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As a child, the family that I had and the love I had from my two parents allowed me to go ahead and be more aggressive, to search and to take risks knowing that, if I failed, I could always come home to a family of love and support.

— Tiger Woods

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Family was real important in putting me on my path. I'm so blessed to come from a home with a mother and a father.

— Chris Paul

I love my parents in the way most children would: for having been there at every point in my youth and childhood, ready to pick me up when I fell and support me when I stumbled.

— Michael Gove

The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps.

— Bruce Feiler

I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now.

— Amy Chua

In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me.

— Jimmy Cliff

I was lucky to have parents who loved me.

— Jean Paul Gaultier

I had a family that supported me.

— Hillary Clinton

✗Opposing Perspectives

In my family, as in all dysfunctional families, instead of parents who act as strong and nurturing role models for their children, you get these needy people who use their children. I was the kid who tried to take on the marriage.

— John Bradshaw

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

— Joseph Joubert

When it came to my childhood - growing up in a single-parent home, often struggling financially - my mother definitely instilled in me and my siblings this strength, this will, to just continue to survive and succeed.

— Misty Copeland