50 Inspirational Quotes for Family: Celebrate Love, Strength, and Togetherness

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

- Margaret Mead

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

- Peter Buffett

"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

"Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten."

- David Ogden Stiers

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

- 'Coco'

"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 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

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

- George Burns

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

- Walt Disney

"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 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

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

- Jim Butcher

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

- Michael J. Fox

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

- Gail Lumet Buckley

"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

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

- Philip Green

"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

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

- Donna Hedges

"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

"Family is family."

- Linda Linney

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

- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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

- Jonathan Safran Foer

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

- Dodie Smith

"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

"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

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

- Anthony Liccione

"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"

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

- Charles Kuralt

"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

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

- Lilly Singh

"I sustain myself with the love of family."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Leo Tolstoy

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Robert Brault

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

- Princess Diana

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

- Candace Cameron Bure

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

- George Santayana

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

- Desmond Tutu

"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

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

- Stitch

"Some people are worth melting for."

- Frozen

"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

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

- Dodie Smith

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

- Lee Lacocca

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

- Guy Lafleur

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

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Wanda Hope Carter

"Friends are the family you choose."

- Jess C. Scott

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

- Anthony Brandt

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

- Niki Taylor

"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

"Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever."

- Charlie Sheen

"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

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

- Irina Shayk

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

- Charles R. Swindoll

"I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future."

- LaToya Jackson

"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

"My family was my guide to my reality."

- Haywood Nelson

"A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center."

- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

- Jet Li

"I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives."

- Richard M. Daley

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

- Bo Bennett

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

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"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

"I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy."

- Marie Curie

"Children are the keys of paradise."

- Eric Hoffer

"In time of test, family is best."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

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

"Where there is family, there is love."

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

"Family is the heart of a home."

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

"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."