love, Paraphrased

A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.

- Princess Diana

topic: Mom, Mother, Comforting, Mom And Daughter, Joys Of Motherhood

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

source: Her Son's Wife ch. 37 (1926)

topic: Mother, Unnecessary, Persons, I Love My Mother, Just A Mom

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

- Rajneesh

topic: Mom, Mother, Children, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother

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

topic: Family, Mom, Mother, Mother Son, Mom And Daughter

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

topic: Mothers Day, Mom, Hope, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

- Mother Teresa

source: Mother Teresa (1993). “The Best Gift is Love: Meditations”, Servant Books

topic: Happiness, Smile, Beautiful, Keep Smiling, Just Keep Smiling

My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Love, Beautiful, Mom, Mom And Daughter, Being A Mother

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother

- Lin Yutang

topic: Mother, Parenting, Rights, Inspirational Mom, Inspirational Motherhood

He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Mom, Mother, Powerful, I Love My Mother, Mom Knows Best

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

- Pearl S. Buck

topic: Love, Family, Mom, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

- Robert A. Heinlein

topic: Inspirational, Mom, Mother, Inspirational Motherhood, Inspirational Mothers

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

topic: Mom, Mother, Fall, Joys Of Motherhood, Inspirational Mom

[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Mom, Mother, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother, Just A Mom

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Inspirational, Life, Leadership, Customer Experience, Deeds Not Words

The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Mom, Mother, Arms, Joys Of Motherhood, Being A Mother

Motherhood is a choice you make every day, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is... and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.

- Donna Ball

topic: Motherhood, Choices, Forgiving, Joys Of Motherhood, Being A Mother

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

topic: Mom, Mother, Roots, I Love My Mother, Inspirational Mom

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

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Family, Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Son, Loss Of A Parent

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

topic: Mom, Mother, Son, Mother Son, Good Mother

But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.

- Barbara Kingsolver

topic: Running, Jobs, Kids, Joys Of Motherhood, Being A Mother

Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.

- P. J. O'Rourke

topic: Family, Mom, Mother, Inspirational Motherhood, Mom Knows Best

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Yoga, Social Good, Hunger And Poverty

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

- Jessica Lange

topic: Mom, Mother, Children, Mother And Child, Mother Child

Life is a game, play it... Life is too precious, do not destroy it.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Life, Play, Games, Life Is Precious, Life Is A Game

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

- Roald Dahl

topic: Mom, Mother, Children, Great Parents, Blisters

Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Song, Struggle, Life Is, Life Is A Game, Life Is A Struggle

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.

- Phyllis Diller

topic: Funny, Family, Mom, Love Mom, Young Mother

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

- Milton Berle

topic: Funny, Hilarious, Mom, Mom And Daughter, Joys Of Motherhood

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

- Robert Browning

source: Robert Browning (2014). “A Selection of Poems”, p.33, Cambridge University Press

topic: Love, Life, Friendship, I Love My Mother, Special Mother

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

topic: Mothers Day, Beautiful, Appreciation, Mother Son, Son And Daughter

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

- Erich Fromm

topic: Love, Family, Marriage, I Love My Mother, Just A Mom

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

- Rudyard Kipling

topic: Mother, Parenting, Reality, Just A Mom, Inspirational Mothers

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Family, Mothers Day, Mom, Mom And Daughter, Joys Of Motherhood

There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.

- Jill Churchill

topic: Inspirational, Mother, Perfect, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother

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

- Victor Hugo

topic: Mom, Mother, Baby, Mother Son, Mom And Daughter

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

- Sophia Loren

topic: Family, Mothers Day, Mom, Mom And Daughter, Happy Children

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Positive, Joyful Heart, Judging You

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

topic: Mom, Mother, Class, Empowering Women, Being A Mother

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Mothers Day, Mom, Mom And Daughter, Joys Of Motherhood

Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.

- Kate Douglas Wiggin

topic: Family, Beautiful, Mom, Special Mother, Just A Mom

Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Mother, Art, Glasses, Mother Proverbs, Best Mother

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

- Bob Hope

topic: Mothers Day, Mean, Motherhood, Mother Proverbs, Wonderful Mother

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

- Booker T. Washington

source: Booker T. Washington (2009). “Up from Slavery: An Autobiography”, p.46, The Floating Press

topic: Mothers Day, Mom, Attention, Inspirational Mothers, Mom Knows Best

Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?

- Nancy Thayer

topic: Baby, Motherhood, Pleasure, Inspirational Mom, Inspirational Motherhood

I went to sleep with gum in my mouth and now there's gum in my hair and when I got out of bed this morning I tripped on the skateboard and by mistake I dropped my sweater in the sink while the water was running and I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

- Judith Viorst

source: "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day". Book by Judith Viorst, June 16, 1972.

topic: Running, Morning, Mistake, Mom Knows Best, Classic Book

My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother was eight; I never forgot it.

- Stephen King

topic: Mom, Mother, Brother, Hyde, Jekyll

I unapologetically and unabashedly am deeply biased toward my mother.

- Chelsea Clinton

topic: Mom, Mother, Biased, Mom Knows Best, Best Mother