Empowering Quotes for Inspirational Single Moms

"Just because I am a single mother doesn’t mean I cannot be a success."

- Yvonne Kaloki

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

- Emma-Louise Smith

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

- Diane Keaton

"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."

- Helena Christensen

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

- Jodi Picoult

"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

"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

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

- Janene Wolsey Baadsgaard

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

- Maya Angelou

"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

"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

"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

"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

"The women whom I love and admire for their strength and grace did not get that way because stuff worked out. They got that way because stuff went wrong, and they handled it."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Just because I am a single mother doesn't mean I cannot be a success."

- Yvonne Kaloki

"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"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

"Even the President of the United States — four of them, in fact — were raised by single mothers."

- Taraji P. Henson

"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

"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

"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

"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 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

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

- Kelly Cutrone

"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

"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

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

- Barbara Kingsolver

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

- Mitch Albom

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

- Oprah

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

- James Joyce

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

- Madonna

"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

"Strength doesn't come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't."

- Rikki Rogers

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

- Diane Keaton

"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

"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

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

- Sherri Shepard

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Jill Churchill

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

- Karen Maezen Miller

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

- Amy Dickinson

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

- Melissa Peterman

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

- Jennie Finch

"Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding."

- Gloria Estefan

"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

"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

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

- Kim Brooks

"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

"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

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

- Kelly Cutrone

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

- Meg Lowrey

"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

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

- Neha Dhupia

"Motherhood is the ultimate call to sacrifice."

- Wangechi Mutu

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

- Roseanne Barr

"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

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

- Cynthia Nixon

"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

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

- Courtney Cox

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

- Rajneesh

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

- Rumi

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

- Jodi Picoult

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

- William Makepeace Thackeray

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

- Maria Shriver

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

- Victor Hugo

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

- Cardinal Mermillod

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

- Princess Diana

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

- Ricki Lake

"Motherhood changes everything."

- Adriana Trigiani

"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

"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

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

- Kate Winslet

"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

"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

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

- P.J. O'Rourke

"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

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

- Mary-Louise Parker

"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

"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

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

- John Mark Green

"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 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

"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

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

- Roma Downey

"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

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

- Maxim Grosky

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

- Regina King

"Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials."

- Meryl Streep

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

- Courtney Cox

"Nothing you do for children is ever wasted."

- Garrison Keillor

"Since the first day I saw the double pale pink line on the pregnancy test, it’s just been the two of us. And I am so grateful for that."

- Anna Davies

"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

"You are doing what is best for you and your children. You can’t ever be faulted for that. Hang in there."

- Skoy Chicago

"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

"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

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

- Solange Knowles

"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

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

- Regina King

"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

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

- January Jones

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

- Mandy Hale

"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 thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child."

- Sophia Loren

"If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think what you do matters very much."

- Jackie Kennedy

"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."

- Epictetus

"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"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

"As a single mom, you just have to realize that the day-to-day is going to be a %@$&;show, for lack of a better phrase. You have to be flexible, be there for school drop offs, pick ups, and the madness of it all."

- Christine Michel Carter

"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

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

- Daniel Pearce

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

- Jennie Finch

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

- Sophocles

"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

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

- Rachel Hollis

"Motherhood informs my work 100 percent."

- Jessica Marais

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

- Katie Holmes

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

- Sandra Bullock

"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"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

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

- Jennie Finch

"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

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

- Sophie Zadeh

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

- Kenny Conley

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

- Padma Lakshmi

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

- Billy Sunday

"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

"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 know grace and mercy was raised by the same single mother."

- Jasmine Mans

"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

"You are stronger than you think."

"You are enough."

"Self-care isn't selfish; it's necessary for your well-being as a mom."

"Your value does not decrease based on someone's inability to see your worth."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"Sometimes you have to be your own hero."

"And some days life is just hard. And some days are just rough. And some days you just gotta cry before you move forward. And all of that is okay."

"I’m a single parent. What’s your superpower?"

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

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

"The most beautiful thing about life is that even though I fell down countless times as a single mom, I still got up every time because my child needed me more than anything else."

"Never forget how important it is to reach out for support when needed."

"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."

"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."

"If you ever feel like giving up, just remember there is a little girl who wants to be just like you. Don’t disappoint her."

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