20+ Best Mother’s Day Quotes for Mom in 2024

Mother’s Day is a holiday celebrated on the second Sunday of May every year. It originated in the United States and was founded in 1908 by Anna Jarvis. Initially, it was meant to honor a person’s own mother, but over time, it has evolved to celebrate all mothers and motherhood in general.

The modern form of the holiday began with a service of worship at St. Andrew’s Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia, on May 10, 1908. Anna Jarvis’s efforts led to its widespread adoption, and in 1914, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson officially declared it a national holiday. 

Despite commercialization, Mother’s Day remains a testament to the enduring value of family and appreciation for maternal bonds.

Here are 20 special Mother’s Day quotes to celebrate the love and dedication of mothers everywhere:

1. “A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.” 

2. “When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.”

3. “Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heartthrob.”

4. “Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.”

5. “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.” 

6. “Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” 

7. “The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” 

8. “It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?”

9. “There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.”

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

11. “Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything.”

12. “Only mothers can think of the future because they give birth to it in their children.”

13. “My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.”

14. “Good moms grow great kids.” 

15. “M-O-M is just another way of spelling LOVE.”

16. “A mom teaches love by living it.”

17. “A mom loves you first. Then forever.” 

18. “For every dream that has taken flight, there’s a mother who believed.”

19. “A mother teaches us that there is no end at all to what love can do.”

20. “They go beyond. They go above. Mothers have mastered how to love.”