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The Best, Funny Aunt Quotes About Love & Family

admin — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 14:00:00 +0000

Here’s a selection of Aunt Quotes, covering topics such as nieces, nephews, happy birthdays, uncles and .

We really hope you enjoy these quotes and that they give you something to think about.

Maybe! Maybe! Maybe if your aunt had a beard, she’d be your uncle.

Alvah Bessie

I’m a really fun aunt, so I hope I’m going to be a fun mom! I like to have fun and be silly and not take myself too seriously with the kids, so I hope that will translate when I actually have my own.

Khloe Kardashian

I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And I used to want to, like, adopt 10 kids – because I had friends who were adopted, and I thought that was the coolest thing, to be chosen. But again, my job is too selfish.

Kelly Clarkson

I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.

Cher

I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world.

Bailee Madison

Maybe I’ll just be a good aunt.

Kim Kardashian

My mom was a hairdresser. My aunt was a hairdresser. My brother was a hairdresser. My sisters are hairdressers.

Mark Ruffalo

When I meet people who say – which they do all of the time – ‘I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,’ and so forth, I switch off quite early.

Christopher Hitchens

My mother wasn’t strong like my aunt. She was just very passive.

Tyler Perry

I’m now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.

Jane Fonda

My mother was the kind of person who was very much part of her tribe and very much a satellite of her tribe. She was the girl who left her family at the age of 17 and went to Washington. My mother was orphaned at three and then was brought up by my aunt Goldie. So, yes she belonged, but there was a part of her that didn’t.

Goldie Hawn

A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.

Vera Wang

My Aunt Erna was smuggled out of Nazi Germany in 1939, alive, in a coffin with a spider plant at her feet. When I moved to Los Angeles from New York City in 1974 for ‘Happy Days,’ I took a cutting with me.

Henry Winkler

My father’s sister never married in order to raise me.

Marcel Carne

Layers are not difficult for me. You have the luxury of takes, so if you feel like, say, you did not take in the fact that your aunt is across the way in one take, you do it again and try to add that piece.

Gillian Anderson

I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother’s aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others.

B. B. King

A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.

Anna Held

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

Amelia Earhart

Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of them, and a couple of old aunties.

Donna Tartt

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

Mahatma Gandhi

My own aunt was Merle Oberon, so movie stardom was not a faraway mystery to me as a child: it was part of the family business.

Michael Korda

If you’re not a parent, if you’re an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.

Victoria Osteen

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.

Vanessa Marcil

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

Robert Brault

My aunts still try to fatten me up.

Randy Wayne White

I had people in my life who didn’t give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.

Temple Grandin

I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.

Kate Dicamillo

A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Eleanor Roosevelt

My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.

Dick Dale

Beyonce has set the tone as an aunt. I’ve set the tone as a mom.

Solange Knowles

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

Rudyard Kipling

Aunts are to be a pattern and example to all aunts; to be a delight to boys (and girls) and a comfort to their parents; and to show that at least one daughter in every generation ought to remain unmarried, and raise the profession of auntship to a fine art.

Dave Isay

Only an aunt can give hugs like a mother, keep secrets like a sister and share love like a friend.

unknown

My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women’s feet and asked for forgiveness.

Jack Kerouac

An aunt is someone special to remember with warmth, think of with pride, and cherish with love.

unknown

It has to do – I think – with growing up in an apartment, with my aunt and my cousins right next door to me, with the door open, with neighbors walking in and out, with people yelling at each other all the time.

Larry David

I was so afraid to go out west to my aunt’s ranch. But the only choice my mother gave me was to go for two weeks or all summer. I wound up staying all summer. And that’s where I learned about cattle. I could relate to their behavior, their fears.

Temple Grandin

People used to grow up in small communities where folk wisdom was passed down. But we don’t live there anymore. We can’t go next door to your aunt and ask her for the answers.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they’re all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago.

