When you want to communicate love and respect to your family, look no further than this collection of first family quotes. They might not be perfect, but family first quotes remind us of their importance.
Looking for family quotes first? We've compiled a list of famous, inspiring, deep, and short best family first quotes to remind you how valuable your family is and should always be your number one priority.
Our families keep us sane and are always there for us when we need them no.
They're the people who are always there to offer a shoulder to cry on when you're down, and they're the people who are always there to celebrate your victories with you. So no matter the drama that comes with family, they should always be loved.
Famous Family First Quotes
“If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.” - Mother Teresa
“A man should never neglect his family for business.” - Walt Disney
“Family first no matter what other thinks.” - Unknown*
“My family is my first priority.” - Unknown*
“You take care of family first, friends second, and neighbors when you can.” - Unknown*
"Family and friends are hidden treasures, seek them out and enjoy their riches." - Wanda Hope Carter
"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
“Ohana means family and family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.” – Stitch
“A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.” - Buddha
“My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what's important to me.” - Michael Imperioli
"The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going." — George Carlin
"I've always put my family first and that’s just the way it is." - Jamie Lee Curtis
“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
“My family absolutely comes first, and I don't mean that in a Pollyanna way. It's the focus of my life because it's what makes me happy.” - Tracy Pollan
"It's family first for me and then business so the family has got to know what’s going on with the business." - Styles P
"Family always gonna be there. The material things, they come and go." - Romeo Miller
“I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.” – Joyce Meyer
"Love your wife/husband, children and parents. They are the most important people in your life." - Unknown*
“Those who put family first don't lose everything at last.” - Unknown*
“Family first no matter what other thinks.” - Unknown*
Family love is messy, clinging and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. - Unknown*
"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal and the common cold." - Ogden Nash
“Family is supposed to be your safe haven.” - Iyanla Vanzant
My heroes are people who are working hard and trying to make a good living for their families. My heroes are people who put their families first. - Jamaica Kincaid
Inspirational Family First Quotes
"Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing." - Irina Shayk
"It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family." — Menacheim Begin
“The love of family and the admiration of friends are much more important than wealth and privilege.” — Charles Kuralt
“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.” ― C.S. Lewis
“Nothing purchased can come close to the renewed sense of gratitude for having family and friends.” – Courtland Milloy
“You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.” - Elizabeth Berg
“Togetherness is an important ingredient of family life.” - Barbara Bush
“If you want to go somewhere, you have to put your family first.” - Unknown*
"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
“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
"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
“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.” - Lee Iacocca
“Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends — they will never go out of fashion.” - Niki Taylor
"A story about family, first loves, second chances, and the moments in life that leads you back home." - Nicholas Sparks
"The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst." - Marge Kennedy
"The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind." - Thomas Jefferson
“It didn't matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.” - Peter Buffett
"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life." – Richard Bach
“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
“Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.” - Unknown*
"Children need our unconditional love — whether they succeed or make mistakes; when life is easy and when life is tough." - Barack Obama
“Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.” – Anthony Liccione
"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." - Harry Morgan
Deep Family First Quotes
"You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them." - Desmond Tutu
"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
"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; we must first set our hearts right." - Confucius
“My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister… because they have given me everything.” - Ronaldinho
“A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.” – Robert Brault
“That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you are not so lovable.” - Deb Caletti
“Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.” – Brad Henry
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.” - George A. Moore
“You need a rock-solid foundation of friends and family to keep you where you need to be.” — Lilly Singh
“Family and friends are hidden treasures, seek them and enjoy their riches.” - Wanda Hope Carter
"In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together and the music that brings harmony." - Eva Burrows
"Ones’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
"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
"By choice, we have become a family, first in our hearts, and finally in breath and being. Great expectations are good; great experiences are better." - Richard W. Fisher
"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” – Richard Bach
“I don’t think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.” — Reba McEntire
“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 Riordon
"The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst." - David Ogden Stiers
"I don't think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family." - Reba McEntire
"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
"Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends — they will never go out of fashion." - Niki Taylor
"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 Country Living
"A sentence from Psalm 101 has been both challenging and convicting for me: ‘I will walk in my house with blameless heart' (Psalm 101-2, NIV). When God speaks to me about being more loving, this verse reminds me to make application in my family first-and then to others." - Elizabeth Edwards
“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 Weedn
"What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life." - Thomas Jefferson
"I believe family first. Blood is thicker than water. I grew up like that, and I want to continue to keep that goal in my heart. Just family first! Just honesty, integrity, and respect. All of that. I live by the code of those things. If you do that you'll be fine." - J. K. Rowling
“Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.” – Ann Brashares
“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
Positive Family First
“We may have our differences, but nothing’s more important than family.” – Coco, 'Coco'
"It's always been family first for me. No matter how well my career goes, nobody here will ask anything of me. I’m just another Dunn to them." - Adam Dunn
"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.¨ — Khalil Gibran
“Love your family. Spend time, be kind and serve one another. Make no room for regrets. Tomorrow is not promised and today is short.” – Jada Pinkett
"To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there." — Barbara Bush
“Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.” – Gail Lumet Buckley
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." - Leo Tolstoy
" To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there." - Barbara Bush
“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.” - Anthony Brandt
"What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life." - Adrian Grenier
"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." - George Burns
“The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.” - Emily Schiff-Slater
"The world, we'd discovered, doesn't love you like your family loves you." - Louis Zamperini, ‘Country Living’
Short Family First Quotes
“Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.” — David Ogden Stiers
“We are family / I got all my sisters with me.” - Sister Sledge
"You're loved despite your faults." - Unknown*
“Family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life.” - J.K. Rowling
"A happy family is but an earlier heaven." - Adrian Grenier
“My family really does come first. It always did and always will.” - Meryl Streep
"So celebrate all the family love, because We are family!" - Sister Sledge
"The most important thing in theworld is family and love." - Richard W. Fisher
"The family is the first essential cell of human society." - Jean Fleming
"I have a wonderful shelter, which is my family." - José Carreras ‘Country Living’
“Family is like fudge—mostly sweet with a few nuts.” - Les Dawson Design: Emily Schiff-Slater
¨There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.¨ - Jerry Seinfeld
“My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.” - Bobby Darin
“Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.” - Marjorie Pay Hinckley
"Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.” - David Ogden Stiers
“In time of test, family is best.” - Burmese proverb
“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” – Michael J. Fox
“The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” – George Santayana
"Being part of a family means smiling for photos." - Harry Morgan
“Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say.” ― Rick Riordan, 'The Lightning Thief'
"The memories we make with our family is everything." - Candace Cameron Bure
“Some people are worth melting for.” – Olaf, 'Frozen'
“I sustain myself with the love of family.” - Maya Angelou
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