MOTHERS DAY THOUGHTS, QUOTES

MOTHERS DAY THOUGHTS

No sincere human being can deny the importance of mother in the world and her place in a child’s life. At the same time one needs to have that unique sense for realizing this fact. Of course for all of us our mothers are just like God. But it is equally true that it is not necessary that each one of us is capable of expressing this fact in our own words in the form of poem or quotes. But there are some of the great sons and daughters who have done this job marvelously. Go through the following thoughts and check it out for yourself. You can certainly pick some of these to please your mother on the special occasion of Mother’s Day.

Famous Mother’s Day Thoughts

“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.”
~ Abraham Lincoln

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

“There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness… The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way.”
~ Andrew Jackson

“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”
~ Barbara Kingsolver

“In all my efforts to learn to read, my mother shared fully my ambition and sympathized with me and aided me in every way she could. If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.”
~ Booker T. Washington

“It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew… I have met a lot of people knocking around the world since, but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman than my mother. If I have amounted to anything, it will be due to her.”
~ Charles Chaplin

“I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother.”
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“The noblest calling in the world is that of mother. True motherhood is the most beautiful of all arts, the greatest of all professions. She who can paint a masterpiece or who can write a book that will influence millions deserves the plaudits and admiration of mankind; but she who rears successfully a family of healthy, beautiful sons and daughters whose immortal souls will be exerting an influence throughout the ages long after painting shall have faded, and books and statues shall have been destroyed, deserves the highest honor that man can give.”
~ David O. McKay

“My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.”
~ Denzel Washington

“The mother, more than any other, affects the moral and spiritual part of the children’s character. She is their constant companion and teacher in formative years. The child is ever imitating and assimilating the mother’s nature. It is only in after life that men gaze backward and behold how a mother’s hand and heart of love molded their young lives and shaped their destiny.”
~ E.W. Caswell

“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

“The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.”
~ Henry Ward Beecher

“Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends towards the formation of character.”
~ Hosea Ballou

When Robert Ingersoll, the notorious skeptic, was in his heyday, two college students went to hear him lecture. As they walked down the street after the lecture, one said to the other, “Well, I guess he knocked the props out from under Christianity, didn’t he?” The other said, “No, I don’t think he did. Ingersoll did not explain my mother’s life, and until he can explain my mother’s life I will stand by my mother’s God.”
~ James S. Hewett, Illustrations Unlimited, Tyndale.

“Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations as all other earthly causes combined.”
~ John S.C. Abbott

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.”
~ Maya Angelou

“The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother.”
~ Napoleon Bonaparte

“My mother said to me, “If you become a soldier you’ll be a general; if you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope.” Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”
~ Pablo Picasso

“An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.”
~ Spanish proverb

“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

Many scholars have concluded that you cannot really understand John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist movement, unless you understand his mother Susanna Wesley. She was so instrumental in his life that she inevitably affected the movement and its direction. Americans know that Abraham Lincoln led this nation through perhaps its time of greatest crisis; but who was it that made Abraham Lincoln the man that he was? I know what Lincoln thought. He said it was his mother. I would submit to you this morning that there is not a person sitting here that in one, five, ten, a thousand different ways has not been forever influenced by their mother. I firmly believe that you cannot understand who a person is and what motivates them until you understand their past. And you cannot understand a person’s past without understanding the source that co-created that person along with God-their parents.
~ Unknown

“The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.”
~ W. R. Wallace

FAMOUS MOTHER’S QUOTES

On the one hand for a child its mother is its life and on the other hand for a mother her child is her world. This sweet relationship of mother and child cannot be expressed in a few words. But still some great Moms’ certain views have been very famous throughout the world. It is quite possible that all these famous quotes by some famous Moms represent that all the mothers think the same way for their children. After all being the mom of a famous personality is also a responsibility, which these moms have accepted so intellectually. No wonder if now and then you have also heard some of these quotes from your mother…

“Again with the stovepipe hat, Abe? Can’t you just wear a baseball cap like the other kids?”
~ Abraham Lincoln’s Mom

“I realize strained plums are your favorite, Barney, but you’re starting to look a little purple!”
~ Barney’s Mom