Ziggy Marley

Aunt Marion was right… Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.

Charles M. Schulz

Aunt: A cherished friend and personal cheerleader who will always see you through rose colored glasses.

unknown

The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her.

Marcelene Cox

Madea is a cross between my mother and my aunt. She’s the type of grandmother that was on every corner when I was growing up.

Tyler Perry

His father’s sister had bats in the belfry and was put away.

Eden Phillpotts

Tori’s my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.

Tori Amos

My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and, emboldened by my success with ‘The Waste Land,’ I opened their copy of ‘Ulysses.’ The whiff of death off those remorseless, closely written pages overpowered me. So: back to soluble mysteries, and jokes that were not cosmic.

John Updike

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

Victor Hugo

I would go to an aunt’s house, and she would let me play music, and she had ‘The Last Poets’ album. At that time, albums didn’t have explicit stickers on them, so some of the songs had profanity on them, and I was moved by that. I would listen to those songs, to the flow, and I’d balance it back and forth with the nursery stuff I had.

Gza

An aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side.

Sara Sheridan

It is not money my aunt thinks about. She knows better than to value worldly wealth above its price.

Anne Bronte

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

Audrey Hepburn

Something in the human psyche confuses beauty with the right to be loved. The briefest glance at human folly reveals that good looks and worthiness operate independently. Yet countless socializing forces, from Aunt Clara to the latest perfume ad, reinforce beliefs like ‘If I were pretty enough, I would be loved.’

Martha Beck

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.

Anne Roiphe

The Best Funny Quotes For Kids For Birthdays, Christmas And More

admin — Mon, 25 May 2020 14:00:00 +0000

Hi there! Unfortunately we don’t have as many Funny Quotes For Kids as we’d like at the moment, but it’s definitely on our to do list to get some more. We’d ideally like to get quotes that cover topics such as school, friendship, minions, laughing, wee and poop.

If you’d like to see some more quotes on this topic then please don’t hesitate to let us know.

Over 150 Of Our Favorite Quotes About Family And Family Life

Sam Gibbons — Sun, 04 Jun 2017 21:37:58 +0000

No matter the shape or size of your family, whether you are related by blood lines or connected by heart strings, these quotes will remind you why you love those crazy kooks in the first place. They will help you keep in mind that even the most loving families go through trying times occasionally. Funny, inspiring, heartwarming, there is a quote for every occasion.

Funny Family Quotes

Have you ever gotten angry or frustrated during a family gathering? No one would believe you if you answered in the negative. So if you can find it in yourself to laugh rather than shout in those times, you are halfway to enlightenment.

I know family comes first, but shouldn’t that mean after breakfast?

Jeff Lindsay

Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie – not perfect but who’s complaining?

Robert Brault

Insanity runs in the family. It practically gallops.

Cary Grant

The family – that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

Dodie Smith

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

I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.

Anthony Anderson

Family is a blessing. – Just keep saying that when you are irritated by something a family member says.

Marcelina Hardy

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

Unknown

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the heck she is.

Ellen de Generes

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

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

Les Dawson

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.

Earl Wilson

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

Jonathan Safran Foer

From the ages of 8-18, me and my family moved around a lot. Mostly we would just stretch, but occasionally one of us would actually get up to go to the fridge.

Jarod Kintz

Family is just accident…. They don’t mean to get on your nerves. They don’t even mean to be your family, they just are.

Marsha Norman

When I was ten, my family moved to Downer’s Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.

Emo Phillips

I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

Ugo Betti

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

Ogden Nash

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that members not present and subjects discussed were one and the same.

Robert Brault

Children really can brighten up a house, because they never turn the lights off.

Ralph Bus

Short Family Quotes

Short and sweet, these quotes are pithy enough to get embroidered on a sofa cushion or inscribed on top of the fireplace. Let them give you the same homey feelings as the family they refer to.

