100 Quotes to Motivate Your Family in Time of Crisis
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They say disaster strikes when you least expect it to. One moment everything is going well and everyone is happy, then suddenly grief strikes the entire family. In time like this, it’s really hard to see the light and realize you will all get through it. So, if you are going through a rough patch, here are a few quotes to uplift you and your family’s mood.
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in” – George Burns
“Happiness [is] only real when shared” – Jon Krakeur
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.” – Oscar Wilde
“No man has ever lived that had enough of children’s gratitude or a woman’s love.” William Butler Yeats
“Family is the most important thing in the world.” -Princess Diana
“At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.” -Mark V. Olsen
“There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more… secure.”- Jim Butcher
“Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.” -Sam Levenson
“Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.” -David Ogden Stiers
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.” -George Moore
“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching – – they are your family. ” -Jim Butcher
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” -Leo Tolstoy
“Govern a family as you would cook a small fish – very gently.” -Chinese Proverb
“Spare the rod and spoil the child – that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.” -Martin Luther
“One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.” -Jonathan Foer
“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” -John Bowring
“Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.” -Michael J. Fox
“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” -George Bernard Shaw
“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
“I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.” -Barbara Bush
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” -Richard Bach
“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.” -Mother Teresa
“My family comes first. Maybe that’s what makes me different from other guys.” -Bobby Darin
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close- knit family in another city.” -George Burns
“To understand your parents’ love, you must raise children yourself.” -Chinese proverb
“Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?” – Lee Stewart
“Writers will happen in the best of families.” -Rita Mae Brown
“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
“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.” -Lee Iacocca
“We must take care of our families wherever we find them.” -Elizabeth Gilbert
“There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.” -Jerry Seinfeld
“I sustain myself with the love of family.” -Maya Angelou
“This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.” -Arundhati Roy
“Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.” -Andre Maurois
“A man should never neglect his family for business.” -Walt Disney
“The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.” -Confucius
“Cherish your human connections – your relationships with friends and family.” -Barbara Bush
“Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.” -Mitch Albom
“Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.” -Marjorie Pay Hinckley
“Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.” -Mitch Albom
“Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life!” -Albert Einstein
“No one’s family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.” -Calire LaZebnik
“You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.” -Elizabeth Berg
“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
“One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.” -Jonathan Safran Foer
“Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.” -Ann Brashares
‘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
“People come and go in our lives, but a beauty of life is that our family is always there.” Catherine Pulsifer
“Love wisdom like a sister; make insight a beloved member of your family.” Proverbs 7:9 (NLT)
“Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.” Queen Elizabeth II
“Take care of your closest friends and family.” -Mauricio González Vidal
“I believe a hug can change the world. Maybe not the whole world, but a hug can change the world of a family member or friend.” David DeNotaris
“Often we think of love in terms of people, whether they are friends, family, or romantic partners.” Janet Springer, Unbreakable Willpower
“What you need to understand when you choose specific friends and family members to help you with your depression is that they have lives too.” Joanna Jackson, Self Help
“The great 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
“Some of us are so self-reliant that we won’t ask for help from our family members or close friends. You can’t do it all, all the time, by yourself.” Yasmeen Abdur-Rahman
“The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst.” Marge Kennedy
“We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.” Marquise de Sévigné
“Family life contributes immensely to an individual’s happiness” – Dorothea S. Koppliln
“Somehow the home without God is missing a vital ingredient; we cannot enter fully into the true blessing of family living if our homes are not lifted up to God for his blessing.” Al Bryant
“Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.” Gail Lumet Buckley
“In time of test, family is best.” -Burmese Proverb
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.”– George Moore
“At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable”.– Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer
“Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance.”– Milton R. Saperstein
“Families are like fudge… mostly sweet with a few nuts.” — Author Unknown
“Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.”– Brad Henry
“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 faces are magic mirrors looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future”. — Gail Lumet Buckley
“The family you come from isn’t as important as the family you’re going to have”. –Ring Lardner
“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family”.– Lee Iacocca
“To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there”. — Barbara Bush
“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.”– Thomas Jefferson
“What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life – to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.” — George Eliot
“When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.” — Joyce Brothers
“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” — Desmond Tutu
“Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing”.– Jim Rohn
“Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.” -Andre Maurois
“The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other” -Mario Puzo
“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
“My family is my strength and my weakness.” -Aishwarya Rai
“My sense of personal strength has always come from my family.” -Benjamin Bratt
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.” -John Paul II
“The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” -George Santayana
“You don’t do that. You don’t just leave your family. Sticking together… it’s the only way to survive” -Kiera Cass
“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.” -Alex Haley
“There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of humans, are created, strengthened and maintained.” -Winston Churchill
“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.”-Lee Iacocca
“The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.” -M. Grundler
“Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.”-Anthony Liccione
“If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you’ll have a good life.” -Adam Carolla
“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family” -Anthony Brandt
“When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you.” -Guy Lafleur
“Love your family. Spend time, be kind & serve one another. Make no room for regrets. Tomorrow is not promised & today is short.” -Anonymous
“To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.” -Confucius
“The family is the first essential cell of human society.” -Pope John XXIII
“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.” -Thomas Jefferson
“My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what’s important to me.” – Michael Imperioli
“For me, family always comes first; I would do anything to protect them.” – Mark Wahlberg
“It’s very important to prioritize. I know, for me, my family comes first. That makes every decision very easy.” – Jada Pinkett Smith