Single Mother Quotes and Sayings

In the recent years, there has been a considerable rise in the number of single mothers raising their kids. Being a single mother is also one of the major women's issues today. A single mother plays the role of both, the father and the mother, for her kid. She tries hard to divide her time to fulfill all her duties as a mother and working woman. She strives to give the best to her child and also bring out the best in him; all single-handedly. Being a single mother is no easy job but many women succeed in it. Here are some famous quotes and sayings for single mothers, that tell us more on motherhood: the joys, hardships and different aspects of it.

Best Single Mother Quotes and Sayings

Although a mother may face all the ups and downs and difficulties of parenting and motherhood, it does not diminish her joy of being a mother. Here are some of the best and the most popular quotes about being a mother, or rather, being a single mother.

# God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
~ Rudyard Kipling

# The trouble with being a parent is that by the time you are experienced, you are unemployed.
~ Anonymous

# 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

# 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

# Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
~ Pearl S. Buck

# Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.
~ Bill Richardson

# Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease.
~ Lisa Alther

# The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
~ Rajneesh

# Your children need your presence more than your presents.
~ Jesse Jackson

# If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam.
~ Lord Langdale

# The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
~ Honore' de Balzac

# I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!
~ Arianna Huffington

# Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.
~ Anonymous

# Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.
~ Alice Hoffman

# It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.
~ Phyllis Diller

# A man's work is from sun to sun. A mother's work is never done.
~ Anonymous

# 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

# Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love.
~ Mildred B. Vermont

# Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
~ Maggie Gallagher

# Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
~ Maxim Gorky

Inspirational Single Mother Quotes

Now, are you looking for some more inspiring quotes? Here are some more quotes on being a single mother that motivate women on different aspects of parenting. You may even find some of them funny; but, at the same time, they convey a deeper thought.

# Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.
~ Evan Bayh

# Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
~ Aristotle

# Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
~ Robert A. Heinlein

# If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.
~ Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

# The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable.
~ Lane Olinghouse

# Good mothers know that their relationship with each of their children is like a movable feast, constantly changing and evolving.
~ Sue Woodman

I hope you enjoyed reading these single mother quotes and sayings. Popular quotes and sayings are meant to motivate people. Therefore, if you are a single mother, these quotes will definitely encourage you and inspire you when you feel low or depressed. Or, if you are living with a single mother, go and tell your mother how much she means to you, she will love it! Take care!