Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Family

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright

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

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

It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.
Confucius (551–479 BCE) Chinese Philosopher

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.
Hannah Arendt (1906–75) German-American Philosopher, Political Theorist

In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.
Pauline Phillips (Abigail van Buren) (b.1918) American Columnist

Children make you want to start life over.
Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) American Sportsperson

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
Tacitus (56–117) Roman Orator, Historian

We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist

I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold.
Jimmy Buffett (b.1946) American Musician, Author

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
Ralph Ellison (1914–1994) American Novelist

Any woodsman can tell you that in a broken and sundered nest, one can hardly find more than a precious few whole eggs. So it is with the family.
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) American Head of State, Lawyer

The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.
Robert Brault

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances… in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.
Charles Dickens (1812–70) English Novelist

One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the Father prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.
Unknown

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
Samuel Butler

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British Novelist, Short-Story Writer, Playwright

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
Confucius (551–479 BCE) Chinese Philosopher

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
Alex Haley (1921–92) American Novelist, Biographer

I could not point to any need in childhood as strong as that for a father’s protection.
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian Psychiatrist, Psychoanalytic

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
Barbara Bush (1925–2018) American First Lady

The family is a haven in a heartless world.
Christopher Lasch (1932–94) American Historian, Moralist, Social Critic

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer

I’ve always believed in magic. When I wasn’t doing anything in this town, I’d go up every night, sit on Mulholland Drive, look out at the city, stretch out my arms, and say, “Everybody wants to work with me. I’m a really good actor. I have all kinds of great movie offers”. I’d just repeat these things over and over, literally convincing myself that I had a couple movies lined up. I’d drive down that hill, ready to take the world on, going, “Movie offers are out there for me, I just don’t hear them yet”. It was like total affirmations, antidotes to the stuff that stems from my family background.
Jim Carrey (b.1962) Canadian Actor, Comedian

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
Unknown

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that “Members not Present” and “Subjects Discussed” were one and the same.
Robert Brault

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family – and I don’t think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.
Frank Sinatra (1915–1998) American Singer

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
John Locke (1632–1704) English Philosopher, Physician

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.
Gloria Steinem (b.1934) American Feminist, Journalist, Social Activist, Political Activist

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