15 Great Inspirational Quotes for Mothers

Mothers are the subject of many of the best inspirational quotes ever written. Some quotes celebrate the joys of motherhood, while others privide the sage wisdom of classical Proverbs, passed down through generations. Quotes about mothers inspire and pay homage to the women who hold this important title.

Inspirational quotes about mothers are wonderful gifts of words that can be given to mothers for Mothers' Day, a special holiday, birthday, or in a note of thanks. New mothers may appreciate a personalized inspirational quote about being a mother. Any mother will appreciate a carefully chosen quote in her Mother's Day card this year. Though there are dozens of inspirational quotes about mothers, the quotes in this collection represent some of the best inspirational quotes for mothers.

The Wisdom of Proverbs

1. "God could not be everywhere, therefore, he created mothers."
--Hebrew Proverb

2. "A mother understands what a child doesn't say."
--Jewish Porverb

3. "Who takes a child by the hand, takes the mother by the heart."
--German Proverb

4. "A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap."
--Danish Proverb

5. "What the child says, he has heard at home."
--African Proverb

Quotations about Mothers

6. "Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother."
--Oprah Winfrey

7. "The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother."
--Napoleon Bonaparte

8. "The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."
--Henry Ward Beecher

9. "Motherhood: All love begins and ends there."
--Robert Browning

10. 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."
--Elizabeth Stone

11. "Mothers are instinctive philosophers."
--Harriet Beecher Stowe

12. "My mother is a poem
I'll never be able to write,
though everything I write
is a poem to my mother."
--Sharon Doubiago

13. "Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible."
--marion C. Garretty

14. "The best academy is a mother's knee."
--James Russell Lowell

15. "Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that suppose to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing."
--Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987)