“I’m not upset the you lamb followed you to school, Mary, but I would like to know how he got a better grade than you!”
~ Mary’s Mom

“It’s a nice car, Bruce, but do you realize how much the insurance will be!”
~ Batman’s Mom

“I’ve got a bill here for a busted chair from the bear family. You know anything about this Goldie?”
~ Goldilock’s Mom

“Well, all I’ve got to say is if you don’t get of your tuffet and start cleaning your room, there’ll be a lot more spiders around here!”
~ Little Miss Muffet’s Mom

“But, Albert, it’s your senior picture. Can’t you do something about your hair? Styling gel, mousse, something….?”
~ Albert Einstein’s Mom

“The next time I catch you throwing money across the Potomac, you can kiss your allowance good-bye!”
~ George Washington’s Mom

“That’s a nice story, but now tell me where you’ve really been for the past 3 days!”
~ Jonah’s Mom

“Clark, your father and I have discussed it, and we’ve decided you can have your own telephone line. Now will you quit spending so much time in all those phone booths!”
~ Superman’s Mom

“Of course I’m proud that you invented the electric light bulb, dear. Now turn off that light and get to bed!”
~ Thomas Alva Edison’s Mom

MOTHER TERESA SAYINGS

Mother Teresa (1910-1997)

Mother Teresa was born at Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Yugoslavia. She joined an Irish order of nuns serving in Calcutta, West Bengal, India, with a purpose to serve the poor. She received medical training in Ireland and India. She founded the Missionaries of Charity and focused on serving the dying, along with many other projects at the same time. For her contributions to the upliftment of the society she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She died in 1997 after long illnesses and was beatified by Pope John Paul II on October 19, 2003.

Mother Teresa Quotations And Favorite Sayings
Love is doing small things with great love.
Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives – the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them.
There should be less talk. A preaching point is not a meeting point.
The dying, the cripple, the mental, the unwanted, the unloved – they are Jesus in disguise.
In the West there is loneliness, which I call the leprosy of the West. In many ways it is worse than our poor in Calcutta. (Commonweal, Dec 19, 1997)
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.
The poor give us much more than we give them. They’re such strong people, living day to day with no food. and they never curse, never complain. We don’t have to give them pity or sympathy. We have so much to learn from them.
I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper’s wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?
I do not pray for success. I ask for faithfulness.
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
I work for the people, because I feel I must do something.
People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway.
It’s law of nature that the good you do, will be forgotten tomorrow. But the good work must be carried on.
Your honesty and frankness will expose you to problems but your work should not stop for it means the world to so many people.
Years of your hard work may be destroyed overnight, that should not deter you from building upon your hard work.
Despite giving your best to the world, you may be kicked in the teeth. Give the best you’ve got anyway.
Places like Calcutta can be seen all over the world if you have eyes to see.
Developed countries suffer from poverty of understanding, poverty of will, of loneliness, of lack of love and spirit. There is no greater disease in the world today than this.
When you don’t have anything, then you have everything.
The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.
It is not the size of our actions but the amount of love and care that is put into them that matters.
You should never lose heart. God is merciful and kind- he has endowed you with the best gift- smile, which can make millions happy.
Show kindness through your face, your eyes, your smile and through the warmth of your greetings. You must bear a cheerful smile. Don’t only give your care, but give your heart as well.

Thoughts

Whoever acquires knowledge and does not practice it resembles him who ploughs his land and leaves it unsown. (Gulistan 1258)

Whoever follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd.

Who gossips to you will gossip of you. (Turkish proverb)

Who got it, did get it; and who left it, did regret it. (Algerian proverb)

Who says nothing is impossible, I have been doing nothing for years.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one. (Japanese Proverb.)

Why are women wearing perfumes that smell like flowers? Men don’t like flowers. I’ve been wearing a great new scent. It’s called New Car Interior. (Rita Rudner)

“Why?” is the query of a skeptic; “How?” is the question of a person who wants to believe. (J Tilse)

Wife: “There’s trouble with the car. It has water in the carburetor.”
Husband: “Water in the carburetor? That’s ridiculous.”
Wife: “I tell you the car has water in the carburetor.”
Husband: “You don’t even know what a carburetor is. I’ll check it out. Where’s the car?”
Wife: “In the pool.”

