Inspirational Father Quotes

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.

There will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men is my father.

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.

Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.

You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.

There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later.

You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

To her, the name of father was another name for love.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.

The greatest gift I ever had Came from God; I call him Dad!

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.

He's [Harry S. Truman] just your dad, and you love him. It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love. My father was a great man.

Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

My dad, like any coach, has always stressed the fundamentals. He taught me responsibility, accountability, and the importance of hard work.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.