Family man quotes are strong words that help a real man understand that his strength lies in his personality.
A family man becomes wise with an understanding family and believes in dying in his heart, and not his body. The best family quote is "My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what's important to me," by Michael Imperioli.
To learn more about family man quotes on life, hard work, truth, love, and happiness from Steve Harvey, Nicolas Cage, and others from a book, song, or comedy, check the list here below.
Family Man Quotes About Life
These quotes will give you a positive outlook on life as a family man.
"Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold." - Andre Maurois
"A friend forgives quicker than enemy, and family forgives quicker than a friend." - Amit Kalantri
"A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man." - Mario Puzo
"Family is not an important thing, it’s everything." - Michael J. Fox
"A dad’s job is to lift his daughter up so that one day she will rise on her own." - Catherine Hollyer
"I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father." - David Beckham
"The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection." - Thomas Paine
"The strength of a man is in his character. A strong man is a great man of wisdom who understands, his top priority is to his family." - Author Ellen J. Barrier, 'The Price We Must Pay For Our Father's Sins'
"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me." - Jim Valvano
"Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad." - Anne Geddes
"This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too." - Harlan Coben
"My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend." - Tiger Woods
"Family and friends are hidden treasures, seek them out and enjoy their riches." - Wanda Hope Carter
"You spend time with your family? Good. Because a man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man." - Don Vito Corleone
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." - Samuel Jackson
"A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and a man cannot live without love." - Max Muller
"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
"The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman." - C. Joybell. C
"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way." - Dale Carnegie
"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life." - Lee Iacocca
"The apparent man is only a limitation of that Real Man." - Swami Vivekananda
"Here's the secret to a happy marriage: Do what your wife tells you." - Denzel Washington
"I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys from single-parent homes. I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together, they taught me to give back." - Steve Harvey
"A man's got to do what a man's got to do." - John Wayne
Family Man Quotes About Hard work
Here are some quotes about hard work that will make you strong, believe in yourself and solve your problems.
"Courage is not having the strength to go on; it's going on when you don't have the strength." - Theodore Roosevelt
"The ability to sell yourself and your skills and expertise will empower you and build confidence, not only within yourself but within all aspects of your career in general." - Jack Warren
"Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart." - Author Roy T. Bennett, 'The Light In The Heart'
"Getting fired is nature’s way of telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place." - Hal Lancaster
"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one." - James Froude
"Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail." - Barack Obama
"Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway."
- John Wayne.
"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it." - Lou Holtz
"Those who hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment." - Rick Warren
"Money isn't the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style."
- Shannon L. Alder.
"Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others." - Author Roy T. Bennett, 'The Light In The Heart'
"You friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it." - Tim Fargo
"If a lion turned every time small dogs barked at it, it would be the laughing stock of the jungle." - Matshona Dhliwayo
"To have what you have never had, you have to do what you have never done." - Author Roy Bennett
"Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision." - Sir Winston Churchill
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one." - Elbert Hubbard
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." - Andre Gide
"Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity." - W. Clement Stone
"You can never make the same mistake twice because the second time you make it, it's not a mistake, it's a choice." - Steven Denn
"When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk." - Barack Obama
"You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour." - Jim Rohn
"Do one thing everyday that scares you." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly." - Author Neil Gaiman, 'Fables & Reflections’
"A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means." - Sallust
"Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him." - Dwight Eisenhower
Family Man Quotes About Truth
In life, you need some kind of motivation to keep going when things turn difficult.
"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed." - Mahatma Gandhi
"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." - Mark Twain
"There's never enough of the stuff you can't get enough of." - Patrick H.T. Doyle
"Don't lose the best thing in your life because you are not sure." - Nicolas Cage
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein
"If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences." - Author Criss Jami, 'Kilisophy'
"When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: admit it, learn from it, and don’t repeat it." - Paul Bear Bryant
"Imagine all the little people living life in peace." - John Lennon
"Only then, invisible to everyone and with her curtains drawn, did she allow her tears to fall: in love, and for his hurts, and in terrible pride." - Guy Gavriel Kay
"You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals." - Paul McCartney
"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides." - Louis de Bernières
"The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively." - Bob Marley
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple." - Oscar Wilde, author of 'The Importance Of Being Earnest'
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it."- Henry Ford
"Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form." - Karl Max
"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." - Mark Twain
"You will earn the respect of all men if you begin by earning the respect of yourself." - Musonis Rufus
"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it." - Flannery O'Connor
"Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday." - John Wayne
"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it." - Oscar Wilde
"A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else." - George Savile
"One beloved friend reflects the other in an open, trusting relationship." - John Friend
"Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people." - Spencer Johnson
"Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff." - Will Rogers
"Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming." - Richard Branson
"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions." - Albert Einstein, 'Essay To Leo Baeck,' 1953
"Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female gender." - Karl Marx
"The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept." - George Carlin
"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you." - Author Carlos Ruiz Zafon, 'The Shadow Of The Wind'
Family Man Quotes About Happiness
Here are some genuine quotes about happiness as a family man for you.
"Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
"If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely." - Roald Dahl
"Happiness depends upon ourselves." - Aristotle
"Happiness isn’t about making more money, but rather freedom. The freedom to say no to things you don’t want to do. The freedom to say no to people you don’t like. The freedom to not feel like you are obligated to say "yes". Freedom is saying yes when you want to." - Shane Parrish
"Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t’were his own." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self." - Joseph Addison
"Be happy with what you want. Be excited about what you get." - Alan Cohen
"The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you." - Tony Robbins
"It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about." - Dale Carnegie
"Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks." - Samuel Johnson
"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will." - Epictetus
"To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness." - Mary Stuart
"Learn to be your own best friend first, then you will find true happiness because happiness is from within." - Gift Gugu Mona
"That’s your unlimited desires that are clouding your peace, your happiness." - Naval Ravikant
"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit." - Hosea Ballou
"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy." - Thich Nhat Hanh
"We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have." - Frederick Keonig
"Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be." - Abraham Lincoln
"Some days, you just have to create your own sunshine." - Sam Sundquist
"It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace." - Author Chuck Palahniuk, 'Diary.'
"Happiness is not doing fun things. Happiness is doing meaningful things." - Maxime Lagacé
"True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye." - Helen Keller
"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life." - Albert Camus
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." - Mahatma Gandhi
"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
"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive." - Maya Angelou
"To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others." - Albert Camus
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde
"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for." - Tom Bodett.
"Spread love wherever you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier." - Mother Teresa
"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." - Nathaniel Hawthorne.