Winning isn’t everything, but losing isn’t anything

Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat.

Win with humility; lose with grace.

Wisdom has two parts:
1) Having a lot to say.
2) Not saying it.

Wisdom is a comb given to a man once he is bald. (Irish proverb)

Wisdom whispers – foolishness shouts.

Wisdom will keep you from getting into situations where you need it. (Bruce M. Sandbrook)

Wise men talk because they have something to say.
Fools talk because they have to say something. (Plato)

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away. (Sir Arthur Helps)

With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress. (Ransom K. Ferm)

With money I can buy things; with thinking I can understand things.

Without God, I can not.
Without me, God will not.

Without risk there is no opportunity for gain.

With prayer as with other gifts from God, it is not what you get that counts, it’s what you do with it.

With wealth you can live in comfort.
With drive you can make a comfortable living.
With peace of mind, you can be comfortable in living.

Wit is educated insolence. (Aristotles)

Women like silent men. They think they’re listening. (Marcel Archard)

Woman phones up her husband at work for a chat.
HIM: “I’m sorry dear but I’m up to my neck in work today.”
HER: “But I’ve got some good news and some bad news for you dear.”
HIM: “OK darling, but as I’ve got no time now, just give me the good news.”
HER: “Well, the air bag works.”

Women’s faults are many, men have just two!
Everything they say and everything they do!!!

Won’t you come into the garden?
I would like my roses to see you.
(Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1751-1816)

Work like you don’t need the money, love like your heart has never been broken, and dance as if no one is watching. (Satchel Paige)

Work with every buyer as though that person represents a thousand referrals. (Tom Hopkins)

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength. (Corrie Ten Boom)

Worry is interest paid in advance for a debt you may never owe.

Worry is the darkroom in which ‘negatives’ are developed.

Worry pulls tomorrow’s cloud over today’s sunshine.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. (Mark Twain)

Write injuries in the sand, kindnesses in marble.

Yesterday is a cancelled cheque.
Tomorrow is a promised note.
Today is ready cash, use it!

Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery,
today is a gift of God,
which is why we call it the present. (Bill Keane)

Yesterday today was tomorrow yet tomorrow today will be yesterday.

You always find something in the last place you look.

You are getting old when you don’t care where your spouse goes, just as long as you don’t have to go along.

You are getting old when you get the same sensation from a rocking chair that you once got from a roller coaster.

You are never fully dressed until you wear a smile.

You are richer today if you have laughed, given or forgiven.

You are what you think about all day long. (Dr. Robert Schuller)

You are young only once, but you can be immature all your life.

You better think about the future, for it’s where you will spend the rest of your life.

You can blow out a candle,
but you can’t blow out a fire,
once the flame begins to catch,
the wind will blow it higher. (Peter Gabriel)

You can bomb the world into pieces, you can’t bomb the world into peace…..

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. (Malcolm Forbes)

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you. (Tiorio)

You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a clipboard.

You can listen to thunder after lightening and tell how close you came to getting hit. If you don’t hear it, you got hit, so never mind.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. (Dale Carnegie)

You can never understand the true value of something until you don’t have it anymore.

You can outdistance that which is running after you but not what is running inside you. (Rwandan Proverb)

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

You can send a message around the world in 1/7 of a second; yet it may take several years to move a simple idea through a 1/4 inch of human skull.

You can survive on charm for about 5 minutes…after that, you’d better know something!

You can take a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink.

You can’t be in two places at once, they say.
Then how is it that you are there and in my heart at the same time?

You can’t be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.

You can’t build character & courage by taking away men’s initiative & independence.

You can’t do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

You can’t do anything, if you believe you can’t.

You can tell how big a person is by what it takes to discourage him.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. (Leo Aikman)

You can’t expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.

You can’t get to the top by sitting on your bottom.

You can’t help the poor man by destroying the rich.

You can’t make an omlette without breaking eggs.

You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours. (Colin Powell)

You can’t make your candle burn brighter by blowing out the other fellow’s.

You can’t prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but can prevent them from building their nest on it.

