Honor Family and Loved Ones Quotes
However big the mission, family comes first. The men who built empires said it plainest: nothing at the top matters if nobody you love is standing there with you. This path in the Character pillar holds the greatest quotes ever spoken on family, love, and loyalty. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“One of the most insidious forms of child neglect is a parent who doesn’t chase their dreams and potential.”
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“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.”
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“Never put your family, friends, or significant other low on your priority list. Prefer a handful of truly close friends to a hundred acquaintances.”
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“Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.”
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“I’ve never met a thirteen-year-old who said ’My dad was never around because he was always working, but I have a sweet mountain bike so it was all worth it.’”
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“To love is to will the good of the other.”
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“We should love others truly, for their own sakes rather than our own.”
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“If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.”
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“The most important thing is the family. Keep your family healthy, good, and take care of your family, because this is the most important thing in the world.”
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“A man is known by his conduct to his wife, to his family, and to those under him.”
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“However important business is, family always comes first.”
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“Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.”
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“Remember, a good marriage is like a campfire. Both grow cold if left unattended.”
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“In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.”
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“Life doesn’t come with an instruction book; that’s why we have fathers.”
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“Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.”
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“Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.”
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“Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.”
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“Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.”
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“Love creates an ‘us’ without destroying the ‘me’.”
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“In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.”
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“Perfection isn’t human. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love–and I mean love, not lust–is the imperfection of the human being.”
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“Imagine if you took all of the time, energy and emotions you’ve been giving to meaningless relationships with part-time people and invested all of it into your family and loyal friends and yourself. Imagine.”
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“There is no time to leave important words unsaid.”
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“A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.”
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“Love is a verb. Love - the feeling - is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions.”
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“If we do not teach our children, society will. And they - and we - will live with the results.”
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“Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.”
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