Inspirational Quotes About Family

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Steven Aitchison
British author
My family consists of everyone I love dearly and not just the people who are related to me.

Those who really know and care about you can hear you even when you haven’t spoken a word.

Mitch Albom 1958
American author 
Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.

Jane Austen 1775-1817
English novelist 
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

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Richard Bach 1936
American author & writer
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.

Anita Baker 1958
American singer-songwriter
You leave home to seek your fortune, and when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Aine Belton
Channeller & spiritual writer
One hug always equals two.. One for them and one for you.

Bo Bennett 1972
American author & speaker
Spend some time this weekend on home-improvement.. Improve your attitude toward your family.

Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821
French Emperor & military leader
Show me a family of readers… and I will show you the people who move the world.

Anthony Brandt 1961
American composer, academic & writer
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

Robert Brault 
American author & philosopher
Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie, not perfect, but who’s complaining?

The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering, than the family and the gathering.

Joyce Brothers 1927-2013
American psychologist, author & writer 
When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

Pam Brown 1948
Australian poet 
An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.

It’s hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own.

Mothers are the pivot on which the family spins. Mothers are the pivot on which the world spins.

Sisters share the scent and smells.. The feel of a common childhood.

We shared. Parents. Home. Pets. Celebrations. Catastrophes. Secrets. And the threads of our experience became so interwoven that we are linked. I can never be utterly lonely, knowing you share the planet.

When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?

Gail Lumet Buckley 1937-2024
American journalist & author
Family faces are magic mirrors.. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.

Eva Burrows 1929-2015
First woman General of Salvation Army
In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.

Lorna Byrne 1953
Irish author
The bonding with a new baby can help people to release love unconsciously.

Lorna Byrne 1953
Irish author
The connection between brothers and sisters is completely different to that between friends and it exists throughout our lives, even if we have little contact.

The sadness and pain surrounding the death of a parent, brother or sister can bring with it an unexpected gift, and help families to become closer. It can help bring shared memories to light, and be a reminder of love that was shared in the past.

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Mary Calderone 1904-1998
American physician & author
Our children are not going to be just ‘our children’ - they are going to be other people’s husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.

Nancy J. Carmody
I am thankful for a lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning and gutters that need fixing because I have a home. I am thankful for the piles of laundry and ironing because it means my loved ones are nearby.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton 1874-1936
English author & Christian apologist
The most extraordinary thing in the world is.. An ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

Julia Child 1912-2004
American chef, author & TV personality
Dining with one’s friends and beloved family is certainly one of life’s primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal.

Lydia Maria Child 1802-1880
American abolitionist, activist & journalist
Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an Angel’s wings.

Sera Christann
Sometimes our heart get tangles and our Souls a little off kilter. Friends and family can set us right and help guide us back to the light.

Winston Churchill 1874-1965
British Prime Minister
There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained.

Confucius 551BC-479BC
Chinese philosopher & politician
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Miley Cyrus 1992
American singer-songwriter & actress
The only people that you really have, that I learned, are your family, because they love you no matter what.

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Les Dawson 1931-1993
English comedian
Families are like fudge… mostly sweet, with a few nuts.

David DeNotaris
Author & speaker
My family provided me with the proper information and inspiration for me to overcome the challenge of blindness.

Sarah Dessen 1970
American novelist
Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static or set. People marry in, divorce out. They born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.

Princess Diana
1961-1997 British royal family
Family is the most important thing in the world.

Walt Disney
1901–1966 American animator & film producer
A man should never neglect his family for business.

Pamela Dugdale
Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring.

Will Durant 1885-1981
American historian, philosopher & writer
The family is the nucleus of civilization.

Wayne Dyer 1940-2015
American author & motivational speaker
Without exception, begin every day of your life with gratitude. As you look in the mirror, say, “Thank you, God, for life, for my body, for my family and loved ones, for this day, and for the opportunity to be of service. Thank you, thank you, thank you!”

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Albert Einstein 1879-1955
German-American scientist
Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.

George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) 1819-1880
English novelist & poet
What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?

T. S. Eliot 1888-1965
American-English poet, essayist & playwright
There’s no vocabulary for love within a family, love that’s lived in but not looked at, love within the light of which all else is seen, the love within which all other love finds speech. This love is silent.

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Ralph Fiennes 1962
English actor, film director & producer
One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humour.

Michael J. Fox 1961
Canadian-American actor
Family is not an important thing.. It is everything.

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Susan Gale
Mothers are like glue.. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.

Richard Garnett
Love is the greatest gift that one generation can leave to another.

Marion C. Garretty 1902-1972
American poet
A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.

Ellen Goodman 1941
American journalist, columnist & speaker
Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can’t even describe, aren’t even aware of.

What the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we lived. In the end, it’s the family stories that are worth the storage.

You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children.. But they remain your co-authors forever.

