Motherhood is a journey of resilience, strength, and unwavering love. Every day, mothers face unique challenges and triumphs as they navigate the complexities of raising children, managing households, and pursuing their own dreams.
In the midst of the chaos and joy, there are moments that call for words of encouragement, inspiration, and empowerment tailored to specific situations.
In this collection of 101 strong mom quotes, we delve into the diverse experiences of motherhood, offering personalized words of wisdom for every scenario.
From moments of self-doubt to times of immense pride, these quotes are designed to uplift and empower mothers from all walks of life.
Whether you’re a single mom juggling multiple responsibilities, a working mom striving to balance career and family, or a stay-at-home mom nurturing your children’s growth, there’s a quote in this collection that speaks directly to your heart.
Each quote is carefully selected to resonate with the challenges you face and the victories you celebrate as a strong and resilient mother.
Join us as we explore an array of strong mom quotes, tailored to specific motherhood situations.
Let these words serve as a source of inspiration, encouragement, and validation as you navigate the beautiful and sometimes tumultuous journey of motherhood. Together, let’s celebrate the strength, courage, and boundless love that define the essence of motherhood.
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1. “Being an only child, I didn’t have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.” — Tom Hardy
2. “I was embarrassed about being Indian and I was very introverted. My mom would pack me Indian food for lunch. All the kids had their Lunchables and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and I had rice and dal. They would say, ‘Does your house smell like curry? You smell like curry!’ So, I’d never eat lunch, really. Or, I’d hide to eat lunch.” — Vidya Vox
3. “I’m really happy to be a mom, and I’m proud of the phase I’m in.” — Liz Phair
4. “When I get high anxiety, I vomit. My mom was so stressed out. Then I found out I was staying in John Mayer’s old dorm room, and I had a nice roommate. That completely brought me down. I was completely comfortable at Berklee.” — Charlie Puth
5. “My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.” — Travis Barker
6. “My mom gave me a Chanel dress when I was younger. I felt special. I think anybody feels special in Chanel.” — Lily-Rose Depp
7. “My mom is from Venezuela, and my dad is German and Japanese, and we lived in Brazil when I was a kid for a couple of years, and then I grew up on Long Island. I think all the traveling and all the nationalities put that stuff in my head. I was just around it a lot.” — Fred Armisen
8. “Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days… or a few months after childbirth.” — Richard J. Codey
9. “My mom raised me to never have anything control me.” — Chris Tucker
10. “My special thing as a kid was to play dead because I thought I was really good at it. When I was 7 or 8, I even did it in the bathroom with a hair dryer in the bathtub. I realized that I was good at it because each time my mom would scream.” — Daniel Bruhl
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11. “My mom was the only one who didn’t bleach her skin. She was the one who kept her natural complexion. So yes, I consider her a role model. All of her other family members would say to us, ‘Oh, your mom is so beautiful. She’s lucky she kept her skin.’ Those comments stayed with me.” — Khoudia Diop
12. “My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God – I thank God every time I think of it – I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.” — Maya Angelou
13. “My mom played tennis for, like, six hours a day and went to college on a tennis scholarship, because that was the way she could go to school. So they instilled in me the idea that you have to work hard for the things you want in life and never complain.” — Dakota Fanning
14. “I was really lucky. My gal pal was my mom.” — Ana Ortiz
15. “I am Michael Render – that’s what my mom named me. ‘Killer Mike’ is what my dumb friends called me in a rap battle once, and it stuck.” — Killer Mike
16. “I couldn’t believe just how emotional I was about the London Olympics. Before the Games even started, I was reading a newspaper sitting in a hair salon and my mom looked over at me and I was just sobbing, because something about seeing the rings and hearing the athletes’ excitement and just kind of knowing exactly what they were going through.” — Tessa Virtue
17. “It’s true that my mom loved it when I played Joanie Cunningham in the musical ‘Happy Days,’ but I think she finally realized I am never going to do ‘Oklahoma!’” — Christine Lakin
18. “I started working out with my mom in 4th grade. She used to take me to the track.” — Jessie Pavelka
19. “I wanted to perform well for my mom and dad, because in high school, I didn’t have a job. My brothers, they worked at Pizza Hut or places like that, but sports, that was my way of giving back.” — Junior Seau