Family always starts at home…

Unknown

Blessings are plentiful for the home of a family…

Unknown

When the family life is full of fun and humor; life is easy and light…

Unknown

And when families are divided by misunderstandings…

Unknown

Blood means you’re related. It doesn’t mean your family.

Mr. Feeny

Not everything you fight about is worth fighting about.

Aaron Anderson

Our job is to love others without stoping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.

Thomas Merton

It’s not about what I can get, it’s what I can give.

Marie Forleo

Family is supposed to be our safe haven. Very often, it’s the place where we find the deepest hearctache.

Iyanla Vanzant

This is my family. I found it all on my own. It’s little, and broken. But still good. Yeah, still good.

Stitch

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

John Wooden

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

Desmond Tutu

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

Michael J. Fox

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

George Burns

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

Philip Green

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

Joyce Meyer

The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.

George Santayana

My family is my strength and my weakness.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

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

Charles Kuralt

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

Alex Haley

Family Quotes From The Bible

Get some parenting advice and insight on the importance of family from the best-selling book of all time. You will definitely learn something about family dynamics with these verses.

We love because he first loved us.

1 John 4:19

Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

1 Timothy 5:8

He and all his family were devout and God-fearing; he gave generously to those in need and prayed to God regularly.

Acts 10:2

Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.

Colossians 3:13

Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

Ephesians 6:4

Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

Exodus 20:12

Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.

Proverbs 22:6

But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.

Joshua 24:15

My son, keep your father’s command and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

Proverbs 6:20

Children are a heritage from the LORD, offspring a reward from him. 4 Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are children born in one’s youth. 5 Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their opponents in court.

Psalm 127:3-5

But the lovingkindness of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, And His righteousness to children’s children, to those who keep his covenant and remember to do his commandments.

Psalm 103:17-18

Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.

Proverbs 1:8-9

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

First Timothy 5:8

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands… Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her… In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Ephesians 5:22 -25, 28

But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.

Mark 10:6-9

These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Deuteronomy 6:6-7

They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.

Acts 16:31

I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in mind and thought.

1 Corinthians 1:10

Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.

1 John 4:20

Can a mother forget the baby at her breast
and have no compassion on the child she has borne?
Though she may forget,
I will not forget you!
See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;
your walls are ever before me.

Isaiah 49:15-16

Inspirational Family Quotes

Let these quotes remind you of just how much you love your family and how lucky you are to have it. The more thankful you are for your near and dear, the closer you will all get.

Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.

Mother Theresa

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

Brad Henry

I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.

Michael Landon

When we think of our family, our spouse, parents, or children, let us see them as a gift from God.

Dillon Burroughs

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

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

Unknown

A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no aw, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

Agatha Christie

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

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

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

Oscar Wilde

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Mark Twain

No man has ever lived that had enough of children’s gratitude or woman’s love.

William Butler Yeats

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Princess Diana

When she can’t bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.

Libba Bray

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

Family Values Quotes

Whether on the right or the left, it seems like everyone has something to say about family values. And whether we embrace these values or reject them, they follow us our entire lives. Let the following quotes help you reflect about what is truly meaningful to you.

Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families.

Benjamin Todd Jealous

I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you’re going. That’s family values.

Al Sharpton

I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values – the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one’s children.

Ednita Nazario

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

Christopher Lasch

A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common – a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature.

Steven Pinker

Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.

Harry Browne

I believe in family values, and I believe that we all ought to be able to have a family and marry if you want to. I don’t think the government should be in that business of denying people the fundamental right to marry.

Antonio Villaraigosa

People are saying I am against the chador. I am not. On the contrary. I am for traditional family values.

Rula Ghani

When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?

Patricia Ireland

I believe in the value of life. I believe we must prepare our children for tomorrow with the family values of my grandparents.

Ryan Zinke

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

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

Boyd K. Packer

If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. You shield it and protect it. You never abuse it. You don’t expose it to the elements. You don’t make it common or ordinary. If it ever becomes tarnished, you lovingly polish it until it gleams like new. It becomes special because you have made it so, and it grows more beautiful and precious as time goes by.

