Yet, regardless of the ups and downs that inevitably arise when two families come together as one, your blended family is now stronger than ever. Honor your amazing step-family—and the journey you all took to get here—with these 101 blended family quotes that perfectly describe the commitment and cooperation (and even the craziness!) that comes from being a member of a beautifully blended family.
101 Blended Family Quotes
- Bright families are just like bright colors: When you blend two, you get something beautiful! –Unknown
- The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other. –Richard Bach
- Blood makes you related; love makes you family. –Unknown
- There will always be steps you can take toward unity in your blended family. You will make—one step at a time! –Donna Houpe
- All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy, for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves. We must die to one life before we can enter into another. –Anatole France
- Blended families are a beautiful mix of diverse people who each serve an important role in our lives. At times, it can be challenging to appreciate everyone’s unique beauty. –Deana Keller La Rosa
- The blended family isn’t just an ordinary family times two. It’s a special kind of family with special needs. –Maxine Marsolin
- If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles. –Letty Cottin Pogrebin
- Life feels complete when you’re together with your family. –Unknown
- Becoming a blended family means mixing, mingling, scrambling, and sometimes muddling our way through delicate family issues, complicated relationships, and individual differences, hurts, and fears. But through it all, we are learning to love like a family. –Tom Frydenger
- Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there. –Virginia Burden
- The first key to balancing your busy life and creating a peaceful environment for your blended family to thrive in lies in defining your family values—first as a couple, then as a family. –Kellye Laughery
- You’re facing one of the most important challenges of your life. Yet, being a member of a blended family can be an exciting adventure for all concerned. –Kathie M. Thompson
- There is no such thing as a ‘broken family.’ Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, or adoption documents. –C JoyBell
- A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss… That’s the trade-off. But I’ll take it all. –Brad Pitt
- A happy family is but an earlier heaven. –George Bernard Shaw
- You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them. –Desmond Tutu
- The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. –Richard Bach
- Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back. –John Ruskin
- Family means putting your arms around each other and being there. –Barbara Bush
- Blended families are woven together by choice, strengthened by love, tested by everything and each are uniquely ours. –Unknown
- Family is family, whether it’s the one you start out with the one you end up with, or the family you gain along the way. –Unknown
- Family is not defined by our genes, it is built and maintained through love. –Unknown
- Some families are created in different ways but are still in every way a family. –Unknown
- Alone, you are strong, but together, you’ll be stronger than ever. –Unknown
- Of course, there’s no formula for success except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings. –Arthur Rubinstein
- Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter. –Brad Henry
- We aren’t ‘step,’ we aren’t ‘half,’ we’re just family. –Unknown
- Behind a lot of great kids is a stepparent who stepped up, stepped in, and gave a sh*t. –Unknown
- The last names may not match, but the hearts certainly do. –Unknown
- Children can never have too many positive adult role models in their lives. –Unknown
- DNA doesn’t make a family—love does. –Unknown
- Any man can make a child, but it takes a special man to help raise a child. –Tony Gaskins
- Blood doesn’t always make a parent; being a parent comes from the heart. –Unknown
- Don’t worry if you’re not an instant, happily-ever-after blended family. Expect to endure ‘I give up’ days and rejoice in the ‘I can do this,’ days. It will take work, dedication, an excellent sense of humor, and strong resolve. But hey, since when has any family taken the easy route? Don’t do ‘easy’—do ‘worth it!’ –Jessica James
- The love of a blended family never ends. –Unknown
- Co-parenting is not a competition. It’s a collaboration of two homes working together with the best interest of the child at heart. Work for your kids, not against them. –Unknown
- The secret to blending families is… There is no secret. It’s scary and awesome and ragged and perfect and always changing. Love and laugh hard; try again tomorrow. –Mir Kamin
- The recipe for a unified family: 3 cups love, 1 cup empathy, 1/4 cup patience, and 1 tablespoon teamwork. –Unknown
- Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. –Henry Ford
- Remember why you chose to come together in the first place—the love that you have for your partner. Your partner’s children are an extension of them and this makes them just as important to your happiness. –Beth Happiness
- When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. –Joyce Brothers
- Live one day at a time (or one moment, if you have to). Blend little by little and celebrate even the smallest breakthrough. –Andi Parker-Kimbrough
- One of the most important lessons our children have learned from divorces is that some things in life can come to an end, but that’s okay because something new is manifested. In our case, it’s a blended family that has respect, love, trust, authenticity, and a sense of fun. –Jennifer Kessler
- Together, we make a beautiful family. –Unknown
- I’m grateful that being a stepmom has taught me that there is no shame in admitting you don’t have it together all the time. –Jamie Scrimgeour
- Be the kind of person you needed when you were younger. –Unknown
- In truth, a family is what you make it. It’s made strong not by the number of heads counted at the dinner table, but by the rituals you help create, the memories you share, the commitment of time, caring, and love you show to one another, and by the hopes you have for the future as individuals and as a unit. –Marge Kennedy
