The Best Quotes Inspiring Gratitude For our Families

The word family can mean a lot of different things to different people. Regardless of whom you consider your family, it is important that you show love and gratitude to them. Family is one of the most important things in this life. We compiled a list of different kinds of family quotes to help you show gratitude for them.

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Gratitude For Our Families

Family.  What does that word mean to you?  Honestly, it means something different to almost everyone.

For some people family is who you sit around the dinner table with. For others, family are the people in your daily lives such as your close friends. It can be your colleagues at work or the group of people you work out with at the gym.

For some it includes fur babies and for some it is our direct blood line. Whomever you feel your family members are, we must express gratitude for them. One of the best ways to find the attitude of gratitude is through thankful quotes. 

A thankful heart about the little things in life like family, can make a huge impact on our daily lives and the lives of others. Deep gratitude can get us through the most difficult times. So whatever your current situation is, let’s find the simple things that bring about the fullness of life. 

Elizabeth Gilbert said, “We must take care of our families wherever we may find them.” At the end of the day, family, whatever that may mean to us, is what is the most important thing. 

Family Gratitude Quotes

  • “Family is not an important thing, it is everything.” Michael J. Fox 
  • “What can you do to promote world peace?  Go home and love your family” Mother Teresa 
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  • “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but one of respect and joy in each other’s life.” Richard Bach
  • “Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and gives us hope for tomorrow.” Bill Owens
  • “I am so grateful that my friends have become my family.”
  • “Family: We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.”
A quote about family - we may not have it all together, but together we have it all.
  • “Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.” Irina Shayk 
  • “In family relationships, love is really spelled T-I-M-E, time.” Dieter F. Uchtdorf 
Uchtdorf quote about family
  • “Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in their lives: the ones who accept you for who you are.  The ones who would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what.” Maya Angelou 
  • “No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?” Lee Lacocca
  • “A family doesn’t have to be perfect. They just have to be united.” 
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Funny Family Quotes

Not everyone loves inspirational quotes. But almost everyone enjoys humor.  For those of you who connect with humor better than  a sappy thankful family quote, here are some quotes about families that are sure to make you giggle.

  • “I grew up with six brothers.  That’s how I learned to dance, waiting for the bathroom.” Bob Hope
  • “Family is where the best memories are made, and the most embarrassing ones are never forgotten.” 
Family is where the best memories are made quote with a photo of a dad with his baby
  • “Home is where you can say anything you like because nobody is listening to you any ways.”
  • “I smile because you are my family.  I laugh because there’s nothing you can do about it.”
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  • “Family: Where love, laughter and a little bit of chaos reign.”
  • “Siblings are the only enemy you can’t live without.”
  • “There is nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy, or more exasperated, or more secure.” Jim Butcher 
  • “Families are like fudge- mostly sweet with a few nuts.” Les Dawson 
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  • “Our family is just one tent away from a full blown circus.”
  • “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
  • “A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it” Mary Karr
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  • “Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.” Margorie Pay Hinckley 
  • “Having a place to go is a home. Having someone to love is a family. Having both is a blessing.” Donna Hedges 
  • “You don’t choose your family.  They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.  So, blame God if you don’t like them” Desmond Tutu

Power of Gratitude

In searching for quotes about family I came across a lot that don’t necessarily say the word FAMILY in them but can still apply to being grateful and showing gratitude towards them.  

  • “Greatness is not found in possessions, power, positions or prestige.  It is discovered in goodness, humanity, service and character.” William Arthur Ward 
  • “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest form of appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by the.” John F. Kennedy 
  • “Gratitude opens the door to happiness.”
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  • “The thankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.” Henry Ward Beecher 
  • “Acknowledging the good you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” Eckhart Tolle 
  • “It’s not happy people who are thankful.  It is thankful people who are happy.”
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  • “I am so grateful that my friends have become my family.”
  • “It is impossible to feel grateful and depressed in the same moment.” Naomi Williams 
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Gratitude Quotes For Our Families

Families means so much! They are essential to our everyday lives. Showing them gratitude can do so much for them as well as for you.

We hope you enjoyed these quotes we choose to share with you and hope you find meaning in them for you and your family.

Do you have a quote about family that I missed that you would like to share? Leave it for us in the comments because we would love to hear it.

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