F. Burton Howard

Happiness comes from unselfish service. And happy homes are only those where there is a daily striving to make sacrifices for each other’s happiness.

Harold B. Lee

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money.

Abigail Van Buren

The family is both the fundamental unit of society as well as the root of culture. It … is a perpetual source of encouragement, advocacy, assurance, and emotional refueling that empowers a child to venture with confidence into the greater world and to become all that he can be.

Marianne E. Neifert

Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.

Susan Lieberman

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

Mario Puzo

Family values are a little like family vacations -— subject to changeable weather and remembered more fondly with the passage of time. Though it rained all week at the beach, it’s often the momentary rainbows that we remember.

Leslie Dreyfous

In truth a family is what you make it. It is made strong, not by number of heads counted at the dinner table, but by the rituals you help family members create, by the memories you share, by the commitment of time, caring, and love you show to one another, and by the hopes for the future you have as individuals and as a unit.

Marge Kennedy

Quotes About Family Quarrels

Even the most loving families have arguments. These quotes speak of the pain of the experience and teach us solutions for getting through them, hopefully with a stronger family unit.

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

Families aren’t easy to join. They’re like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant.

Erma Bombeck

Deep inside us, we know what every family therapist knows: the problems between the parents become the problems within the children.

Roger Gould

It doesn’t matter what kind of problems a family is having; it should always stay in the family.

Scott Weiland

We’re a very close family and we’re a very real family, and I think every real family has real problems.

Emilio Estevez

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn’t listening.

Emma Thompson

I can’t say it’s not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.

LaToya Jackson

In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.

Isaac Rosenfeld

Family problems come in all shapes and sizes; some are short-lived and easily managed, while others are more chronic and difficult to handle.

Unknown

Otherwise, you just become partners managing the kids and life, and that makes your marriage more vulnerable to problems down the road.

Laura Berman

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

Joseph Stiglitz

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

John Steinbeck

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.

Mignon McLaughlin

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

Cyril Connolly

The family – that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

Dodie Smith

Not a single thought managed to take shape in her mind: for the likeness of this day to the last seemed to her the clearest proof that it would be another quite useless day, a day she would gladly have done without. For a moment she thought that a day like this would be pointless for anyone on earth, then abruptly changed her mind as she realised that thousands of women, after a hard week’s work, or a family quarrel, or even just after catching a cold, would envy her just for having the leisure to rest in comfort.

Ismail Kadaré

I think all of us are agreed that war is probably man’s greatest stupidity and I think peace is the dream that lives in the heart of everyone wherever he may be in the world, but unfortunately, unlike a family quarrel, it doesn’t take two to make a war. It only takes one, unless the other one is prepared to surrender at the first hint of force.

Ronald Reagan

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

Jean Racine

How many serious family quarrels, marriages out of spite, and alterations of wills, might have been prevented by a gentle dose of blue pill!-What awful instances of chronic dyspepsia in the characters of Hamlet and Othello! Banish dyspepsia and spirituous liquors from society, and you have no crime, or at least so little that you would not consider it worth mentioning.

Charles Kingsley

The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

George Bernard Shaw

Funny Quotes About Family Reunions

Whether it is a love fest or a quarrel fest, you cannot argue that a family reunion is not a beast of its own. Want a laugh and a case of the warm and fuzzies, why not read a few of these quotes at your next family gathering?

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

Alex Haley

It doesn’t matter what story ae’re telling, we’re telling the story of family.

Erica Lorraine Scheidt

One wants to be together with one’s family. That’s what families are about.

Aung San Suu Yuki

A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.

Heinlein

Like branches on a tree, our lives may grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one.

Unknown

Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say.

