194 Family Quotes About Struggles And Love

A world without them would be unbearable. Read these family quotes to make you feel forever grateful.

By Norbert Juma

Master quote curator and editor on a mission to inspire

Published November 1, 2023

The most precious gift you will ever have in life, these family quotes and sayings will remind you of those special beings you’re bound together with.

Keep reading to discover quotes about family that you can share with those amazing people in your life who make your heart smile.

Irrespective of whether big or small, families are an important aspect of society.

To many people, family means everything.

Among other numerous benefits, our families provide us a sense of belonging, security, and more happiness and satisfaction.

And for those who can’t provide for themselves, the family is tasked with helping meet their basic needs.

In many cases, only your family members will accept you for who you are.

Your family is your blood and it’s the only place where your life begins and love never ends.

In that respect, here is a collection of inspirational, loving, and happy family quotes, family sayings, and family proverbs, collected from a variety of sources over the years.

Enjoy!

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Inspirational Family quotes about love and happiness

1. “A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” —George Bernard Shaw

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2. “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” ― George Burns

3. “The most important thing in the world is family and love.” – John Wooden

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4. “Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” – Michael J. Fox

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5. “I love my family because they are always there for me even in my most fragile moments.” ― Gift Gugu Mona

6. “Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families.” – Wes Borland

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7. “What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.” – Mother Teresa

8. “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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9. “In modern life, we tend to forget family values because of the hectic schedule.” – Mahesh Babu

10. “Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families.” – Benjamin Todd

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Family quotes that remind us about the importance of our loved ones

11. “The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” – George Santayana

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12. “Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.” – J.S. Bryan

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13. “A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.” – Ben Franklin

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14. “If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” – George Bernard Shaw

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15. “Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I’d be now.” – Patricia Velasquez

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16. “The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.” – Mario Puzo

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17. “Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected.” – Boyd K. Packer

18. “Tennis just a game, family is forever.” – Serena Williams

19. I sustain myself with the love of family.” – Maya Angelou

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20. “Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.”- Anthony Liccione

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Inspirational family quotes about problems and struggles

21. “You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” – Desmond Tutu

22. “Every family is dysfunctional, whether you want to admit it or not.” – Shailene Woodley

23. “No family is sane, is it?” – Rebecca Hall

24. “Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.” —Anthony Brandt

25. “When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching — they are your family. ” ― Jim Butcher

26. “Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.” – David Ogden Stiers

27. “Seeing the family is a very important part of my weekend.” – Susannah York

Family quotes about spending time together

28. “We must take care of our families wherever we find them.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

29. “In family relationships, love is really spelled T.I.M.E.” – Dieter F. Uchtdorf

30. “Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.” – Albert Einstein

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Quotes about family values

31. “Family life contributes immensely to an individual’s happiness. Only in a happy home life can complete contentment be found.” – Dorothea S. Koppliln

32. “Family is where life begins & love never ends.” – Unknown

33. “In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.” – Friedrich Nietzche

34. “Having somewhere to go is home. Having someone to love is family. Having both is a blessing.” – Unknown

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35. “The most important parts of building a family are “God’s Love” and “Meaningful Friendships.” ― Phil Mitchell

36. “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

37. “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

38. “It’s very important to prioritize. I know, for me, my family comes first. That makes every decision very easy.” – Jada Pinkett Smith

39. “Life is a secret lease from God and we should not allow ourselves to be bruised. Family life is our strength and success.” – Joseph Losery

40. “Family: like branches on a tree, we all grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one.” – Unknown

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Quotes about family love and being together

41. “To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.” – Barbara Bush

42. “Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.” – Paul Ryan

43. “I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.”– Barbara Bush

44. “Love is just a feeling of togetherness and openness in your heart….” – Ken Keyes Jr.

45. “Togetherness, passion, laughter, faith, trust, and jealousy are the essential ingredients of love.” – Shahrukh Khan

46. “Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.” – Irina Shayk

47. “If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable — each segment distinct.” – Letty Cottin Pogrebin

48. “Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.” – Mitch Albom

49. Love your family. Spend time, be kind & serve one another. Make no room for regrets. Tomorrow is not promised & today is short.-Unknown

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Family quotes and sayings celebrating the most precious gift you will ever have in life

50. “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

51. “Spread love. Hug the people you care about and make sure they know that you care and appreciate them. Make it known to your friends and family that you love them.” ― Germany Kent

52. “Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.” – Brad Henry

53. “I think family is key, and if you have love for family, then you have love for others – and you have unity as a people.” – Marlon Wayans

54. “You need a strong family because at the end, they will love you and support you unconditionally. Luckily, I have my dad, mom and sister.” – Esha Gupta

55. “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

56. “Family is a unique gift that needs to be appreciated and treasured, even when they’re driving you crazy. As much as they make you mad, interrupt you, annoy you, curse at you, try to control you, these are the people who know you the best and who love you.” – Jenna Morasca

57. “Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.”– F. Scott Fitzgerald

58. “Sometimes problems don’t require a solution to solve them; instead they require maturity to outgrow them.”
– Steve Maraboli

59. “It doesn’t matter how much money you have. If you have family, you’re rich. All the money in the world could never compare to the love of a family.”

