Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Tolstoy, Count Leo

Best Quotes about Family

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

Stark, Freya

The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.

Howe, Louise Kapp

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

No matter where you live, brothers are brothers and sisters are sisters. The bonds that keep family close are the same no matter where you are.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

The family is the school of duties... founded on love.

Adler, Felix

The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness which it is given to man to taste upon earth are, thanks to this angel, the joys of the Family.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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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I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

Anna Quindlen

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Losing a baby is not a thing that you could ever get used to.

Erica Eisdorfer

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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

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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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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

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

Baker, Anita

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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.

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Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others. As long as its spell lasts, the only in-between which can insert itself between two lovers is the child, love's own product. The child, this in-between to which the lovers now are related and which they hold in common, is representative of the world in that it also separates them; it is an indication that they will insert a new world into the existing world. Through the child, it is as though the lovers return to the world from which their love had expelled them. But this new worldliness, the possible result and the only possibly happy ending of a love affair, is, in a sense, the end of love, which must either overcome the partners anew or be transformed into another mode of belonging together.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Confucius

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

Leo Tolstoy

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Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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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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All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

Benson, Stella

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Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender- these form the wealth of home.

Hale, Sarah J.

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A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

Johnson, Paul

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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

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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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The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Graves, Clarissa

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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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Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.

Cook, Joseph

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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.

Proverb, Jewish

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A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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

Ade, George

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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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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Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

Luce, Clare Boothe