Rick Riordan

If you don’t believe in ghosts, you’ve never been to a family reunion.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Generations pass like leaves fall from our family tree. Each season new life blossoms and grows benefiting from the strength and experience of those who went before.

Heidi Swapp

I love family reunions. Maybe next year we could pass out samurai swords.

Doug Solter

No one’s family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

Claire LaZebnik

Family gives us two things; one is roots, the other is wings.

Unknown

Family is like branches on a tree; we all grow in different directions, yet our roots remain as one.

Unknown

“Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life!

Albert Einstein

“Family: We might not have it all together, but together we have it all.

Unknown

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

Barbara Bush

The only thing sweeter than union is reunion.

Kathleen McGowan

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

David Ogden Stiers

I wish I could relate to the people I’m related to.

Jeff Foxworthy

May the roots of your family tree grow deep and strong.

Irish blessing

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

Mary Karr

Family Quotes About Love And Strength

Regardless of the disagreements and the potentially contentious history, most of us are lucky enough to say that our family was a source of comfort and support when we were faced with the unpredictability of life and that translates into a feeling of strength as these quotes demonstrate.

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 sense of personal strength has always come from my family.

Benjamin Bratt

Our family is a circle of strength and love…Our family with ever birth and every union the circle grows, our family is a circle of strength every crisis faced together makes the circle stronger.

Harriet Morgan

I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.

Lee Iacocca

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

Andre Maurois

The only strength that really matters is the strength that makes you what you are in the eyes of those you love.

Wes Fessler

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

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Confucius

In time of test, family is best.

Burmese Proverb

We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

Marquise de Sevigne

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

John Bowring

A man can’t make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

Helen Keller

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

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

Family life is full of major and minor crises — the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce — and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It’s difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul.

Thomas Moore

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible — the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

Virginia Satir

Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others.

Sidonie Gruenberg

Family Quotes From Books

Family is a seemingly inexhaustible source of inspiration for writers. Whether they viewed their relatives with an amused lens or a skeptical one, we certainly benefit from the richness of experience these familial bonds provided.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It’s knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

There was that constant communication which strong family affection would dictate; and though sisters, and living almost within sight of each other, they could live without disagreement between themselves, or producing coolness between their husbands.

Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn’t depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family.

Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society

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

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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, Keeping Faith

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.

Dodie Smith, Dear Octopus

I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world!

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Whether anybody was home meant everything to a house. It was more than a major fact: it was the only fact … The family was the house’s soul.

Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.

Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees

As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.

Kristin Hannah, Summer Island

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

Anna Karenina

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

Oscar Wilde

This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.

Jay McInerney, The Last of the Savages

I don’t care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching – they are your family.

Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty

Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.

Marjorie Pay Hinckley

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Be careful how you speak to your children, one it will become their inner voice.

Peggy O’Mara

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

Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society

Quotes About Family Unity

These quotes will have you thinking that family unity is the sweetest of gifts, a gift that transcends cultural, national and historical barriers. These words might even inspire you to pick up the phone and call your mom.

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

J.K. Rowling

We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.

Gwendolyn Brooks

People come and go in our lives, but a beauty of life is that our family is always there.

Catherine Pulsifer

Every year Christmas comes around again and forces us to deal with God in the context of demanding and inconvenient children; gatherings of family members, many of whom we spend the rest of the year avoiding; all the crasser forms of greed and commercialized materiality; garish lights and decorations. Or maybe the other way around: Christmas forces us to deal with all the mess of our humanity in the context of God who has already entered that mess in the glorious birth of Jesus.

Eugene Peterson

Families and friends form some of the closest of bonds you will ever experience. It is almost impossible for you to lead a happy life without support from these important groups of people.

Jeffrey Dawson, Boundaries: Line Between Right And Wrong

Never be afraid to ask for help, especially when you have good friends or family who are likely more than willing to help out.

