20 of the Most Beautiful Mother's Day Quotes

"It's not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it."

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

"I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood."

"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."

"Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs, since the payment is pure love."

“He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.”

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."

"If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?"

"I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother."

"[Mother] stood, always prepared in herself to challenge the world in our place."

"Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else’s happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you’re not sure what the right thing is…and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong."

"A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path."

"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."

"She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great - but how to laugh through it."

"My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted."

"The daughter prays; the mother listens."

"A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest."

"How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names."

"Most mothers are instinctive philosophers."