60. “You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.” – Anita Baker

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61. “It’s frightening seeing in ourselves the same ingredients as dysfunctional members of our families. Fortunately, as it is with baking, the proportions, mix, and temperature of the exact same ingredients can yield anything from burnt cookies to elegant soufflés.”– Alan Robert Neal

62. “This is my family. I found it all on my own. It’s little, and broken, but still good. Yeah. Still good.” – Stitch

63. “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

64. “In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.”― Alex Haley

65. “My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what’s important to me.” – Michael Imperioli

66. “Family, friends and relationships are the blessings of the God. They are the best way to access God.”― Amit Ray

67. “Family is more than blood.”― Cassandra Clare

68. “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

69. “The world, we’d discovered, doesn’t love you like your family loves you.”― Louis Zamperini

70. “Spending time with the ones who are dear to you is like being in a dream, is it not?”― Sakura Tsukuba

71. “The home is the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose, and that is to support the ultimate career.”― C.S. Lewis

72. “Bond is stronger than blood. The family grows stronger by bond.”― Itohan Eghide

73. “The best way to feel family is being part of it.”― Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez

74. “It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.” – Peter Buffett

75. “The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”― Victor Hugo

76. “The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there──shared vision and values.”― Stephen R. Covey

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Other inspirational family quotes and sayings

77. “Family and friends are hidden treasures, seek them and enjoy their riches.”– Wanda Hope Carter

78. “Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.”
– Andre Maurois

79. “There was so much fun going to the farm with grandma. In group with other family members, grandma lead the way.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita

80. “Family isn’t defined only by last names or by blood; it’s defined by commitment and by love.” – Dave Willis

81. “At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.”– Mark V. Olsen

82. The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.” – Lee Iacocca

83. “Family ties mean that no matter how much you might want to run from your family, you can’t!”– Unknown

84. “Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.” – George W. Bush

85. “The family is the first essential cell of human society.”– Pope John XXIII

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More family quotes and sayings

86. “The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.” – Thomas Jefferson

87. “One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.” – Jonathan Safran Foer

88. “Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.” – Marjorie Pay Hinckley

89. “You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.” – Elizabeth Berg

90. “God is the designer of the family.” – Gordon B. Hinckley

91. “Mothers are our world. Sisters are our sky. Daughters are our stars. Women are our universe.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

92. “Keep them close if they love you for living in your truth. But weigh their intentions if they love you for living in their truth.” – Mitta Xinindlu

93. “Families weren’t like a box of standardized-test-taking number two pencils. Families were like a box of assorted-color Sharpie markers: different, kinda stinky (but not in a bad way), and permanent whether you liked it or not.” – Roshani Chokshi

94. “The best of investments is your family.” – Atalay Aydın

95. “Family is your greatest gift and your greatest challenge.” – Bert McCoy

96. “Family is a candle burning at both ends – stay in the middle for as long as you can.” – Bert McCoy

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Family quotes about the good and bad realities of families

97. “Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.” — Cary Grant

98. “When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you.” — Guy Lafleur

99. “My family is my strength and my weakness.” — Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

100. “I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.” — Jet Li

101. “The family you come from isn’t as important as the family you’re going to have.” — Ring Lardner

102. “The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.” — George Carlin

103. “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” — Richard Bach

104. “The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.” — Charles Kuralt

105. “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

106. “One’s family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I’ll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who’ll be with me will be my family.” — Robert Byrd

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107. “As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.” ― Neil Gaiman

108. “No one’s family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.” ― Claire LaZebnik

109. “There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure.” ― Jim Butcher

110. “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

111. “Families break up when they get hints you don’t intend and miss hints that you do.” ― Robert Frost

112. “There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.” ― Jerry Seinfeld

113. “The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.” ― Mother Teresa

114. “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

115. “Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.” ― Gail Tsukiyama

116. “Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?” ― Trenton Lee Stewart

Family quotes and sayings to appreciate those who love you

117. “A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.” -Charles R. Swindoll

118. “The family is the nucleus of civilization.” -Will Durant

119. “Some of the most important conversations I’ve ever had occurred at my family’s dinner table.” -Bob Ehrlich

120. “I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.” -Jodi Picoult

121. “People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people’s families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.” -Douglas Coupland

122. “A home with a loving and loyal husband and wife is the supreme setting in which children can be reared in love and righteousness and in which the spiritual and physical needs of children can be met.” -David A. Bednar

123. “Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious.” -Gloria Steinem

124. “I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.” -Amos Oz

125. “If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.” -Michael Enzi

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Family Quotes And Sayings About Being There For Each Other

126. “The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.” — Marge Kennedy

127. “I have a wonderful shelter, which is my family.” — José Carreras

128. “My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family.” — Siri Hustvedt

129. “I don’t think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.” — Reba McEntire

130. “Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.” — Martin Mull

131. “Families are like fudge–mostly sweet, with a few nuts.” — Les Dawson

132. “Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.”― Pierce Brown

133. “A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.” — Robert Brault

134. “Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!” ― Stieg Larsson

135. “Life is beautiful. It’s about giving. It’s about family.” — Walt Disney

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Family Quotes and Sayings as a Support System

