The Greatest Inspirational
Family Quotes

This is a collection of the greatest inspirational family quotes. The members of my family have driven me crazy, made me laugh, cry, look silly, and feel embarrassed, but most of all they have made me feel loved and accepted. I have been given the opportunity to try on many roles- trouble maker, big brother, antagonizer, role model, loving son, and more. It's amazing when I look back at all the experiences I've had with my family. The common theme is one of love. It may not have always been expressed in a way I understood or would have asked for, but it was love and it came through and touched my heart. I am grateful for the family I was born into and how we have all developed over time. Let the family quotes on this page tug at your heart strings and bring up memories that were perhaps forgotten. Enjoy this page of inspirational family quotes.

Family is the most important thing in the world.
-Princess Diana

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs,
and returns home to find it.
-George Moore

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-Carl Sandburg

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

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

If you only have one smile in you, give it to the people you love.
-Maya Angelou

Family faces are magic mirrors.
Looking at people who belong to us,
we see the past, present and future.
We make discoveries about ourselves.
-Gail Lumet Buckley

Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family.
Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member,
yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted.
-Paul Pearshall

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

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
-George Santayana

I can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror
and my family can look at me too and that's all that matters.
-Lance Armstrong

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

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction,
the cement that binds closer together,
and the music that brings harmony.
-Eva Burrows

Family life is full of major and minor crises- the ups and downs of health,
success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce-
and all kinds of characters.
It is tied to places and events and histories.
With all of these felt details,
life etches itself into memory and personality.
It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul.
-Thomas Moore

In every conceivable manner,
the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
-Alex Haley

I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich.
-Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford

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