An assortment of various Mother’s Day and related quotes that can be easily edited for your stepmother.
1. Nothing would be done at all if we waited until we could do it so well that no one could find fault with it. ~ John Henry Newman
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. ~ Rajneesh
3. Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ~ Peter Ustinov
4. God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~ Jewish Proverb
5. “Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.” ~ Kate Douglas Wiggin
6. To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. ~ David Viscott
7. “There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one” ~ Jill Churchill
8. Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. ~ Erich Fromm, psychologist
9. The door to the human heart can be opened only from the inside. ~ Spanish proverb
10. “A mother understands what a child does not say.” ~ Jewish proverb
11. Woman knows what man has long forgotten, that the ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family. ~ Clare Boothe Luce
12. “A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.” ~ Washington Irving
13. “When you were small and just a touch away, I covered you with blankets against the cold night air. But now that you are tall and out of reach, I fold my hands and cover you with prayer. ~ Dona Maddux Cooper
14. If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
15. “The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” ~ Honore de Balzac
16. If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. ~ George Bernard Shaw
17. A mighty power and stronger Man from his throne has hurled,For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world. ~ William Ross Wallace
18. The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply. ~ Kahlil Gibran
Happy Mother’s Day
