Even if you love your work and enjoy every minute of it, there is always that inevitable moment that you will feel down and out. Whatever the circumstances are, whether it’s the middle of the day or the middle of the week, it’s always nice to have some pick-me-ups to get you going through the workday.

Here are some motivational quotes for the workplace that will provide you with inspiration, help you stay focused, and beat the doldrums of your work.

Best Inspirational & Motivational Quotes For the Workplace

1. You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose. —Dr. Seuss

2. There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere. —Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

3. You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to bed with satisfaction. —George Lorimer

4. Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. —Thomas A. Edison

5. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. —Steve Jobs

6. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. —Michael Jordan

7. Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further. —Thomas Carlyle

8. Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do. —Pele

9. Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. —Dwight D. Eisenhower

10. When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. —Helen Keller

11. The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. —Ayn Rand

12. I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. —Henry David Thoreau

13. Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment. -—Stephen Covey

14. A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work. —Colin Powell

15. Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. —Lou Holtz

16. Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. —Carlos Castaneda

17. Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. —Stephen Hawking

18. Build your own dreams or someone else will hire you to build theirs. —Farrah Gray

19. I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. —G. K. Chesterton

20. Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. —Earl Nightingale

21. Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way. —Les Brown

22. Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, you ought to set up a life you don’t need to escape from. —Seth Godin

23. Remember kid, there are heroes and there are legends. Heroes get remembered, but legends never die. Follow your heart, kid, and you’ll never go wrong. —Babe Ruth, The Sandlot

24. A year from now you may wish you had started today. —Karen Lamb

25. Nothing worth having comes easy; the struggle is part of the story. —Unknown

26. If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours. —Ray Kroc

27. Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. —Confucius

28. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing — that’s why we recommend it daily. —Zig Ziglar

29. The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat. —Lily Tomlin

30. Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. —Judy Garland

31. A bad attitude is like a flat tire. If you don’t change it, you’ll never go anywhere. —Unknown

32. Light tomorrow with today. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning

33. Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better. —Jim Rohn

34. Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching. —Satchel Paige

35. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. —Theodore Roosevelt

36. A man should never neglect his family for business. —Walt Disney

37. The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible. —Marton Csokas

38. Someday is not a day of the week. —Janet Dailey

39. Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy. —Norman Vincent Peale

40. Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe. —Gail Devers

41. Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence. —Unknown

42. Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. —H. Jackson Brown Jr.

43. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.—Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

44. Make each day your masterpiece. —John Wooden

45. Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. —Winston Churchill

46. Work hard for what you want because it won’t come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive. —Leah LaBelle

47. The expert in anything was once a beginner. —Helen Hayes

48. Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t. —Rikki Rogers

49. Someone once told me that ‘time’ is a predator that stalks us all our lives. But I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment because it will never come again. —Jean-Luc Picard

50. Hey there, Mr. Grumpy Gills. When life gets you down do you wanna know what you’ve gotta do?  Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming. What do we do? We swim, swim. —Dory, Finding Nemo

51. Don’t count the days, make the days count. —Muhammad Ali

52. The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. —Vince Lombardi

53. Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learn. Work hard, and never give up on your dreams, even when nobody else believes they can come true but you. These are not clichés but real tools you need no matter what you do in life to stay focused on your path. —Phillip Sweet

54. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. —Thomas Edison

55. Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. —Salvador Dali

56. You get to decide where your time goes. You can either spend it moving forward, or you can spend it putting out fires. You decide. And if you don’t decide, others will decide for you. —Tony Morgan

57. Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure… You’re thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all… You can be discouraged by failure — or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that’s where you’ll find success. On the far side of failure. —Thomas J. Watson

58. Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success. —Virat Kohli

59. If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges. —Pat Riley

60. You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take. —Wayne Gretzky

61. If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing. — Ernest Hemingway

62. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. —Theodore Roosevelt

63. When people go to work, they shouldn’t have to leave their hearts at home. —Betty Bender

64. Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. —Rumi

65. For every positive change you make in your life, something else also changes for the better – it creates a chain reaction. —Leon Brown

66. Do or do not. There is no try. —Yoda

67. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. —Robert Louis Stevenson

68. Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. —Will Rogers

69. One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. —Elbert Hubbard

70. To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It’s not about winning and losing; it’s about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It’s about embracing the pain that you’ll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge. —Summer Sanders

