If you need some homemaking inspiration you are sure to find some in this collection of 100 homemaking quotes!
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Whether you are a mother with a full house, newly married, or living alone. Everyone is a homemaker…because we all have homes!
Homemaking is one of the most important jobs in the world! That doesn’t mean that it is always easy. Homemakers can use a little inspiration. I like to read inspiring words written by great thinkers and other homemakers to motivate myself to keep going in my homemaking journey.
I’ve scoured the Internet for the best most importing quotes and cataloged them, to make them easy to find based off of your interest. Simply click the topic you are most interested in in the quote index to be taken to that part of the post. Happy Homemaking!
Quote index
- Encouraging
- Practical
- Beauty
- Hospitality
- Christian
- Homemaking is a mission field
- Biblical
- Motherhood
- Housewife
- Family
- Housekeeping
- The Art of Homemaking
- Little House on the Prairie
- Sally Clarkson (The Life Giving Home)
- Edith Schaeffer (The Hidden Art of Homemaking)
- Homemaking Books
Encouraging homemaking quotes
“Homemaking is surely in reality the most important work in the world”
-C.S. Lewis
And then she realized she was replaceable in every area of her life except her home. So she invested her time, her energy, and her heart wisely.
-Jillian Benfield
“Watching and learning from Mama and the other women in my family gave me a deep love for home and hearth and taking care of people. I knew from a young age that there was eternal value in those things.”
-Sophie Hudson
“A woman’s happiest kingdom is home, her highest honor is the art of ruling it not as a queen, but a wise wife and mother.”
-Louisa May Alcott
Time is never wasted when you use it to create a better environment for your family and for others. Home is a place where busyness is proper, called for, and desperately needed. Don’t neglect to busy yourself with your homemaking.”
-Elizabeth George
Whether we do a lot of housework or a little of it, whether we keep house only for ourselves or for other people as well, housework forms part of the basic patterning of our lives, a pattern that we might identify as a kind of ‘litany of everyday life.’
-Margaret Kim Peterson
Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace.
-Louisa May Alcott
The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It’s doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile.
-Julia Child
“The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies.”
-J.R. Miller
“Peace – that was the other name for home.”
-Kathleen Norris
Inspiring homemaking quotes
“The tasks connected with the home are the fundamental tasks of humanity.”
-Theodore Roosevelt
“If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.”
-A. Edward Newton
“The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother. “
-Dorothy Fields
We are homemaking – literally “making a home”. We are working to create a lifestyle that says “welcome” to ourselves and everyone around us.”
~ Emilie Barnes
“There simply are not many grand moments of life, and we surely don’t live life in those moments. No, we live in the utterly mundane. We exist in the bathrooms, bedrooms, living rooms, and hallways of life. This is where the character of our life is set. This is where we live the life of faith”
~Paul David Tripp
“The best things in life are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life’s plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.”
-Robert Louis Stevenson
Practical homemaking quotes
“Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.”
-Louisa May Alcott
“No matter what’s happening in the world, have your tea, make your list, plan your food preparation, read to your children, wash the clothes, do something creative for everyone and be a light for your home.“
-Lydia Sherman
“I can use the house to create a home. I can offer my family, my friends, myself, and even strangers the gift of love by making them feel special when they are in my home.”
-Sarah Mae
“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
-Ludy Maud Montgomery
“The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.”
-Swedish Proverb
“The way you keep your house, the way you organize your time, the care you take in your personal appearance, the things you spend your money on, all speak loudly about what you believe. The beauty of thy peace shines forth in an ordered life. A disordered life speaks loudly of disorder in the soul.”
-Elisabeth Elliot
A good help mate makes valuable use of her time at home, creating a clean and pleasant home.
–Debi Pearl
And then she realized she was replaceable in every area of her life except her home. So she invested her time, her energy, and her heart wisely.
-Jillian Benfield
“Joy begins with thankfulness. Quite often our attitudes hang in the balance; by making a conscious choice, we can tip our souls into dark moods of complaining, or into thankfulness and praise. It is amazing how much your mouth controls your soul. You.”
-Debi Pearl
Charming homemaking quotes
“He who goes forth in the morning from a happy, loving, prayerful home, into the world’s strife, temptation, struggle, and duty, is strong–inspired for noble and victorious living.”
-J.R. Miller
“I have found that the housewife works hard, of course–but likes it. Most people who amount to anything do work hard, at whatever their job happens to be. The housewife’s job is home-making, and she is, in fact, ‘making the best of it’; making the best of it by bringing patience and loving care to her work; sympathy and understanding to her family; making the best of it by seeing all the fun in the day’s incidents and human relationships. The housewife realizes that home-making is an investment in happiness. It pays everyone enormous dividends. There are huge compensations for the actual labor involved…There are unhappy housewives, of course. But there are unhappy stenographers and editresses and concert singers. The housewife whose songs I sing as I go about my work, is the one who likes her job”
-Majorie Kinnan Rawlings
The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.”
