Motivational Quotes

Family

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

- Proverb, Jewish

Best Quotes about Family

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

Ann Radcliffe

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

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

Swindoll, Charles

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

Benson, Stella

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.

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

Stark, Freya

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

Haley, Alex

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

John Paul II

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

Johnson, Paul

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The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Lardner, Ring

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

Twain, Mark

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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

26.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

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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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I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

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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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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Confucius

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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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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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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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Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

Bach, Richard

45.

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

Mead, Margaret

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

Adler, Felix

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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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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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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Burroughs, William S.