50 Inspirational Quotes About Strength and Family to Uplift Your Spirit

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Louis Zamperini

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

- Les Dawson

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

- Michael J. Fox

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

- Mario Puzo

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

- Jim Butcher

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

- Lee Lacocca

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

- Charles Kuralt

"Family is family."

- Linda Linney

"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

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Bill Owens

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

- Amalia Gavea

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

- Menachem Begin

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

- Jim Butcher

"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

"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

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

- Alex Haley

"I sustain myself with the love of family."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Brad Henry

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

- John C. Maxwell

"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

"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

"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

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

- Benjamin Bratt

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

- Brad Henry

"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

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

- J.K. Rowling

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

- Jim Butcher

"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

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

- Bryant McGill

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

- Rabeya Islam

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Aloo Denish Obiero

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

- J.K. Rowling

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

- African Proverb

"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

"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

"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

"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 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

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

- Lilo and Stitch

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

- Donna Hedges

"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

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Princess Diana

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

- John Wooden

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven."

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Desmond Tutu

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Barbara Bush

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

- Stitch from "Lilo & Stitch"

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

- Michael J. Fox

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

- David Ogden Stiers

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

- Eva Burrows

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

- Joe Namath

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

- Mark V. Olsen

"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

"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

"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

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

- Faith Hill

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

- Candace Cameron Bure

"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

"Time together as a family is a gift."

- Joanna Gaines

"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

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

- Richard Bach

"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

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

- Charles R. Swindoll

"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

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

- Anthony Liccione

"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

"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

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

- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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

- George W. Bush

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

- Tia Walker

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

- George A. Moore

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

- Alex Dunphy

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

- Pope Francis

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

- George Santayana

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

- Margaret Mead

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

- Alex Haley

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

- Jet Li

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

- Ring Lardner

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

- Wanda Hope Carter

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

- Brad Pitt

"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

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

- Aristotle

"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

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

- Buddha

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

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Bo Bennett

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

- Anthony Brandt

"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

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

- Philip Green

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

- Gene Perret

"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

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

- Les Dawson

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

- Phyllis Diller

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

- Mark Twain

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

"In time of test, family is best."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

- Unknown

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

- Unknown

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

- Unknown