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

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

Lardner, Ring

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

Twain, Mark

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

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

Iphicrates

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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.

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

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

Confucius

10.

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

Gretry, Marmontel

11.

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

Sontag, Susan

12.

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

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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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The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmother. A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt and Helpists know it. They have jumped into the void left by the disappearance of morbid old ladies from the bosom of the American family.

King, Florence

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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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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.

17.

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

John Paul II

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

Confucius

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Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently.

Proverb, Chinese

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A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone.

Aesop

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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb, Chinese

29.

It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!

Ann Radcliffe

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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

31.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Proverb, Chinese

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A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.

Buddha

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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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You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Adler, Felix

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

Graves, Clarissa

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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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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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None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

48.

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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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham