Mother Quotes

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
George Washington

Life, Success, Education

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
Chanakya

Good, Morning, Husband

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham Lincoln

Hope, Angel, Owe

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
Abdul Kalam

Teacher, Beautiful, Father

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
Godfrey Winn

Good, Blessed, Wife

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Mother Teresa

Peace, Greatest, Nothing

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Maya Angelou

School, Ignorance, Said

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
Abraham Lincoln

Life, Remember, Prayers

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

Children, Become, Universe

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Mark Twain

Great, She, Trouble

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
Albert Ellis

Life, Best, Blame

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Child, Gift, Ask

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Theodore Hesburgh

Love, Father, Children

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Robert Frost

Fool, Woman, Him

When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.
Erma Bombeck

Advice, Matter, Answer

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Pablo Picasso

Soldier, Said, Become

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Mark Twain

Taking, Necessity, Chances

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.
Barack Obama

Life, Faith, Family

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.
Coco Chanel

Women, Men, Strong

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
Erich Fromm

Love, Help, Become

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
Khalil Gibran

Knowledge, Self, Atoms

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great, Nothing, Effort

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
Ronald Reagan

Sacrifice, Her, Economic

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
William Makepeace Thackeray

God, Children, Name

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor Hugo

Sleep, Children, Made

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sleep, Him, Lovely

Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Benjamin Franklin

Good, Luck, Diligence

A mother who is really a mother is never free.
Honore de Balzac

I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.
Tupac Shakur

Society, Reality, Old

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
Erich Fromm

Love, Peace, Deserved

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