80+ Mother’s Day Quotes for Wife – Romantic, Funny and More

Searching for quotes for Mother’s Day? We’ve gathered the best messages and greetings to make her feel loved.

Mother’s Day is a time to honor, cherish, and show appreciation for the incredible mothers in our lives. Whether you’re showering her with an unforgettable gift experience or a thoughtful gift, our collection of wishes is sure to add an extra touch of love to her day.

To make your search easier, our 80+ Mother’s Day wishes are categorized into:

Romantic Mother’s Day Quotes for Wife

1. The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. – Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
2. In her love, I am the hero, the king, the poet; and alive without her love, I am but a trifling speck upon a tedious plain. – Victor Hugo
3. To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you are the world. – Dr. Seuss
4. I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul. – Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
5. Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. – Franklin P. Jones
6. You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love… I love… I love you. – Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
7. Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another. – Jane Austen, Emma
8. My love for you is a journey; Starting at forever, and ending at never. – Anonymous
9. She is the golden thread to the meaning of life, the one who shares our dreams and helps make them come true. – Anonymous
10. In you, I’ve found the love of my life and my closest, truest friend. – Anonymous
11. Every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favorite. – Anonymous
12. If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever. – Alfred, Lord Tennyson
13. I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone. – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
14. For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary. It is all. It is undying. And it is enough. – Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
15. To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life. – Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

Short & Sweet Mother’s Day Quotes for Wife

1. In case you ever foolishly forget: I am never not thinking of you. – Virginia Woolf, Selected Diaries
2. I have loved none but you. – Jane Austen, Persuasion
3. Whatever our souls are made of, hers and mine are the same. – Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
4. You are my today and all of my tomorrows. – Leo Christopher
5. I have for the first time found what I can truly love—I have found you. – Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
6. The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. – Audrey Hepburn
7. I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
8. To me, you are perfect. – Love Actually
9. For all the things my hands have held, the best by far is you. – Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, Cecilia and the Satellite lyrics
10. To a child’s ear, ‘mother’ is magic in any language. – Arlene Benedict
11. A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower. – Debasish Mridha
12. The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother. – St Therese of Lisieux
13. You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars. – E.E. Cummings
14. Motherhood changes everything. – Adriana Trigiani

Funny Mother’s Day Quotes for Wife

1. Why don’t kids understand that their nap is not for them but for us? – Alyson Hannigan
2. 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
3. If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? – Milton Berle
4. I always say if you aren’t yelling at your kids, you’re not spending enough time with them. – Reese Witherspoon
5. Stepping on a LEGO land mine at 4:30 a.m. while holding a baby and not falling should be an Olympic sport. – Unknown
6. Once you’re a mom, you’re always a mom. It’s like riding a bike. You never forget. – Taraji P. Henson
7. 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
8. Children are a great comfort in your old age – and they help you reach it faster, too. – Lionel
9. Mothers are all slightly insane. – J.D. Salinger
10. Motherhood is basically finding activities for children in three-hour pockets of time for the rest of your life. – Mindy Kaling
11. The quickest way for a parent to get a child’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable. – Lane Olinghouse
12. An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her. – Agatha Christie
13. Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution? – Groucho Marx.
14. Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are. – Will Ferrell
15. My wife was afraid of the dark… then she saw me naked and now she’s afraid of the light. – Rodney Dangerfield
16. I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. – Rita Rudner

Inspiring Mother’s Day Quotes for Wife

1. There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one. – Jill Churchill
2. 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
3. Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy. – Tina Fey
4. Only mothers can think of the future because they give birth to it in their children. – Maxim Gorky
5. Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. – Oprah Winfrey
6. Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever. – Unknown
7. 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
8. A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. – Agatha Christie
9. Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. – Erich Fromm
10. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation. – James E. Faust
11. A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. – Honore de Balzac
12. The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. – Theodore Hesburgh
13. It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful? –  Gandhi
14. Successful mothers are not the ones that have never struggled. They are the ones that never give up, despite the struggles. – Sharon Jaynes

First Mother’s Day Quotes for Wife

1. Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had. – Linda Wooten
2. The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. – Osho
3. Having kids — the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings — is the biggest job anyone can embark on. – Maria Shriver
4. A baby fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty. – Unknown
5. Motherhood: It’s not just about being pregnant but about carrying your child in your heart forever. – Unknown
6. Life doesn’t come with a manual, it comes with a mother. – Unknown
7. Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything. – Unknown
8. The very first moment I beheld her, my heart was irrevocably gone. – Jane Austen
9. In the world of uncertainty, the love of a mother is the only sure thing. – Unknown
10. The days are long, but the years are short. Cherish every moment. – Gretchen Rubin
11. A mother’s love is the heart of a family. – Unknown
12. The joy in motherhood comes in moments. There will be hard times and frustrating times, but amid the challenges, there are shining moments of joy and satisfaction. – M. Russell Ballard
13. 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

Mother’s Day Quotes for Wife Who Is an Amazing Mother

1. The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children. – Karl Lagerfeld
2. Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation. – Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
3. There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood. – Elder M. Russell Ballard
4. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation. – James E. Faust
5. To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. – Maya Angelou
6. The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. – Honoré de Balzac
7. God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. – Rudyard Kipling
8. A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary. – Dorothy Canfield Fisher
9. 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
10. Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. – Oprah Winfrey
11. I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars. – E.M. Forster
12. I’ve conquered a lot of things. Blood clots in my lungs – twice. Knee and foot surgeries. Winning grand slams being down match point, to name just a few, but I found out by far the hardest is figuring out a stroller! – Serena Williams
13. Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first. – Mignon McLaughlin
14. It’s not easy being a mom. If it were easy, fathers would do it. – Betty White
15. 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
16. My favorite part about being a mom, I mean it’s so corny, but no matter how tired you are, it’s complete bliss. No matter what. – Khloé Kardashian

Conclusion

Mother’s Day is a time to celebrate and these messages are designed to fill her heart with joy.

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