165+ “I Love You Mom” Quotes from Sons & Daughters

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Plus, tips on sending “I love you” quotes to your mother
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It’s no secret that moms go above and beyond for their children, and that deserves to be acknowledged on Mother’s Day (and every other day)! That’s why we’re providing the ultimate list of “I love you” quotes to show gratitude and admiration toward moms. We’re also offering tips on sending these quotes, as well as the best ways to express love to your mom.

Best “I Love You Mom” Quotes & Sayings

  • “Happiness is seeing your mother smile.” — Unknown
  • “No one compares to you, Mom. Happy Mother’s Day!”
  • “A mother’s love endures through all.” — Washington Irving
  • “I know I’ll be a wonderful mother because I had you as a teacher.” — Unknown
  • “Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.” — Kahil Gibran
  • “All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” — Abraham Lincoln
  • “My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.” — Lisa Leslie
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“I Love You Mom” Quotes from a Daughter

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  1. Highlight your special bond with a loving and reflective quote. The bond between a daughter and a mother is like no other, and if you’re looking for a way to express love, the following quotes are just for you! Here are the best ways to thank your mom for her support, life lessons, and love over the years:
    • “As is the mother, so is her daughter.” — Ezekiel 16:4
    • “I know I’ll be a wonderful mother because I had you as a teacher.” — Unknown
    • “A mother and daughter’s love is never separated.” — Viola Shipman
    • “I’m a strong woman because a strong woman raised me.” — Unknown
    • “Everything I learned about being a woman, I have learned from you. I love you.”
    • “My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.” — Lisa Leslie
    • “Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything.” — Unknown
    • “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.” — Oscar Wilde
    • “When people say we’re alike, I can’t help but smile. Being like you is the biggest compliment.”
    • “Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.” — Lady Gaga
    • “No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.” — Edwin Chapin
    • “The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.” — Jodi Picoult
    • “Behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begins.” — Mitch Albom
    • “The truth is that no matter how old we are, as long as our mothers are alive, we want our mother.” — Goldie Hawn
    • “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
    • “From teaching me how to tie my shoe to cheering me on in the stands, you have always been my biggest supporter. Thank you for everything, Mom.”
    • “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
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“I Love You Mom” Quotes from a Son

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  1. Strengthen your mother-son relationship with a loving quote. If your mom is a huge inspiration or influence in your life, let it be known! The following quotes show appreciation for her love and strength, and can help you connect with her on a deeper level:
    • “My mother is a walking miracle.” — Leonardo DiCaprio
    • “No man is poor who has a Godly mother.” — Abraham Lincoln
    • “Sending all my love to the woman who made me the best man I can be.”
    • “Mom, you were my first love, and you will always mean the world to me.”
    • “All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” — Abraham Lincoln
    • “No woman will ever take your place, Mom. I love you to the moon and back.”
    • “Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.” — Mabel Hale
    • “A queen could leave her throne. But a mother never leaves her son.” — V.E. Schwab
    • “Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” — Erich Fromm
    • “If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” — Stevie Wonder
    • “Mother—that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.” — T. Dewitt Talmage
    • “If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.” — Booker T. Washington
    • “There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” — James E. Faust
    • “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
    • “My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart — a heart so large that everybody’s joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.” — Mark Twain
    • “My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.” — George Washington
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“I Love You Mom” Quotes for Mother’s Day

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  1. Honor your mom by sharing a lovely Mother’s Day quote. Whether you’re writing a card or sending a text, the following quotes express love, gratitude, and appreciation. They’re the perfect way to acknowledge your mother’s role in your life and say “thank you for supporting me:”
    • “We are born of love; love is our mother.” — Rumi
    • “Happiness is seeing your mother smile.” — Unknown
    • “No one compares to you, Mom. Happy Mother’s Day!”
    • “A mother is the truest friend we have.” — Washington Irving
    • “If you’re a mom, you’re a superhero. Period.” — Rosie Pope
    • “I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.” — Lance Conrad
    • “A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.” ― Amy Tan
    • “Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.” — George Eliot
    • “No matter how far apart we are, you’re always in my heart. Happy Mother’s Day!”
    • “You are the greatest gift in my life. Happy Mother’s Day to my favorite person ever.”
    • “God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” — Rudyard Kipling
    • “To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.” — Dr. Seuss
    • “The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.” — Karl Lagerfeld
    • “Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” ― William Makepeace Thackeray
    • “A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” ― Dorothy Canfield Fisher
    • “Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.” — Susan Gale
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Heartfelt “I Love You Mom” Quotes

