Inspiring Single Mom Quotes: A Powerful Collection to Uplift and Empower

"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

"There will be so many times you feel like you failed. But in the eyes, ears, and mind of your child, you are a SUPER MOM."

- Stephanie Precourt

"I would say to any single parent currently feeling the weight of stereotype or stigmatisation that I am prouder of my years as a single mother than of any other part of my life."

- J. K. Rowling

"I have a great career, and I have my daughter, so what I don’t have is not as important to me as what I do have."

- Padma Lakshmi

"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 would say to any single parent currently feeling the weight of stereotype or stigmatisation that I am prouder of my years as a single mother than of any other part of my life. Yes, I got off benefits and wrote the first four Harry Potter books as a single mother, but nothing makes me prouder than what Jessica told me recently about the first five years of her life: ‘I never knew we were poor. I just remember being happy.”"

- J. K. Rowling

"I have a great career, and I have my daughter. So what I don’t have is not as important to me as what I do have."

- Padma Lakshmi

"As a single mum, you’ll discover inner strengths and capabilities you never knew you had."

- Emma-Louise Smith

"Just because my plan A didn't work out didn't mean plan B couldn't be really kickass. In fact, who was to tell me that my life as a single mother couldn't be completely wonderful."

- Emma Johnson

"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 with pride."

- Mandy Hale

"The number one thing that I learned was to ask for help. It’s almost impossible to be a mother by yourself. It’s almost impossible to do alone."

- Tichina Arnold

"'Single' is an opportunity to live life on your own terms and not apologize."

- Mandy Hale

"Even the President of the United States — four of them, in fact — were raised by single mothers ... Nevertheless, mention that you’re a single mom, and all-too-many of us still have to cut through a thick, gristly layer of stigma before we’re given our proper due."

- Taraji P. Henson

"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

"I can’t tell you how much I respect all the single parents out there doing it all solo."

- Jennie Finch

"The strength of my mother is something I didn’t pay attention to for so long. Here she was, this single mom, who was part of the Great Migration, who was part of a Jim Crow south, who said, ‘I’m getting my kids out of here. I’m creating opportunities for these young people by any means necessary."

- Jacqueline Woodson

"Being a working mother and a working single parent instills in you a sense of determination."

- Felicity Jones

"I never really considered myself a single parent because I was blessed to have a village of family and friends who love us and assist in every way to help him become a really kind person and a genuine person."

- Jill Scott

"Because your child is your first priority, you’re more selective, so in order to let someone into that world, they have to be really special. You cut out the bull that you might fall for if you didn’t have responsibilities."

- Helena Christensen

"I’m a hustler. I’m a single mom, so whatever I’ve gotta do, I gotta do."

- Sherri Shepard

"I’m not really single. I mean, I am, but I have a son. Being a single mother is different from being a single woman."

- Kate Hudson

"There’s a feeling sometimes in motherhood that you’re alone in what you’re going through, and none of us are alone. We’re all going through the same thing."

- Nia Vardalos

"I want to show the example that you can be a single mother and work and handle a lot of other things at the same time."

- Christina Milian

"I have time for everything I had time for before. I just have an added amazing thing in my life."

- January Jones

"Single motherhood is an amazing thing; it’s a blessing."

- Kelly Cutrone

"It’s difficult, but far from impossible and we smile more than we cry."

- Regina King

"It is really challenging to be by yourself, to be the bread-winner, to make sure your child is having a complete and lovely childhood — and it’s all on you, sort of, on the day-to-day."

- Minnie Driver

"The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms."

- Jodi Picoult

"It’s the only way of life I’ve known. I was raised by a single mom."

- Padma Lakshmi

"In the end, I am the only one who can give my children a happy mother who loves life."

- Janene Wolsey Baadsgaard

"I think moms, single or not, put a lot of pressure on ourselves trying to balance it all. It’s never going to be perfectly balanced—the sooner you know this, the sooner you can relieve some of the pressure you put on yourself."

- Denise Richards

"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

"When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thought. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child."

