Top 100 Family Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad.”

— Anne Geddes

52. “There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

53. “Women are one half of society which gives birth to the other half so it is as if they are the entire society.”

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

54. “The love of a family is life’s greatest blessing.”

— Eva Burrows

55. “You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you.”

— Fred Rogers

56. “The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.”

— Zig Ziglar

57. “The question isn’t so much, Are you parenting the right way? as it is: Are you the adult you want your child to grow up to be?”

— Brené Brown

58. “Your greatest accomplishment may not be something you do but someone you raise.”

— Andy Stanley

59. “Ain’t a woman alive that could take my mama’s place.”

— Tupac Shakur

60. “Grief is the price we pay for love.”

— Queen Elizabeth II

61. “Aim high, work hard, and love your family.”

— Deborah Roberts

62. “The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.”

— Mario Puzo

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

— Mother Teresa

64. “This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It’s knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.”

— Mitch Albom

65. “There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”

— Jane Austen

66. “United we stand, divided we fall.”

— Aesop

67. “A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”

— George Bernard Shaw

68. “THINK before you speak. Is it True, Helpful, Inspiring, Necessary, Kind?”

— Alan Redpath

69. “Laughter is an instant vacation.”

— Milton Berle

70. “If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.”

— Michael Crichton

71. “Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.”

— Saint Augustine

72. “Don’t build walls and shut people out of your life. To act as if another does not exist is a mean and cruel weapon.”

— Joyce Meyer

73. “All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.”

— Sigmund Freud

74. “A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.”

— Ruth Bell Graham

75. “There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.”

— Martin Luther

76. “God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.”

— Desmond Tutu

77. “Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.”

— Jim Rohn

78. “All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

— Leo Tolstoy

79. “Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.”

— Benjamin Spock

80. “It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.”

— Erma Bombeck

81. “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”

— Charles Dickens

82. “Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.”

— Napoleon Hill

83. “A man should never neglect his family for business.”

— Walt Disney

84. “If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.”

— Douglas Adams

85. “Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment.”

— Tony Robbins

86. “Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that’s a real treat.”

— Joanne Woodward

87. “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”

— Agatha Christie

88. “Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.”

— Margaret Walker

89. “A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.”

— Billy Graham

90. “Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.”

— Vince Lombardi

91. “No matter what you’ve 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?”

— Lee Iacocca

92. “Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.”

— Mitch Albom

93. “Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.”

— Peter Marshall

94. “Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.”

— Jane Austen

95. “Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

96. “My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”

— Jim Valvano

97. “I don’t want to be interesting. I want to be good.”

— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

98. “There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.”

— Niels Bohr

99. “Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.”

— William Shakespeare

100. “First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.”

— Angelina Jolie