50 Inspirational Quotes About Strength and Family: A Heartfelt Collection

"When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching – they are your family."

- Jim Butcher

"When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching–they are your family."

- Jim Butcher

"Ohana means family. Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten."

- ‘Lilo and Stitch’

"My sense of personal strength has always come from my family."

- Benjamin Bratt

"Families are certainly complicated — anyone can tell you that — but at the end of the day, they're the people you can depend on, the people who love you, the people who have your back and offer support in the bad times and celebration in the good."

- Ippei Naoi

"Family is the most important thing in the world."

- Princess Diana

"I sustain myself with the love of family."

- Maya Angelou

"The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family."

- Lee Lacocca

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

- Mario Puzo

"Family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life."

- J.K. Rowling

"Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow."

- Bill Owens

"My life is proof that no matter what situation you're in, as long as you have a supportive family, you can achieve anything."

- Michaela DePrince

"Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter."

- Brad Henry

"To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there."

- Barbara Bush

"The strength of a family lies not just in blood ties, but in the shared nexus of compassion and support."

- Aloo Denish Obiero

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

- African Proverb

"Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights and our comfort when we occasionally falter."

- Brad Henry

"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

"Above all, children need our unconditional love, whether they succeed or make mistakes; when life is easy and when life is tough."

- Barack Obama

"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success."

- Henry Ford

"We can do without almost anything – our home, even our country. But we will never do without other people, and we will never do without family."

- Lee Hyeonseo

"A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all."

- Brad Pitt

"There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained."

- Winston Churchill

"Family will not agree on everything, nor will a family unit conform to one standard, but love is the common denominator that will bond a family."

- Wayne Chirisa

"In every conceivable manner, the family is a link to our past, bridge to our future."

- Alex Haley

"We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided."

- J.K. Rowling

"One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family."

- Jonathan Safran Foer

"Families don’t have to match. You don’t have to look like someone else to love them."

- Leigh Anne Tuohy

"Being a family means you are a part of something very wonderful. It means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life."

- Lisa Weed Phifer

"The world, we’d discovered, doesn’t love you like your family loves you."

- Louis Zamperini

"Teamwork makes the dream work."

- John C. Maxwell

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

"The love of family and the admiration of friends are much more important than wealth and privilege."

- Charles Kuralt

"Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family."

- Anthony Brandt

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"A man should never neglect his family for business."

- Walt Disney

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these."

- George Washington Carver

"A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man."

- ‘The Godfather’

"The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended — and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended."

- Robert Frost

"The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements but rather with the things we do for the people we love and esteem, and whose respect we need."

- Walt Disney

"We may have our differences, but nothing’s more important than family."

- 'Coco'

"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Having a place to go is a home. Having someone to love is a family. Having both is a blessing."

- Donna Hedges

"When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching — they are your family."

- Jim Butcher

"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

"The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended."

- Robert Frost

"That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable."

- Deb Caletti

"There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy, or more exasperated, or more secure."

- Jim Butcher

"If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles."

- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

"My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it."

- Rick Riordan

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

- Mother Teresa

"My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct."

- Jodi Picoult

"I think togetherness is an important ingredient of family life."

- Barbara Bush

"The world, we'd discovered, doesn't love you like your family loves you."

- Louis Zamperini

"My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what’s important to me."

- Michael Imperioli

"Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more."

- Robin Hobb

"It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family."

- Menachem Begin

"Ohana means family and family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten."

- Stitch from "Lilo & Stitch"

"There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues… are created, strengthened and maintained."

- Winston Churchill

"Life is beautiful. It’s about giving. It’s about family."

- Walt Disney

"I don't think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family."

- Reba McEntire

"You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges."

- Elizabeth Berg

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

- Sarah Dessen

"My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family."

- Siri Hustvedt

"When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you."

- Guy Lafleur

"I have a wonderful shelter, which is my family."

- José Carreras

"Unity is the secret weapon of every powerful nation, family, or community."

- Bryant McGill

"The love of a family is a life's greatest blessing."

- Eva Burrows

"Family is not defined by our genes, it is built and maintained through love, respect, and acceptance."

- Amalia Gavea

"So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty."

- Haniel Long

"That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable."

- Deb Caletti

"You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them."

- Desmond Tutu

"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life."

- Richard Bach

"The family is where we are formed as people. Every family is a brick in the building of society."

- Pope Francis

"I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life."

- Barbara Bush

"Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice."

- Reinhold Niebuhr

"Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten."

- David Ogden Stiers

"The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family."

- Thomas Jefferson

"The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends – they will never go out of fashion."

- Niki Taylor

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

- George A. Moore

"You need a rock-solid foundation of friends and family to keep you where you need to be."

- Lilly Singh

"Unity is not about being inseparable; it is about being irreplaceable to each other."

- Rabeya Islam

"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."

- Aristotle

"To support mother and father, to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood; this is the good luck."

- Buddha

"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream."

- George W. Bush

"I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one."

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

"Every time anyone accomplishes anything, they achieve it with the help of a thousand silent heroes."

- Alex Dunphy

"Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life."

- Albert Einstein

"Family is family."

- Linda Linney

"Nothing purchased can come close to the renewed sense of gratitude for having family and friends."

- Courtland Milloy

"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

- Leo Tolstoy

"A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones."

- Kristin Hannah

"Family and friends are hidden treasures, seek them and enjoy their riches."

- Wanda Hope Carter

"Friends are the family you choose."

- Jess C. Scott

"Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness."

- John C. Maxwell

"Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"It’s all about the quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family."

- Philip Green

"The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only — and that is to support the ultimate career."

- C.S. Lewis

"The greatest gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you."

- Kendall Hailey

"I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other."

- Jet Li

"A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss … That’s the trade-off. But I’ll take it all."

- Brad Pitt

"To care for those who once cared for us is one of the highest honors."

- Tia Walker

"I am blessed to have so many great things in my life – family, friends, and God. All will be in my thoughts daily."

- Lil’ Kim

"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing."

- Irina Shayk

"Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven’t thought of yet."

- Gene Perret

"A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid."

- Robert Brault

"Families are like fudge–mostly sweet, with a few nuts."

- Les Dawson

"The family–that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to."

- Dodie Smith

"Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough."

- Walt Whitman

"Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it."

- Ann Brashares

"Sticking with your family is what makes it a family."

"Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family."

"The family is the first essential cell of human society."

"In time of test, family is best."

"Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark."

"Family is family, whether it’s the one you start out with the one you end up with, or the family you gain along the way."

"Alone, you are strong, but together, you’ll be stronger than ever."

- Unknown

"Unity is not the absence of conflict but the ability to cope with it."

- Unknown

"Families are like branches on a tree. We grow in different directions, yet our roots remain as one."

- Unknown

"Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good."