- Sophia Loren

"I pride myself on finding balance. I love making music and I love raising my boys. I find time to make both a priority."

- Sheryl Crow

"What is free time? I’m a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl."

- Roma Downey

"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 value so many people who have to work full time, definitely single mothers. Their work is the hardest work. I applaud it so much."

- Molly Sims

"Don’t feel guilty about being a single mother. Patience is super important as a single mother. You do have to be a little more patient because all of the responsibility is on you … ask for help!"

- Nia Long

"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

"There’s no doubt that motherhood is the best thing in my life. It’s all that really matters."

- Courtney Cox

"Being a single parent is not a life full of struggles, but a journey for the strong."

- Meg Lowrey

"I would say to any single parent currently feeling the weight of stereotype or stigmatization that I am prouder of my years as a single mother than of any other part of my life."

- J.K. Rowling

"My mom has always been a huge inspiration. She was a single mom raising two kids in New York. Now that is full-on all the time."

- Kim Raver

"It's about love, and that's what I constantly remind myself of because I kind of let society get inside my head. 'Oh, it shouldn't be like this. I did this, I did that. I failed.' And it's like, no. They're happy, they're healthy, they're loved more than anything in the world and they're going to be fine."

- Jennifer Lopez

"As a single mum you’ll discover inner strengths and capabilities you never knew you had."

- Emma-Louise Smith

"single mum you’ll discover inner strengths and capabilities you never knew you had."

- Emma-Louise Smith

"I know it's hard being a single parent, but I’d rather do it by myself than with someone who doesn’t want to."

- Tichina Arnold

"For me, motherhood is learning about the strengths I didn’t know I had and dealing with the fears I didn’t know existed."

- Halle Berry

"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

"Remember that a single mom is just like any other mom and that our number one priority is till our kids. Any parent does whatever it takes for their kids and a single mother is no different."

- Paula Miranda

"Single motherhood is an amazing thing; it's a blessing."

- Kelly Cutrone

"For me, motherhood is learning about the strengths I didn’t know I had, and dealing with the fears I didn’t know existed."

- Halle Berry

"One thing I know for sure – this motherhood thing is not for sissies."

- Jennifer Nettles

"Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world."

- Nita Ambani

"Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world, a mother’s love is not."

- James Joyce

"Having kids—the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings—is the biggest job anyone can embark on."

- Maria Shriver

"You don't take a class; you're thrown into motherhood and learn from experience."

- Jennie Finch

"Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws."

- Barbara Kingsolver

"Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing."

- Ricki Lake

"You have to carry on as a mother, no matter what, and that’s what I’ve always done."

- Madonna

"The best gift a parent can give children is time … Single moms need to know it’s okay to have a little ‘me’ time."

- Denise Richards

"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

"I know how to do anything, I'm a mom."

- Roseanne Barr

"I can’t tell you how much I respect all the single parents out there doing it solo"

- Jennie Finch

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"When you’re a single parent, you’re often lonely yet seldom alone. There is no backup… It is mothering without a net."

- Amy Dickinson

"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

"Not all of us can do great things but we can do small things with great love."

- Mother Teresa

"I think it’s really important for every mother to find their own way."

- Solange Knowles

"That's what motherhood is: you're working; you're doing 25 different jobs, and you're not getting paid."

- Melissa Peterman

"I don’t think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother."

- Mary-Louise Parker

"I was once a single mother, with very few resources, so I have a special place in my heart for women in difficult situations."

- Linda Lael Miller

"We may not want to say it out loud, but motherhood is hard."

- Stephanie Ruhle

"Motherhood is nitty and gritty and brutal and wonderful. Sometimes, you're really in the trenches!"

- Constance Marie

"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

"There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one."

- Jill Churchill

"The loves of my life are my children and my mother. I don’t feel as if I need a man."

- Diane Keaton

"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

"My family is blended and diverse, nutty, and loving and understanding. That’s a family."

- Sandra Bullock

"I pride myself on finding balance. I love making music, and I love raising my boys. I find time to make both a priority."