20. “For me, coming up, the first I had ever heard of basketball? It was from my mom. She was a really good player back in her day, and even played college ball at Kentucky State. And then she went on to become a coach and an AD after that – so she always stayed real close to the game, and kept it a part of her life.” — Bradley Beal
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21. “Morality and its victim, the mother – what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?” — Emma Goldman
22. “I’m sponsored by the solar company Goal Zero, and they were gracious enough to install panels on my van and a nice battery system for the inside. I have lights and a fridge inside the van. And of course I had panels installed on my mom’s house.” — Alex Honnold
23. “My mom had me when she was 25, and I’m 28 now, and just to even imagine myself three years ago starting to have children and be married and have my career, it’s pretty trippy, and I’m so proud and kind of in awe of her.” — Rumer Willis
24. “I never liked apples. In fact, when I was a little girl, my mom wanted to give me apples in my lunch box and I would ask for green peppers. So bizarre… It’s funny – I don’t have an apple a day, but I can say that I have a few a week.” — Lana Parrilla
25. “My mom is a constant in my life in so many ways.” — Kerri Walsh Jennings
26. “My parents are super westernized. My mom listens to western music, my dad was like a pub landlord so he properly embraced English life. But the truth is they both came from tiny villages in Sri Lanka.” — Romesh Ranganathan
27. “I either had to concentrate on fighting, or I had to help my family. I chose my family. I love my mom; I love my family.” — Gerry Cooney
28. “Of all the roles I’ve played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.” — Annette Funicello
29. “When I was a baby, I wore my mom’s Chanel pumps – to be able to say that I work with Karl Lagerfeld is a dream come true.” — Lily-Rose Depp
30. “I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.” — LeBron James
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31. “My mom told me to hang around with the right people. That’s what I’ve been doing. Just taking it easy and having fun.” — Ken Griffey Jr.
32. “I got my way with my grandma. I used to get whoopings with my mom, but my grandma spoiled me.” — YoungBoy Never Broke Again
33. “I used to say to my mom and dad all the time, ‘I’m going to move to America.’” — Peyton Royce
34. “One thing my mom taught me was that when you’re making deviled eggs, flip the eggs over the night before. They’ve been sitting in the carton as they’re transported, so the yolks settle on bottom. If you flip them, then the yolks aren’t skewed to one side.” — Trisha Yearwood
35. “My mother is the most incredible woman on this entire Earth, and she’s so giving and loving and sweet and she always raised me how to forgive and forget and move on. She’s the catalyst behind it all, my mom is. And I’m 100% a momma’s boy!” — Brody Jenner
36. “My mom and dad used to tell me, ‘You’ve got to see this film,’ and they were influential to a high degree of the films I saw as a kid.” — Jason Statham
37. “My grandmother and, and her father actually started a scholarship program in our church, you know, obviously, before I was born. And then my mom also owns a preschool, so, you know, education and giving back are just kind of in, in the genes, in a sense.” — Spencer Dinwiddie
38. “I’ve learned that every working mom is a superwoman.” — Uma Thurman
39. “My mom loves music and it poured into my childhood.” — Doja Cat
40. “My mom asked me one day at lunch in a very lovely and respectful way. I was finally comfortable enough to say yes, I was gay, and it really was never talked about again.” — Dan Levy
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41. “Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced.” — Ethel Merman
42. “The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn’t know I would love motherhood as much as I do.” — Deborah Norville
43. “I moved from New York to El Paso in 2015, just before my senior year. I was super nervous. My mom, she’s in the Army, and she got stationed at Fort Bliss. We packed everything up and drove all the way to El Paso.” — Khalid
44. “My mom was my mother and father. My father lost his mind when I was about 4 years old. And my mom did everything she could to make sure that we was brought up right.” — Anthony Ray Hinton
45. “I’m sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose.” — Joely Fisher
46. “Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.” — Tina Fey
47. “Arizona is the worst place to spend the summer – it’s like 125 degrees – so my mom, my brother and I would go to the beach for two months to escape the heat.” — Emma Stone
48. “The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.” — Jessica Lange
49. “My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom’s not, and I’m not. But I believe in God, and that there’s a higher power and an intelligence that’s bigger than us and that we can rely on. It’s not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.” — Ellen DeGeneres
