Motivational Quotes

Home

Be he a king or a peasant, he is happiest who finds peace at home.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Home

Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.

Montgomery, Robert

A man's home is his wife's castle.

Chase, Alexander

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Bachelard, Gaston

There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.

Everett, Edward

If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would make us holy to be permitted to live; and there must be a strange dissolution of natural affection, a strange unthankfulness for all that homes have given and parents taught, a strange consciousness that we have been unfaithful to our fathers honor, or that our own lives are not such as would make our dwellings sacred to our children, when each man would fain build to himself, and build for the little revolution of his own life only.

Ruskin, John

There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

One returns to the place one came from.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

John Howard Payne

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.

Johnson, Ben

11.

Our country is where ever we are well off.

Milton, John

12.

People usually are the happiest at home.

Shakespeare, William

13.

He makes his home where the living is best.

Proverb, Latin

14.

If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

Morris, William

15.

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail -- its roof may shake -- the wind may blow through it -- the storm may enter -- the rain may enter -- but the King of England cannot enter! -- all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!

Chatham, William Pitt The Elder, Lord

17.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Thatcher, Margaret

18.

Be he a king or a peasant, he is happiest who finds peace at home.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

Home -- that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.

Child, Lydia M.

20.

Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round about 1894. With their jangling keys, nasty suits, revolting beards, moustaches and tinted spectacles, estate agents roam the land causing perturbation and despair. If you try and kill them, you're put in prison: if you try and talk to them, you vomit. There's only one thing worse than an estate agent but at least that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed. Estate agents. Love them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

Fry, Stephen

21.

A house is a machine for living in.

Corbusier, Le

22.

I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.

Levi, Primo

23.

There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.

Bryson, Bill

24.

A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began.

Duras, Marguerite

25.

It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.

Johnson, Samuel

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A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.

Proverb, Chinese

27.

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it -- can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

Duras, Marguerite

28.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Aristophanes

29.

Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.

Lamb, Charles

30.

Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.

Ford, Richard

31.

He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

Where thou art, that is home.

Dickinson, Emily

33.

Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. To keep citizens puttering in their yards instead of sputtering on the barricades, the government has gladly deprived itself of billions in tax revenues by letting home owners deduct mortgage interest payments.

King, Florence

34.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

Hesse, Hermann

35.

My home is not a place, it is people.

Lois McMaster Bujold

36.

Luxuries are never so comfortable as are the familiar, ordinary things of home.

Eucharista Ward

37.

You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.

Cervantes, Miguel De

38.

A good home must be made, not bought.

Joyce Maynard

39.

The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes.

Harold B. Lee

40.

Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.

Breathnach, Sarah Ban

41.

Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.

Pollock, Channing

42.

Home is the place where we are treated the best, but grumble the most.

43.

What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have honestly faced that fact, we must act accordingly.

Meyer, Agnes

44.

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery.

Luce, Clare Boothe

45.

Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.

Herman Melville

46.

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.