You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist. (Indira Gandhi)

You can’t strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

You can’t tell which way the train went by looking at the track.

You can’t test courage cautiously.

You can’t train a horse with shouts, and expect it to obey a whisper.

You can turn dollars into cents, and sense into dollars, though not dollars into sense.

You can win more friends with your ears than you can with your mouth!

you could hit someone over the head with a hammer and they would say, “gee, thanks, it feels so much better now that you stopped”…
Their glass is a keg, and over flowing with the values of true life. If we all acted a little bit more like him, the world would truely be a better place. (Peter Walstrom)

You could better start giving me mouth to mouth, because you just took my breath away!

You did touch me but didn’t feel my pain.
Jesus came and touched me and I don’t feel the pain any more.

You don’t become a missionary by crossing the sea but by seeing the cross.

You don’t get old, you just become a classic.

You don’t have to blow out anothers candle to make yours shine bright.

You don’t look at a picture of a Chevy when you drive a Cadillac.

You don’t lose if you get knocked down, you lose if you stay down.

You don’t love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her

You don’t marry someone you can live with; you marry the person with whom you cannot live without.

You don’t stop laughing because you grow old, you grow old because you stop laughing. (Michael Pritchard)

You don’t win silver. You lose gold.

You either have to be first, best, or different. (Loretta Lynn)

You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once. (Polish Proverb)

You have reached middle age when the phone rings on Saturday night, you pray it isn’t for you.

You have three choices in any situation; the sooner you choose, the less stress you’ll feel: change, accept or leave.

You have to protect the privacy of the advice you get, or you’ll never get the advice you need. (Richard Nixon)

You know it’s love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is better than dreams.

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. (Bob Hope)

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they’re going. (P. J. O-Rourke)

You laugh because I’m different, I laugh because your all the same.

You may be born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but you need gold-hearted people to make your life more tasty.

You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down. (Mary Pickford)

You may have grown old, but you may not have grown up.

You may not be able to turn back the clock; but you can always wind it up again.

You may only be one person in the world, but to one person you may be the world.

You may pass violets looking for roses and contentment looking for victory.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. (Gandhi)

You must be tired, because you’ve been running through my mind all day!

You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short range failures. (Charles Noble)

You never lose by loving, you only lose by holding back.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering.
The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable. (Henry Ward Beecher)

You only have one chance to make a first impression.

You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him. (Teresa of Avila)

Your actions speak so loud that I can’t hear what you’re saying.

Your attitude is the librarian of your past, the speaker of your present, and the prophet of your future!

Your brain is that bodily organ which starts working the moment you awake and does not stop until you get into the office.

Your child has started growing up when he stops asking you where he came from and starts refusing to tell you where he’s going.

Your children know you love them by your presence, not your presents.

Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.

You’re getting old when you get the same sensation from a rocking chair that you once got from a roller coaster.

You’re in middle age when you realize you have more on your mind and less on your head.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. (Samuel Johnson)

Your morality can keep you out of jail,
but only the Blood of Jesus Christ, can keep you of hell!

Your neighbour is the man who needs you.

Your problem is never really your problem, your reaction to your problem is your problem. (Brian Kinsey)

Your responsibility is your response to His ability.

Your secrets are safe with me and all my friends.

Your smile lights up a room like a candle in the dark.
I can still hear the song of your laughter.

Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. (Leo Buscaglia)

Your temper is the only thing you can lose and still have.

Your thoughts can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak.

Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God’s grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God’s grace. (Jerry Bridges)

Your worst humiliation is only someone else’s momentary entertainment. (Karen Crockett)

You satisfy the hungry heart with gift of finest wheat.
Now give to us, O saving Lord, the bread of life to eat.

You should not confuse your career with your life.

Youth is when we are always hunting greener pastures, and middle age is when we can barely mow the one we’ve got.

Youth wastes away, but immaturity can last a lifetime.

You will come across hope and despair in almost every situation. Only one of them wins each time.

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated. (Maya Angelou)

You will find that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that’s hardly worth the effort. (Norton Juster)

You will never be promoted until you become over-qualified for your present position.

You will never “win” an argument concerning religion.

You wouldn’t care what people thought of you if you realised how seldom they do.