Mother's Day Quotes

Most of what you will see here is about love in general, because the Mother page itself is short. The page is assembled from the pages on mothers, love and gratitude.

If you want quotes that are actually about mothers, the Mother page has fewer but more precise ones. For anything you plan to print or say out loud, check the source line and the label next to it.

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Most quoted on mother's day:

If you wish to be loved, love.

Seneca the Younger Misattributed

If you wish to be loved, love.

Seneca the Elder Misattributed

He that would win his dame must do
As love does when he draws his bow;
With one hand thrust the lady from,
And with the other pull her home.

Samuel Butler Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

When I saw Analyze This, and I couldn't keep my eyes off him. He's great. I loved Shakespeare in Love, too, and thought the whole cast in that was amazing.

Eliza Dushku Attributed

Where pride begins, love ceases.

Johann Kaspar Lavater Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)