50. “I used to have a really hard time talking to people or looking them in the eye. Or I’d always, like, hide behind my mom, and, like, when we went to restaurants, I didn’t like ordering my food. I’d have my mom order it because I didn’t like talking to the waiters.” — Darci Lynne Farmer
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51. “I never had, like, a nanny that took care of me. My mom always fed me breakfast, lunch, and dinner.” — Miley Cyrus
52. “My mom has been calling me Peep my whole life. That’s how I got the name.” — Lil Peep
53. “My mom put me away at 7. I enjoyed it… Being in institutions, I got three meals a day, clothes.” — DMX
54. “My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday.” — Molly Sims
55. “It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.” — Karrie Webb
56. “My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that’s the way it will always be.” — Ethel Merman
57. “As for my mom, her biggest gift to me was teaching me I can and I must use my voice. I owe her a debt of gratitude.” — Brooke Baldwin
58. “My parents are both very funny but they’re also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I’m just a lunatic. I don’t know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I’m just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It’s not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles.” — Emma Stone
59. “’Remember the Time’ and ‘You Rock My World’ from Michael Jackson were two of my favorite songs ever. My mom used to bump them all the time.” — A Boogie wit da Hoodie
60. “My mom has always been so generous and so sensitive and so vulnerable and yet exudes so much strength.” — Justin Trudeau
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61. “My mom Marina and I were poor and hungry. We could sometimes not afford to eat – seriously. We lived together in a small town, called Berdyansk, in Ukraine. I was an only child. I don’t think we would have survived if there had been more kids.” — Olga Kurylenko
62. “From singing to acting to songwriting to mom to fashion designer! It’s been quite an evolution.” — Christina Milian
63. “It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.” — Honore de Balzac
64. “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
65. “I love ‘Sunday in the Park with George.’ I saw that when I was just, just starting theater school, and I remember singing ‘Finishing the Hat’ or at least reading the lyrics to ‘Finishing the Hat’ and other songs from ‘Sunday in the Park with George’ to my mom to try to explain why I wanted to be an artist.” — Stephen Colbert
66. “My mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death.” — Eliza Dushku
67. “If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.” — E. W. Howe
68. “I don’t feel like I’m a perfect mom, and then there are times at work where I feel like maybe I wasn’t perfect here because of constraints on my time. But having the sum of both of those things going on in my life makes me a better mom at the end of the day, and I think gives me really important perspectives in the workplace as well.” — Susan Wojcicki
69. “I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.” — Barbara Bush
70. “My mom was a soap opera queen in Mexico and Latin America. I started acting because of her.” — Eugenio Derbez
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71. “My mom’s brother was gay, and he actually passed away from AIDS when I was 13. He was quite a character, but he also worked at the electrical plant, so he was this complicated guy with a big laugh who would wear a trucker hat and do impressions. He was gay, but to me, Uncle Alan was just the funniest person in the world.” — Casey Wilson
72. “Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M.” — Ryan White
73. “I made some truly awful movies. ‘Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot’ was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.” — Sylvester Stallone
74. “Because a woman goes to prison doesn’t mean she’s a bad mom – doesn’t mean that she shouldn’t have her children.” — Susan Burton
75. “My mother was a personal friend of God’s. They had ongoing conversations.” — Della Reese
76. “My mom was such a strong character. I don’t want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.” — Lance Armstrong
77. “My mom taught me to live by the three p’s: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.” — Hailee Steinfeld
78. “I’m a religious person. I remember my mom told me: ‘Vengeance belongs to God. It’s up to him to wreak vengeance.’ It’s hard for me to get to that point, but that’s the work of God.” — Rodney King
79. “When I started go-go dancing on tables for a living, I didn’t want to tell my mom or my dad. I made 25 dollars a night, and I was able to make my rent, with the four girls I lived with.” — Goldie Hawn
80. “I deal with postpartum feelings by reaching out to mom friends. I became very close with some of the women in my prenatal yoga class.” — Alyssa Milano