- Being happy in your family is more important than being perfect. –Unknown
- All families are different and unique, but they all have one thing in common—love. –Unknown
- It’s about prioritizing. Just take it one step at a time. Do the best you can. I’m a mom and I have two husbands—an ex-husband and a next husband. It’s a blended family and it’s very hard to keep things together, but we’re happy and we live in love. –Kimora Lee Simmons
- There is nothing so rewarding as bringing two families together and making it work. –Unknown
- The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. –Phil Jackson
- Family is a struggle you’ll never regret working toward. –Unknown
- Stepfamily households do not begin and end at the front door. –Patricia Papernow
- Taking two families and blending them into one takes dedication and effort, but it will be one of the most rewarding undertakings of your life. –Unknown
- Enjoy the little things in life… for one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things. –Robert Brault
- Blended families are stronger together than they are apart. –Unknown
- They call it a ‘stepfamily’ because together we took a step in the right direction. –Unknown
- I didn’t give you the gift of life, but life gave me the gift of you. –Unknown
- Anything is possible when you have the right people to support you. –Misty Copeland
- Your family is a circle of love strength and love, with every birth and every union, the circle will grow. Every joy shared adds more love, every crisis faced together makes the circle stronger. –Unknown
- The hardest thing about being a blended family is knowing when to fight and when to let it go. –Unknown
- Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile and love you no matter what. –Unknown
- Stop thinking that things are going to be perfect. It’s not going to happen. The kids will not get along all the time, the house will not always be quiet… You will not always hear ‘please’ and ‘thank you.’ It isn’t realistic. What is realistic is taking stock of how incredibly lucky you are to have more children to love and to guide. –Kellee Mulkerin-Ford
- Blended families are the best project you’ll ever get to work on. –Unknown
- You have to take things slowly. Just because you love someone doesn’t mean you’re going to automatically love their children. All relationships take time to grow and develop. Be willing to give everyone the time and space they need; it will come. –Kelly LeFurgey
- Remember, ‘this too, shall pass.’ The good, the bad, the ugly—don’t get too attached to any one feeling. Also, use a chore chart, for the love of all that good in the world. Seriously, it changes everything. –Raiye Rosado
- The family is one of nature’s masterpieces. –George Santayana
- Families don’t have to match. You don’t have to look like someone else to love them. –Leigh Anne Tuohy 71. A stepparent is so much more than just a parent: They made the choice to love when they didn’t have to. –Unknown
- If you’re struggling with your role, be kind to yourself and remember that step parenting is one of the hardest things you’ll ever do. Not because of any flaw of yours, but because that’s the nature of the role. –Jenna Kori
- You were born with the ability to change someone’s life; don’t ever waste it. –Unknown
- Divorce isn’t such a tragedy. A tragedy’s staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce. –Jennifer Weiner
- I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. –George C. Lichtenberg
- There are so many beautiful reasons to be happy in a blended family. –Unknown
- In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony. –Friedrich Neitzche
- Being a family means you are part of something very wonderful. It means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life. –Lisa Weed
- We had grown into one another somewhere along the way. We were officially a team. –Shannon A. Thompson
- Bringing two families together is never easy. But in the end, it’s more than worth it. –Unknown
- Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. –Anthony Brandt
- Your greatest contribution may not be something you do, but someone you raise. –Unknown
- Govern a family as you would cook a small fish—very gently. –Chinese Proverb
- Family life contributes immensely to an individual’s happiness. Only in a happy home life can complete contentment be found. –Dorothea S. Kopplin
- Every family is dysfunctional, whether you want to admit it or not. –Shailene Woodley
- Blended families are beautiful. Every member has their own color, but it’s only when you bring them together that you can see the rainbow. –Unknown
- Family, no matter what it looks like, is always filled with love. –Unknown
- Every family has a story to tell—blended families just have more chapters. –Unknown
- The memories you make with your family are everything. –Candace Cameron Bure
- Family isn’t defined only by last names or by blood; it’s defined by commitment and by love. –Dave Willis
- Family is a unique gift that needs to be appreciated and treasured, even when they’re driving you crazy. As much as they make you mad … these are the people who know you the best and love you. –Jenna Morasca
- The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst. –Marge Kennedy 93. Family is a lifejacket in the stormy sea of life. –J.K. Rowling
- Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need. –Sarah Ban Breathnach
- A family doesn’t have to be perfect; it just needs to be united. –Unknown
- Sticking with your family is what makes it a family. –Mitch Albom
- Being part of a blended family means you’re part of something very wonderful. –Unknown
- It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage; to put together a family and a home. –Elizabeth Edwards
- Think of your family today and every day thereafter. Don’t let the busy world of today keep you from showing how much you love and appreciate them. –Josiah
- No family is perfect… We argue, we fight. We even stop talking to each other at times. But in the end, your family is your family. The love will always be there. –Unknown
- It doesn’t matter how big or small your family is; it matters how much love you’re willing to put into it. –Unknown Check out these 10 iconic TV series that show what it means to be a family.