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  1. Send a heartfelt quote to make your mom feel moved. Trying to tug at her heartstrings and make her feel important? Share some deep and touching words that express gratitude for everything she’s done for you. Here are some heartfelt ways to say “I love you:”
    • “Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” — Michael J. Fox
    • “I love you so much, Mom. Know that I would move heaven and earth for you.”
    • “You can feel when your mom’s proud of you. You can feel the love.” — Jimmy Fallon
    • “The woman who is my best friend, my teacher, my everything: Mom.” ― Sandra Vischer
    • “Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.” — Unknown
    • “A mother’s love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible” — Marion C. Garretty
    • “Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heartthrob.” — Leroy Brownlow
    • “Thank you for always letting me be true to myself, Mom. Words can’t describe how much it means to me.”
    • “A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” — Cardinal Mermillod
    • “It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family.” — Menachem Begin
    • “In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” — Maya Angelou
    • “The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” ― Honore de Balzac
    • “If I were asked to define Motherhood. I would have defined it as Love in its purest form. Unconditional love.” — Revathi Sankaran
    • “For a mother is the only person on earth who can divide her love among 10 children and each child still have all her love.” — Unknown
    • “A mother’s love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking.” ― Helen Steiner Rice
    • “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
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Beautiful “I Love You Mom” Quotes

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  1. Celebrate your mom’s beauty and grace with a loving quote. Sharing a beautifully written quote is guaranteed to make her feel seen, heard, and appreciated. Here are some wonderful options from poets, philosophers, and other public figures to capture the love you have for your mother:
    • “Mom, you’re the most beautiful person I know, inside and out.”
    • “You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.” ― E.E. Cummings
    • “My mom smiled at me. Her smile kind of hugged me.” — R.J. Palacio
    • “Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.” — Kahil Gibran
    • “A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.” ― Debasish Mridha
    • “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness, and children sleep soundly in them.” ― Victor Hugo
    • “Through all of life’s storms, you are the sunshine peaking through the clouds. I love you, Mom.”
    • “It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?” — Mahatma Gandhi
    • “Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    • “When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.” —Mitch Albom
    • “Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes
    • “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
    • “You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
    • “There is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap, no rose as lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps.” — Archibald Thompson
    • “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.” — Maya Angelou
    • “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
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Short “I Love You Mom” Quotes

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  1. Send a short and sweet quote to shower her with love. Sharing a short quote is still impactful, since it’s the thought that counts! If you’re in a rush, shoot one of these quotes to your mom over text, or add it to the end of a greeting card to highlight your love:
    • “Home is where your mom is.” — Unknown
    • “A mother’s love liberates.” — Maya Angelou
    • “The world needs our mothers.” — Liya Kebede
    • “Always my mother; forever my friend.” — Unknown
    • “A mother’s hug lasts long after she lets go.” — Unknown
    • “A mother’s love endures through all.” — Washington Irving
    • “The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.” — Jodi Picoult
    • “Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.” — John Steinbeck
    • “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” — Robert Browning
    • “A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” — George Bernard Shaw
    • “There is nothing as sincere as a mother’s kiss.” — Saleem Sharma
    • “The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness.” — Jessica Lange
    • “Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.” — Lin Yutang
    • “The most important thing in the world is family and love.” — John Wooden
    • “Mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.” — Emily Dickinson
    • “A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.” — Princess Diana
    • “A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.” — Unknown
    • “Moms are the people who know us the best and love us the most.” — Unknown
    • “Motherhood: if you think my hands are full, you should see my heart.” — Unknown
    • “Mother is a verb. It's something you do, not just who you are.” — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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Funny “I Love You Mom” Quotes

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  1. Drop a funny and relatable quote to get the giggles going. Studies show that making someone laugh is one of the best ways to deepen your relationship. [1] So, throw out a silly quote about motherhood to lighten the mood. Here are the funniest quotes to say “I love you” in a lighthearted way:
    • “A sleeping baby is the new happy hour.” — Unknown
    • “Nothing is lost until your mother can’t find it.” — Unknown
    • “May your coffee be stronger than your toddler.” — Unknown
    • “An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.” — Spanish Proverb
    • “Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.” — Unknown
    • “Life doesn’t come with a manual; it comes with a mother.” — Unknown
    • “It’s not easy being a mother. If it were, fathers would do it.” — Golden Girls
    • “Once you sign on to be a mother, 24/7 is the only shift they offer.” — Jodi Picoult
    • “If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?” — Milton Berle
    • “Why don’t kids understand their nap is not for them, but for us?” ― Alyson Hannigan
    • “There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.” — Chinese Proverb
    • “Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.” — Lisa Alther
    • “It’s the curse of motherhood. You’re required to love us even when we vex you.” — Julia Quinn
    • “My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.” — Mark Twain
    • “In the end, mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.” — Randy Susan Meyers
    • “Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.” ― P.J. O’Rourke
    • “Becoming a mother makes you realize you can do almost anything one-handed.” — Unknown
    • “Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.” — James Joyce
    • “A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don’t even have.” — Robert Brault
    • “Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we’ve ever met.” — Marguerite Duras
    • “If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.” ― Margaret Thatcher
    • “Mothers were the only ones you could depend on to tell the whole, unvarnished truth.” — Margaret Dilloway
    • “If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.” — Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
    • “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.” — Tenneva Jordan
    • “It’s a funny thing about mothers... Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.” — Roald Dahl
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Inspirational “I Love You Mom” Quotes

