1. People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today. - Zig Ziglar
2. U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things. - Zig Ziglar
3. Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things. - Zig Ziglar
4. I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man - financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally. - Zig Ziglar
5. Every working family in America knows how hard it is today to find affordable childcare or early childhood education. - Bernie Sanders
6. If we completely repealed the estate tax, it would provide an estimated $32 billion tax break for the Walton family - the founders of Wal-Mart. - Bernie Sanders
7. When a mother goes to the store and purchases food for her child, she has the right to know what she is feeding her family. - Bernie Sanders
8. I certainly did not know what the word 'socialism' meant growing up, because I was brought up in a very nonpolitical family. My brother was somewhat active, but my parents were not. - Bernie Sanders
9. I have used the laws of this country just like the greatest people that you read about every day in business have used the laws of this country, the chapter laws, to do a great job for my company, for myself, for my employees, for my family, et cetera. - Donald Trump
10. Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures. - Vince Lombardi
11. But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime. - Barack Obama
12. I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes. - Barack Obama
13. It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label. - Barack Obama
14. My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead. - Barack Obama
15. I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries. - Barack Obama
16. Michelle and I don't want anyone telling us who our family's doctor should be - and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story. - Barack Obama
17. America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about. - Barack Obama
18. Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest. - Barack Obama
19. Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. - George Bernard Shaw
20. If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. - George Bernard Shaw
21. We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together. - Walt Disney
22. I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself. - Nelson Mandela
23. One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love. - Wayne Dyer
24. My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just about my writing - I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be. - Wayne Dyer
25. You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth. - Wayne Dyer
26. I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well. - Wayne Dyer
27. When you're the most successful person in your family, in your neighborhood, and in your town, everybody thinks you're the First National Bank, and you have to figure out for yourself where those boundaries are. - Oprah Winfrey
28. When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family? - Robin Williams
29. Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness. - John C. Maxwell
30. My work and my family are very important to me. - Stephen Hawking
31. Some forms of motor neuron disease are genetically linked, but I have no indication that my kind is. No other member of my family has had it. But I would be in favor of abortion if there was a high risk. - Stephen Hawking
32. I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me. - Stephen Hawking
33. The most important thing in the world is family and love. - John Wooden
34. My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids. - Joel Osteen
35. Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God's perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year. - Joel Osteen
36. I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap. - Rodney Dangerfield
37. OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known. - Bill Gates
38. Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts. - Bill Gates
39. I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy. - Dolly Parton
40. I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out. - Dolly Parton
41. I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community. - Dolly Parton
42. Dollywood is a family park, and all families are welcome. We do have a policy about profanity or controversial messages on clothing or signs. It is to protect the individual wearing or carrying them, as well as to keep down fights or problems by those opposed to it at the park. - Dolly Parton
43. Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary. - Dolly Parton
44. I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child. - Dolly Parton
45. I'm just a friendly person; that runs in my family. - Dolly Parton
46. I have a weird definition of family; it's not the same as everyone else's. - Lil Peep
47. Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family. - Stephen Covey
48. But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital! - Stephen Covey
49. Family home evening is more for the purpose of teaching values and gospel principles, displaying talents and enjoying different kinds of family fun and activities. - Stephen Covey
50. The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual. - Stephen Covey
51. The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life. - Stephen Covey
52. If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions. - Stephen Covey
53. I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that's all I ever was associated with. - Lou Holtz
54. I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression. - Lou Holtz
55. Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers. - Les Brown
56. I'm touring the world, not doing nothing against the law, getting money to feed my family. I got employees that have felonies, and they can't get jobs. They work for me. - Nipsey Hussle
57. As I got older, my pops tried to keep me involved with the culture by telling me the stories of the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, how he came to America, and about our family back home, because all that side of my family - my aunties, grandparents - is in Africa. - Nipsey Hussle
58. If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace. - Thich Nhat Hanh
59. When I became a novice monk, I lived in a temple where the atmosphere was quite like in a family. The abbot is like a father and other monks are like your big brothers, your small, younger brothers. It is a kind of family. - Thich Nhat Hanh
60. I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there. - Yogi Berra
61. Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house. - Elizabeth Warren
62. Growing up, my mother and grandparents often talked about our family's Native American heritage. As a kid, I never thought to ask them for documentation - what kid would? - Elizabeth Warren
63. Unfair servicing practices can worsen a family's already difficult economic situation, and the injury echoes from the family to the community and ultimately throughout the economy. - Elizabeth Warren
64. Most women file for bankruptcy in the aftermath of a serious medical problem, a job loss, or a family break up. It is hard to protect against those. - Elizabeth Warren
65. Some economists estimate that for every family that goes bankrupt, there are about 15 more who are in the same amount of financial trouble and would profit from bankruptcy but just haven't filed. - Elizabeth Warren
66. It is not good not to have health insurance; that leaves the family very vulnerable. - Elizabeth Warren
67. I grew up in a family that nearly lost everything, but I ended up in the United States Senate because I grew up in an America that invested in kids like me and built a real future for us. - Elizabeth Warren
68. It is easy when you are successful to think that you did it all by yourself and to forget that you didn't. You got here because a lot of things broke your way. You were lucky enough to be born into a family that could afford to take care of you well. - Elizabeth Warren
69. Truly successful lives are about family. - Elizabeth Warren
70. In the 1960s, a minimum wage job would keep a family of three afloat. - Elizabeth Warren
71. If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food. - Kanye West
72. I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food. - Kanye West
73. My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don't care what your job is, you're not gonna talk down to me, you're not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I'm a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened. - Kanye West
74. All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race - racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic - what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race. - Kanye West
75. I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God's eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do. - Kanye West
76. The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state. - Thomas Sowell
77. My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own. - Jackie Robinson
78. Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice. - Michelle Obama
79. My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters. - Michelle Obama
80. See, that's why Barack's running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly - to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American - and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college. - Michelle Obama
81. There are folks who now know black families - like the Johnsons on 'Black-ish' or the folks on 'Modern Family.' They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world. - Michelle Obama
82. I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he's feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is. - Michelle Obama
83. My family didn't have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, 'Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?' And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career. - Michelle Obama
84. If you're working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option. - Noam Chomsky
85. My family was mostly unemployed working class. - Noam Chomsky
86. Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused funds from your bank account, for example, and transferred them to some potentially useful purpose like helping a family buy a home or send a kid to college. - Noam Chomsky
87. Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted. - Victor Hugo
88. I don't even call them fans. I don't like that. They're literally just a part of my life; they're a part of my family. I don't think of them as on a lower level than me. I don't think I'm anything but equal to all of them. So yeah, they're basically all of my siblings. - Billie Eilish
89. I got family members that's police officers. I don't got no problem if you a cop, as long as y'all doing y'all job, and y'all not harassing. - Juice Wrld
90. The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business. - Lyndon B. Johnson
91. Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty. - Colin Powell
92. It was a privilege to pray with Governor Romney - for his family and our country. - Billy Graham
93. Christmas means a great deal to me. I was reared in a family that celebrated Christmas to some extent, but I married into a family that celebrated Christmas in a big way. And my wife always made a big thing of Christmas for the children. We have five children, and we had a terrific time at Christmas. - Billy Graham
94. My father had a dairy farm. He employed three black families and one white family, and I used to play with black children. - Billy Graham
95. While I have never learned to use a computer, I am surrounded by family and friends who carry information to me from blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and various websites. - Billy Graham
96. My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well. - Billy Graham
97. I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx. - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
98. My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure... I started bartending and waitressing. - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
99. A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. - George Orwell
100. All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women. - W. C. Fields
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