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet
Celebrations wouldn’t be the same without the photos we create, family history through generations, times together that were great.

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet
Christmas was never about the presents under a tree, but accumulation of love and memories.. a sanctuary, As generations come and go, Christmas will always be, A time to share the love and joys of being with family.

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet
Family history needs to be shared not just for memories sake, but for all the treasures they hold, from our past our lives we make. Each generation feeds the next not just on physical food and love, but all of their experiences mould and fit, to enfold like a glove.

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet
Kisses and hugs are deposits of affection, keep family’s love-banks topped up.

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet
My roots stem from my family, deeply embedded in Mother Earth
Strongly supporting my presence that fed my early self-worth

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet
The most important things in life are not things, most know
It’s the people in our lives who make our Hearts grow
Our family of Loved ones are the most important of all
They fill our lives with memories, especially those who are small

The little simple moments, a smile, or hug, or glance
Whether in a photo, or our minds, makes our Hearts sing and dance
Some friends are like family, they bloom perfectly in our Heart
Whether grown over the years, or there right from the very start

Love, our greatest possession, it's who we truly are
Giving and receiving unconditionally, in life, we will go far

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Alex Haley 1921-1992
American writer & author
In every conceivable manner, the family is a link to our past and a bridge to our future.

Alex Haley 1921-1992
American writer & author
My fondest hope is that Roots may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel ninety feet tall.

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

Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.

Thich Nhat Hanh 1926-2022
Vietnamese monk & peace activist
If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all your generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.

When you plant a lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce.

Yet, if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.

Roma Hanks
Academic/research director for generational studies
It is my belief that grandparenting is the most important family role of the new century.

Louise Hay 1926-2017
American author, speaker & founder of Hay House publishing
If you want love and acceptance from your family, then you must give love and acceptance to them.

Brad Henry 1963
American lawyer & politician
Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.

Elbert Hubbard 1856-1915
American writer, publisher & philosopher
No matter what you have done for yourself, or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

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Margaret Storm Jameson 1891-1986
English journalist & author
The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself.

Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826
3rd President of USA
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

Pope John XXIII 1881-1963
Italian head of Catholic Church
The family is the first essential cell of human society.

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Marge Kennedy
It’s important for all single parents to remember that not everything that goes wrong, from your son’s bad attitude towards school to the six holes in your teenage daughter’s ear, is because you live in a single-parent home. Every family has problems.

Soup is a lot like a family. Each ingredient enhances the others; each batch has its own characteristics; and it needs time to simmer to reach full flavour.

The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.

Yes, single-parent families are different from two-parent families. And urban families are different from rural ones, and families with six kids and a dog are different from one-child, no-pet households. But even if there is only one adult presiding at the dinner table, yours is every bit as much a real family as the Waltons.

Miranda Kerr 1983
Australian model
While it’s nice to appreciate the fashion world.. What makes you happy are real relationships and the moments you share with loved ones.

Charles Kuralt 1934-1997
American television, newspaper & radio journalist
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

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Jack Layton 1950-2011
Canadian leader of New Democratic Party
Cherish every moment with those you love, at every stage of your journey.

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Neal A. Maxwell 1926-2004
American scholar, educator & Mormon leader
God’s extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.

Margaret Mead 1901-1978
American cultural anthropologist, author & speaker
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sister are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

George Moore 1852-1933
Irish novelist, writer & poet
A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

Movie - Mrs Doubtfire (1993)
There are all sorts of different families. Some families have one mommy, some families have one daddy, or two families. And some children live with their uncle or aunt. Some live with their grandparents, and some children live with foster parents. And some live in separate homes, in separate neighbourhoods, in different areas of the country - and they may not see each other for days, or weeks, months.. Even years at a time. But, if there’s love - those are the ties that bind, and you’ll have a family in your heart, forever.

Swami Muktananda 1908-1982
Indian yoga guru
Love is our only reason for living and the only purpose of life. We live for the sake of love, and we live seeking love.. It is not surprising that we keep looking for love. All of us are nothing but vibrations of love. We are sustained by love, and in the end we merge back into love…

This world is nothing but a school of love, our relationships with our husband or wife, with our children and parents, with our friends and relatives are the university in which we are meant to learn what love and devotion truly are. Yet the love we experience through other people is just a shadow of the love of the inner self. There is a sublime place inside us where love dwells. The love that pulses in the cave of the heart does not depend on anything outside. It does not expect anything. It is completely independent.

Robert Muller 1923-2010
Belgian author & assistant secretary-general of United Nations
Don’t you think God would smile and feel good, if your spouse, your children, your parents, your teachers, your colleagues, your spiritual guides would smile and feel good, if you said to them these simple words: ‘I am happy. Thank you for giving me happiness.’

