100 Inspiring Quotes About Family and Love to Warm Your Heart

"Family is family."

- Linda Linney

"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

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

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Michael J. Fox

"Some people are worth melting for."

- Frozen

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

- John Wooden

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

- Lee Lacocca

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

- Michael Imperioli

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

- Princess Diana

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven."

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Guy Lafleur

"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

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

- Stitch from "Lilo & Stitch"

"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

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

- Barbara Bush

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

- Desmond Tutu

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

- Donna Hedges

"At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, a parent."

- Barbara Bush

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

- Mother Teresa

"I sustain myself with the love of family."

- Maya Angelou

"In family relationships love is really spelled t-i-m-e, time."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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

- Richard Bach

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

- Joyce Brothers

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

- Peter Buffett

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

- Coco

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

- Menachem Begin

"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

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

- Amalia Gavea

"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

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

- Jim Butcher

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

- Leigh Anne Tuohy

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

- Charles Kuralt

"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

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

- Mario Puzo

"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

"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

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

- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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

- Alex Haley

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

- Brad Henry

"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

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

- Louis Zamperini

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Anthony Liccione

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

- Gail Lumet Buckley

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

- Philip Green

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

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Jonathan Safran Foer

"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

"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

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

- Ann Brashares

"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

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

- José Carreras

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

- Pope Francis

"Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected."

- Boyd K. Packer

"While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about."

- Angela Schwindt

"It is more important than ever to make our families the center of our lives and the top of our priorities."

- L. Tom Perry

"When in doubt, choose the kids. There will be plenty of time later to choose work."

- Anna Quindlen

"Children will not remember you for the material things you provided, but for the feeling that you cherished them."

- Richard L. Evans

"No other success can compensate for failure in the home."

- David O. McKay

"The ultimate treasures on earth and in heaven are our children."

- Dallin H. Oaks

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

- Stephen King

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

- George A. Moore

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

- Walt Whitman

"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 family is one of nature’s masterpieces."

- George Santayana

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

- Andre Maurois

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

- Jet Li

"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

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

- George Bernard Shaw

"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

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

- George Burns

"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 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

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

- Jerry Seinfeld

"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

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

- Leo Tolstoy

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

- David Sedaris

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

- Harry Morgan

"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

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Phyllis Diller

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

- Wayne Huizenga

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

- George Carlin

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

- Francisco X. Alarcón

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

- Les Dawson

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

- Ogden Nash

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

- David Frost

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

- Bob Hope

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

- Buddy Hackett

"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

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

- Mary Karr

"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

"Your ancestors are rooting for you."

- Eleanor Brownn

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

- Les Dawson

"Family is where life begins and love never ends."

- Oprah Winfrey

"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."

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

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

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

- Anonymous

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

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

"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."

"Together, we make a beautiful family."

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

- Unknown

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

"Family is the heart of a home."

"Together, we are unstoppable."

"Home is wherever my family is."

"A happy family is a reflection of heaven."

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

"When you love what you have, you have everything you need."

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