50 Inspirational Quotes
A collection of inspirational quotes on mother's day sayings that has stood the test of time . Most of us are just too bust in the daily grind of life to really appreciate our mom's on what she has done for us and what she still means to us . on Mother's day its time to reflect those times when you are finally able to thanks your mom and show some gratitude to the lady of your life whom you have spent some great moments.
1. If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
2. Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.
Jill Bennett
3. A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
4. At work, you think of the children you have left at home.
At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
Golda Meir
5. Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.
6. As is the mother, so is her daughter.
: Ezekiel 16:4
7. Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
9. We never know the love of the parent until we become parents ourselves.
10. The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Honore de Balzac, author
11. The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
Henry Ward Beecher, US Congressional clergyman
12. Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?
13. By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author
14. Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Lin Yutang, Chinese writer
15. Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Zora Neale Hurston, folklorist and writer
16. That best academy, a mother's knee.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: James Russell Lowell, poet, critic and diplomat
17. Making a decision to have a child--it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Elizabeth Stone
18. Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Gregory Nunn
19. 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
20. Few misfortunes can befall a boy which brings worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
W. Somerset Maugham
21. The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
James Fenton
22. No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
23. Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Betty Rollin
24. Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women's opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering.
Elaine Heffner
25. Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: James Joyce
26. All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defense. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.
Germaine Greer
27. Woman in the home has not yet lost her dignity, in spite of Mother's Day, with its offensive implication that our love needs an annual nudging, like our enthusiasm for the battle of Bunker Hill.
John Erskine
28. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde
29. 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.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Rajneesh
30. The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Author Unknown
31. A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
Peter De Vries
32. All mothers are working mothers.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Author Unknown
33. 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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
34. Motherhood is priced; Of God, at price no man may dare/To lessen or misunderstand.
: Helen Hunt Jackson
35. It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
Barbara Kingsolver
36. God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.
Jewish proverb
37. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
: Abraham Lincoln
38. Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.
: Mildred B. Vermont
39. Nobody knows of the work it makes
To keep the home together.
Nobody knows of the steps it takes,
Nobody knows-but Mother.
Anonymous
40. If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam.
Henry Bickersteth
41. Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.
T. DeWitt Talmage
42. There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
Chinese Proverb
43. 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, Women and Beauty
44. No gift to your mother can ever equal her gift to you - life
: Anonymous quotes
45. An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.
Spanish Proverb
46. Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Aristotle
47. If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
Lawrence Housman
48. Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
Sam Levenson
49. Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
William Feather, The Business of Life, 1949
50. And remember that behind every successful woman......is a basket of dirty laundry.
Unknown
1. If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis |
2. Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.
Jill Bennett
|
3. A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
|
4. At work, you think of the children you have left at home.
At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
Golda Meir
|
5. Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.
|
6. As is the mother, so is her daughter.
: Ezekiel 16:4
|
7. Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
|
8. Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
|
9. We never know the love of the parent until we become parents ourselves.
|
10. The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Honore de Balzac, author
|
11. The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
Henry Ward Beecher, US Congressional clergyman
|
12. Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?
|
13. By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author
|
14. Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Lin Yutang, Chinese writer
|
15. Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Zora Neale Hurston, folklorist and writer
|
16. That best academy, a mother's knee.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: James Russell Lowell, poet, critic and diplomat
|
17. Making a decision to have a child--it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Elizabeth Stone
|
18. Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Gregory Nunn
|
19. 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
|
20. Few misfortunes can befall a boy which brings worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
W. Somerset Maugham
|
21. The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
James Fenton
|
22. No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
|
23. Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Betty Rollin
|
24. Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women's opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering.
Elaine Heffner
|
25. Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: James Joyce
|
26. All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defense. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.
Germaine Greer
|
27. Woman in the home has not yet lost her dignity, in spite of Mother's Day, with its offensive implication that our love needs an annual nudging, like our enthusiasm for the battle of Bunker Hill.
John Erskine
|
28. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde
|
29. 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.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Rajneesh
|
30. The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Author Unknown
|
31. A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
Peter De Vries
|
32. All mothers are working mothers.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Author Unknown
|
33. 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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
|
34. Motherhood is priced; Of God, at price no man may dare/To lessen or misunderstand.
: Helen Hunt Jackson
|
35. It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
Barbara Kingsolver
|
36. God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.
Jewish proverb
| With this warm mother's day animated postcard to say thanks on Mother's Day. |
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37. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
: Abraham Lincoln
|
38. Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.
: Mildred B. Vermont
|
39. Nobody knows of the work it makes
To keep the home together.
Nobody knows of the steps it takes,
Nobody knows-but Mother.
Anonymous
|
40. If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam.
Henry Bickersteth
|
41. Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.
T. DeWitt Talmage
|
42. There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
Chinese Proverb
|
43. 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, Women and Beauty
|
44. No gift to your mother can ever equal her gift to you - life
: Anonymous quotes
|
45. An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.
Spanish Proverb
|
46. Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Aristotle
|
47. If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
Lawrence Housman
|
48. Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
Sam Levenson
|
49. Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
William Feather, The Business of Life, 1949
|
50. And remember that behind every successful woman......is a basket of dirty laundry.
Unknown
|
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