100+ Inspirational Quotes for Families: Celebrate Love, Strength, and Togetherness

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails."

- 1 Corinthians 13:4-8

"Think of your family today and every day thereafter, don’t let the busy world of today keep you from showing how much you love and appreciate your family."

- Josiah

"Family is not an important thing. It’s everything."

- Michael J. Fox

"This is my family. I found it all on my own. It’s little, and broken, but still good. Yeah. Still good."

- Stitch

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

- Jim Butcher

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

- Guy Lafleur

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

- Charles Kuralt

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

- Amalia Gavea

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

- Jim Butcher

"Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold."

- Andre Maurois

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

- Desmond Tutu

"Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten."

- David Ogden Stiers

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

- Donna Hedges

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

- Richard Bach

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

- Alex Haley

"The family is one of nature ’s masterpieces."

- George Santayana

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

- Brad Henry

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

- Kahlil Gibran

"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

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

- Walt Disney

"Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home."

- Anthony Liccione

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

- Desmond Tutu

"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

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

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

- Lee Lacocca

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

- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Mother Teresa

"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

"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

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

- José Carreras

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven."

- George Bernard Shaw

"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

"It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it."

- Peter Buffett

"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

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

- Mario Puzo

"The most important thing in the world is family and love."

- John Wooden

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

- Barbara Bush

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

- Friedrich Nietzche

"Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum."

- Rick Riordan

"Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future."

- Gail Lumet Buckley

"It didn't matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it."

- Peter Buffett

"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

"For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands."

- Christina Rossetti

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

- Richard Bach

"A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living."

- Charles R. Swindoll

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

- Bill Owens

"The family is one of nature's masterpieces."

- George Santayana

"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

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

- Barbara Bush

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

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Irina Shayk

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

- 'Coco'

"Friends are the family you choose."

- Jess C. Scott

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

- Anthony Brandt

"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

"I sustain myself with the love of family."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Walt Disney

"The family is one of nature’s masterpieces."

- George Santayana

"The memories we make with our family is everything."

- Candace Cameron Bure

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

- Princess Diana

"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

"You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you."

- Frederick Buechner

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

- Louis Zamperini

"Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee."

- Exodus 20:12, King James Bible

"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

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

- Leigh Anne Tuohy

"When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses."

- Joyce Brothers

"We must take care of our families wherever we find them."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"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

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

- Pope Francis

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

- Alex Haley

"The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have."

- Ring Lardner

"My family's the most important thing in my life."

- Joe Namath

"I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is."

- Jamie Lee Curtis

"When all the dust is settled and all the crowds are gone, the things that matter are faith, family, and friends."

- Barbara Bush

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

- Coco

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

- Thomas Jefferson

"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

"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

"The foundation of family —that's where it all begins for me."

- Faith Hill

"In family relationships, ‘love’ is really spelled ‘t-i-m-e,’ time. Taking time for each other is the key for harmony at home."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"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

"I had a very supportive family environment that gave me room to explore and discover things about myself."

- 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

"Time together as a family is a gift."

- Joanna Gaines

"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

"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 Lee Frost

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

- Jet Li

"Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain."

- Martin Mull

"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

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Lilly Singh

"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 anymore."

- Robin Hobb

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

- Wanda Hope Carter

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

- Tia Walker

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

- Ann Brashares

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Napoleon Bonaparte

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

- George A. Moore

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

- Leo Tolstoy

"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

"Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family."

- Bo Bennett

"At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable."

- Mark V. Olsen

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

- Jonathan Safran Foer

"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

"My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation."

- Mark Twain

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

- Robert Brault

"Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family."

- Vartan Gregorian

"I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world."

- Amos Oz

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

- Philip Green

"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

"Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship."

- Margaret Mead

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

- Philip Green

"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

"Some people are worth melting for."

- Frozen

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."

- George Burns

"Family is family."

- Linda Linney

"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

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

- Wanda Hope Carter

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

- Niki Taylor

"Home is where they want you to stay longer."

- Stephen King

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."

- Mark Twain

"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

"A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it."

- Mary Karr

"People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own."

- Douglas Coupland

"I carry my roots with me all the time rolled up, I use them as my pillow."

- Francisco X. Alarcón

"After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations."

- Oscar Wilde

"Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we’re related for better or for worse ... and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum."

- Rick Riordan

"As a child my family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it."

- Buddy Hackett

"Family ties mean that no matter how much you might want to run from your family, you can’t."

- Anonymous

"I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them."

- Phyllis Diller

"Your ancestors are rooting for you."

- Eleanor Brownn

"Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts."

- Wayne Huizenga

"My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She’s 97 now, and we don’t know where the heck she is."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices."

- George Bernard Shaw

"There is no such thing as fun for the whole family."

- Jerry Seinfeld

"Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you’re offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone’s feelings."

- David Sedaris

"Obviously, if I was serious about having a relationship with someone long-term, the last people I would introduce him to would be my family."

- Chelsea Handler

"A 2-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it."

- Jerry Seinfeld

"I grew up with six brothers. That’s how I learned to dance — waiting for the bathroom."

- Bob Hope

"Having one kid makes you a parent. Having two kids makes you a referee."

- David Frost

"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold."

- Ogden Nash

"When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it’s a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway."

- Erma Bombeck

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

- Les Dawson

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

- Marge Kennedy

"Being part of a family means smiling for photos."

- Harry Morgan

"Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space."

- Evan Esar

"Family: A unit composed not only of children, but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold."

- Mark Twain

"I grew up with six brothers. That’s how I learned to dance—waiting for the bathroom."

- Bob Hope

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

- Dodie Smith

"The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going."

- George Carlin

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

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

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

"In time of test, family is best."

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

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

"Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family."

"The bonds of family provide a safe haven in a tumultuous world."

"Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops."

"Being happy in your family is more important than being perfect."

"Families are the individual parts that make up the whole world. Humanity depends on their togetherness."

"Without family bonds, there isn't anything in the universe strong enough to hold people together."

"Your family needs you as much as you need them; that's why it's important to stick together."

"There's no one in the world more equipped and prepared to help you thrive than your family."

"When the storm rages, I'm so grateful I'm in the peace of my family."

"Family has your back, no matter what."

"Family: united by blood, bonded by love."

"Families are better together."

"I take strength from my united family."

"Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are. The ones that would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what."

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

"Family gives you the roots to stand tall and strong."

"Family is the heart of a home."

"Having my family together fuels my strength."

"Grateful my family is together."

"When you choose to swim with family, you're creating a natural safety net from the dangers of the world."

"Families that play together grow stronger."

"Family surrounds you with unconditional love."

"If you need a safe place, surround yourself with family."

"I didn’t give you the gift of life, but life gave me the gift of you."

"Blended families: woven together by choice, strengthened together by love, tested by everything, and each uniquely ours."

"Children can never have too many positive adult role models in their lives."

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

- Unknown

"Together, we make a beautiful family."

"Life feels complete when you’re together with your family."

"Our family is a circle of strength of love with every birth and every union the circle grows."

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

"Your family members are the people who have your back when you need support; they’re the ones who cheer you on as you're celebrating life 's successes; and they’re the ones who laugh with you (and only occasionally at you) during your silliest slip-ups."

"Where there is family, there is love."

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

"Don’t worry about the family that ignores and acts like you don’t matter. Love the ones who are always there for you no matter what."