1. “Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”
2. “I love being a mom, but I’m tired every day.”
3. “There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.”
4. “Being a single mom is the best thing that ever happened to me. It made me stronger, more independent, and more determined.”
5. “Stay at home Moms feel guilty because they think they’re not doing enough. Working Moms feel guilty because they think they’re not doing enough. Let go of the guilt. You are enough.”
6. “At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
7. “Being a working mother and a working single parent instils a sense of determination in you.”
8. “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.”
9. “As a single mom, I juggle a lot and work long hours. Yes, it costs them a little, but what my children get in return is a mother who is energized and content.”
10. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
11. “Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.”
12. “Be patient with yourself. The journey between practice and perfect is mistakes.”
13. “There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
14. “We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.”
15. “We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. the amount of work is the same.”
16. “No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”
17. “To be a good parent, you need to take care of yourself so that you can habe the physical and emotional energy to take care of your family.”
18. “There will be so many times you feel like you’ve failed. But in the eyes, heart, and mind of your child, you are super mom.”
19. “But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.”
20. “In a child’s eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.”
21. “Motherhood is a constant battle of going to bed early so you can catch up on sleep and staying awake so you can enjoy some peace and sanity!”
22. “I don’t think I realized how stressed I was being a single parent. It was stressful. It’s not easy on anybody.”
23. “Motherhood is messy. And challenging. And crazy. And sleepless. And giving. And still unbelievably beautiful.”
24. “Motherhood has the greatest potential influence in human life.”
25. “The bags under my eyes were definitely well past the carry-on limit.”
26. “A tired mom is a good mom. A rested mom is a better mom.”
27. “You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.”
28. “You are not responsible for other people’s opinions, feelings, or perceptions of you. They own that, not you.”
29. “Don’t tell a mother she looks tired; she already knows that. Tell her she’s doing a good job; she may not know that.”
30. “Cleaning the house while the children are still growing up is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.”
31. “Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had, and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed.”
32. “Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.”
33. “Being a single parent is not a life full of struggles, but a journey for the strong.”
34. “Being a single mom is the hardest job I’ve ever had, but it’s also the most rewarding.”
35. “(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that’s the only shift they offer.”
36. “We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.”
37. “Why don’t kids understand that their nap is not for them but for us?”
38. “As hard as it is and as tired as I am, I force myself to get dinner at least once a week with my girlfriends, or have a sleepover. Otherwise, my life is just work.”
39. “The love of a mother is never exhausted. It never changes – it never tires – it endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute. In the face of the world’s condemnation, a mother’s love still lives on.”
40. “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.”
41. “No matter how tired you are, no matter how physically exhausting this work may be, it’s beautiful to bring a smile into someone’s life, to care for someone in need. What greater joy can there be?”
42. “To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don’t feel it, you have to pretend.”
43. “Having children is like being pecked to death by ducks.”
44. “I always say if you aren’t yelling at your kids, you’re not spending enough time with them.”
45. “Your most valuable parenting skill is learning to manage yourself first.”
46. “I don’t know what’s more exhausting about parenting; the getting up early or acting like you know what you’re doing.”
47. “A tired mother makes a cup of coffee and sits down to cry.”
48. “Successful mothers are not the ones that have never struggled. They are the ones that never give up, despite the struggles.”
49. “The tiredness you feel today will wash away in the laughter of tomorrow.”
50. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
51. “I’m tired. I’m also tired of being tired. I also realize that one day I will get all the sleep I need because my children won’t live here anymore, and that makes me sad.”
52. “Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.”
53. “The best way to describe the exhaustion of parenthood? Imagine you were awake for twenty-four hours straight. And then someone punched you in the face.”
54. “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
55. “The tiredest I’ve ever been was the day after my son was born. It’s like your entire body just shuts down.”
56. “Sleep at this point is just a concept, something I’m looking forward to investigating in the future.”
57. “Breath darling, this is just a chapter. It’s not your whole story.”
58. “I want to show the example that you can be a single mother and work and handle many other things simultaneously”
59. “The world’s weight rests on my shoulders, and not only am I surviving, but I am knocking it out of the park. My son is still breathing and growing.”
60. “Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing”
61. “There are so many times you will feel you have failed, but in the eyes, heart and mind of your child, you are supermom.”
62. “Sleep is like the unicorn – it is rumoured to exist, but I doubt I will see any.”
63. “People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.”
64. “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.”
65. “Start by doing what’s necessary, then do what’s possible, and suddenly you’re doing the impossible.”
66. “Self-care is giving the world the best of you instead of what’s left of you.”
67. “Families don’t always realize that mother is exhausted, because mother is always exhausted. Exhausted is what looks normal.”
68. “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”
69. “Talk to yourself like you would someone you love.”
70. “The fastest way for a parent to get their child’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable.”
71. “There is no such thing as a perfect mother, and there never will be. So just be the best mom you can be, and forget about the rest.”
72. “Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frustrating all at once. It’s everything.”
73. “Such a mysterious business, motherhood. How brave a woman must be to embark on it.”
74. “If you’re completely exhausted and don’t know how you’re going to keep giving this much of yourself day after day you’re probably a good parent.”
75. “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 impossible.’ And then you just keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.”
76. “Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.”
77. “Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy.”