71. You have to fight some of the bad days to earn some of the best days of your life. —Unknown

72. Those who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt those doing it. —Chinese Proverb

73. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly. —Neil Gaiman, The Sandman

74. Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions. —Albert Einstein

75. Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise. —Frank Ocean

76. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. —Napoleon Hill

77. You are not your resume, you are your work. —Seth Godin

78. When writing the story of your life, don’t let anyone else hold the pen. —Harley Davidson

79. So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible. —Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

80. Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. —Dale Carnegie

81. I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. —Thomas Jefferson

82. Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do. —Oprah Winfrey

Final Thoughts

The workplace can sometimes be a tough place to be in if you’re not equipped with the right mindset, enough determination, and a lot of patience. The key is to love what you do, and things will fall into their right places. Even the smallest of good thoughts in the morning can mean a lot of positive vibes all throughout your day.

Trust is a very powerful and profound emotion. It is faith in someone that gives you the belief that they will not harm, hurt, or betray you. It is the building block, whether in friendship, in marriage, or in any relationship, that will keep the foundations strong and unwavering.

It is a fact of life that one way or another, all of us will have our trust broken at some point in our lives. If you have been cheated on or made you lose your confidence in some people or situations, here are some inspiring quotes to help you gain your trust and possibly learn to get over the pain.

