50 Chore Quotes

Martha Martins
Sep 27, 2023 By Martha Martins
Originally Published on Oct 17, 2022
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Chores provide us the personal satisfaction we seldom find in anything else.

Chore quotes by various personalities like Benjamin Franklin, Mark Twain, Ann Oakley, Dave Barry, and others sum up our life in a few words.

We have to and must do our work. It could be a mental or physical chore, something very inconsequential or essential but needs to be done.

It makes us responsible humans, giving our daily lives a specific shape and flow.

Division of household chores between partners has a heavy topic of discussion in modern times. With changing societies, family patterns have also changed, with it has changed the pattern of work division.

Though it was earlier a stereotype that running the house is a wifely duty, husbands nowadays progress in sharing the workload. It helps break unequal cultural patterns, ensure domestic tranquility, and is a good model for children.

With more and more women stepping outside for work, households have become more dynamic. Moreover, technological advancement has given us appliances that are making life easier.

In today's times, most of the things we do are to find satisfaction and inner peace. We try different things, we seek various distractions to help us calm ourselves from the struggles of our daily life.

And yet the simplest way to calm our minds are always right in front of us.

Doing household work not only refreshes our minds but provides us with a sense of achievement we rarely find in other things we do. When we teach our children to do household chores, it helps them grow a sense of responsibility, which might make them mature humans later in their life.

Talking about our children, when we delegate household work to them, it gives them a sense of individuality and allows them to show their love for their parents. The responsibility they feel through their chore offers them a perspective of being an important part of the family. The family bond grows stronger with kids becoming responsible.

When adults make it a habit to do their chores by themselves, they choose a better lifestyle, a responsible attitude, and healthy habits, making them better citizens. It is also suitable for kids as they learn from their guardians, becoming responsible citizens.

Adults can cultivate the habit of doing their work themselves, which will calm their minds and help others follow the same. The fulfillment and satisfaction one feels by arranging their bed or cooking their meal can't be compared to other achievements in life.

So here's the perfect way to understand the importance of a chore and doing it yourself. These quotes will motivate and inspire you to move ahead by taking responsibility for your work, not only outside your house but inside as well, and using it as a family bonding experience in your daily life.

Best Chores Quotes

Let yourself be inspired by these exceptional quotes, and get to work today.

"My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance. "

- Erma Bombeck.

“Housework can kill you if done right.”

- Erma Bombeck.

"Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization."

- Ann Oakley.

"My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors."

- Bette Midler.

"When all else fails, cleaning house is the perfect antidote to most of life’s ills."

- Sue Grafton.

"I was never overexposed and work never became a chore. I was a very good girl wanting to do a good job."

- Anna Paquin.

"Helping others isn't a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is."

- Liya Kebede.

"Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift."

- Kate DiCamillo.

"Cleaning and organizing is a practice, not a project."

- Meagan Francis.

"Nothing inspires cleanliness more than an unexpected guest."

- Radhika Mundhra.

Household Chores Quotes

Here's a list we have compiled of some inspirational household-chore quotes.

"You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty."

- Cecil Baxter.

"Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door."

- Marcelene Cox.

"Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter-productivity."

- Erma Bombeck.

"Keeping your space clean is as much a part of the end result as the dish being tasty."

- Carla Hall.

"There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running."

- Robert Brault.

"But, though I crave for work, I still like to be fair. I do not ask for more than my proper share.”

- 'Three Men in A Boat', Jerome K. Jerome, 1889.

"Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven."

- Erma Bombeck.

"My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint."

- Erma Bombeck.

"When your environment is clean you feel happy motivated and healthy."

- Lailah Gifty Akita.

"Have nothing in your home that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful."

- William Morris.

"The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment."

- Marie Kondo.

"When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why."

- Katharine Whitehorn.

"I do chores around the house, but I don't get an allowance for them. I wash the dishes and sweep the floor... I'm sweeping the floor quite a lot, and my mum always expects me to get a broom and swagger it across the floor all the time."

- Callan McAuliffe.

"More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself. "

- John Thorn.

"Once you learn how to see how your inner turmoil manifests itself through your surroundings, you can reverse engineer this, mastering yourself by mastering the space in which you live."

'A Monk’s Guide To A Clean House And Mind', Shoukei Matsumoto, 2018.

"Spring Cleaning isn’t just for your home, or just for the Spring for that matter."

- Dondria B. Johnson.

"I look forward to spring cleaning and putting things in their place. It’s therapeutic for me."

- Kimora Lee Simons.

Short Chore Quotes

There have been many famous and short quotes on chores by famous people; read some of them here.

 

(When you do a chore, it improves your sense of individuality and develops your responsibility.)

"The way to get started is to quit talking and start doing."

- Walt Disney.

"The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes."

- Agatha Christie.

"For every minute spent on organizing, an hour is earned."

- Benjamin Franklin.

"Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive."

- Ann Oakley

"Clean your screens as if you are cleaning your soul, allowing the air to flow through freely."

- 'A Monk’s Guide To A Clean House And Mind', Shoukei Matsumoto, 2018.

"I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy, and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait."

- Chris Hemsworth.

"If you want to get rid of stuff, you can always do a good spring-cleaning. Or you can do what I do. Move. I've moved about 10 times over the past 15 years."

- September 10, 2011, www.goodhousekeeping.com, David Hochman.

Funny Chore Quotes

If you want to be calm and collected in your life, you need to read these quotes and start doing your chores.

"I hate housework. You make the beds, you wash the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again. "

- Joan Rivers.

"They shared the chores of living as some couples do-she did most of the work and he appreciated it."

- Paula Gosling.

"I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life."

- Robert Brault.

"Normal person's weekly chore list: 1. clean kitchen. 2. clean bathroom. 3. clean entire rest of domicile. cleaning impaired person's weekly chore list: 1. don't get peanut butter on sheets."

- Dave Barry.

"If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door, greet him with, "Who could have done this? We have no enemies."

- Phyllis Diller.

"Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing."

- Phyllis Diller.

"For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it."

- Claude Simon.

"Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture."

- Mario Buatta.

"I always clean before the cleaning lady comes. If not, when I come home, I can't find anything. Cleaning ladies are always hiding things you leave out."

- Celia Cruz.

"I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy."

- Shirley Conran.

"Everybody wants to save the earth; no one wants to help mom do the dishes."

- P.J. O'Rourke.

"There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse."

- Quentin Crisp.

"Do you know how you get the urge to clean your room, and it’s no big deal? But when your mom tells you that you have to clean your room, you don't want to? That's me, anyway."

- 'Openly Straight', Bill Konigsberg, 2013.

"We dream of having a clean house — but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning?"

- Marcus Buckingham.

"Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door."

- Marcelene Cox.

"If a cow walked into this room, I'd probably walk out. I could milk it, but my dad never forced me to do a lot of chores like that, mostly because he loved doing it himself."

- Stuart Appleby.

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Written by Martha Martins

Bachelor of Arts specializing in Linguistics

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Martha MartinsBachelor of Arts specializing in Linguistics

Martha is a full-time creative writer, content strategist, and aspiring screenwriter who communicates complex thoughts and ideas effectively. She has completed her Bachelor's in Linguistics from Nasarawa State University. As an enthusiast of public relations and communication, Martha is well-prepared to substantially impact your organization as your next content writer and strategist. Her dedication to her craft and commitment to delivering high-quality work enables her to create compelling content that resonates with audiences.

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