77 Original and Famous Quotes about Mother’s Love

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She is the only one we’ve got, and we wouldn’t change her for the world. Mothers are irreplaceable and always there to support us, so it’s no wonder how many famous people had something to say about moms.

Also few of us understand just how exceptional a mother’s love for her children actually is. In this post we have provided a few interesting and original quotes that we hope will enlighten you on one of the most-unique bonds nature has ever conjured up!

Famous Mother’s Love Quotes

You sacrificed for us. You’re the real MVP. Kevin Durant

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
There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one. Jill Churchill

The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant. Jane Sellman

The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms. Jodi Picoult
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her. George Washington
My mother is a walking miracle. Leonardo DiCaprio

My mother has always been my emotional barometer and my guidance. I was lucky enough to get to have one woman who truly helped me through everything. Emma Stone

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. Robert Browning

When you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know. Mitch Albom

Mother’s love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life. Erich Fromm

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark … to have been loved so deeply .. will give us some protection forever. J.K. Rowling
Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face. George Eliot

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

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother. Booker T. Washington
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? Milton Berle

I’m still amazed at how my mother emerged from her lonely early life as such an affectionate and levelheaded woman. Hillary Clinton
I unapologetically and unabashedly am deeply biased toward my mother. Chelsea Clinton

We are born of love. Love is our mother. Rumi

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

I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know. Mitch Albom
I believe in the strength and intelligence and sensitivity of women. My mother, my sisters [they] are strong. My mum is a strong woman and I love her for it. Tom Hiddleston
Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes. P.J. O’Rourke

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation. Robert A. Heinlein

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
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her. George Washington

My mom is my hero. [She] inspired me to dream when I was a kid, so anytime anyone inspires you to dream, that’s gotta be your hero. Tim McGraw
My mom smiled at me. Her smile kind of hugged me. R.J. Palacio

My mom smiled at me. Her smile kind of hugged me. R.J. Palacio

In a child’s eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe. N.K. Jemisin

No man is poor who has a Godly mother. Abraham Lincoln
The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children. Karl Lagerfeld
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. Abraham Lincoln

A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s. Princess Diana

[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. Emily Dickinson
Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love. Stevie Wonder

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. Meryl Streep
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

If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love. Stevie Wonder

My mother was the one constant in my life. When I think about my mom raising me alone when she was 20, and working and paying the bills, and, you know, trying to pursue your own dreams, I think is a feat that is unmatched. Barack Obama

A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. Victor Hugo
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not. James Joyce
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

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary. Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all. Oliver Wendell Holmes

Quotes about Mother’s Love for Her Son

Even though I know your dependency on me will change over time, my love for you will always remain as constantly strong as it is today.

A mother’s love for her baby boy predicates how he in turn will one day treat his wife.
A single mom holds the nigh-impossible responsibility of serving two parental roles for her son instead of one yet you rarely see them shrink away in fear from doing so. What an extraordinary love that is!
A boy who has a mother that will truly love, support and listen to him despite all of the hardships life throws his way truly has received the greatest fortune in the world.

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

A mother would give her life for any of her children but perhaps even more passionately for her son.
Having a positive father figure is of course important to a boy’s constructive development, but having a loving mother is even more imperative.
A man may ultimately spend more years in the embrace of his wife than his mother, but the wife will never know or nurture him in the way that the mother does.

Jesus denied his mother throughout his ministry yet she never left his side during his persecution. This just goes to show us the remarkable love mother’s have for their sons.

A son who does not understand the value of the love of his mother probably will not appreciate much throughout his life.
The phrase “a mama’s boy” is just a humorous way of labeling a man who loves his mother just as much as she loves him.

A mother treating a grown man as a little boy is just her way of showing that the same protection he was afforded as a child will always be available via her love.
A few boys are blessed with fathers who are genuinely interested in them, but virtually all of us have the benefit of a mother who actually cares.
The love of a mother for her son is something he may never truly appreciate in its magnitude yet will still enjoy the immeasurable benefits thereof.

A boy suffering abuse at the hands of his mother will not mar the fact that she still loves him sincerely.
No matter what burden a man may face in association with his mother, he can never go as far to boast he carried her in his body and nurtured her for an entire childhood.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. George Eliot — Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face. George Eliot

The strength of the love a mother has for her son is evident in the fact that now more boys would rather grow up to be like their mothers than their fathers.

A mother’s love may actually spoil a son in convincing him that all women will be as tolerable with his shortcomings.
The devotion of a mother to her son is probably the only unconditional love he will ever experience in his life.
If a son is hurt enough by his mother, he can probably stop loving her, but the reverse can never be true.

The love a boy receives from his mother, a female, is just as important to his masculine development as sports, male bonding or anything else that might be viewed as imperative to manhood.
When a man goes out into the world and fails at all else, he can always return home to his mother.

Mother’s love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. Erich Fromm

Even if a woman never receives what she deems adequate love from a spouse, she will be more than content in life if she receives such appreciation from her son.

No matter how terrible a man may be, a mother will be able to see past his flaws. Even Adolf Hitler’s mother probably thought he was the sweetest thing in the world.
The amazing love a loving mother has for her son has the redemptive power of helping her overcome past pains felt at the hands of men.

It may be going too far to say that a mother loves her sons more than her daughters, but it is accurate to say that the mother’s affection for her son is a love felt on a different plane.

The way a mother may seem to favor her son is nature’s way of mitigating the fact that fathers also appear to be more compassionate towards their daughters.
For a man to be overly-emotionally dependent on his mom is of course a cause for concern, but for him to be devoid of the natural affection of his mother altogether is an even more-harrowing thought.
A man’s self-esteem can be built or broken by the corresponding affection he receives from his mother during his most-formative years.

A mother would jump in front of a bullet before letting it strike her son, and whereas a son can perhaps claim the same, no one would believe the latter as much as the former without actual evidence.
A boy can grow, fall in love, become blissfully married and then divorce, but the love his mother has for him is something that he will never be separated from.
It may be natural that a mother must eventually come to odds with her daughter, but no such reality exists between her and her son.

A son is his mother’s hero even before he is old enough to know what the word “hero” means.
I know my mother deeply loves both my sister and me, but that doesn’t change the fact I feel more fortunate for being the one born her son!
Many men adore their mothers even more than their wives, but that doesn’t begin to compare to the level of affection they’ve received from their mothers in the first place to earn this level of admiration.