Michelle Stewart, De-Stress Your Life

No man (or woman) is an island’ and I was terrified of upsetting my family, my friends and my colleagues by making changes in my life which could affect their lives too, directly or indirectly.

Jenny Clift, The Music Inside

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

When I think of any of my successes, I am thankful to God from whom all blessings flow, and to my family and friends who enrich my life.

Unknown

Family life contributes immensely to an individual’s happiness. Only in a happy homelife can complete contentment be found.

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 consists of people that love and Family consists of people that love and care about each other mutually, and no matter what our background is, we can have people to call family.

John Shea, Strategic Empathy

Rich or poor, we will keep together and be happy in one another.

Louisa May Alcott

I don’t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he’s rich.

Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford

The truth is maybe we are just average. But the way I see it — families where parents get up every morning and go to jobs that are hard so they can get their kids through school and through life, and struggle to make it all work and manage to do it with dignity and a little humor — well, that’s not average. That’s extraordinary.

DeAnn Heline and Eileen Heisler

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.

Margaret Mead

The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another’s desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.

Erma Bombeck

Blood’s thicker than water, and when one’s in trouble
Best to seek out a relative’s open arms.

Unknown

There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps

Herbert Prochnov

Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted.

Paul Pearshall

50 Quotes About The Joy And Pain That Sisters Bring

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Luminaries of the literary, political and film spheres share their thoughts on one of the very closest relationships that exists, the relationship one has with one’s sister. This bond can vacillate between love and hate, but one thing is for sure, it is for life. By the time you are through these quotes, you will be inspired to pick up the phone and call your sister.

I want to say a little something that’s long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end.

Adam Yauch

It’s the moms of this nation – single, married, widowed – who really hold this country together. We’re the mothers, we’re the wives, we’re the grandmothers, we’re the big sisters, we’re the little sisters, we’re the daughters. You know it’s true, don’t you? You’re the ones who always have to do a little more.

Ann Romney

When you come from a big family, you see that, growing up, you’re learning how to share. Your sisters have got your back; you’re not alone in this – ‘We all support you!’ Your family provides that; it gives you a sense of safety, and it’s a very grounding feeling.

Gisele Bundchen

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

Margaret Mead

God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.

Malala Yousafzai

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

William Dean Howells

I grew up in an all-female family – two sisters and a mostly single mother – and we often bonded, in part, by disparaging men and feeling superior to them.

Kate Christensen

If you have a brother or sister, tell them you love them every day – that’s the most beautiful thing. I told my sister how much I loved her every day. That’s the only reason I’m OK right now.

Amaury Nolasco

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

Maya Angelou

Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.

Louise Glück

Sisters, as you know, also have a unique relationship. This is the person who has known you your entire life, who should love you and stand by you no matter what, and yet it’s your sister who knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt you the most.

Lisa See

You can kid the world, but not your sister.

Charlotte Gray

Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

Charles M. Schulz

True best friends never fail on understanding, forgiving, and being there for one another no matter what situation that they might be in or having with one another because of the fact of that no matter if it’s two males or females love should always be there as if brothers or sisters if their what we call best friends.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then just like real sisters, we listen and don’t judge.

Adriana Trigiani

That’s the best thing about little sisters: They spend so much time wishing they were elder sisters that in the end they’re far wiser than the elder ones could ever be.

Gemma Burgess

Having a sister is like having a best friend you can’t get rid of. You know whatever you do, they’ll still be there.

Amy Li

A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.

Marion C. Garretty

Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of a sister.

Alice Walker

If you don’t understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child.

Linda Sunshine

I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.

Emily Dickinson

Help one another, is part of the religion of sisterhood.

Louisa May Alcott

In thee my soul shall own combined the sister and the friend.

Catherine Killigrew

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 sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves — a special kind of double.

Toni Morrison

Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart — oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape — of your sister.

Katherine Mansfield

The best thing about having a sister was that I always had a friend.

Cali Rae Turner

Girls will be your friends – they’ll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything – they’re your true best friends.

