80 Single Mom Quotes That Honor Your Strength

Being a single mom is exhausting.

You’re doing the work of two people.

You’re making all the decisions. You’re showing up every single day even when you’re running on empty.

Some days you feel strong. Other days you wonder if you’re doing enough or getting it right.

Here’s the truth though. You’re doing more than most people could handle. And you deserve to hear that.

These single mom quotes are reminders of your strength.

They see you. They get it.

And maybe they’ll help you feel a little less alone in all of it.

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Short Single Mom Quotes

“Being a single parent is twice the work, twice the stress and twice the tears but also twice the hugs, twice the love and twice the pride.” – unknown

“Raising a family is difficult enough. But it’s even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don’t need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.” – Bill Richardson

“Single moms: You are a doctor, a teacher, a nurse, a maid, a cook, a referee, a heroine, a provider, a defender, a protector, a true Superwoman. Wear your cape proudly.” – Mandy Hale

“A single mom tries when things are hard. She never gives up. She believes in her family, even when things are tough. She knows that above all things… a mother’s love is more than enough.” – Deniece Williams

“I’ve been a single parent for a long time. It reminds me of being a waitress. As you walk back to the kitchen, requests come at you from all sides. You’re doing the job of two – you have to be highly organised.” – Cherie Lunghi

“Mothers – especially single mothers – are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation’s children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families’ well-being.” – Evan Bayh

“I didn’t plan on being a single mom, but you have to deal with the cards you are dealt the best way you can.” – Tichina Arnold

“It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard.” – Melissa Etheridge

“You know, I don’t think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn’t wish for that, but it happened.” – Charlize Theron

“The most difficult part of dating as a single parent is deciding how much risk your own child’s heart is worth.” – Dan Pearce

“As a single mom, I’m juggling a lot and working long hours. Yes, it costs them a little, but what my children get in return is a mother who is energized and content.” – Edie Falco

“What is free time? I’m a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl.” – Roma Downey

“Remember that a single mom is just like any other mom and that our number one priority is still our kids. Any parent does whatever it takes for their kids and a single mother is no different.” – Paula Miranda

“She has to have four arms, four legs, four eyes, two hearts, and double the love. There is nothing single about a single mom.” – Mandy Hale

“I don’t think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It’s not easy on anybody.” – Reese Witherspoon

“If you are a single parent, make friends with others in similar situations and develop friendships with married couples. Counsel with your priesthood leaders. Let them know of your needs and wants. Single parenthood is understood by the Lord.” – Ezra Taft Benson

“I am a single mom and I’m the breadwinner and I have to work and I have to do these things and that’s just the way it is. I don’t think my son even knows any different.” – Charisma Carpenter

“Just because a single-mom usually can’t be bothered to spend much time on her make-up doesn’t mean that she has given up on romance.” – Kemmy Nola

“I can understand why a single parent, working two jobs, would find it easier to stop at McDonald’s with the kids rather than cook something from scratch at home.” – Eric Schlosser

“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.” – Sophia Loren

“Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.” – Maxim Gorky

“Before becoming a mom, I never knew how good I had it to just spend time at a spa for a few hours. Now, those days are far and between. So when I have an hour, it’s all about the mani and pedi.” – Tia Mowry

“I know how to do anything, I’m a mom.” – Roseanne Barr

“Single parent situations drive poverty and often lead to unsupervised kids. Many boys growing up without fathers often feel angry and abandoned. Thus, they seek comfort in all the wrong places.” – Bill O’Reilly

“Single mothers – bright, attractive, available women, thousands of them all over London – they were the best invention Will had ever heard of.” – Nick Hornby

“I love being a single mom. But it’s definitely different when you’re dating.” – Brooke Burns

“Mothers are the necessity of invention.” – Bill Watterson

“Being a mother is hard and it wasn’t a subject I ever studied.” – Ruby Wax

“The best part of being a mom to me is the unconditional love. I have never felt a love as pure, a love that’s as rewarding.” – Monica Denise Brown

“Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.” – Garrison Keillor

“If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do matters very much.” – Jackie Kennedy

“Being a working mother and a working single parent instills in you a sense of determination.” – Felicity Jones

“The women whom I love and admire for their strength and grace did not get that way because shit worked out. They got that way because shit went wrong, and they handled it. They handled it in a thousand different ways on a thousand different days, but they handled it. Those women are my superheroes.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

“I don’t think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.” – Mary Louise Parker

“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou

“In the end, I am the only one who can give my children a happy mother who loves life.” – Janene Wolsey Baadsgaard

“I think it’s really important for every mother to find their own way.” – Solange Knowles

“Mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” – Cardinal Mermillod

“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” – Robert Browning

“Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs since the payment is pure love.” – Mildred B. Vermont

“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

“Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.” – Pearl S. Buck

“Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease.” – Lisa Alther

“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.” – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

“If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam.” – Lord Langdale

“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” – Honoré de Balzac

“I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!” – Arianna Huffington

“Mothers always find ways to fit in the work – but then when you’re working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you’re with your children, you’re thinking about working.” – Alice Hoffman

“It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.” – Phyllis Diller

“Good mothers know that their relationship with each of their children is like a movable feast, constantly changing and evolving.” – Sue Woodman

“Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it’s the most exquisite love of all.” – Maggie Gallagher

“The quickest way for a parent to get a child’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable.” – Lane Olinghouse

“Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.” – Robert A. Heinlein

“We are born of love; love is our mother.” – Rumi

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

“When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.” – Mitch Albom

“A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” – Cardinal Meymillod

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

“Motherhood changes everything.” – Adriana Trigiani

“There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.” – Billy Sunday

“Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” – George Eliot

“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” – Rudyard Kipling

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

“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.” – Meryl Streep

“Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.” – Sophocles

“Having kids, the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings, is the biggest job anyone can embark on.” – Maria Shriver

“I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.” – Oprah Winfrey

“There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” – Jill Churchill

“Babies are bits of star-dust blown from the hand of God. Lucky the woman who knows the pangs of birth for she has held a star.” – Larry Barretto

“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world, a mother’s love is not.” – James Joyce

“Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.” – Rebecca West

“With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.” – Isadora Duncan

“Motherhood was the great equalizer for me; I started to identify with everybody.” – Annie Lennox

“Motherhood has helped me to stop overanalyzing things. It’s been liberating because I used to be somewhat neurotic. I attribute that to having something bigger than myself.” – Idina Menzel

“Motherhood is the ultimate call to sacrifice.” – Wangechi Mutu

“Motherhood is… difficult and… rewarding.” – Gloria Estefan

“The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.” – Karen Maezen Miller

“Not all of us can do great things but we can do small things with great love.” – Mother Teresa

“The loves of my life are my children and my mother. I don’t feel as if I need a man.” – Diane Keaton

“You make it work. You keep getting out of bed. Sometimes it’s just because you know there’s a cup of coffee downstairs.” – Michelle Williams