-Louisa May Alcott
Observe a little girl playing house. She doesn’t hurry to get her work done. Instea puts her doll in a crib, folds the little blankets, tucks them in carefully, and when she is finished, takes them off and does it all over again. She does the same with a little tea set, setting and unsetting the table, over and over again. She enjoys her work because she is unaware of time. I doubt if she would enjoy it if she were to watch a clock. I believe our natural instinct is to enjoy domestic work, as little girls do, and being crowded for time robs us of enjoyment.”
-Helen Andelin
Beauty
“Rain is in the forecast. A pot of coffee is brewing on the counter, and the kitchen is fragrant with apples and cinnamon. Eleanor Tomlinson’s album is playing on repeat; I could listen for the rest of my days and never tire of it. Autumn is in full swing here in Maine and it makes the rhythms of homemaking all the more joyous.”
-Samantha Lindsey
“A wise woman doesn’t take anything for granted. She is thankful to be loved and seeks to make herself more lovely.”
-Debi Pearl
“But my parents understood that the world that they made within the walls of our house was what constituted home. So I grew up in spaces framed by art and color, filled with candlelight, marked by beauty. I grew up within a rhythm of time made sacred by family devotions in the morning and long conversations in the evening. I grew up with the sense of our daily life as a feast and delight; a soup-and-bread dinner by the fire, Celtic music lilting in the shadows, and the laughter of my siblings gave me a sense of the blessedness of love, of God’s life made tangible in the food and touch and air of our home.
It was a fight for my parents, I know. Every day was a battle to bring order to mess, peace to stressful situations, beauty to the chaos wrought by four young children. But that’s the reality of incarnation as it invades a fallen world….What my parents-bless them-knew…is that to make a home right in the midst of the fallen world is to craft out a space of human flesh and existence in which eternity rises up in time, in which the kingdom comes, in which we may taste and see the goodness of God.”
-Sally Clarkson
Hospitality
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
-Mahatma Gandhi
People will forget what you said, forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel”
– Maya Angelou
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of an intelligent effort.
-John Ruskin
“…make myself available in the routine tasks and myriad interruptions of daily life b/c I believe it is God’s will for me to serve my family through them.”
-Sally Clarkson
I want them to bite into a cookie, and think of me, and smile. Food is love. Food has a power. I knew it in my mind, but now I know it in my heart.
-Jael McHenry
“Today when you nurture, love and meet the needs of your beloveds with beauty, it will make a difference in how they face their whole day.”
-Sally Clarkson
Christian Homemaking Quotes
“This job has been given to me to do. Therefore, it is a gift… it is a privilege… it is an offering I may make to God. Therefore, it is to be done gladly, if it is done for Him. Here, not somewhere else, I may learn God’s way. In this job, not in some other, God looks for faithfulness.”
-Elisabeth Elliot
“I believe that a godly home is a foretaste of heaven. Our homes, imperfect as they are, must be a haven from the chaos outside. They should be a reflection of our eternal home, where troubled souls find peace, weary hearts find rest, hungry bodies find refreshment, lonely pilgrims find communion, and wounded spirits find compassion.”
-Jani Ortlund
“The home is not just a place to change clothes between activities and then crash at night; rather it should be a vibrant center of education, industry, service, and worship. God created the home to be a place bursting with activity and conversation, while simultaneously providing peace and refuge.”
-Zan Tyler
The Word of God is the same yesterday, and today, and forever, and speaks the same truth for all families today. A young mother’s place is in the home, keeping it, guarding it, watching over those entrusted to her. To do otherwise will surely cause the Word of God to be blasphemed.
-Debi Pearl
“Purpose is found in those quiet moments when no one but God sees the work of your hands.”
-Darlene Schacht
Homemaking is a mission field
The mother who is faithful in the home honors God just as truly and fully as the most self-sacrificing missionary”
~Arthur W. Pink
“Even when the home life is fraught with difficulties and challenges, a christian mother has a great opportunity to influence her children for Christ. Her family is her mission field.”
-Tom Ascol
“As Christian women, this is the attitude that should characterize our lives. We are to be women who love our homes….not to merely workers at home, but we are to take great pleasure in working in our homes. We are to thoroughly enjoy the sphere that God has assigned to us.”
~ Carolyn Mahaney
Jesus bookended his ministry here on earth with meals. Perhaps because he knew that discipleship happens around a table. Vulnerability happens around a table. Accountability happens around a table.