80 Encouraging Quotes for People Whose Trust Has Been Broken

1. 1. The finest souls are those who gulped pain and avoided making others taste it. —Nizariat
   2. Trust but verify. —Ronald Reagan
   3. Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. —Albert Einstein
   4. A single lie discovered is enough to create doubt in every truth expressed. —Unknown
   5. I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you. —Friedrich Nietzsche
   6. Don’t trust the person who has broken faith once. —William Shakespeare
   7. Rebuilding trust when it’s been broken is not dependent only on the person who has broken it, or how many times they can prove they are honest. It depends on the person who has decided not to trust anymore. Though they may be totally justified in their decision not to trust, as long as they choose not to, the relationship has no hope of survival and should be ended. If or when they decide to trust again, there is hope reborn. —Doe Zantamata
   8. To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved. —George MacDonald
   9. It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. —Samuel Johnson
   10. Trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair. —Unknown
   11. You will never understand the damage you did to someone until the same thing is done to you. That’s why I’m here. —Karma
   12. A person may break your heart and damage your pride, but never ever give them the power to break your spirit. —Unknown
   13. Whatever you do, never run back to what broke you. —Frank Ocean
   14. Breaking someone’s trust is like crumpling up a perfect piece of paper. You can smooth it over but it’s never going to be the same again. —Unknown
   15. I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken, and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken pieces as long as I lived. —Margaret Mitchell
   16. Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it’s broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother f*cker’s reflection. —Lady Gaga
   17. Sometimes, we need to be hurt in order to grow. We must lose in order to gain. Sometimes, some lessons are learned best through pain. Unknown
   18. Start over, my darling. Be brave enough to find the life you want and courageous enough to chase it. Then start over and love yourself the way you were always meant to. Madalyn Beck
   19. Trust starts with truth and ends with truth. —Santosh Kalwar
   20. We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone – but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy. —Walter Anderson
   21. “It was a mistake,” you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you. —David Levithan
   22. Broken trust doesn’t have to mean the end of your story. It’s time to write the next chapter. —Unknown
   23. The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies. —Anonymous
   24. What’s broken can be mended. What hurts can be healed. And no matter how dark it gets, the sun is going to rise again. —Unknown
   25. Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. —Aesop
   26. What do people gain from lying? Besides losing: your respect, your dignity, your reputation, and those who love you. I guess those few minutes of satisfaction, smiling behind your lies, are soon well worth a lifetime of a regretful guilty conscience. —Amir Riveroll
   27. Trust is built when someone is vulnerable and not taken advantage of. —Bob Vanourek
   28. How powerful, to burn and still come out stronger. More beautiful. —Parth
   29. People have to pretend you’re a bad person so they don’t feel guilty about the things they did to you. —Unknown
   30. The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. —Ernest Hemingway
   31. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. —William Blake
   32. Trusting is hard. Knowing who to trust, even harder. —Unknown
   33. I will breathe. I will think of solutions. I will not let my worry control me. I will not let my stress level break me. I will simply breathe. And it will be okay. Because I don’t quit. —Shayne McClendon
   34. One of the worst feelings in the world is having to doubt someone you thought was unquestionable. Unknown
   35. If you have been brutally broken, but still have the courage to be gentle to others, then you deserve a love deeper than the ocean itself. —Nikita Gill
   36. Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. —Arthur Ashe
   37. For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first. —Suzanne Collins
   38. After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person. —Evelyn Waugh
   39. Sorry is nothing, real apology comes when you can look in their eyes and see they hurt themselves just as much. —Unknown
   40. Pain changes people, it makes them trust less, overthink more, and shut people out. —Unknown
   41. Tell a lie once and all your truths become questionable. —Anonymous
   42. Sometimes you don’t know who you can and cannot trust. I still learn that over and over again. —Demi Lovato
   43. To forgive someone who hurt you is easy but to trust them again is next to impossible. —Anurag Prakash Ray
   44. Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships. —Stephen R. Covey
   45. Keep your word once given! —L. Ron Hubbard
   46. Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do. —Benjamin Spock
   47. Sometimes trusting a friend is the hardest thing to do, even the closest friends can become enemies. —James Merrow
   48. There are two reasons why we don’t trust people. First – we don’t know them. Second – we know them. —Unknown
   49. The worst thing about being lied to is knowing you’re not worth the truth. —Unknown
   50. “Sorry” works when a mistake is made, but not when trust is broken. So in life, make mistakes but never break trust. Because forgiving is easy, but forgetting and trusting again is sometimes impossible. —Unknown
   51. Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust. —Shelley Long
   52. When someone breaks your trust, don’t feel stupid for trusting them. You didn’t do anything wrong. They’re just an untrustworthy person. —Sonya Parker
   53. If you give your trust to a person who does not deserve it, you actually give him the power to destroy you. —Khaled Saad
   54. Don’t trust everything you see. Even salt looks like sugar. —Unknown
   55. All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust. —J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
   56. I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, ‘I love you.’ There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt. —Maya Angelou
   57. Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I’m tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become. —Johnny Weir
   58. A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. —Charles Spurgeon
   59. Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don’t have trust, the friendship will crumble. —Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
   60. You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too–even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling. —Mitch Albom
   61. The best proof of love is trust. —Joyce Brothers
   62. Act like you trust people, but do not. —Unknown
   63. Trust is like an eraser, it gets smaller and smaller after every mistake. —Unknown
   64. If you have three people in your life that you can trust, you can consider yourself the luckiest person in the whole world. —Selena Gomez
   65. To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved. —George MacDonald
   66. It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. —Warren Buffett
   67. Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It’s what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don’t let them take that from you. —Sherrilyn Kenyon
   68. I do not trust words. I even question actions. But I never doubt patterns. —Unknown
   69. The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it’s very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. —Thomas J. Watson
   70. Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt. —Eric Sevareid
   71. He who does not trust enough will not be trusted. —Lao Tzu
   72. You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough. —Frank Crane
   73. You must trust and believe in people, or life becomes impossible. —Anton Chekhov
   74. Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows. —Carlos Ruiz Zafón
   75. Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record. —Rick Warren
   76. The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool. —Stephen King
   77. Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something. —Eric Hoffer
   78. A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him. —Gregory David Roberts
   79. Trust, once you get it. It’s priceless. But once you lose it, you are useless. —Unknown
   80. Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody. —John Churton Collins

   Final Thoughts

   It may seem that trusting a person who broke your heart can be a difficult task, but letting go of the pain can make a big difference in our lives. If your trust has been broken, teach yourself to let go and move on. Then you can learn from that experience so you will somehow know when and who to trust next time.

A mother and daughter’s relationship is one of the most precious things in life. Their bond is powerful, and it is something that they treasure all their lives. Here are some of the best mother and daughter quotes to inspire you every day.

76 Mother and Daughter Quotes to Build a Stronger Relationship

If you’re a mom, daughter, or someone who has either in your life, this selection of 80 quotes will definitely help improve your relationship with one another.

