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

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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.

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

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.

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Buddha

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

10.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

11.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

14.

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

Cook, Joseph

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

Delille, Jacques

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

Mencken, H. L.

20.

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

Swindoll, Charles

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Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Aristotle

22.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lardner, Ring

25.

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

Ade, George

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A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.

Lamb, Charles

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

Leo Tolstoy

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A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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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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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

33.

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

Bach, Richard

34.

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

Confucius

35.

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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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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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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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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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

40.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

47.

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

Proverb, Chinese

48.

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

Sontag, Susan