These 245 positive working mom quotes will empower and encourage you to achieve your dreams, build inner strength, and create the success you want. Quotes allow us to leverage others’ wisdom.

Being a working mom can be challenging, and there are times when we could all use a little boost to keep us going. Reading working mom quotes from inspirational men and women can assist you with achieving your goals.

Ultimately, we want to work like we don’t have children and parent like we don’t have a job. So it can be hard feeling like you are not giving 100% at work and home.

Some days you feel like you are being stretched so thin with expectations coming from every direction. No matter how hardworking you are, there is not enough mom to go around some days.

Those are the days when you need working mom quotes for inspiration. Another excellent mom hack is reading motivational quotes and doing positive affirmations to help you win the day.

These working mom quotes will provide you with the courage, optimism and wisdom you need to power through your days feeling more energised, happy and hopeful. It’s incredible what beautiful words can do to help mamas stay strong.

You can share your hard-working mom quotes with your children, they will also benefit from the inspiration and encouragement. We love these motivational cards that you can write on, put in children’s lunchboxes, or leave on their beds.

These quotes will keep you going on days when you need hope and inspiration. You can use some like a mantra, repeating them over and over.

And as you read our hard-working mom quotes, just remember, you are enough.

“Wholehearted living is about engaging in our lives from a place of worthiness. It means cultivating the courage, compassion, and connection to wake up in the morning and think that I am enough no matter what gets done and how much is left undone. It’s going to bed at night thinking, Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.”
– Brene Brown

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Working Mom Quotes For Courage

1. Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”
– Mary Anne Radmacher

2. “On particularly rough days when I’m sure I can’t possibly endure, I like to remind myself that my track record for getting through bad days so far is 100%. And that’s pretty good.”
– Vinny Genovesi

4. “You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry, and you curse. Then you go about the business of living. That’s how I’ve done it. There’s no other way.”
– Elizabeth Taylor

5. “One day, you will tell the story of how you’ve overcome what you’re going through now, and it will become part of someone else’s survival guide.”
– Brene Brown

7. “Successful mothers are not the ones who never struggled; they are the ones that never gave up despite the struggle.”
– Sharon Jaynes

8. “She was powerful not because she wasn’t scared but because she went on so strongly, despite the fear.”
– Atticus

9. “There is a sacredness in tears, and they are not the mark of weakness but power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief…and unspeakable love.”
– Washington Irving

11. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”
— Winston S. Churchill

12. “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”
— Thomas Jefferson

14. “He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.”
— Confucius

15. “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
— George Lorimer

16. “Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had.”
— Angela Bassett

17. “And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Haruki Murakami

18. “I think every working mom probably feels the same thing: You go through big chunks of time where you’re just thinking, “this is impossible – oh, this is impossible”. And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.”
– Tina Fey

20. “The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at.”
— Jesse Owens

21. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
— Frederick Douglass

23. “In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.”
– Paul Harvery

24. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
― Winston Churchill

25. “It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.”
– Vince Lombardi

27. “If you’re completely exhausted and don’t know how you are going to keep giving this much of yourself day after day, you’re probably a good parent.”
– Bunmi Laditan

29. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”
— Earl Nightingale

30. “Never give up. Great things take time.”
– Dhiren Prajapati

32. “There will be so many times you feel like you failed. But in the eyes, ears, and mind of your child, you are a SUPERMOM.”
– Stephanie Precourt

33. “The one who falls and gets back up again is so much stronger than the one who never fell.”
–  Roy T. Bennett

35. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
– Confucius

36. “It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.”
– Vince Lombardi

Inspiring Working Mom Quotes

38. “I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been given a no. Only to find that a better, brighter, bigger yes was right around the corner.”
— Arlan Hamilton

39. “We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.”
— Ariana Huffington

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

42. “If everything was perfect, you would never learn, and you would never grow.”
– Beyonce Knowles

44. “In case no one has told you lately, you are amazing, strong, brave, wonderful, kind, loved, worthy, and there is no one like you. The world needs you.”

46. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

47. “Opportunities don’t happen; you create them.”
— Chris Grosser

49. “I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.”
—Arianna Huffington

50. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
— Aristotle

51. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
— Arthur Ashe

53. “First, forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice.”
― Octavia Butler

54. “You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do.”
— Dr Seuss

55. “I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.”
— Don Cheadle

57. “You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe.”
— Leymah Gbowee

58. “It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.”
– Ann Landers

59. “If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.”
– Abigail Van Buren

60. “I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in the darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.”
– Hafiz

62. “It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”
― Mother Teresa

63. “Seek to impress by who you are not with what you have.”

64. “Appreciate where you are in your journey, even if it’s not where you want to be. Every season serves a purpose.”

