70 Happy Mother’s Day Quotes from a Daughter to Honor Your Mom

If you’re a daughter thinking about how to show your mom your love and appreciation on Mother’s Day then today’s post will help you out.

In it you’ll find 70 of the most powerful, heartfelt and funny Mother’s Day quotes from daughters from all over the world.

Use one of a few of your favorites on social media like Instagram, in a lovely card or in real life to celebrate your mom and to make her day an extra special one this year.

Mother’s Day Quotes from a Daughter to Show Love and Gratitude

“My Mother: She is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.”
– Jodi Picoult

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

“My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.”
– Lisa Leslie

“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

“I would say that my mother is the single biggest role model in my life, but that term doesn’t seem to encompass enough when I use it about her. She was the love of my life.”
– Mindy Kaling

“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.”
– Agatha Christie

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

“Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it’s the most exquisite love of all.”
– Maggie Gallagher

“Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.”
– Pearl S. Buck

“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

“My mother always said I was beautiful, and I finally believed her at some point.”
– Lupita Nyong’o

“She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn’t take them along.”
– Margaret Culkin Banning

“As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart.”
– Kristin Hannah

“I can only hope to be 10% of the mom mine was to me.”
– Charlize Theron

“Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.”
– Susan Gale

“Blessed is a mother that would give up part of her soul for her children’s happiness.”
– Shannon Alder

“Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.”
– George Eliot

“Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.”
– Gail Tsukiyama

Inspirational Mother’s Day Quotes from a Daughter to Honor Your Mom

“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”
– Elizabeth Stone

“Just because you become a mother, it doesn’t mean you lose who you are.”
– Beyoncé

“Motherhood has taught me the meaning of living in the moment and being at peace. Children don’t think about yesterday, and they don’t think about tomorrow. They just exist in the moment.”
– Jessalyn Gilsig

“Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had.”
– Linda Wooten

“Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.”
– Lady Gaga

“Motherhood is the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge and scary – it’s an act of infinite optimism.”
– Gilda Radner

“That’s the wonderful thing about mothers: You can because you must, and you just do.”
– Kate Winslet

“My mother sacrificed her dreams so I could dream.”
– Rupi Kaur

“I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe

“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

“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”
– Barbara Kingsolver

“A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her.”
– Erin Kelly

“There will be many times you will feel like you have failed. But in the eyes, heart, and mind of your child, you are supermom.”
– Stephanie Precourt

“Mothers have the ability to liberate by love or, by neglect, to imprison. They’re our first teachers; they are our first loves.”
– Maya Angelou

“That strong mother doesn’t tell her cub, ‘Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you.’ She says, ‘Toughen up, this is the reality we are living in.'”
– Lauryn Hill

“Having kids – the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings – is the biggest job anyone can embark on.”
– Maria Shriver

“A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”
– Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“A warrior believes in an end she can’t see and fights for it. A warrior never gives up. A warrior fights for those weaker than herself. It sounds like motherhood to me.”
– Kristin Hannah

Short Happy Mother’s Day Quotes from a Daughter

“A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.”
– Debasish Mridha

“There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother.”
– Sara Josepha Hale

“The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.”
– Elaine Heffner

“The world needs our mothers.”
– Liya Kebede

“Motherhood is heart-exploding, blissful hysteria.”
– Olivia Wilde

“Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.”
– Mabel Hale

“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Hugs can do great amounts of good – especially for children.”
– Princess Diana

“A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.”
– Amy Tan

“Mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.”
– Emily Dickinson

“Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.”
– Zelda Fitzgerald

“The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother.”
– St. Therese of Lisieux

“The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant.”
– Jane Sellman

“She taught me that fear is not an option.”
– Diane Von Furstenberg

“I tell my kids, ‘I am thinking about you every other minute of my day.'”
– Michelle Obama

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

Funny Happy Mother’s Day Quotes from a Daughter

“It’s not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.”
– Betty White

“Becoming a mom to me means you have accepted that for the next 16 years of your life, you will have a sticky purse.”
– Nia Vardalos

“I used to give my friends who have kids advice all the time, and they would look at me like I had three heads. And then, when I had two, I literally apologized to all my friends.”
– Jennifer Lopez

“Twelve years later the memories of those nights, of that sleep deprivation, still make me rock back and forth a little bit. You want to torture someone? Hand them an adorable baby they love who doesn’t sleep.”
– Shonda Rhimes

“When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.”
– Nora Ephron

“I always say if you aren’t yelling at your kids, you’re not spending enough time with them.”
– Reese Witherspoon

“I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.”
– Phyllis Diller

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we’ve ever met.”
– Marguerite Duras

“Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.”
– Tina Fey

“Sleep at this point is just a concept, something I’m looking forward to investigating in the future.”
– Amy Poehler

“The majority of my diet is made up of foods that my kids didn’t finish.”
– Carrie Underwood

“No one told me I would be coming home in diapers, too.”
– Chrissy Teigen

“Motherhood is basically finding activities for children in three-hour pockets of time for the rest of your life.”
– Mindy Kaling

“You know how once you have kids you never ever pee by yourself again? At least one of them is always in there with you at all times.”
– Jennifer Garner

“Children are like crazy, drunken small people in your house.”
– Julie Bowen

“If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says, ‘Keep away from children.'”
– Susan Savannah

“Why don’t kids understand that their nap is not for them but for us?”
– Alyson Hannigan

Want more positive and meaningful quotes for Mother’s Day? Then check out the best Mother’s Day quotes and wishes here, the funny Mothers’s day quotes and sayings in this post and also this one with lots of short but powerful Mother’s Day quotes.