Each mother and father should devote quite some time to the family’s history. An entire new science and art of family and individual history should be developed and taught: ancestry, genealogy, name etymology, oral history, written history, pictorial history, family heirlooms and souvenirs, scrapbooks, photo collections etc.. What deep joys can be derived from family history! It increases the love and role of the family, the fundamental, basic social unit.

Every human being has stories to tell. Please tell them. They are part of the bloodstream of our cosmic journey, the transmission of our experience and wisdom to our descendants.

If we cannot live in peace in our family, how can we expect peace of the human family.

Love must become the subject of serious scientific study. Loved children are healthier, happier, more peaceful children. Loved husbands have seldom heart attacks. Loved plants grow better. Loved animals are not vicious. Loved nations do not wage war. A humanity of loving people will be a peaceful humanity. To promote love means therefore to promote peace. Yes, let us have a love logy, a science of love, to start with a World University of Love.

The family is the first and greatest school of love, peace and happiness on Earth.

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Native American (Chinook Blessing)
We call upon all those who have lived on this earth, our ancestors and our friends, who dreamed the best for our future generations, and upon whose lives our lives our built, and with thanksgiving, we call upon them to… Teach us, and show us the Way.

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Clara Ortega
To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sister. We know each other as we always were. We know each others hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time.

Amos Oz 1939-2018
Israeli writer, novelist & journalist
I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution of the world.

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Letty Cottin Pogrebin 1939
American author, journalist & social activist
If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange; a circle of sections, held together, but separable, each segment distinct.

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Ruth E. Renkel
Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.

Christina Rossetti 1830-1894
English poet
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 life one, if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

Rumi 1207-1273
Afghan Sufi mystic & poet
Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

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George Santayana 1863-1952
Spanish-American philosopher, novelist & poet
The family is one of life’s masterpieces.

Virginia Satir 1916-1988
American psychotherapist & author
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible.. The kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

Olive Schreiner 1855-1920
South African author & anti-war campaigner
Our fathers had their dreams, we have ours, the generation that follows will have its own.

Chief Seattle 1780-1866
Native American Chief of Suquamish & Duwamish tribes
Our bare feet are conscious of the sympathetic touch of our ancestors as we walk over this Earth.

Marquise de Sevigne 1626-1696
French aristocrat
We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
Irish playwright & critic
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

If you can’t get rid of the family skeleton.. You may as well make it dance.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Dodie Smith 1896-1990
English novelist & playwright
The family.. That dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

Robert Southey 1774-1843
English poet
The history of any private family, however humble, could it be fully related for five or six generations, would illustrate the state and progress of society better than the most elaborate dissertation.

There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.

Nicholas Sparks 1965
American novelist & screenwriter
My wife, my family, my friends.. They’ve all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell.. Loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

Martha Stewart 1941
American retail business woman, writer & TV personality
Over the years I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. She also taught me that aging need not mean narrowing the scope of your activities and interests.

Rod Stewart 1945
English singer-songwriter
You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it’s all about family.

Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Russian composer & conductor
It’s one of nature’s ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

Meryl Streep 1949
American actress
My family really does come first. It always did and always will.

There’s no road map on how to raise a family, it’s always an enormous negotiation.

Charles R. Swindoll 1934
American evangelical Christian pastor & radio preacher
A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

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Mother Teresa 1910-1997
Albanian-Indian Catholic nun
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones.. The ones at home.

Mother Teresa 1910-1997
Albanian-Indian Catholic nun
Smile at each other.. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other, it doesn’t matter who it is, and that will help you to grow up in greater Love for each other.

Mother Teresa 1910-1997
Albanian-Indian Catholic nun
The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

Desmond Tutu 1931-2021
South African Anglican bishop & human rights activist
You don’t choose your family, they are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

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Gary Vaynerchuk 1975
American author, speaker & internet personality
Love your family. Work super hard. Live your passion.

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Mark Wahlberg 1971
American actor
For me, family always comes first; I would do anything to protect them.

Denzel Washington 1954
American actor, producer & director
Acting is a way of making a living, the family is life.

Dan Wilcox
I don’t care how poor a man is.. If he has family, he’s rich.

Anthony Douglas Williams 1953
Canadian spiritualist, writer & author
Treat other animals as friends and they become friends. Treat other animals as family and they become family. Give other animals your love and they will love you in return.

Amy Winehouse 1983-2011
British singer-songwriter
I’m happiest with my family around me.

Joseph B. Wirthlin 1917-2008
American business man & Mormon leader
The place to cure most of the ills of society is in the homes of the people.

John Wooden 1910-2010
American basketball player & coach
The most important thing in the world is family and love.

Lois Wyse 1926-2007
American advertising executive, author & columnist
Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

Secreted in the basements and attics of memory are the hidden treasures of family history that only a grandmother can recall, write and hand down.

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Paramahansa Yogananda 1893-1952
Indian-American Hindu monk & guru
Kindness is the Light that dissolves all walls between Souls, families and nations.

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