65. “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”
– Napoleon Hill

66. “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
– Frederick Douglass

67. “Make today worth remembering.”
– Zig Ziglar

68. “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.”
– John Wooden

69. “If I could give you one gift, I would give you the ability to see yourself as I see you, so you could see how truly special you are.”

71. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
– William Arthur Ward

72. “Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

74. “Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

75. “Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.”
— Vince Lombardi

76. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
— Helen Keller

78. “Things may go badly; however, in the end, they will work themselves out… if they haven’t worked themselves out, it then surely it is not the end.”
– Marigold Hotel

79. “Mom – One who sacrifices her body, sleep, social life, spending money, eating hot meals, peeing alone, patience, energy, and sanity for LOVE”!
– Lenny Lemons

80. “Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.”
– Maya Angelou

Happiness Working Mom Quotes

Negative thoughts are easy; our negative bias means we naturally think pessimistically. Disciplining your mind to think more positively is a skill that takes practice.  

Thinking about positive outcomes is a form of self-love, as it offers internal support to ourselves.

81. “Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.”
― Roy T. Bennett

83. “Life is not about having everything. It’s about finding meaning in everything.”
– Joel Randymar

85. “Hakuna Matata.”
– The Lion King

86. “Being happy never goes out of style.”
– Lilly Pullitzer

87. “Give yourself permission to be happy every day.”
–  Joel Osteen 

88. “You have to change the way you think in order to change the way you feel.”
– Robin Roberts

90. “Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.”
– Greg Anderson

91. “Stop focussing on how stressed you are and remember how blessed you are.”

92. “If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”
– Oprah

94. “What do I believe that I deserve in this life? I think I deserve something beautiful.”
―  Elizabeth Gilbert

95. “We must learn that our appearance is not, ultimately, what makes us who we are as people. Our souls make us who we are.”
– Hannah Hilton

96. “I let it go. It’s like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.”
― Joanne Harris

98. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”
– Maya Angelou

99. “Happiness is not something readymade.  It comes from your own actions.”
– Dalai Lama

101. “While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.” – Angela Schwindt

102. “Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
― Roy T. Bennett

103. “It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
― Dale Carnegie

105. “As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”
— Henry David Thoreau

106. “Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, be strong and keep reminding yourself that everything happens for a reason.”
– John Mayer

108. “The beauty of love is that in giving it away, you are left with more than you had before.”
– David Simon

109. “Fair or unfair, sometimes we have to give ourselves what we wish we could get from someone else.”
– Phil McGraw

111. “Life isn’t about getting and having; it’s about giving and being.”
– Kevin Kruse

112. “The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
– Buddha

113. “Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while so that we can see life with a clearer view again.”
– Alex Tan

114. “Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!”
– Lawrence G. Lovasik

116. “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind. Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
– Dr Seuss

118. “I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.”
– Oprah

119. “It makes me happy to know that none of us gets a how-to guide. We’re all just kind of winging it.”

120. “Be a positive energy trampoline – absorb what you need and rebound more back.”
— Dave Carolan

121. “Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”
— Dalai Lama

123. “Love your family, work super hard, live your passion.”
— Gary Vaynerchuk

124. “Work for a cause, not for applause. Live life to express, not to impress. Don’t strive to make your presence noticed; just make your absence felt.”

125. “What screws us up most in life is the picture in our head of how it is supposed to be.”

127. “I still believe that love is all you need. I don’t know a better message than that.”
– Paul McCartney

128. “Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”
– Kurt Vonnegut

129. “You have to change the way you think in order to change the way you feel.”
– Robin Roberts

130. “Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.”
― Anne Lamott

132. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
— Albert Einstein

133. “I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.”
– Walker Anderson

Fascinating lessons on the good life from the longest study on happiness.

Working Mom Quotes for Encouragement

134. “In case no one has told you lately, you are amazing, strong, brave, wonderful, kind, loved, worthy, and there is no one like you. The world needs you.”

136. “You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.” Melissa Etheridge

137. “Take time to make your soul happy”.

138. “The best view comes after the hardest climb”.

140. “Be your own kind of beautiful”.

141. “Be the energy you want to attract”.

142. “Attitude is everything”.

144. “Live in the moment”.

145. “Enjoy today”.

146. “Good vibes only”.

148. “Start each day with a grateful heart.”

149. “Do more of what makes you happy.”

150. “Believe in your potential.”

151. “Be bold. Be brave. Be kind.”

153. “Do what you love”.

154. “Expect nothing. Appreciate everything”.

155. “Shine bright like a diamond”.

157. “Today is a perfect day to be awesome”.

158. “Kindness is free sprinkle that stuff everywhere”.

159. “You are amazing”.

160. “Yes, you can”.

162. “Born to shine.”

163. “Perfectly imperfect”.

164. “Big journeys begin with small steps”.

165. “Follow your heart”.