Marilyn Monroe

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

Jodi Picoult

Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other.

Carol Saline

How the hell do you sum up your sister in three minutes? She’s your twin and your polar opposite. She’s your constant companion and your competition. She’s your best friend and the biggest b*tch in the world. She’s everything you wish you could be and everything you wish you weren’t.

M. Molly Backes

My sister and I are so close that we finish each other’s sentences and often wonder who’s memories belong to whom.

Shannon Celebi

A sister is both your mirror – and your opposite.

Elizabeth Fishel

That’s the best thing about little sisters: They spend so much time wishing they were elder sisters that in the end they’re far wiser than the elder ones could ever be.

Gemma Gurgess

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.

Jane Austen

A sister smiles when one tells one’s stories – for she knows where the decoration has been added.

Chris Montaigne

A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life.

Isadora James

A Sister is God’s way of proving He doesn’t want us to walk alone.

Unknown

A sister is one who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.

Unknown

A sister is your family. a sister takes in pride with you. a sister is your respectability. a sister is like a bra in your closet. she is like a girl you can trust with all of your secrets. a sister is always by your side.

Kortney Cobbley

Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that’s never lost is your sister.

Gail Sheeny

Sister is our first friend and second mother.

Sunny Gupta

A sister in a friend will come and go but a friend in a sister will always remain.

Leslie Ngak

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.

Benjamin Disraeli

A sister is the best gift and you can’t let go or get rid of it.

Unknown

How do people make it through life without a sister?

Sara Corpening

A ministering angel shall my sister be.

William Shakespeare

It’s hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own.

Pam Brown

More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you’ve been bad and good.

Linda Sunshine

50 Quotes about Brothers

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Brothers can be infuriating, but they can also be kind, supportive, loving, and sometimes, because you have so many shared expieriences, they can be the only people who know what you’re going through.

Here are fifty quotes about brothers and family that will hopefully make you smile.

Oh, brothers! I don’t care for brothers. My elder brother won’t die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

Oscar Wilde

Because brothers don’t let each other wander in the dark alone.

Jolene Perry

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother… Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

Anna Quindlen

Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.

Marc Brown

Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.

Vietnamese Proverb

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.

James Boswell

I don’t believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.

Maya Angelou

Mum used to say we were the same soul split in two and walking around on four legs. It seems unnatural being born together and then dying apart.

Melodie Ramone

After a girl is grown, her little brothers — now her protectors — seem like big brothers.

Terri Guillemets

A brother shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams.

Unknown

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

Pope Francis

If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.

Sam Levenson

Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.

John B. S. Haldane

It’s good to fight with your brothers, and it’s good to tease them to give them advice.

Malala Yousafzai

God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.

Josephine Baker

I think what you’re seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they’ve got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

Barack Obama

My brothers and sisters, we are all winners. In this context there is no victor and no vanquished. We have demonstrated, even in our diversity, the progress of Nigeria remains paramount for all.

Goodluck Jonathan

Well, you don’t get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn’t have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends.

Michael Jackson

There is no love like the love for a brother. There is no love like the love from a brother.

Astrid Alauda

Brothers don’t necessarily have to say anything to each other – they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.

Leonardo DiCaprio

When I look at each of my brothers, I see two things. First, I see the next place I want to leave a rosy welt. Second, I see a good man who will always be there, no matter how hard life gets for me or him. Then, I get out of the way because I realize he’s coming at me with a wet dish towel.

Dan Pearce

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out his nose.

Garrison

It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.

Dylan Thomas

Here’s to real heroes, not the ones who carry us off into the sunset but the ones who help us choose our princes.

E.M. Tippetts

Half the time when brothers wrestle, it’s just an excuse to hug each other.

James Patterson

Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and can be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.

St Francis of Assisi

Brothers are like streetlights along the road, they don’t make distance any shorter but they light up the path and make the walk worthwhile.

