Raising a child with autism can be quite a journey! It’s filled with challenges but also rewarding moments. Autism moms often share quotes about their experiences to provide inspiration and comfort to one another. In this guide, we’ll share over 200 relatable autism mom quotes on topics like struggles, inspiration, and more.
These quotes come from real moms navigating life with an autistic child. They open up about their own stories to help support other moms on a similar path. The goal is to spread solidarity and hope within the autism mom community.
Now let’s dive into over 150 inspiring autism mom quotes!
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Autism Mum Quotes
- “My son‘s autism does not define him. He defines his autism.”
- “I may not have gone where I intended to go. But I believe I have ended up where I needed to be.” – Douglas Adams
- “Autism is a journey I never planned, but I sure do love my tour guide.”
- “Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” ― A.A. Milne
- “Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground.”
- “There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.” ― John Green
- “Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.”
- “Do not wait for the perfect moment, take the moment and make it perfect.”
- “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” ― George Lorimer
- “The only way that we can live is if we grow. The only way we can grow is if we change. The only way we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we are exposed is if we throw ourselves into the open.” ― C. Joybell
- “I learned to love the journey, not the destination.”
- “Leap, and the net will appear.”
- “If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.” ― Marilyn Monroe
- “Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” ― Desmond Tutu
- “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” ― Mother Teresa
- “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” ― George Bernard Shaw
- “What seems impossible today will one day become your warm-up.”
- “Trust the wait. Embrace the uncertainty. Enjoy the beauty of becoming. When nothing is certain, anything is possible.”
- “You must train your patience like a puppy. Get irritated and it thinks it’s okay. Stay calm and it learns.”
- “If you want the rainbow, you have to tolerate the rain.”
- “The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.” ― Robert Tew
- “When written in Chinese, the word “crisis” is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.” ― John F. Kennedy
- “I am still learning.” ― Michelangelo
- “If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” ― Vincent Van Gogh
- “Every great dream begins with a dreamer.” ― Harriet Tubman
- “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
- “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis
- “Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.” – Patrick Lencioni
- “Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.” – Albert Einstein
- “Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.” – Roy T. Bennett
- “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” – Nelson Mandela
- “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” – Paulo Coelho
- “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” – Dr. Seuss
- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that count.” – Winston S. Churchill
- “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
- “Become the person who would attract the results you seek.”
- “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” – Michael Jordan
- “The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.”
- “Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what you want most.”
- “We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.” – Dr. Henry Link
- “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
- “Go the extra mile. It’s never crowded there.”
- “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
- “The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It’s what you’re made of. Not the circumstances.”
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
- “Impossible is just an opinion.” – Paulo Coelho
- “Your limitation—it’s only your imagination.” – Marie Forleo
- “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett
- “You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching.” – William W. Purkey
- “Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” – Roy T. Bennett
- “Autism doesn’t define my child. My child defines autism.”
- “My child with autism amazes me every day.”
- “I will love you unconditionally…even when I don’t like you very much.”
- “Different… not less.”
- “I will look for your abilities, not your disabilities.”
- “My child will soar on wings like eagles. The sky will be the limit.”
- “Every day I see my child try so hard. My heart smiles.”
- “You have inspired me to see pure joy through your eyes.”
- “He/she may be a grandmother’s wish for a pony come true: to protect, to love unconditionally, to teach what really matters.”
- “The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.”
- “Being your mom forever changed me for good.”
- “I will walk this journey with you. Always.”
- “My child does progress in his own way and his own time.”
- “You taught me the quiet miracles of kindness and compassion.”
- “The bravest thing I ever did was love my child with autism.”
- “You showed me how to find beauty in unexpected places.”
- “My child’s life has meaning.”
Autism Mum Struggles Quotes
- “Some days are a struggle. But there’s beauty in the breakdown.”
- “Autism doesn’t come with a handbook. We’re all learning together.”
- “Not every day is a good day. But there’s something good in every day.”
- “This wasn’t the journey I had planned. But I’m grateful for where it’s taken me.”
- “We need to accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” – Mary Anne Radmacher
- “Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.” – Laini Taylor
- “Some days autism feels like battling madness. But I know the good days are worth the fight.”
- “I realize I don’t have all the answers. But I trust this journey will guide me where I need to go.”
- “In the depths of winter, I finally learned there was within me an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus
- “Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed.” – Bob Riley
- “I know the storms are coming. But I’ve weathered storms before – and survived.”
- “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou
- “Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” – Steve Maraboli
- “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” – Helen Keller
- “I can’t control the challenges we face. But I can control how I respond.”
- “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars.” – Kahlil Gibran
- “Some days my heart shatters into a million pieces. Then I pick up the pieces and carefully put it back together.”
- “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis
- “When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person that walked in. That’s what the storm is all about.” – Haruki Murakami
- “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” – Maya Angelou
- “We acquire the strength we have overcome.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Scars mean you fought and you survived. Scars are signs of your strength.”