1. “A daughter is a mother’s gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. And mothers are their daughters’ role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships.” – Victoria Secunda
2. “A mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually vaccinates her daughter against low self-esteem.” – Naomi Wolf
3. “A mother is a daughter’s best friend.”
4. “A daughter is someone you laugh with, dream with, and love with all your heart.” – Anonymous
5. “Mother-daughter disagreements were, in hindsight, basically mother stating the truth and daughter taking her own sweet time coming around.” – Barbara Delinsky
6. “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. I cannot now imagine a life without her.” – Kristin Hannah
7. “No matter how old she may be, sometimes a girl just needs her mom.” – Unknown
8. “A mother’s treasure is her daughter.” – Catherine Pulsifer
9. “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
10. “Behind every young child who believes in himself is a parent who believed first.” – Matthew L. Jacobson
11. “Having a little girl has been like following an old treasure map with the important paths torn away.” – Heather Gudenkauf
12. “Mothers of daughters are daughters of mothers and have remained so, in circles joined to circles, since time began.” – Signe Hammer
13. “A daughter may outgrow your lap, but she will never outgrow your heart.” – Anonymous
14. “There is nothing as powerful as mother’s love, and nothing as healing as a child’s soul.” – Anonymous
15. “To my daughter. Never forget that I love you. Life is filled with hard times and good times. Learn from everything you can. Be the woman I know you can be. Mom” – Anonymous
16. “A daughter is one of the most beautiful gifts this world has to give.” – Laurel Atherton
17. “The older I grow, the more I realize that my mother is the best ‘best friend’ that I ever had.” – Anonymous
18. “Mothers and daughters together are a powerful force to be reckoned with.” – Melia Keeton-Digby
19. “Mothers and daughters are closest when daughters become mothers.” – Anonymous
20. “Life doesn’t come with a manual. It comes with a mother.” – Anonymous
21. “A daughter is just a little girl who grows up to be your best friend.” – Anonymous
22. “A mother knows what her child’s gone through, even if she didn’t see it herself.” – Pramoedya Ananta Toer
23. “We laugh, we cry, we make time fly. We are best friends, my mom and I.” – Anonymous
24. “As a child, I was very careful not to erase my mother’s writing on the chalkboard because I would miss her.” – Joyce Rachelle
25. “We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters’ lengthening flight.” – Letty Cottin Pogrebin
26. “A daughter is God’s way of saying, ‘thought you could use a lifelong friend.’” – Anonymous
27. “Happiness is mother and daughter time.” – Anonymous
28. “No one in your life will ever love you as your mother does. There is no love as pure, unconditional and strong as a mother’s love. And I will never be loved that way again.” – Hope Edelman
29. “A mom is a daughter’s ‘first’ friend. And, through life, becomes her best friend.” – Vicki Reece
30. “When I think of the exquisite love and sympathy which might be between a mother and daughter, I feel myself defrauded of a beautiful thing rightfully mine, in a world where for me such things are pitiably few.” – Mary MacLane
31. “A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life.” – Irish Saying
32. “I am not a perfect mother, and I will never be. You are not a perfect daughter, and you will never be. But put us together, and we will be the best mother and daughter we would ever be.” – Anonymous
33. “My daughter makes me laugh with her incredibly humorous take on the world. Everything makes her laugh, and I aspire to take in the world the same shoes she does.” – Anonymous
34. “Angels are often disguised as daughters.” – Anonymous
35. “A mother. When you’re a child, she walks before you, to set an example. When you’re a teenager she walks behind you, to be there should you need her. When you’re an adult, she walks beside you, so that as two friends you can enjoy life together.” – Anonymous
36. “By the time you realize your mother was right, you have a daughter who thinks that you’re wrong” – Sada Malhotra
37. “The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.” – Wynonna Judd
38. “Without my kids tomorrow wouldn’t be worth the wait, and yesterday wouldn’t be worth remembering.” – Anonymous
39. “I don’t want my children to follow in my footsteps. I want them to take the path next to me and go further than I could have ever dreamt possible.” – Anonymous
40. “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
41. “I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine. She helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights.” – Terri Guillemets
42. “From her thighs, she gives you life and how you treat she who gives you life shows how much you value the life given to you by the Creator. And from seed to dust there is ONE soul above all others. That you must always show patience, respect, and trust – this woman is your mother.” – Suzy Kassem
43. “The more a daughter knows the details of her mother’s life, the stronger the daughter.” – Anita Diamant