166. “Worrying does not take away today’s trouble; it takes away today’s peace.”

167. “Every day is a new adventure.”

168. “Smiles are always in fashion.”

169. “Always believe in yourself.”

170. “Dream big.”

171. “Put on your positive pants.”

172. “Be gentle with yourself; you’re doing the best you can.”

173. “Be a warrior, not a worrier.”

174. “Choose happy.”

175. “Say yes to new adventures.”

176. “Dare to begin.”

177. “Carpe Diem.”

178. “Just be you.”

179. “It’s a good day to have a good day.”

180. “Enjoy the little things.”

181. “You are capable of amazing things.”

182. “Find beauty everywhere.”

184. “A little progress each day adds up to big results.”

185. “Be authentic”.

186. “Be happy.”

187. “Do small things with great love.”

188. “Choose joy.”

189. “Life is more than one big to-do list.”

190. “Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.”

192. “Failure is not the opposite of success. It is part of success.”

193. “You are more capable than you know.”

194. “Believe in magic.”

195. “All things are possible if you believe.”

196. “Smile more. Worry less.”

197. “Fake it ‘til you make it.”

198. “This too shall pass.”

200. “Train your mind to see the good in everything.”

201. “It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.”

202. “The sky is the limit.”

203. “There are no shortcuts to anywhere worth going.”

204. “In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.”

205. “Be brave.”

206. “Be fearless.”

207. “Slow progress is better than no progress.”

208. “Do all things with love.”

209. “Change your thoughts, and you’ll change your world.”

210. “Don’t let anyone dull your sparkle.”

211. “When life gives you lemons. Make lemonade.”

212. “Storms don’t last forever.”

213. “You only fail if you quit.”

215. “Sometimes we’re tested, not to show our weaknesses but to discover our strengths.”

216. “Think positive and positive things will happen.”

217. “Sometimes, you have to fall before you fly.”

218. “Never lose your sense of wonder.”

219. “A good laugh recharges your battery.”

221. “Walk barefoot. Listen to the wind. Breathe in the sunlight. Be magic.”

222. “Shine.”

224. “Stay patient and trust your journey.”

225. “Grow through what you go through.”

226. “What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.”

227. “Positivity is a superpower.”

229. “Get out of your comfort zone.”

230. “Make your own kind of music.”

231. “Believe in unicorns.”

232. “Aspire to inspire.”

232. “Go where you feel the most alive.”

233. “Happy mind. Happy life.”

234. “Just love.”

235. “When life gives you rain, jump in the puddles.”

237. “Have a beautiful day.”

Bond Between Mother and Child Working Mom Quotes

241. “A mother understands what a child cannot say.”

242. “Mothers hold their children’s hands for a while, but their hearts forever.”

245. “A rich child often sits in a poor mother’s lap.”
– Danish Proverb

Poems

A real mom:

Emotional, yet the rock.
Tired, but keeps going.
Worried but full of hope.
Impatient, yet patient.
Overwhelmed, but never quits.
Amazing, even though doubted.
Wonderful, even in the chaos.
Life changer, every single day.

Rachel Martin

Promise Yourself 

To be so strong that nothing
can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness, and prosperity
to every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel
that there is something in them
To look at the sunny side of everything
and make your optimism come true.

To think only the best, to work only for the best,
and to expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others
as you are about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past
and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times
and give every living creature you meet a smile.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself
that you have no time to criticise others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,
and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world,
not in loud words but great deeds.
To live in faith that the whole world is on your side
so long as you are true to the best that is in you.

Christian D. Larson

Don’t Quit 

When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low, and the debts are high
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.

Life is strange with its twists and turns
As every one of us sometimes learns
And many a failure comes about
When he might have won had he stuck it out;
Don’t give up though the pace seems slow—
You may succeed with another blow.

Success is failure turned inside out—
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell just how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far;
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit—
It’s when things seem worst that you must not quit.

John Greenleaf Whittier

I Took His Hand and Followed

My dishes went unwashed today,
I didn’t make the bed,
I took his hand and followed
Where his eager footsteps led.

Oh yes, we went adventuring,
My little son and I,
Exploring all the great outdoors
Beneath the summer sky.

We waded in a crystal stream,
We wandered through a wood;
My kitchen wasn’t swept today
But life was gay and good.

We found a cool, sun-dappled glade.
And now my small son knows
How Mother Bunny hides her nest,
Where jack-in-the-pulpit grows.

We watched a robin feed her young,
We climbed a sunlit hill,
Saw cloud-sheep scamper through the sky,
We plucked a daffodil.

That my house was neglected,
That I didn’t brush the stairs,
In twenty years, no one on earth
Will know, or even care.

But that I’ve helped my little boy
To noble manhood grow,
In twenty years, the whole wide world
May look and see and know.

Author: Unknown

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