-Jamie Erikson
“What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and the work flow.”
-Martin Luther
“You are as much serving God in looking after your own children, and training them up in God’s fear, and minding the house, and making your household a church for God, as you would be if you had been called to lead an army to battle for the Lord of hosts.”
-Charles Spurgeon
Biblical homemaking quotes
“Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.”
-Proverbs 14:1
“She . . . worketh willingly with her hands.”
-Proverbs 31:13
“The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.”
– Titus 2: 3-5
“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
-James 1:5
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.”
-Ecclesiastes 9:10
“And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.”
-Colossians 3:23-24
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
-Galatians 6:9
Motherhood & Homemaking Quotes
“The place where you are cooking, cleaning, and raising the next generation is indeed holy ground. Your home is holy ground because it’s where God has chosen to live and do His work.”
~ Donna Otto
“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
“There’s no greater gift you can give your children than your time.”
-Michael Hyatt
“Having kids – the responsibility of rearing good, kind, responsible human beings – is the biggest job anyone can embark on.”
– Maria Shriver
“The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.”
-Henry Ward Beecher
“The time spent on family is not a sacrifice. You are living a life with choice. When you make the right ones, you have a good life.”
-Laura Schlessinger
“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 stay-at-home mom is a working mom. Being a stay-at-home mom is a job.”
-Cobie Smulders
“But 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.”
-Barbara Kingsolver
“Homemaking is a passion you can pass on from generation to generation.”
-Elizabeth George
Housewife
“I’m only a housewife, I’m afraid.” How often do we hear this shocking admission. I’m afraid when I hear it I feel very angry indeed. Only a housewife: a practitioner of one of the two most noble professions (the other one is that of a farmer); only the mistress of a huge battery of high and varied skills and custodian of civilization itself. Only a typist, perhaps!… a company director, or a nuclear physicist; only a barrister; only the President! When a woman says she is a housewife she should say it with the utmost pride, for there is nothing higher on this planet to which she could aspire.”
-John Seymour
“I enjoy doing housework, ironing, washing, cooking, dishwashing. Whenever I get one of those questionaires and they ask what is your profession, I always put down housewife. It’s an admirable profession, why apologize for it. You aren’t stupid because you’re a housewife. When you’re stirring the jam you can read Shakespeare.
-Tasha Tudor
“The housewife’s job is home-making, and she is, in fact, ‘making the best of it’; making the best of it by bringing patience and loving care to her work; sympathy and understanding to her family; making the best of it by seeing all the fun in the day’s incidents and human relationships.”
-Majorie Kinnan Rawlings
“It’s okay to live a simple life if that is what brings you joy and peace. We are not all called to be ball-busting CEO’s, “Boss Babes,” or superstars. It’s okay to have a day that is simply filled with rhythmic chores, hobbies, hushed conversations, and peace.”
-Mrs. Midwest
“There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.”
-Thomas Wolfe
Homemaking for family
“The home is where a woman provides the expressions of love for her husband and her children. It is where she leads and guides and teaches and raises the godly generation. The home is where she is protected and secured from other men and potentially wicked relationships and abuses. The home is where she lodges strangers, washes saints’ feet, shows hospitality and devotes herself to every good work. That’s her sphere. And whatever of that home and whatever of the goodness of her life she can take outside and not sacrifice the home is between her and the Lord and her husband.”
~ John MacArthur
“It’s sad if people think that’s (homemaking) a dull existence, [but] you can’t just buy an apartment and furnish it and walk away. It’s the flowers you choose, the music you play, the smile you have waiting. I want it to be gay and cheerful, a haven in this troubled world. I don’t want my husband and children to come home and find a rattled woman. Our era is already rattled enough, isn’t it?”
-Audrey Hepburn
“I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world!”
-Louisa May Alcott
“I beg of you, you who could and should be bearing and rearing a family: Wives, come home from the typewriter, the laundry, the nursing, come home from the factory, the cafe. No career approaches in importance that of wife, homemaker, mother — cooking meals, washing dishes, making beds for one’s precious husband and children. Come home, wives, to your husbands. Make home a heaven for them. Come home, wives, to your children, born and unborn. Wrap the motherly cloak about you and, unembarrassed, help in a major role to create the bodies for the immortal souls who anxiously await.”
-Spencer W. Kimball
Housekeeping Quotes
Housekeeping ain’t no joke.
-Louisa May Alcott
The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not.
-Ellen G. White
The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I’m trying to be more relaxed. You’ll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.
