40+ Best Stay at Home Mom Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Profoundly inspirational stay at home mom quotes will encourage you to think a little deeper than you usually would and broaden your perspective.

Famous Stay at Home Mom Quotes

There is one gift that trumps all other talents being an excellent parent. If you can successfully raise a child in this day in age to have integrity then you have left a legacy that future generations will benefit from. Shannon L. Alder

 A mother’s love endures through all.  Washington Irving

I think women should have choices and should be able to do what they like, and I think it’s a great choice to stay at home and raise kids, just as it’s a great choice to have a career. Will Schwalbe, The End of Your Life Book Club

 Live in the moment and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering. Fanny Crosby

Working moms, stay-at-home moms, they’re both extremely hard jobs. Hilary Rosen

My childhood may be over, but that doesn’t mean playtime is. Ron Olson

A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth. Bill Watterson

A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.

A mother can feel desperate for sleep yet equally desperate to comfort her baby when he needs her at night. I have spoken to many mothers who have sacrificed their own sleep, waking up numerous times every night because their babies cried for them. Naomi Stadlen, What Mothers Do

The mother’s heart is the child’s school room. Henry Ward Beecher

Whether you are a stay at home mom, or on the red carpet, or in Afghanistan, the better you feel, the better you do your job. Bobbi Brown

When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know. Charley Benetto

It’s about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner. Jennifer Garner

 Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. Marion C. Garretty

This is my life: sitting around dying of boredom, the whining, the tantrums, the baby weight, the endlessness of it all. Hayley DeRoche, Hello Lovelies

 For a mother is the only person on earth who can divide her love among ten children and each child still has all her love. 

There ought to be a hall of fame for mamas  Creation’s most unique and precious pearl  And heaven help us always to remember  That the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. Glen Campbell

 Even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you’d be okay.  Jojo Moyes

I’m so happy and thankful I made it a point to be a stay at home mom. Candace Cameron

A mother continues to labor long after the baby is born. Lisa Jo Baker

Perhaps it takes courage to raise children. John Steinbeck, East of Eden

 Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved Erich Fromm

Motherhood no matter if you’re a working mom or stay at home mom  is really tough sometimes. It can really leave us each day with a sense of wondering if we’re doing it right. Lysa TerKeurst

 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

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

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

The time spent on family is not a sacrifice. You are living a life with choices; when you make the right ones, you have a good life. Laura Schlessinger

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

If she wasn’t careful, she’d slide without a ripple into the gently flowing stream of her old life, pulled back under the current without a whimper of protest. Another housewife lost in the flow. Kristin Hannah, On Mystic Lake

A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s. Princess Diana

All women should be able to make the best choices for themselves and their families, and no one should be belittled, degraded, or disregarded because of what she chooses to do. Kirsten Gillibrand, Off the Sidelines

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

If evolution really works, how come mothers have only two hands? Milton Berle

 A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. Honore de Balzac

I always say if you aren’t yelling at your kids, you’re not spending enough time with them. Reese Witherspoon

The most powerful thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it Chinese Proverb

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.  Oliver Wendell Holmes

When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway. Erma Bombeck.