Inspirational Quotes for Mother's Day

Everyone in the world has a mother. The following are some affectionate quotes about what it is to be a mother and to receive a mother's love:

Children are the sum of what mothers contribute to their lives.

~~Unknown

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.  ~Tenneva Jordan

All mothers are working mothers.  ~Author Unknown

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

No matter who takes the credit

It was a long time overdue

To honor all those Ladies

Who gave life to me and you

Del “Abe” Jones

Being a full~time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.  ~Mildred B. Vermont

If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam.  ~Lord Langdale (Henry Bickersteth)

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

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.  ~Oprah Winfrey

"No influence is so powerful as that of the mother." ~~ Sarah Josepha Hale

"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."  ~~ Honore' de Balzac

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.~ W.R. Wallace

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,

Mother ~ that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.  ~T. DeWitt Talmage

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

"There was never a great man who had not a great mother ~~ it is hardly an exaggeration." ~~ Olive Schreiner

It is not until you become a mother than your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding." ~ Emma Bombeck

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.~ Honore de Balzac sayings

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 who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavour by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. ~ Washington Irving