Family Quotes.

Collection of famous family quotes.

What we demand from our children, we must demand of ourselves. There must be a standard by which they live. As parents, we must set it and live it. - Jim Rohn

The leveling influence of mediocrity and the denial of the supreme importance of the mind's development account for many revolts against family life. - Andre Maurois

Deep inside us, we know what every family therapist knows: the problems between the parents become the problems within the children. - Roger Gould

Family is the first school for young children, and parents are powerful models. - Alice Sterling Honig

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. - Sigmund Freud

It takes time to build a corporate work of art. It takes time to build a life. And it takes time to develop and grow. So give yourself, your enterprise, and your family the time they deserve and the time they require. - Jim Rohn

Today, we too rarely practice good manners... When we neglect to require our children to say "thank you" when someone gives them a gift or does something for them, we are raising ungrateful children who are highly unlikely to be happy. Without gratitude, happiness is a rare thing. With gratitude, the odds go up dramatically that happiness will be the result. - Zig Ziglar

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. - Jane Howard

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary. - Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility on him and to let him know that you trust him. - Booker T. Washington

Every large family has its angels and its demon. - Joseph Roux

Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family? - Marmontel Gretry

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that have very little time with their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world. - Mother Theresa

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

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right. - Confucius

There's plenty of peace in any home where the family don't make the mistake of trying to get together. - Kin Hubbard

My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future. - Jim Rohn

Our children are our only hope for the future, but we are their only hope for their present and their future. - Zig Ziglar

What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct? - Sophocles

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree. - Helen Keller

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains it measures our senses of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it. - Haniel Long

Family... a group experience of love and support. - Marianne Williamson

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family. - Lee Iacocca

Each family, however modest its origin, possess its own particular tale of the past-a tale which can bewitch us with as great a sense of insistent romance as con ever the traditions of kings. - Llewelyn Powys

If you've had wonderful family relationships, you will be able to call yourself a true success in life no matter what else you've achieved. - Vic Conant

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold. - Andre Maurois

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

I love people. I love my family, my children... but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up. - Pearl S. Buck

Our children are watching us live, and what we ARE shouts louder than anything we can say. - Wilferd A. Peterson

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. - Virginia Satir

I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work. - Lee Iacocca

A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning; you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world. - William Hazlitt

The human being cannot live long in the infantile environment, that is, in the bosom of his family, without serious danger to his psychic health. Life demands from him independence, and he who fails to answer the stern call through childish laziness and timidity is threatened with a neurosis. - C.G. Jung

A grandmother is a person with too much wisdom to let that stop her from making a fool of herself over her grandchildren. - Phil Moss

The child that's left to himself will put his mother to shame. - Gaelic Proverb

I believe the time we really look big in a child's eyes is when we go to them and apologize for our mistakes and we say, "I was wrong. Will you forgive me?" - Kevin Leman

Other things may change us, but we start and end with family. - Anthony Brandt

Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance. - Milton R. Saperstein

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. - Fred Astaire

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