Inspirational family quotes

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
family motivational sayings by Barbara De Angelis

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
Quote By George Santayana, The Life of Reason~Inspirational family quote

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

Children need your presence more than your presents.
Quote By Jesse Jackson~Inspirational family quote

Keep both eyes open before marriage; half-closed after.
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The shortest path to world peace is world trade. The shortest path to domestic peace and marital peace is communications.
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The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.
family motivational sayings by Dodie Smith

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.
Quote By Thomas Jefferson, 1813~Inspirational family quote

When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.
family motivational sayings by Joyce Brothers

The husband should be blind at times; the wife deaf; both dumb, most of the time.
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Giving children everything they want is giving them boredom. That pretty toy, so fiercely sought, has lost it charm by being caught.
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If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion.
Quote By Ashleigh Brilliant~Inspirational family quote

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.
family motivational sayings by Letty Cottin Pogrebin

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
Quote By Spanish Proverb~Inspirational family quote

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
family motivational sayings by Thomas Jefferson

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Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.
Motivational quotes by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
Inspirational sayings by Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, 1875

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom.
Good Saying by Michel de Montaigne, translated

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
Source : Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist~Great Morality Quotes

Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work.
Source : Llewelyn Powys~Great Morality Quotes

We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach.
Source : Bertrand Russell~Inspirational Morality Sayings

Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.
Motivational quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

What we call morals is simply blind obedience to words of command.
Inspirational sayings by Havelock Ellis

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
Good Saying by Graham Greene

Why should moral distinction be made between death by the spirochete and death by the streptococcus?
Source : Martin H. Fischer~Great Morality Quotes

The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.
Source : Goethe~Great Morality Quotes

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.
Source : Arnold H. Glasow~Inspirational Teenagers Sayings

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
Motivational quotes by Dorothy Parker

You can tell a child is growing up when he stops asking where he came from and starts refusing to tell where he is going.
Inspirational sayings by Author Unknown

The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.
Good Saying by Edgar Friedenberg, The Vanishing Adolescent

Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it.
Source : Bob Phillips~Great Teenagers Quotes

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
Source : Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies~Great Teenagers Quotes

How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them.
Source : Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960~Inspirational Teenagers Sayings

Why do children want to grow up? Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition of greater freedom and opportunity. But what is there today, in America, that very poor and very rich adolescents want to do but cannot do? Not much: they can do drugs, have sex, make babies, and get money (from their parents, crime, or the State). For such adolescents, adulthood becomes synonymous with responsibility rather than liberty. Is it any surprise that they remain adolescents?
Motivational quotes by Thomas Szasz

Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.
Inspirational sayings by Judith Martin

The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.
Good Saying by Raymond Duncan

There's nothing wrong with the younger generation that becoming taxpayers won't cure.
Source : Dan Bennett~Great Teenagers Quotes

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
Source : Laurence J. Peter~Great Teenagers Quotes

Little children, headache; big children, heartache.
Source : Italian Proverb~Inspirational Teenagers Sayings

Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers.
Motivational quotes by Fran Lebowitz

A baby-sitter is a teenager who gets two dollars an hour to eat five dollars' worth of your food.
Inspirational sayings by Henny Youngman

Wise sayings and quotes on genius

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
~inspirational quote on Genius by E.F. Schumacker

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius
~good quotes about Love of Mozart

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
~famous sayings on Simplicity by E.F. Schumacker

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
~motivational quotations on Proverbs by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Edison: Genius is one percent inspiration and 99% perspiration.
~wise genius sayings by

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
~wise saying about genius by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man.
~inspirational quote on Dogs by Maurice Maeterlinck

Nothing can take the place of persistence. Talent will not. Thousands with talent are drifters. Genius will not. Un rewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not. The world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence alone solves all the world’s big problems.
~good quotes about Success of

Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.
~famous sayings on Genius by Napoleon Bonaparte, Discours de Lyon, 1771

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
~motivational quotations on War by Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, American Society of Newspaper Editors, 16 April 1953

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
~wise genius sayings by James McNeill Whistler

Genius usually starts great thins; only labor and drudgery finish them.
~wise saying about genius by

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
~inspirational quote on Genius by George-Louis de Buffon

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
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daily inspirational quotes

To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak.
~Hopi Indian Saying's famous speaking

Talk to people about themselves and they will listen for hours.
~inspirational sayings about Speaking quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
~speaking quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze.
~motivational quotes about Kisses by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success
~speaking sayings by Robert Orben

No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.
~E.W. Howe's famous speaking

We speak little if not egged on by vanity.
~inspirational sayings about Vanity quotes by François de la Rochefoucauld

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.
~speaking quotes by Margaret Millar

The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.
~motivational quotes about Winter by John Burroughs

perseverance sayings, quotes and quotations

perseverance sayings, quotes and quotations


Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.
~perseverance quotes wisdoms by Author Unknown

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
~inspirational saying about Perseverance quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

One may go a long way after one is tired.
~motivation perseverance quotes by French Proverb

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
~good quote about Determination by John Quincy Adams

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.
~famous perseverance sayings by Author Unknown

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
~perseverance quotes wisdoms by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority
~inspirational saying about Football quotes by Vince Lombardi

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
~motivation perseverance quotes by Josh Billings

A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.
~good quote about Perseverance by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Perseverance is more Prevailing than violence and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.
~famous perseverance sayings by Plutarch

There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream.
~perseverance quotes wisdoms by Author Unknown

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
~inspirational saying about Perseverance quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.
~motivation perseverance quotes by Flavia Weedn, Flavia and the Dream Maker

Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
~good quote about Perseverance by Author Unknown

Automobiles are not ferocious.... it is man who is to be feared.
~perseverance quotes by Robbins B. Stoeckel