Say Happy Mother’s Day to Hard Working Moms Everywhere

Looking for the perfect way to express your love to your mom on Mother’s Day? Check out these Happy Mother’s Day quotes and working mom quotes that can be used in cards, gifts, or any other way you want to show your appreciation.

From Robert Browning to Lady Gaga, these quotes will help you tell your mom how much she means to you. Plus, working moms will find inspiration from Michelle Obama, Tina Fey, and other successful mothers who have found a way to balance work and family.

You can show your love to your Mom any time of the year, but there’s no better time than Mother’s Day. You can add these quotes for hard-working moms into a card, as part of a gift or any other way you like.

Show them how much you love them! Tell them how much they mean to you, how you appreciate them, and how they inspire you with one of these Happy Mother’s Day quotes.

Happy Mother’s Day Quotes

1. “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” – Robert Browning
2. “Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition.” – Martha Stewart
3. “Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.” – Kahil Gibran
4. “My mother was my role model before I even knew what that was.” – Lisa Leslie
5. “Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” – George Eliot
6. “Knowing I’ve got this beautiful baby to go home to makes me feel like I don’t have to play another match. I don’t need the money or the titles or the prestige. I want them, but I don’t need them. That’s a different feeling for me.” -Serena Williams, professional tennis play and winner of 23 Grand Slams
7. “A happy mother is a good mother, and if work makes you hum, your whole family sings along.” – Sharon Meers and Joanna Strober
8. “A mother is she who can take the place of all other but whose place no one else can take.” – Cardinal Meymillod
9. “All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” – Abraham Lincoln
10. “Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.” – Dorothy Canfield Fisher
11. “A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.” – Princess Diana
12. “Your arms were always open when I needed a hug. Your heart understood when I needed a friend. Your gentle eyes were stern when I needed a lesson. Your strength and love has guided me and gave me wings to fly.” – Sarah Malin
13. “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.” -Maya Angelou
14. “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
15. “To a child’s ear, “mother” is magic in any language.” – Arlene Benedict
16. “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. I cannot now imagine a life without her.” – Kristin Hannah
17. “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.” –  Liza Minnelli
18. “My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.” – Mark Twain
19. “Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.” – Lady Gaga

Working Mom Quotes

1. “For me, being a mother made me a better professional because coming home every night to my girls reminded me what I was working for. And being a professional made me a better mother because by pursuing my dreams, I was modeling for my girls how to pursue their dreams.” -Michelle Obama, lawyer, author, and former First Lady of the United States.
2. “Get rid of the guilt. When you’re at one place, don’t feel bad that you’re not at work; when you’re at work, don’t feel bad that you’re not at home.” – Katie Couric.
3. “I think every working mom probably feels the same thing: You go through big chunks of time where you’re just thinking, ‘This is impossible—oh, this is impossible.’ And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.” -Tina Fey, actress, comedian, writer, and producer
4. “For all working mothers, it’s important to remember that we don’t get to be with our kids all the time, but it’s also important for them to see us as leaders, and there is value in that.” -Olivia Wilde
5. “Like so many working mothers all over the world, I feel the constant struggle to be the best mother I can, whilst setting a good example to my children to work hard. I travel for work when it’s necessary, and I miss them all the time when I am away.” –Victoria Beckham
6. “If I’m pursuing my goals, my kids are seeing me at my best. I am filled up, I am happy, I am not feeling empty, depleted, and therefore resentful about the fact that I’m missing out. I don’t want them to feel like I’ve sacrificed; I don’t want them to feel that burden. I always remember that a happy working woman is a happy mother.” – Shonda Rhimes, TV producer, TV and film writer, and author
7. “It’s not wrong to be passionate about your career. When you love what you do, you bring that stimulation back to your family.” — Allison Pearson
8. “Successful mothers are not the ones that have never struggle; they are the ones that never give up, despite their struggles.” – Sharon Jaynes
9. “My mom is a hard worker. She puts her head down, and she gets it done. And she finds a way to have fun. She always says, “Happiness is your own responsibility.” – Jennifer Garner
10. “Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices.” – Betsy Jacobsen
11. “Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.” –Margaret Sanger
12. “Working mothers’ laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.” –Allison Pearson
13. “I always give my title as ‘working mother’ because my children and my work are the two most important things in my life. Finding that balance is very important. Your career lasts a lifetime… stop and have your children whenever you’re ready, not when your job ‘allows.’” –Karren Brady