44. “A daughter is a miracle that never ceases to be miraculous.” – Anonymous
45. “Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you’d be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.” – Jojo Moyes
46. “No matter how old you are, you always want your mother’s love and acceptance. I guess I’m hoping one day I’ll get it back.” – Hilary Grossman
47. “Of course, mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view.” – Katherine Howe
48. “Good moms have sticky floors, messy kitchens, laundry piles, and happy kids.” – Anonymous
49. “One of the most important relationships we have is the relationship we have with our mothers.” – Iyanla Vanzant
50. “The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” – Honore de Balzac
51. “Moms hold their children’s hands for a while, but their hearts forever.” – Anonymous
52. “The woman who is my best friend, my teacher, my everything: Mom.” – Sandra Vischer
53. “A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.” – Kristin Hannah
54. “If I could give my daughter three things, it would be the confidence to always know her self-worth, the strength to chase her dreams, and the ability to know how truly, deeply loved she is.” – Anonymous
55. “Her smile makes me smile. Her laugh is infectious. Her heart is pure and true. Above all, I love that she is my daughter.” – Anonymous
56. “Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” – William Makepeace Thackeray
57. “A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.” – Princess Diana
58. “Whosoever does not believe in the existence of a sixth sense has clearly not regarded their own mother. How it is they know all they know about you, even those secrets you locked away so tightly in the most hidden compartments of your heart, remains one of the great mysteries of the world. And they don’t just know—they know instantly.” – Narissa Doumani
59. “Mothers, look after your daughters, keep them near you, keep their confidence – that they may be true and faithful.” – Elmina S. Taylor
60. “If at first, you don’t succeed, try doing it the way mom told you in the beginning.” – Anonymous
61. “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
62. “A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.” – Emily Dickinson
63. “When someone asks you where you come from, the answer is your mother… When your mother’s gone, you’ve lost your past. It’s so much more than love. Even when there’s no love, it’s so much more than anything else in your life. I did love my mother, but I didn’t know how much until she was gone.” – Anna Quindlen
64. “As is the mother, so is her daughter.” – Bible
65. “In times of need, and in times of tears, in times of joy and in times of fears, there is mom. The one person who is always there.” – Heather Stillufsen
66. “My mother was like sand. The kind that warms you on a beach when you come shivering out of the cold water. The kind that clings to your body, leaving its impression on your skin to remind you where you’ve been and where you’ve come from.” – Clare Vanderpool
67. “Suddenly, through birthing a daughter, a woman finds herself face to face not only with an infant, a little girl, a woman-to-be but also with her own unresolved conflicts from the past and her hopes and dreams for the future. As though experiencing an earthquake, mothers of daughters may find their lives shifted, their deep feelings unearthed, the balance struck in all relationships once again off kilter.” – Elizabeth Debold and Idelisse Malave
68. “When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” – Charley Benetto
69. “A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, ‘Where mother is.’” – Keith L. Brooks
70. “Maybe she’d never really known her mother at all. And if you couldn’t know the person whose body was your first home, then who could you ever know?” – Brit Bennett
71. “The mother is only really the mistress of her daughter upon the condition of continually representing herself to her as a model of wisdom and type of perfection.” – Alexandre Dumas Pere
72. “We are born of love; love is our mother.” – Rumi
73. “I allowed myself unintentionally to be led to hurt you, my dearest child, for whom I would have given at every moment my life! Reflection came always too late, but not the deserved punishment! My sufferings were great, very great. God be praised that those terrible times are gone by and that only death can separate me from you, my beloved Victoria.” – Cecil Woodham-Smith
74. “Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter’s mouth.” – Victoria Secunda
75. “Good daughters make good mothers.” – Abigail G. Whittlesey
76. “Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other. The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.” – Adrienne Rich

Final Thoughts

The connection between a mother and daughter is something that is not easily broken. It is something that even diamonds couldn’t cut through. Treasure your mother as well as your daughters for they are more valuable than any other jewel on earth.

Let these 75 nuggets of wisdom help you better appreciate the blessings that came into your life in the form of a mother or daughter.