Family Quotes

Blood or chosen, families shape who we become. These quotes honor those bonds.

16096 quotes

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"Family is the first school where we learn love and virtue."
Al-Ghazali
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"Family teaches us that we are part of something greater than ourselves."
Al-Ghazali
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"Family is where life begins and love never ends."
Augustine of Hippo
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"The family is the foundation upon which all civilization rests and flourishes."
Averroes
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"The family is the first school where we learn virtue or its opposite."
Averroes
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"Recommend virtue to your children; that alone, not money, can make them happy."
Cicero
"You came into the world a dependent. Be not ungrateful for the support you received, and do not resist the support given to others."
Marcus Aurelius
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"The greatest gift a parent can give a child is not wealth, but the capacity for independent thought."
Averroes
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"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home."
Mencius
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"The strength of a family is the love that binds it."
Mencius
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"The bonds of family are the strongest bonds."
Mencius
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"I am not ashamed of my precedents; but I am ashamed of the descendants of my precedents."
Cicero
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"The greatest love is a mother's; the greatest strength is a woman's."
Zhuangzi
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"The capacity to care for others is the heart of human virtue."
Mencius
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"A man may neglect his personal welfare but he should not neglect the welfare of his family."
Mencius
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"The father who does not teach his son his duties is failing at his own responsibilities."
Mencius
"The greatest love is a mother's love"
Thales of Miletus
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"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home."
Confucius
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"To put the world 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."
Confucius
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"Respect your parents and the government. These are the only two things that should be respected unconditionally."
Confucius
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"When your father is alive, look at his deeds; when your father is dead, look at your own deeds."
Confucius
"Family is the first school of the human heart."
Laozi
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"When the root is neglected, the branches wither away."
Mencius
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"Let the ruler be a ruler, the subject a subject, the father a father, the son a son."
Mencius
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"Filial piety and respect for elders are the root of moral character."
Mencius
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"The child teaches the parent as much as the parent teaches the child."
Mencius
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"We should honor our parents not from fear but from gratitude."
Epicureanism Epicurus
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"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home."
Confucius
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"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 the self."
Confucius
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"The root of the empire is in the state; the root of the state is in the family."
Mencius