Motivational Quotes

Family

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Family

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Sontag, Susan

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

I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.

Burroughs, William S.

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

Lardner, Ring

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Leo Tolstoy

My family begins with me, your family ends with you.

Iphicrates

10.

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

Proverb, Jewish

12.

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

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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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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

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

Howard, Jane

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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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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

20.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

21.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Confucius

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With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.

Lewis, Wyndham

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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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None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

28.

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

Confucius

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Graves, Clarissa

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

Twain, Mark

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

Stark, Freya

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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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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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If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going,'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'

Jeff Foxworthy

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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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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A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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He didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

46.

The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.

Keats, John

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A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. [Proverbs 18:19]

Bible

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A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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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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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.