- “You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.” – Bob Marley
- “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
- “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” – Kahlil Gibran
- “There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.” – Malcolm X
- “I know I’m not alone on this journey of autism highs and lows.”
- “Behind my smile is a mom who has cried one too many tears.”
- “Autism can be overwhelming. But I’ve learned how strong I am.”
- “I am stronger now because of everything I have faced.”
- “I experience storms in my heart that no one else sees.”
- “Just when I think I can’t handle one more thing, I do.”
- “The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.” – Robert Tew
- “I don’t have a choice but to be strong. My child depends on me.”
- “Some days autism breaks my heart. But it’s nothing compared to my child’s own heartbreak and frustration.”
- “I never knew I was capable of loving someone so fiercely.”
- “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou
- “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.
- “It’s okay to not be okay. What’s not okay is pretending to be okay when you’re not.”
- “When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” – Haruki Murakami
- “Although I have weaknesses living inside me, I still have the strength to grow stronger.”
- “Strength grows in the moments when you think you can’t go on but you keep going anyway.”
- “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
- “Some days I feel I can’t do this. But then I take a breath, square my shoulders, and keep going.”
- “I never lose. Either I win or I learn.”
- “Every challenge in my life only makes me stronger in the end.”
- “Courage is found in unlikely places.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
- “I face each new day with courage, knowing I’m not alone.”
- “I never dreamed I had such strength within me.”
- “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars.” – Khalil Gibran
- “Tough times never last but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller
- “It’s not until you come to the end of your rope that you realize how strong you really are.”
- “I am bigger than my struggles and my sadness. I am better than the hard days.”
- “Autism can be so isolating. But I’ve discovered a community that understands.”
- “Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” – Mary Anne Radmacher
- “Autism can break me down. But it has helped me discover my inner strength.”
- “Some days I don’t feel brave at all. But I get up and keep trying anyway.”
- “I am braver than I believe, stronger than I seem, and smarter than I think.” – A.A. Milne
- “Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you.” – Bethany Hamilton
- “Storms make trees take deeper roots.”
Inspiring Autism Mum Quotes
- “We are not given a child to lose, but a child to love.”
- “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” ― Henri Matisse
- “Autism doesn’t define my child. My child defines autism.”
- “My child marches to the beat of their own drum. And I celebrate that.”
- “I see the world through my child’s inspiring eyes.”
- “My child inspires me to celebrate all the small moments.”
- “I see my child try so hard each day. My heart is full of hope.”
- “My child lives fearlessly as their truest self. I adore that.”
- “Each day, my child teaches me the beauty of unconditional love.”
- “I’m not on this journey alone. A community lifts me up.”
- “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “My child fills my heart with pride every single day.”
- “I see the world differently now – more colourfully and full of possibility.”
- “I celebrate the small victories that no one else may notice.”
- “I appreciate the beauty of simplicity so much more now.”
- “My child lives in the moment – a beautiful reminder to enjoy the present.”
- “With each new accomplishment, my heart swells with joy.”
- “My child embraces life fully and unconditionally – what an inspiration.”
- “Each new day brings an opportunity to celebrate my child.”
- “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” – Helen Keller
- “The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.” – Storm Jameson
- “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” – Mother Teresa
- “Happiness can be found in even the darkest of times if only one remembers to turn on the light.” – Albus Dumbledore
- “Where there is love there is life.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Out of difficulties grow miracles.” – Jean de la Bruyère
- “The struggle ends when gratitude begins.” – Neale Donald Walsch
- “Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A.A. Milne
- “Stay close to people who feel like sunshine.” – Xponentia
- “A comfort zone is a beautiful place but nothing ever grows there.” – Unknown
- “You are enough just as you are.” – Meghan Markle
- “I can be changed by what happens to me but I refuse to be reduced by it.” – Maya Angelou
- “You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius
- “Stay strong, keep fighting, never give up, be brave, love yourself.” – Susan Gale
- “My child radiates joy and lives vibrantly. What an inspiration.”
- “I choose to focus on my child’s abilities, not disabilities.”
- “Each day brings an opportunity to celebrate small victories.”
- “I see beauty in unexpected moments through my child’s eyes.”
- “My child fills our home with light, laughter, and love every day.”
- “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” – Henri Matisse
- “With each hug, my heart overflows with love and gratitude.”
- “My child lives vibrantly in the present moment – a beautiful reminder for us all.”
- “I appreciate the beauty in simplicity so much more now.”
- “My child embraces life with passion – what an inspiration.”
- “Seeing my child overcome challenges fills me with hope.”
- “I see my child try so hard each day. My heart smiles.”
- “There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.” – John Green
There you have it – over 150 uplifting and inspirational quotes from autism moms! Raising an autistic child has highs and lows. But these moms find light even during the darkest days. Their words are a reminder to celebrate small victories, lean on community, and love your child unconditionally.
Autism moms have a one-of-a-kind perspective on life. These quotes provide a glimpse into their incredible resilience, empathy and strength. We hope they brought you inspiration during your own journey with autism. You’ve got this!