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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:

Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever
Only, nothing is eternal.

Audre Lorde

Love, we soon come to understand, too often provides the occasion for the misuses and abuse of power.

Francine Prose

What is this thing called love?
This funny thing called love?
Just who can solve this mystery?
Why should it make a fool of me?

Cole Porter

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

Anne Brontë The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

Love is not lust. The two (love and lust) are poles apart. Love liberates while lust binds.

Swami Narayanananda A Practical Guide to Samadhi (1957)

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Barbara De Angelis

How shall I do to love? Believe. How shall I do to believe? Love.

Robert Leighton

Love is not a feeling but rather a conscious state.

Richard David Precht

The irony of her story is merely that her love became, in the end, her motive rather than her goal, the doorway rather than the house.

Tanith Lee Volkhavaar (1977)

There is only one person that can be "more than a father", it is your dear mother, whose love for her offspring is unbounded by heaven and earth.

Hyder Bux Jatoi

Victim of a crime? Thank a single mother.

Ann Coulter

The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity — love. And the story of love is not important — what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Helen Hayes

God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.

Simone Weil Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986)

Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.

Eden ahbez Joe Romersa (1992)

When we make our own calculations, we need so many numbers and factors that any mistake is possible. The Lord's calculation boils down to love.

Adrienne von Speyr Lumina and New Lumina (1969)

An ideal teacher for me is someone who never lacks love, even when they have to be strict. I find it heartwarming to think of teachers being able to carefully watch over each individual (student).

Yui Aragaki Yui Aragaki (2015)

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

George Santayana The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905)

I love you and, because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Pietro Aretino

There shall he love when genial morn appears,
Like pensive Beauty smiling in her tears.

Thomas Campbell The Pleasures of Hope (1799)

Love is a God, who cooperates in securing the safety of the city.

Zeno of Citium

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