Strong Mom Quotes

1. “Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.” – Susan Gale
2. “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness, and children sleep soundly in them.” – Victor Hugo
3. “I want her to know something that I feel is important. I love work. I love her, and I love work, and I want her to know work’s a good thing. It’s not something you’re dragged off to.” -Hoda Kotb, author, journalist, and cohost of The Today Show
4. “You are not a bad mom because you go to work each day. Similarly, you are not a failure because you left your career altogether. Choices regarding work and family are personal—there is no one-size-fits-all method. Anyone who tells you otherwise is wrong.” -Candace Alnaji, attorney and founder of The Mom at Law
5. “It’s not difficult to take care of a child; it’s difficult to do anything else while taking care of a child.” -Julianne Moore, Academy Award-winning actress, and author
6. “This struggle is real. The juggle is real. That’s why everyone should hire working mothers. They are put in crazy situations all the time and are forced to problem-solve. They are some of my most resourceful employees.” -Sara Blakely, businesswoman, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and founder of Spanx
7. “A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” – Dorothy Canfield Fisher
8. “When I first became a mother I suffered from serious half-ass’ shame. I felt like I was mediocre at everything. I felt so stretched and so distracted (and exhausted). I said‘yes’ way too often in an effort to prove that I could do it all. I’ve worked so hard over the past decade to move from ‘What will people think’ to‘I am enough.’” -Brené Brown, author, research professor, holder of the Huffington Foundation Endowed Chair at the University of Houston
9. “The best place to cry is on a mother’s arm”’ – Jodi Picoult
10. “There’s something really empowering about going, ‘Hell, I can do this! I can do this all!’ That’s the wonderful thing about mothers, you can because you must, and you just do.” -Kate Winslet, Academy Award-winning actress
11. “The strength of a mother is greater than natural laws.” – Barbara Kingsolver
12. “We should go after our dreams and not be apologetic about it, but it’s scary. Whether you want to work or not, you have to do what makes you a fuller person. You have to love yourself.” – Catherine Reitman
13. “If you’re a mom, you’re a superhero. Period.” – Rosie Pope
14. “My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.” – Michelle Obama
15. “I see myself as a mom first. I’m so lucky to have that role in life. The world can like me, hate me, or fall apart around me, and at least I wake up with my kids, and I’m happy.” – Angelina Jolie
16. “There is no one perfect way to be a good mother. Each mother has different challenges, different skills and abilities, and certainly different children. The choice is different and unique for each mother and each family.” – Elder M. Russell Ballard
17. “When your mother asks, “Do you want a piece of advice?” it’s a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.” – Erma Bombeck
18. “The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.” – Jessica Lange

Inspirational Quotes

1. “God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” – Jewish Proverb
2. “The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.” – Elaine Heffner
3. “The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly—indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.” – Arianna Huffington, author, cofounder of The Huffington Post, founder, and CEO of Thrive Global
4. “When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” – Charley Benetto
5. “You cannot do everything at once, so find people you trust to help you. And don’t be afraid to say no.” -Jane Seymour, actress
6. “I feel everything more deeply. Every action I take, I think of her first. That’s a big change for me. That —and no sleep.” – Jenna Dewan-Tatum, actress and dancer
7. “There is no way to be a perfect mother, but there are a million ways to be a good one.” – Jill Churchhill
8. “Guilt management can be just as important as time management for mothers.” –Sheryl Sandberg
9. “I think moms put a lot of pressure on ourselves trying to balance it all. It’s never going to be ‘perfectly balanced, the sooner you know this, the sooner you can relieve some of the pressure you put on yourself.” – Denise Richards
10. “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
11. “My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.” – Michael Jordan
12. “Mother’s love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there, it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life.” – Erich Fromm
13. “Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love, and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” – Stevie Wonder
14.  “A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.” –Diane Mariechild