100+ Stay-at-Home Mom Quotes: Inspirational & Funny

Whether you’re a stay-at-home mom, a full-time working mom, or anywhere in between, these stay-at-home mom quotes are for you! These quotes are so ridiculously relatable for every single mother, no matter what your “work” situation is. I’ve scoured the internet and gathered only the BEST stay-at-home mom quotes to give you inspiration for the hard days, as well as make you laugh! 

These stay-at-home mom quotes are from various sources – authors, bloggers, celebrities, the Bible, and some are unknown. The inspirational quotes will fill you with the warm fuzzy’s, and the funny ones will give you the chuckle you might be needing!

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Inspirational Stay-At-Home Mom Quotes

Being a mother is amazing, but also incredibly challenging at times. We all have bad days, and on those days it’s easy to question whether you’re a good mother or not.

​The calling of motherhood is a big one, and we all feel unequipped at times. If you want some encouragement, my post about honoring the high calling of motherhood is all about how to embrace this calling in your own life – and it’s worth the read!

Now, allow these inspirational stay-at-home mom quotes to validate how you feel, and remind you how important you are!

• “The most important work you will ever do will be within the walls of your own home.” – Harold B. Lee
• “At the end of the day, if everyone feels loved, you have done enough.” – Unknown
• “Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.” – C.S. Lewis
• “Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.” – Jodi Picoult
• “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.” – Bunmi Laditan from The Honest Toddler
• “Working moms, stay at home moms, they’re both extremely hard jobs.” – Hilary Rosen
• “I may not have it together every day, but we are together every day and that’s all that matters.” – Unknown
• “There is no way to be a perfect mother, but a million ways to be a good one.” – Unknown
• “I think it’s a tough road if you’re a stay-at-home mom, a working mom, if you have a partner, if you don’t. It’s the best job in the world, and the toughest job in the world all at the same time.”  – Angela Kinsey
• “The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.” – J. Picoult
• “My favorite people call me mom.” – Unknown
• “Let your father and mother be glad, let her who bore you rejoice.” – Prov. 23:25
• “I choose you. And I’ll choose you over and over and over. Without pause, without a doubt, in a heartbeat. I’ll keep choosing you.” – Unknown
• “There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.” – Elder M. Russell Ballard
• “Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.” – Sophocles
• “You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today’s world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.” – Neal Maxwell
• “Even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you’d be okay.” – Jojo Moye
• “Mothers hold their children’s hands for a while, but their hearts forever.” – Unknown
• “A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.” – Princess Diana
• “A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” – Cardinal Mermillod
• “No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.” – Edwin Chapin
• “The love between a mother and a daughter is forever.” – Patricia Wayant
• “Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.” – Susan Gale
• “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.” – B. Kingsglover

Wow…that last one is a little hard to swallow. Let’s take a few deep breaths between our sobs, and move on to some humour!

Funny Stay-At-Home Mom Quotes

I love it when people can find the truest of struggles, and pour humour into them! That’s exactly what these quotes are doing. I hope they give you a good laugh!

• “You know you’re a mom when you understand why Mama Bear’s porridge was cold.” – Unknown
• “I was going to throw in the towel, but then I remembered how much laundry I already have.” – Unknown
• “When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.” – Erma Bombeck
• “Sleep is like the unicorn—it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any.” – Unknown.
• “Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.” – Tina Fey
• “Sleep at this point is just a concept, something I’m looking forward to investigating in the future.” – Amy Poehler
• “Parenting is hard, especially trying to be patient with little versions of impatient you.” – Unknown
• “I always say if you aren’t yelling at your kids, you’re not spending enough time with them.” – Reese Witherspoon
• “The quickest way for a mother to get her children’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable.” – Unknown
• “I’ve conquered a lot of things … blood clots in my lungs — twice … knee and foot surgeries … winning Grand Slams being down match point … to name just a few, but I found out by far the hardest is figuring out a stroller!” – Serena Williams
• “If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says, ‘keep away from children’.” – Susan Savannah
• “You know your life has changed when… going to the grocery store by yourself is a vacation.” – Unknown
• “To be honest, I’m just winging it. Life, motherhood, my eye liner. Everything.” – Unknown
• “Why don’t kids understand that their nap is not for them but for us?” – Alyson Hannigan
• “I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.” – Phyllis Diller
• “It’s not easy being a mom. If it were easy, fathers would do it.” – Betty White
• “It just occurred to me that the majority of my diet is made up of food that my kid didn’t finish…” – Carrie Underwood
• “Motherhood is basically finding activities for children in three-hour pockets of time for the rest of your life.” – Mindy Kaling
• “When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.” – Nora Ephron
• “Now that I’m a mom, I’m way more laid back. If you come into my house, don’t look for a coaster. Forget it. There is not a piece of furniture in my house now that is too precious.” – Angela Kinsey
• “You know you’re a mom when you stop daydreaming about a million dollars and start daydreaming about how amazing it would be to go to the bathroom alone.” – Unknown
• “My nickname is ‘Mom’, but my full name is ‘Mom Mom Mom Mom Mom Mom.’” – Unknown
• “If evolution really works, how come mothers have only two hands?” – Milton Berle
• “There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.” – Chinese Proverb
• “And remember that behind every successful woman is a basket of dirty laundry.” – Unknown
• “Having kids feels like that first seventh-grade crush that overwhelms every molecule in your body, but it’s permanent.” – Kristen Bell

Mom quotes from the eyes of your child

As moms, we don’t often stop to think about how our children view us. We get so caught up in our shortcomings, that we don’t realize how different their perspectives of us actually are. To a child, even an adult child, a good mother makes all the difference!