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  1. Highlight the importance of being a mother with an inspirational quote. Moms constantly put their needs before others and are often unappreciated… even though the family would probably fall apart without them. If you haven’t given your mother her flowers lately, here are some moving messages to make her feel valuable:
    • “The mother’s heart is the child’s school-room.” — Henry Ward Beecher
    • “Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.” — Oprah Winfrey
    • “The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.” — Elaine Heffner
    • “Mothers can look through a child’s eyes and see tomorrow.” — Reed Markham
    • “There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother.” — Sara Josepha Hale
    • “There’s no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.” — Jill Churchill
    • “Only mothers can think of the future ― because they give birth to it in their children.” ― Maxim Gorky
    • “Such a mysterious business, motherhood. How brave a woman must be to embark on it.” ― M.L. Stedman
    • “Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed.” — Linda Wooten
    • “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
    • “[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
    • “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 clothed with strength and dignity, laughs without fear of the future. When she speaks her words are wise and she gives instructions with kindness.” — Proverbs
    • “It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.” — L.R. Knost
    • “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
    • “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.” — Donna Ball
    • “A mother’s love is everything. It is what brings a child into this world. It is what molds their entire being. When a mother sees her child in danger, she is literally capable of anything. Mothers have lifted cars off of their children and destroyed entire dynasties. A mother’s love is the strongest energy known to man.” — Jamie McGuire
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“I Love You Mom” Quotes for New Moms

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  1. Share a quote about motherhood to remind her that she’s doing amazing. Being a new mom involves sleepless nights, recovering from childbirth, and a whirlwind of emotions. If you know someone adjusting to this new norm, send them a touching quote about motherhood. It’s a great way to show your support and help them cope with the highs and lows of parenting.
    • “My daughter introduced me to myself.” — Beyoncé Knowles
    • “The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.” — Osho
    • “Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.” — Tina Fey
    • “Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.” — Ricki Lake
    • “There is no such thing as a perfect parent. So just be a real one.” ― Sue Atkins
    • “Everything has changed, and yet, I’m more me than I’ve ever been.” — Iain Thomas
    • “At the end of the day my most important job is still mom-in-chief.” — Michelle Obama
    • “Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.” — Barbara Kingsolver
    • “Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.” — Meryl Streep
    • “Little souls find their way to you whether they’re from your womb or someone else’s.” — Sheryl Crow
    • “I’ve never had more appreciation for anyone in my entire life until I became a mom.” — Chrissy Teigen
    • “Once you’re a mom, you’re always a mom. It’s like riding a bike, you never forget.” — Taraji P. Henson
    • “Having a child is like getting a tattoo ... on your face. You better be committed.” — Elizabeth Gilbert
    • “A mother is a mother from the moment her baby is first placed in her arms until eternity.” ― Sarah Strohmeyer
    • “My favorite thing about being a mom is just what a better person it makes you on a daily basis.” — Drew Barrymore
    • “Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs since the payment is pure love.” — Mildred B. Vermont
    • “Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.” — Kate Winslet
    • “Being a mother is like being a gardener of souls. You tend your children, make sure the light always touches them.” ― Karen White
    • “I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.” — Oprah Winfrey
    • “Thus far the mighty mystery of motherhood is this: How is it that doing it all feels like nothing is ever getting done.” ― Rebecca Woolf
    • “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
    • “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
    • “When your children arrive, the best you can hope for is that they break open everything about you. Your mind floods with oxygen. Your heart becomes a room with wide-open windows.” —Amy Poehler
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How to Send “I Love You” Quotes to Your Mom

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  1. Write your quote on a greeting card or send it in a text message. These are the most traditional ways to deliver a quote to someone, but you could also post it as your social media caption or include it in a handwritten letter. If you’re seeing your mom in person, feel free to write the quote on the tag of a gift bag or make her a jar filled with cute notes and love quotes.
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How can you show love to your mom?

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  1. Find out your mom’s love language to show love in a meaningful way. According to parenting expert and CEO of No Guilt Mom JoAnn Crohn, the best way kids can express love is to “figure out what [their] mom appreciates most and express love that way. Some moms might love receiving gifts, while others prefer words of affirmation. Some love physical affection—hugs, cuddles, holding hands, while others prefer quality time—just being with their kids.” [2] Once you discover how your mom prefers to receive love, you can express it in a personal, touching way.
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