- Sheryl Crow

"Only mothers can think of the future because they give birth to it in their children."

- Maxim Grosky

"It’s not single parenthood in and of itself. It’s more about how people parent."

- Sophie Zadeh

"Nothing you do for children is ever wasted."

- Garrison Keillor

"Better a loving single-parent family than a ‘conventional’ family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue."

- Moby

"A child’s first teacher is its mother."

- Peng Liyuan

"Motherhood changes everything."

- Adriana Trigiani

"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

"I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is."

- Oprah

"I think birth and motherhood are not things that you're trained to do. You might have a good example in your own mum, but nobody teaches you how to be a really great mum."

- Julie Andrews

"Motherhood was the great equalizer for me; I started to identify with everybody."

- Annie Lennox

"Being raised by a single mother, I learned to appreciate and value independent women."

- Kenny Conley

"There's no doubt that motherhood is the best thing in my life. It's all that really matters."

- Courtney Cox

"Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do."

- Cynthia Nixon

"Motherhood is the ultimate call to sacrifice."

- Wangechi Mutu

"Even though it leaves me sleep-deprived, I love every bit of motherhood."

- Neha Dhupia

"Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do."

- Jane Seymour

"Motherhood was the first instance in my life where I was asked to sacrifice anything for anyone."

- Kim Brooks

"Motherhood is… difficult and… rewarding."

- Gloria Estefan

"There's a feeling sometimes in motherhood that you're alone in what you're going through, and none of us are alone. We're all going through the same thing."

- Nia Vardalos

"The emotions, responsibilities – and the pain – of motherhood are unique to each of us with children. Ask any woman, and she will have her own story to tell."

- Fiona Barton

"The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch."

- Karen Maezen Miller

"Respect to all mums doing double duty because of men failing to do their part as dads."

- John Mark Green

"You do the best you can. Some days you feel really good about yourself and some days you don’t."

- Katie Holmes

"The most difficult part of dating as a single parent is deciding how much risk your own child’s heart is worth."

- Daniel Pearce

"A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take."

- Cardinal Mermillod

"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face."

- George Eliot

"A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories."

- Honore de Balzac

"God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers."

- Rudyard Kipling

"The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before."

- Rajneesh

"A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them"

- Victor Hugo

"Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life."

- Sophocles

"When you look into your mother's eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth."

- Mitch Albom

"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

"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children."

- William Makepeace Thackeray

"Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact."

- P.J. O'Rourke

"With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood."

- Isadora Duncan

"Motherhood is a beautiful, wonderful gift… except when it's not."

- Rachel Hollis

"Motherhood informs my work 100 percent."

- Jessica Marais

"The best place to cry is on a mother's arms."

- Jodi Picoult

"We are born of love; love is our mother."

- Rumi

"A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's."

- Princess Diana

"Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse."

- Rebecca West

"You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to."

- Kate Winslet

"There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing."

- Billy Sunday

"I was told I couldn't have children, so every day I am kissing the sky with happiness about it."

- Padma Lakshmi

"Motherhood matters. More than having the perfect house, the perfect body, the perfect planning schedule, the perfect kids, the perfect anything. You are a game-changer. A life changer. You are their mother."

"Whenever you feel discouraged, just remember, you are the center of the universe to the tiny humans you made from scratch. You’re kind of a big deal."

"Gone are the days when you would sit and wait for your knight in shining armor. Be brave, be independent and believe that you can do it, and you can do a better job."

"A single mother has a backbone made of steel and a heart full of gold."

"Being a single mum is twice the work, twice the stress and twice the tears but also twice the hugs, twice the love and twice the pride."

"It takes one rad mama to be a father too."

"At the end of the day, it’s the bond you share with your child that matters, and you mommy know just how to do that."

"Some days she has no idea how she’ll do it. But every single day. It still gets done."

"Sometimes you have to be your own hero."

"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."

"You can be a mess and still be a good mom. You are allowed to be both."