35 Strong Mom Quotes To Motivate And Encourage You

 

Strong mom quotes don’t only refer to physical strength, there are many other ways a mother can be strong. CafeMom has a list that includes things like putting your child’s needs before your own and leading by example.

Moms have to be mentally, emotionally, and physically strong from the beginning. As soon as a woman finds out she’s pregnant, those motherly instincts kick in.

She will do everything she can to help ensure that her baby is born healthy.

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Before she knows it, the time comes to use her stamina and strength to bring her baby into the world. This is immediately followed by being mentally and emotionally challenged taking care of a newborn, while her body is recovering and she’s sleep deprived.

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That’s just the very beginning! I have a teenager now and I can tell you that takes a lot of being supportive, having patience, and knowing when to pick your battles.

No matter what stage of motherhood you’re in, reading strong mother quotes can inspire and encourage you. In this post, discover over 30 strong mama quotes to go through.

You’ll find quotes from famous people, quotes from books, and some that were found online but the author is unknown.

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Strong Mom Quotes

“There is no way to be the perfect mother but a million ways to be a good one.”

― Jill Churchill

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

― Barbara Kingsolver

"Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had, and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed.”

― Linda Wooten

“Birth is the epicentre of women’s power.”

― Ani Di Franco

“A mother’s love will push you to the edge of the ocean while holding you above it. Her fearless strength keeps the wind in your sails.”

― Henrik Ibsen

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“Love as powerful as your mother’s leaves its own mark…To have been loved so deeply… Will give us some protection forever.”

― J.K. Rowling

“Motherhood is a choice you make every day, to put someone else’s happiness and well-being ahead of your own.

To teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing, even when you’re not sure what the right thing is…and to forgive yourself over and over again for doing everything wrong.”

― Donna Ball

“Birth takes a woman’s deepest fear about herself and shows her that she is stronger than them.”

― Unknown

“Giving birth and being born bring us into the essence of creation, where the human spirit is courageous and bold and the body, a miracle of wisdom.”

― Harriette Hartigan

“No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.”

― Sarah Josepha Hale

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“Being a strong mother is not about how you treat your kids when they’re behaving the best, but rather how you cheer them up and help them in their darkest times.”

― Unknown

“The power of a mother’s love is greater than any force on earth.”

― Unknown

“To be a mother, you must be strong. Even if you don’t feel it, you must pretend.”

― Sade Adu

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

― Maria Shriver

“Here’s to strong women. May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them.”

― Unknown

 
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“To all mothers in every circumstance, including those who struggle, I say, ‘Be peaceful. Believe in God and yourself. You are doing better than you think you are.”

― Jeffrey R. Holland

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“Strong mothers raise strong daughters.”

― Jessica A. Lane

“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us;

when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”

― Washington Irving

“We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.”

― Laura Stavoe Harm

“To the world you are a mother, but to your family you are the world.”

― Unknown

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“Life doesn’t come with a manual, it comes with a mother.”

― Salma Bucker

“For a mother is the only person on earth who can divide her love among ten children and each child still have all her love.”

― Unknown

“A mother continues to labor long after the baby is born.”

― Lisa Jo Baker

“All mothers are working mothers.”

― Unknown

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“The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly – indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.”

― Arianna Huffington

 
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“A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”

― Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“God could not be everywhere, therefore he made mothers.”

― Rudyard Kipling

“Successful mothers are not the ones that have never struggled. They are the ones that never give up, despite the struggles.”

― Sharon Jaynes

“The very fact that you worry about being a good mother means that you already are one.”

― Jodi Picoult

“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

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

― Oprah Winfrey

“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will find forgiveness.”

― Honore de Balzac

“No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother’s love.”

― Edwin Hubbell Chapin

“It doesn’t matter how old you get. Your mother’s fierce love is always going to be there to hold you up.”

― Unknown

“Mother: that one word that cannot be defined in a single phrase; that one word that embodies all the love a human being could possibly offer.”

― Sunaina Bhatia

 

We’d love to hear if you have any favorites from our list. Or maybe you’ve got a suggestion that you’d like added?

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