Quotes For Mother

Mothers are often viewed as the glue that holds the family together. While every good man has a good woman behind him, every good family has a good mother within it. Many quotes about mothers exist and are often repeated. A few of the most popular are included here.

“Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.”
-Sophocles

“An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.”
-Spanish Proverb

“God could not be everywhere, and so He made mothers.”
-Jewish Proverb

“Who takes the child by the hand, takes the mother by the heart.”
-German Proverb

“The greater love is a mother’s; then come a dog’s; then a sweetheart’s.”
-Polish proverb

“Like mother, like daughter.”
-16th century Proverb

“There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.”
-Chinese Proverb

“A rich child often sits in a poor mother’s lap.”
-Danish Proverb

“All that I am, my mother made me.”
-John Quincy Adams

“All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
-Abraham Lincoln

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”
-Benjamin Franklin

“The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.”
-Henry Ward Beecher

“Mother’s Day is in honor of the best mother who ever lived- the mother of your heart.”
-Anna Jarvis

“Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.”
-Harriet Beecher Stowe

“One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.”
-George Herbert

“Necessity is the mother of taking chances.”
-Mark Twain

“Necessity is the mother of invention.”
-Jonathan Swift

“A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”
-Dorothy Fisher

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.”
-Oscar Wilde

“The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men- from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.”
-unknown

“Mother-that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.”
-T. DeWitt Talmadge

“Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.”
-Napoleon Bonaparte

“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.”
-Aristotle

“That best academy, a mother’s knee.”
-James Russell Lowell

Quite a few quotes have been gathered together. Many of them are from unknown sources, yet they have withstood the test of time due to their inspirational messages.

“A grandmother is a mother who has a second chance.”
-unknown

“Once upon a memory someone wiped away a tear, held me close and loved me, thank you mother dear.”
-unknown

“A mother understands what a child does not say.”
-unknown

“A mother is the one who is still there after everyone has deserted you.”
-unknown

“All mothers are working mothers.”
-unknown

“A mother is someone who dreams great dreams for you, but then she lets you chase the dreams you have for yourself and loves you just the same.”
-unknown

“A mother’s heart is always with her children.”
-unknown proverb

Mothers – revere them, love them, respect them, and hold them close. There is no one in the world who loves as a mother does. For this, she deserves a place of honor.