60+ Powerful Inspirational Quotes For Working Moms

Inspirational Quotes For Working Moms

You’ve had a hard day at work, and you just need some words of encouragement, what can be better than inspirational quotes for working moms. Sometimes, reading words that can boost you with energy is something that you need.

Best Working Mom Quotes With Feels

• “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 sot of do the impossible.” ~ Tina Fey
• “As a working mother, I know that women can be both professionally ambitious and deeply committed to their families.” ~ Tory Burch
• “The obligation for working mothers is a very precise one: the feeling that one ought to work as if one did not have children, while raising one’s children as if one did not have a job.” ~ Annabel Crabb
• “Working mothers’ laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariable on our own head.” ~Allison Pearson

• “For me, being a mother made me a better professional, because coming home every night to my girls reminded me what I was working for. And being a professional made me a better mother, because by pursuing my dreams, I was modeling for my girls how to pursue their dreams.” ~ Michelle Obama
• “A happy mother is a good mother, and if work makes you hum, your whole family sings along.” ~ Sharon Meers & Joanna Strober
• “I always give my title as “working mother” because my children and my work are the two most important things in my life. Finding that balance is very important. Your career lasts a lifetime…stop and have our children whenever you’re ready, not when your job “allows.” ~Karren Brady
• “The worst thing that we can do as women is not stand up for each other, and this is something we can practice every day, no matter where we are and what we do — women sticking up for other women, choosing to protect and celebrate each other instead of competing or criticizing one another.” – Amal Clooney
• “This struggle is real. The juggle is real. That’s why everyone should hire working mothers. They are put in crazy situations all the time and are forced to problem-solve. They are some of my most resourceful employees.” – Sara Blakely
• “When you’re a working mom, you have an endless amount of cups to fill. It’s inevitable to have days where you run out of water. Don’t forget to refill your own cup.” ~Unknown
• “Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.” ~ Barbara Kingsolver
• “Being a working mom, you want to make a difference in our schools, which is making a difference in our children, and ultimately it’s making a difference in our community.” ~Kimora Lee Simmons
• “We need more portrayals of women as competent professionals and happy mothers – or even happy professionals and competent mothers.” ~Sheryl Sandberg
• The work-life balance for a woman should be exactly what she feel is right for her. And nobody else can set her time schedule. And nobody else can tell her how many house a week she needs to devote this, that or the other. **** what anybody else says, it doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks.” ~Gwyneth Paltrow
• “Having it all means having the same work and family choices that men do. It doesn’t mean having everything you want — No one has that.” ~Anne-Marie Slaughter
• “She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn’t take them along.” ~Margaret Culkin Banning

• “Your work is going to fill large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking and don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” ~Steve Jobs
• “Be fully present at work and at home. Feeling guilty is wasted energy and it will wear you down quickly.” ~Dawn Sandomeno

Guilty Feelings Of Working Moms

• “For all working mothers it’s important to remember that we don’t get to be with our kids all the time, but it’s also important for them to see us as leaders and there is value in that.” ~Olivia Wilde (actress)
• “You’re not a bad mom because you go to work each day. Similarly, you’re not a failure because you left your career altogether. Choices regarding work and family are personal– there is no one-size fits all method. Anyone who tells you otherwise is wrong.” ~ Candace Alnaji
• “Get rid of the guilt. When you’re at one place, don’t feel bad that you’re not at work. When you’re at work, don’t feel bad that you’re not at home.” ~Katie Couric
• “I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum I know I am a great mother.” ~ Kate Winslet
• “Being a mother still happens if you don’t stay home with your kids. It still happens if you get a job and go to work. It happens if you are an Army Ranger and you’re deployed overseas and your kid is rating with your parents. Still a mother. Still not a job. Working or staying home, one is still a mother.” ~ Shonda Rhimes
• “Being a working mom isn’t easy. You have to be willing to screw up at every level.” ~ Jami Gertz
• “We should go after our dreams and not be apologetic about it, but it’s scary. Whether you want to work or not, you have to do what makes you a fuller person. You have to love yourself.” ~ Catherine Reitman
• “The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don’t think I’ll ever perfect, but I love the challenge of it.” – Kerri Walsh Jennings
• “When you’re a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend its really boring, but its not. Its enriching and fulfilling, and an amazing experience. And then when you’re a working mother you have to pretend that you feel guilty all day long.” ~ Amy Poehler
• “Having seen my mom in community volunteer work my whole life and in Congress for 25 years, it is true as she often says that she sees her service as an extension of her role as a mother and a grandmother.” ~Christine Pelosi
• “Knowing I’ve got this beautiful baby to go home to makes me feel like I don’t have to play another match. I don’t need the money or the titles or the prestige. I want them, but I don’t need them. That’s a different feeling for me.” – Serena Williams
• “I’m not a single mom with two jobs, trying to get by, every day. I have much more support than most women, around this world, and I have the financial means to have a home and help with care and food.” ~ Angelina Jolie
• “Being a working mother and a working single parent instills in you a sense of determination.” ~ Felicity Jones
• “Guilt is something all moms feel, whether they work outside the home or not.” ~ Anonymous
• “Shout out to the mums that work. You’re doing your best even when you think you’re at the worse.” ~ Anonymous