Unknown

The best thing about having four big brothers is you always have someone to do something for you.

Chloe Moretz

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caringquite often the hard way.

Pamela Dugdale

Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk.

Susan Scarf Merrell

It is impossible to keep a small boy in the house, even in the worst weather, unless he has a sister to torment.

Mary Wilson Little

A brother is a friend given by nature.

Jean-Baptiste Legouvé

I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and I found all three.

Author Unknown

The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a baby brother — and they’ll settle for a puppy every time.

Winston Pendelton

All for one and one for all
My brother and my friend
What fun we have
The time we share
Brothers ’til the end.

Author Unknown

Never make a companion equal to a brother.

Hesiod

A sibling may be the keeper of one’s identity, the only person with the keys to one’s unfettered, more fundamental self.

Marian Sandmaier

Our siblings push buttons that cast us in roles we felt sure we had let go of long ago — the baby, the peacekeeper, the caretaker, the avoider…. It doesn’t seem to matter how much time has elapsed or how far we’ve traveled.

Jane Mersky Leder

Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore.

Hindu Proverb

He is my most beloved friend and my bitterest rival, my confidant and my betrayer, my sustainer and my dependent, and scariest of all, my equal.

Gregg Levoy

We came into the world like brother and brother; And now let’s go hand in hand, not one before another.

William Shakespeare

If we are not our brother’s keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

Marlon Brando

When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.

Antisthenes

It takes two men to make one brother.

Israel Zangwill

There is a destiny that makes us brothers, no one goes his way alone; all that we send into the lives of others, comes back into our own.

Edwin Markham

Affliction’s sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

Robert Burns

He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth.

Kahlil Gibran

50 Top Quotes About Helping Others

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Studies show that helping others is one of the most beneficial things you can do to improve your own happiness. So why is it that so many of us shy away from making that connection and helping others. Hopefully the quotes bellow will inspire you to get out there and start helping others.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Audrey Hepburn

Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs.

Anthony J. D’Angelo

Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Helping others isn’t a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is.

Liya Kebede

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Napoleon Hill

Relationships are about helping motivate each other to be all that you can be.

David Archuleta

By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Everything good that’s ever happened to me came out of helping others.

Danny Trejo

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

Audrey Hepburn

Some people feel good about helping others, and they do so often. They do not realize that their good deeds have a second agenda. They want to be appreciated.

Gary Zukav

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

Barack Obama

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

Maya Angelou

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

John Bunyan

A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.

Steve Maraboli

There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others.

Mandy Hale

Love is not patronizing and charity isn’t about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same — with charity you give love, so don’t just give money but reach out your hand instead.

Mother Teresa

Strong people don’t put others down… They lift them up.

Michael P. Watson

I don’t want to live in the kind of world where we don’t look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cant change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit.

Charles de Lint

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Charles Dickens

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.

Andrew Carnegie

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Anne Frank

If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

Warren Buffett

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

Abraham Lincoln

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.

Frank A. Clark

Give, but give until it hurts.

Mother Teresa

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Mohammed Ali

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Buddha

You can have everything you want in life if you just help enough people get what they want in life.

Zig Ziglar

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

John Holmes

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

Booker T. Washington

It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of person-kind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.

Leo Buscaglia

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.

Lydia M. Child

To do more for the world than the world does for you, that is success.

Henry Ford

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.

Flora Edwards

If you get, give. If you learn, teach.

Maya Angelou

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others and if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

Dalai Lama

People never forget that helping hand especially when times are tough.

Catherine Pulsifer

Somewhere along the way, we must learn that there is nothing greater than to do something for others.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have.

Jim Rohn

The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed.

Ray Kroc

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others.

Danny Thomas

Let me do all the good I can, to all the people I can, as often as I can, for I shall not pass this way again.

John Wesley

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you.

Mother Teresa

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.

Edmund Burke

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

Nelson Henderson