-Patrick Dempsey
There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
“The Objective Of Cleaning Is Not Just To Clean, But To Feel Happiness Living Within That Environment”
-Marie Kondo
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
“Nothing inspires cleanliness more than an unexpected guest”
-Radhika Mundra
“The way to get started is to quit talking and start doing”
– Walt Disney
“Housekeeping creates cleanliness, order, regularity, beauty, the conditions for health and safety, and a good place to do and feel all the things you wish and need to do and feel in your home. Whether you live alone or with a spouse, parents, and ten children, it is your housekeeping that makes your home alive, that turns it into a small society in its own right, a vital place with its own ways and rhythms, the place where you can be more yourself than you can be anywhere else.”
-Cheryl Mendelson
The Art of Homemaking
“Keeping a home not only requires time, energy, and creativity, but it also calls for skills and experience. I believe homemaking is an art, and to pursue any piece of art demands time and talent.”
-Dorothy Kelley Patterson
A pleasant atmosphere in the home creates a beautiful background for happy memories. Because I want the warm atmosphere and the good memories it fosters, I plan for it. I plan the meals, including how I set the dinner table and make it beautiful….the order in the home, for the housework, for the laundry, and for the upkeep of our clothing so that life is calmer. I plan surprises, too, so that life at home is fun. If all the planning sounds like a lot of effort, remember that no work of art is slapdashed together. Artistry calls for planning and design, and so does the work of art called ‘Home.’”
-Elizabeth George
Little House on the Prairie homemaking quotes
“The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.”
-Lara Ingalls Wilder
“Home is the nicest word there is.”
-Laura Ingalls Wilder
“Let’s be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger. Let us be as careful that our homes are furnished with pleasant and happy thoughts as we are that the rugs are the right color and texture and the furniture comfortable and beautiful.”
-Laura Ingalls Wilder
“The attic and the cellar were full of good things once more, and Laura and Mary had started to make patchwork quilts. Everything was beginning to be snug and cosy again.”
-Laura Ingalls Wilder
“Ma liked everything on her table to be pretty.”
-Laura Ingalls Wilder
“What must be done is best done cheerfully.”
-Laura Ingalls Wilder
Sally Clarkson
“Every day in each inch of space, each rhythm of time, each practice of love, we have the chance to join God in coming home, in living so that we make a home of this broken and beautiful world all over again. Love is enfleshed in the meals we make, the rooms we fill, the spaces in which we live and breathe and have our being.”
-Sally Clarkson
“How we need more “homemakers” so that all who live in this transient, contemporary world might have a place to belong, to feel loved and valued, to serve and be served, to give and receive and celebrate all that is good.”
-Sally Clarkson
“When someone once asked me just what it was that my parents did that made me believe in God, without even thinking I said, “I think it was French toast on Saturday mornings and coffee and Celtic music and discussions and candlelight in the evenings . . .” Because in those moments I tasted and saw the goodness of God in a way I couldn’t ignore.”
-Sally Clarkson
“Home is to be a safe place, a refuge for all who enter, a protection from the harm and storms of the world. Yet often or even daily we open our doors — usually via television or the internet — to ideas and images that can damage our faith, abuse our hearts and minds, sear our psyches, and tear apart our peace. Home should be a place where, behind its doors, one should expect to find protection and safety from all the harms of life, including voices that do not speak truth or wisdom. Only the foolish would invite just anyone to enter the door of their home.”
-Sally Clarkson
Edith Schaeffer (The Art of Homemaking)
If you have been afraid that your love of beautiful flowers and the flickering flame of the candle is somehow less spiritual than living in starkness and ugliness, remember that He who created you to be creative gave you the things with which to make beauty and the sensitivity to appreciate and respond to His creation.”
-Edith Schaeffer
“It seems to me that whether it is recognized or not, there is a terrific frustration which increases in intensity and harmfulness as time goes on, when people are always daydreaming of the kind of place in which they would like to live, yet never making the place where they do live into anything artistically satisfying to them. Always to dream of a cottage by a brook while never doing anything to the stuffy house in the city is to waste creativity in this very basic area, and to hinder future creativity by not allowing it to grow and develop through use.”
-Edith Schaeffer
“There needs to be a homemaker exercising some measure of skill, imagination, creativity, desire to fulfill needs and give pleasure to others in the family. How precious a thing is the human family. Is it not worth some sacrifice in time, energy, safety, discomfort, work? Does anything come forth without work?”
-Edith Schaeffer
“I am sure that there is no place in the world where your message would not be enhanced by your making the place (whether tiny or large, a hut or a palace) orderly, artistic and beautiful with some form of creativity, some form of ‘art.’”
-Edith Schaeffer
Homemaking books:
The Hidden Art of Homemaking by Edith Schaeffer
The Lifegiving Home by Sally Clarkson
The Christian Homemaker’s Handbook by Pat Ennis & Dorothy Patterson
For the Family’s Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
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