• “Personally, I’ve always known that I wanted to go back to work because I’m confident, and I’m certain that my daughter will have a better mother in me if I’m doing that things that I’m excited about and that I’m passionate about.” ~ Lisa Ling
• “Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.” ~Ann Landers
• “I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learnt from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depend upon our dispositions and not upon our circumstances.” ~Martha Washington
• “Many working mothers feel guilty about not being at home. And when they are there, they wish it could be perfect. This pressure to make every minute happy puts working parents in a bind when it comes to setting limits and modifying behavior.” ~ Cathy Rindner Tempelsman
• “Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.” ~ Camille Paglia

Uplifting Mom Quotes

• “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
• “You cannot do everything at once, so find people you trust to help you. And don’t be afraid to say no.” – Jane Seymour
• “There is no way to be a perfect mother, but a million ways to be a good one.” – Jill Churchill
• “Its not difficult to take care of a child; It’s difficult to do anything else while taking care of a child.” ~ Julianne Moore
• “The very fact that you worry about being a good mother means that you already are one.” ~Jodi Picoult
• “Successful mothers are not the ones who have never struggled. They are the ones who never give up despite the struggles.” Sharon Jaynes

• “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

• “Being a mother is the hardest job on earth. Women everywhere must declare it so.” ~Oprah Winfrey
• “Motherhood is the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge an and scary- it’s an act of infinite optimism.” ~ Gilda Radner
• “Motherhood has a humanizing effect. It reduces everything to essentials.” ~ Meryl Streep
• “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
• “The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother’s knees. All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
• “With my new venture, Club Mom, we want to empower moms to feel their value and also build their collective power to make their lives better and easier. We want to bring them together as a community to share experiences and information.” ~Andrew Shue
• “There is no one perfect way to be a good mother. Each situation is unique. Each mother has different challenges, different skills, and abilities, and certainly different children… What matters is that a mother loves her children deeply.” ~Elder M. Russell Ballard

Mom Quotes Of Love

• “Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” ~Stevie Wonder
• “A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.” ~Debasish Mridha
• “Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heart throb.” ~Leroy Brownlow
• “A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.” ~Amy Tan
• “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” ~Robert Browning
• “The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” ~James. E. Faust
• “A mother’s love liberates.” ~Maya Angelou
• “When God created mothers, all as lovely as can be, He made one extra special, and saved her just for me.” ~Holly Giffers
• “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and rushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” ~Agatha Christie
• Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, 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 what the right thing is.. And to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.” ~Donna Ball
• “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 thought doubted. Wonderful, even in the chaos. Life changer, every single day.” ~ Rachel Martin
• “Motherhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly and definitely that. It is the essence of who we are as women. Motherhood defines our very identity, our devine statue, and nature, and the unique traits, and talents and tendencies our Father gave us.” ~Sheri Dew
• “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
• “You, mother, are not responsible to set the whole world right; you are responsible only to make one pure, sacred, and divine household.” ~Lyman Abbot

There’s nothing better than words of relatable situations that we all go through. From stay at homes, to working from home moms, to career working moms who go to work everyday, we are here to share our feels.

We know it’s a challenge and we al feel the hardships, but these inspirational quotes for working moms can give us a little bit of encouragement. It keeps us going, allowing us to know that it’s okay. We are okay. The kids will be okay. And that our families adapt to changes as it comes.

Do you have any quotes that you would want to add? Feel free to leave some on the comments. I would love to hear your favorite inspirational quotes for working moms.

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