Motivational Quotes

Family

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

- Ade, George

Best Quotes about Family

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Baker, Anita

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

Schulz, Charles M.

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?

Janeway, Elizabeth

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

Dickens, Charles

The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.

Confucius

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

John Paul II

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

Beecher, Henry Ward

When I do something in my family because I really enjoy it, then my duty has become my pleasure. And it is a pleasure for all the people around me.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

Lardner, Ring

11.

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

Rossetti, Christina

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Caregiver: that word should weigh more than others on a page, sag it down a bit and wrinkle it, because the simple-sounding job frazzles as it consumes and depletes. Not that it's only gloomy. Caregiving offers many fringe benefits, including the sheer sensory delight of nourishing and grooming, sharing, and playing. There's something uniquely fulfilling about being a lodestar, feeling so deeply needed, and it's fun finding creative ways to gladden a loved one's life. But caregiving does buttonhole you; you're stitched in one place.

Diane Ackerman

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All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We have been taught to accept the myth not as an heroic ideal, something good, brave, and nearly impossible to fulfil, but as the very fiber of normal life. Given most families and most marriages, the belief seems admirable but foolhardily.

Raban, Jonathan

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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal?

Macaulay, Rose

17.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

18.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

19.

Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time wondering when a child will turn in.

Cook, Ted

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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.

O'connor, Sandra Day

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I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

Proverb, Jewish

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Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them.

Proverb, Chinese

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People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.

Ziglar, Zig

28.

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

Yeats, William Butler

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What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap.

Graves, Clarissa

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A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

Ade, George

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Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.

Proverb, Jewish

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A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

Sontag, Susan

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They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers.

David Assael

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He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

Swindoll, Charles

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Women's liberationists spread the word that the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.

Tyell, R. Emmett

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.

Twain, Mark

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Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family.

Gretry, Marmontel

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Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described --and will be, after our deaths --by each of the family members who believe they know us.

Steinem, Gloria

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In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

Pritchett, V. S.

44.

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy

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I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

Strindberg, J. August

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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

Addison, Joseph