• “My mom smiled at me. Her smile kind of hugged me.” – R.J. Palacio
• “Happy Mother’s Day, Mom! (And while I have you, quick apologies for ages 13-21.)” – Unknown
• “I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” – M. Albom
• “Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: ‘Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.’”- Proverbs 31:28-31
• “The most beautiful thing in this world is to see your parents smiling, and knowing that you are the reason behind that smile.” – Fatima Nacan
• “All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” – Abraham Lincoln
• “A mom’s hug lasts long after she lets go.” – Unknown
• “Nothing is really lost until your mom can’t find it.” – Unknown
• “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
• “I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” – Abraham Lincoln
• “The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will find forgiveness.” – Honore de Balzac
• ” When you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” – Mitch Albom
• “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
• “Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” – George Eliot
• “If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” – Stevie Wonder
• “Mother – that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.” – T. DeWitt Talmage
• “Mama, you taught me to do the right things. So now you have to let your baby fly. You’ve given me everything that I will need. To make it through this crazy thing called life.” – Carrie Underwood
• “It doesn’t matter how old you are or what you do in your life. You never stop needing your mom.” – Kate Winslet
• “Being a mother redefines us, reinvents us, destroys and rebuilds us.” – Shonda Rhimes

Motivational Quotes For Moms

Mom life is a full-time job, and there are days when we all feel like we need a little boost. These stay-at-home mom quotes are perfect for giving you a little bit of motivation when you’re feeling a tad weary. 

• “Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. – Barbara Kingsolver
• “Your influence as a mother is powerful. Don’t waste it. Little eyes are watching you.” – Unknown
• “The best career I’ll ever have, the profession where I’ll never stop learning, and the job that is worth all sacrifices, is being a mother to my children.” – Unknown
• “The days are long, but the years are short.”- Gretchen Rubin
• “No man is poor who has a godly mother.” – Abraham Lincoln
• “Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come. She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue. She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.” – Proverbs 31:25-28
• “There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.” – Elder M. Russell Ballard
• “Perhaps it takes courage to raise children..” – John Steinbeck
• “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
• “The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.” – Henry Ward Beecher
• “You will never look back on life and think ‘I spent too much time with my kids.’” – Unknown
• “It takes someone special to be a mom…someone strong to raise a child and someone brave to let them go…” – Unknown
• “You are my favorite reason to lose sleep.” – Unknown
• “It’s 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
• ” 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
• “Having kids – the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings – is the biggest job anyone can embark on.” –  Maria Shriver
• “There is no such thing as a mom who has it all together.” – Unknown

Stay-At-Home Mom Quotes that are just so true

These stay-at-home mom quotes are ones that need no explanation, and every single mom will relate to them! Some are light and funny, while others are more serious….but they are ridiculously relatable!

• “Good moms have homes that are clean enough to be healthy and messy enough to be happy.” – Jill Churchill
• “Motherhood isn’t for sissies.” – Gail Devers
• “The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” – Theodore Hesburgh
• “The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant.” – Jane Sellman
• “You’re always going to wonder if you’re doing things wrong, but that’s what it means to be a mom, to care so much about someone else that you just want to be as perfect as possible.” – Naya Rivera
• “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world.” – Agatha Christie
• “Being a stay-at-home mom is not for the faint of heart. It’s for those who want to shape the future one little person at a time.” – Unknown
• “A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.” – Tenneva Jordan
• “A mother continues to labor long after the baby is born.” – Lisa Jo Baker
• “Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” – Erich Fromm
• “All mothers are working mothers.” – Unknown
• “Motherhood is the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge and scary – it’s an act of infinite optimism.” – Gilda Radner
• ” A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” – Victor Hugo
• “Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.” – Kate Winslet
• “A baby fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty.” – Unknown
• ” 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 crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” –  Agatha Christie
• “A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled” – Emily Dickinson
• ” Behind every great child is a mom who’s pretty sure she’s screwing it all up.” – Unknown
• “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
• “Parenting is the easiest thing in the world to have an opinion about, but the hardest thing in the world to do.” – Matt Walsh
• “When you become a mother, it suddenly feels like your heart has grown too big for your body…It becomes this weird sort of feeling where being overwhelmed by love seems perfectly normal.” – Anne Hathaway
• “There’s no greater gift you can give your children than your time.” – Michael Hyatt
• “They’re the first thing I think about when I wake up in the morning, and the last thing I think about when I go to bed at night.” – Michelle Obama
• “Being a mother is discovering strengths you didn’t know you had, and dealing with fears you never knew existed.” – Sherene Simon
• “Being a stay-at-home mom may be a job filled with long hours and no pay, but it also comes with a whole lot of benefits.” – Unknown
• “ Successful mothers are not the ones that have never struggled. They are the ones that never give up, despite the struggles.” – Unknown

Final Thoughts

I hope you enjoyed this collection of 100+ stay-at-home mom quotes – even if you aren’t a stay-at-home mom!

My encouragement and advice to ALL moms, is to make sure to add some “me time” to your to-do list. I know how busy we get as Mama’s, but you need to pour into yourself so that you can effectively pour into your children.

​Read your Bible, get up a bit early and enjoy your coffee while it’s HOT, go for a walk – or whatever it is you like to do. Be sure to take care of yourself because your children need their mom! 

Blessings!

~Maryann