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81. “For almost five years on ‘Happy Days,’ I have had a mom and pop and a brother who give me advice and help me just as my own parents and brothers and sisters do at home.” — Erin Moran
82. “When I was 13, I would come visit my aunt and uncle in New York. I decided I wanted to live with them after seeing my cousin’s school. Honestly, I just wanted to go to a school where I didn’t have to wear uniforms, and my mom said okay.” — Priyanka Chopra
83. “I’m a reflection of my mom, my brothers and everyone in my family. How I carry myself is a reflection of how they raised me. I’ve learned that.” — Marcus Smart
84. “I love to cook. My mom taught me to cook at a very, very young age.” — Dexter Darden
85. “I followed wrestling, but I had just kind of made peace with, like, that was my career. I’m now a mom, and I’m going to find other things to do with my life.” — Beth Phoenix
86. “My mom and dad always taught acting, so instead of getting me babysitters, they would just bring me to class.” — Blake Lively
87. “If my mom reads that I’m grammatically incorrect I’ll have hell to pay.” — Larisa Oleynik
88. “The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother’s side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.” — Erich Fromm
89. “President of the United States is you know, our boss, so you know, the President and the First Lady are kinda like the Mom and the Dad of the country. And when your Dad says something you listen.” — Chris Rock
90. “With my mom and dad around, I became a child yet again.” — Manisha Koirala
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91. “I’m super into their trench coats. I’ve been wearing them for a while. Even my mom, she loves them. Definitely working with Burberry is a dope collaboration, just a good opportunity.” — Kris Wu
92. “One of the biggest things growing up that my dad taught me is that if I was okay to talk about my feelings and express how I felt and not get angry, then he would listen to me. If I had issues, I would just tell him, ‘Here’s how I feel, this is what I’m feeling,’ either with him or with my mom.” — Gnash
93. “I grew up with a pretty tough mom. She was a self-appointed neighborhood watchdog, and if she saw that any of the local boys were up to no good, she would scold them on the spot. Although she is only 5 feet 2, she was famous in our neighborhood for intimidating men three times her size and getting them to do the right thing.” — Hanna Rosin
94. “I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.” — Candice Bergen
95. “Mom was a nurse’s aide. She worked in various hospitals. She took care of us that way, and we ate government cheese. I survived.” — Loni Love
96. “’Lauv’ comes from the Latvian word for lion, and my mom’s side of the family is from Latvia – it’s a place I’ve been probably 15 times or more. I’m also a Leo, and my real name, Ari, means lion.” — Lauv
97. “I myself am a soccer mom, a volleyball mom and a basketball mom.” — Kerry Kennedy
98. “I always tell people I think my mom had me when I was 5 feet, 3 inches – I don’t remember ever growing.” — Muggsy Bogues
99. “At home, my mom and my dad shared equally in the responsibilities of the family and our home and always demonstrated the importance of men and women having an equal role.” — Alex Morgan
100. “My mom has beautiful eyes, and I inherited a lot of her rituals, accentuating eyes.” — Allison Williams
101. “When I wanted to audition for a dinner-theater junior troupe in my hometown, I needed to have a piece of musical theater music to sing. I wasn’t sure what I wanted to use. My mom and dad suggested that I sing ‘Edelweiss’ because I knew it from the music box.” — Audra McDonald
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Conclusion
In the tapestry of motherhood, strength is woven into every thread, creating a vibrant and resilient fabric that withstands the trials and triumphs of raising children.
As we come to the end of this collection of 101 strong mom quotes personalized for specific motherhood situations, we are reminded of the incredible power and resilience inherent in every mother.
From the quiet moments of self-reflection to the triumphant victories over adversity, each quote serves as a beacon of hope and encouragement for mothers facing their own unique challenges.
Whether you’re navigating the complexities of single parenthood, overcoming obstacles in pursuit of your dreams, or simply finding strength in the everyday moments of motherhood, there is a quote in this collection that speaks directly to your journey.
As we reflect on the diverse experiences and emotions shared within these pages, let us celebrate the indomitable spirit of mothers everywhere.
May these quotes serve as a reminder of your strength, resilience, and unwavering love as you continue to navigate the beautiful and sometimes turbulent waters of motherhood.
In the end, remember that you are not alone on this journey. Draw strength from the words of encouragement and empowerment shared within these pages, and know that you are a strong, capable, and extraordinary mother deserving of all the love and admiration in the world.
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