Motherhood is a journey filled with boundless joy and unparalleled love, yet it also comes with its fair share of challenges and moments of feeling overwhelmed. Between managing household responsibilities, attending to the endless needs of children, and often balancing a career, it’s easy for moms to feel like they’re running on empty.
On those tough days, when the weight of the world seems to rest solely on their shoulders, finding solace and encouragement becomes crucial. This post is dedicated to all the amazing moms out there who might need a little extra support and a gentle reminder that they are not alone in their struggles. We hope this collection of quotes for overwhelmed moms reminds you of your worth and the incredible job you are doing every single day.
63 Quotes For Overwhelmed Moms Who Are Having a Tough Day
Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.
– Jodi Picoult
Being a mom can be exhausting and overwhelming. Letting lose and being a bit more playful feels good for you and feels great for your kids too.
– Carly, mommyonpurpose.com
We just need to be kinder to ourselves. If we treated ourselves the way we treated our best friend, can you imagine how much better off we would be?
– Meghan Markle
Sleep at this point is just a concept, something I’m looking forward to investigating in the future.
– Amy Poehler
Twelve years later the memories of those nights, of that sleep deprivation, still make me rock back and forth a little bit. You want to torture someone? Hand them an adorable baby they love who doesn’t sleep.
– Shonda Rhimes
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
– Swedish proverb
Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
– Benjamin Franklin
Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.
– Walter Anderson
Anxiety happens when you think you have to figure out everything all at once. Breathe. You’re strong. You got this. Take it day by day.
– Karen Salmansohn
Sometimes I stand there going, ‘I’m not doing any of this right!’ And then I get this big man belch out of her and I go, ‘Ah, we accomplished this together.
– Christina Applegate
Behind every great kid is a mom who’s pretty sure she’s screwing it all up.
– Unknown
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
– William James
When you stop to enjoy the little things, that anxiety fades…even if just for a moment.
– Katy Huie Harrison, undefiningmotherhood.com
Just being there in the moment in your head and accepting anxiety as uncomfortable takes away some of its power.
– Stephanie Iraggi, www.mamashark.blog
You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Anxiety is a lot like a toddler. It never stops talking, tells you you’re wrong about everything, and wakes you up at 3 a.m.
– Anonymous
I know you are overwhelmed. I know it is so hard and feels like you can’t even live your life. Having anxiety as a mom is horrible, but it is not all that bad either. It helps you protect your children. It helps you plan and prepare. Don’t feel entirely guilty for having anxiety. It is not all that bad.
– Kate Tekurio
People with anxiety don’t have a train of thought. We have 7 trains on 4 tracks that narrowly avoid each other when paths cross, and all the conductors are screaming.
– golden-oath.com
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
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
– Calvin Trillin
To be a good parent, you need to take care of yourself so that you can have the physical and emotional energy to take care of your family.
– Michelle Obama
Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve others from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.
– Eleanor Brown
I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
– Audre Lorde
The majority of my diet is made up of foods that my kid didn’t finish.
– Carrie Underwood
Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
– Barbara Walters
It’s okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others, and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.
– Faith Hill
Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed.
– Linda Wooten
Strength grows in the moments when you think you can’t go on but you keep going anyway.
– ourpositive.com
You can be a mess and be a good mom. We are allowed to be both.
– Katie Bingham Smith
It’s OKAY to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave.
– Mandy Hale
Raising a kid is part joy and part Guerilla warfare.
– Ed Asner
I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.
– Phyllis Diller
Dear mothers, you’ll learn to lower your expectations about what you can accomplish in a day. Some days it will be all you can do to keep baby safe, warm, fed, and loved. And that is more than enough.
– Unknown
You have plenty of people in your life who love you deeply and for good reason. Do not lose sight of this fact. Your anxiety does not make you unlovable. Not even close.
– Molly Burford
The tough times, the days when you’re just a ball on the floor — they’ll pass. You’re playing the long game, and life is totally worth it.
– Sarah Silverman
Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming.
– Robert Tew
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
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
– Oscar Wilde
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.
– Stephen Covey
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.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.
– Joyce Meyer
Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength — carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.
– Corrie Ten Boom
Most of the things you worry about, never happen.
– Ruth Rendell
Bad Moments don’t make bad moms.
– Lisa Terkeurst
Do something nice for yourself today. Find some quiet, sit in stillness, breathe. Put your problems on pause. You deserve a break.
– Akiroq Brost
Self-care is not a waste of time; self-care makes your use of time more sustainable.
– Jackie Viramontez
Self-care is giving the world the best of you instead of what’s left of you.
– Katie Reed
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
– Milton Berle
You are worth the quiet moment. You are worth the deeper breaths and you are worth the time it takes to slow down, be still, and rest.
– Morgan Harper Nichols
Slow breathing is like an anchor in the midst of an emotional storm: the anchor won’t make the storm go away, but it will hold you steady until it passes.
– Russ Harris
Some days, doing ‘the best we can’ may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn’t perfect — on any front — and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.
– Fred Rogers
Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations. The best is yet to come.
– Zig Ziglar
Anxiety is something that is part of me but it’s not who I am.
– Emma Stone
There is no such thing as a perfect parent, so just be a real one.
– Sue Atkins
Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves even when we risk disappointing others.
– Brene Brown
Smile, breathe, and go slowly.
– Thich Nhat Hanh
Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest taken between two deep breaths.
– Etty Hillesum
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
– Ann Lamont
Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.
– Theodore Roosevelt
There is no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
– Jill Churchill
Children are like crazy, drunken small people in your house.
– Julie Bowen
It’s not easy being a mom. If it were easy, fathers would do it.
– Betty White
You know how once you have kids you never ever pee by yourself again? At least one of them is always in there with you at all times.
– Jennifer Garner
No matter how tough the day gets, remember that being a mom is one of the most challenging yet rewarding roles you can take on. The moments of overwhelm and doubt are just small parts of a much larger, beautiful journey. As you navigate through the ups and downs of motherhood, let these quotes for overwhelmed moms serve as a source of inspiration and encouragement.
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