136. “The foundation of family – that’s where it all begins for me.” ― Faith Hill

137. “When I’m ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.” ― LaToya Jackson

138. “A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed.” ― Jim Bunning

139. “Better a loving single-parent family than a ‘conventional’ family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.” ― Moby

140. “The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.” ― Robert Breault

141. “I like to see a home like this, a home connected with people’s thoughts and work, things they love.” ― DeWitt Bodeen

142. “Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.” ― Edna Buchanan

143. Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.” ― Margaret Mead

144. “I stay in tune with my family and God.” ― Regina King

145. “My family was my guide to my reality.” ― Haywood Nelson

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Family Quotes and Sayings To Spend Quality Time

146. “Being part of a family means smiling for photos.” ― Harry Morgan

147. “Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt ‘safe’ there.” ― Robert Cormier

148. “I can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror and my family can look at me too and that’s all that matters.” ― Lance Armstrong

149. “Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.” ― Queen Elizabeth II

150. “Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.” ― John C. Maxwell

151. “Family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life.” ― J.K. Rowling

152. “A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.” ― Tom DeLay

153. “Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it.” ― George Eliot

154. “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

155. “There’s nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.” ― Willie Stargell

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Family Quotes and Sayings to Celebrate the Ties That Bind

156. “Your retirement is an opportunity to live out your dreams and take care of your family. Don’t leave it to chance.” ― Chris Hogan

157. “It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.” ― Philip Green

158. “The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you’ve got to come home.” ― Barry Gibb

159. “Under any system of society … the family holds the future in its bosom.” ― Charles Franklin Thwing

160. “Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends – they will never go out of fashion.” ― Niki Taylor

161. “I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.” ― Richard Branson

162. “I enjoy what I’m able to give my family.” ― Shia LaBeouf

163. “I like to live. I like to dance. I like to eat. I like to work and I like my family. I like to enjoy. And.. knock on wood.. it’s nice that I can live this way.” ― Ivana Trump

164. “Family is the root of all that is good in our lives, and I am so grateful for mine.” ― Ivana Trump

165. “Doing something for yourself like running, and using it to test yourself, will only make you feel better about your career or your family role.” ― Joan Benoit

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166. “A woman of faith is the face behind many breakthroughs in a family.” ― Gift Gugu Mona

167. “When someone gets locked up, so does their family.” ― Shaka Senghor

168. “So your family is as mad as mine?” ― Megan Jacobson

169. “Happiness is quality time with friends and family. Incorporate higgle to everyday life to guarantee it.” ― Jessica Joelle Alexander

170. “There comes a time when we have to accept that people make their own choices, and we’re not responsible for those choices, even if they’re our family.” ― Amy Tintera

171. “Whatever you do, keep your family together. That’s the most important thing in the world.”

― Edward Rutherfurd

172. “Things such as the idea of family and that of friendship are a sign of spiritual barbarism.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

173. “Family is for fun not for fight.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita

174. “The best gift God gave is family.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita

175. “Our families are defined by far more than just blood, so sometimes it’s necessary to cut the cord with who came before so that we can find our way to who we need right now” ― E.B. Johnson

Family Quotes And Sayings About Keeping The Family Together

176. “Her family had shown her that love is a lie. It isn’t stone-solid; instead it bends and crumbles away, weak as rusty metal.” ― N.K. Jemisin

177. “It is a matter of economic wellbeing that most families be formed as mother, father, and children in a single-family household.” ― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

178. “The relationships we share with our families are important, and they are the first compass by which we orientate ourselves in this world.” ― E.B. Johnson

179. “Anyone who treats me kind and loves unreservedly, I consider them my family” ― Charmaine J Forde

180. “None of them were truly related to her, but they were still her family.” ― Nicki Pau Preto

181. “Friends are family we have chosen ourselves.” ― Dahi Tamara Koch

182. “It’s a hard thing, balancing your obligation to the family who supported you, who loves you, and the desires of your heart.” ― Melanie A. Smith

183. “Keep the joy of loving God in your heart today and share this joy with all you meet, especially your family.” ― Mother Theresa of Calcutta

184. “One thing I have seen spread faster than coronavirus: Connection – with family, friends, and our communities.” ― Charles F. Glassman

185. “A person’s family life and home environment have a huge impact on how their personalities and priorities are formed.” ― Florian Hewitt

186. “The very first team we ever encounter is the family we are born into, and then as we grow we move to schools and colleges.” ― Derek Stanzma

187. “Your own family can negatively influence your life. Often it is done unintentionally.” ― Sandra Leon

188. “To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.” ― Pope John Paul II

189. “The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child.” ― Lyndon Baines Johnson

190. “Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.” ― President Barack Obama

191. “God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.” ― Desmond Tutu

192. “My family provided me with the proper information and inspiration for me to overcome the challenge of blindness.” ― David DeNotaris

193. “In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.” ― Henry Ward Beecher

194. “Special people in our life sometimes can become our family, it doesn’t mean they have to be blood related, it means appreciating those who care and love you.” ― B. B. Butler

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